Friday, October 9, 2020

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 9 October 2020

 Welcome to Genealogy News and Education Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop since the last issue.


1)  News Articles:





2)  New or Updated Record Collections:






3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes








4)  Genealogy Education - Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar



*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 13 October, 11 a.m.:  Use MyHeritage Records to Quickly Discover and Write the Story of Your Ancestors, by Devon Noel Lee

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 14 October, 5 p.m.:  Dealing with Endogamy, by Paul Woodbury

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Advanced DNA Techniques: Deductive Chromosome Mapping, by Blaine Bettinger

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Wringing Every Drop out of Y DNA, by Roberta Estes

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:    From Generation to Generation: An Updated Look at Kinship Determination, by Judy G. Russell

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:    Geo-Genealogy as a Problem-Solving Tool: The Case of a 19th-Century Female Teenage Immigrant, by J.H. (Jay) Fonkert


5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:



6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  American Ancestors:  What's New at AmericanAncestors.org








*  Genealogy Quick Start:  LIVE: New England and Migration Clues





*  New York Genealogical and Biographical Society:  Stop Licensing Fees for Public Records


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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 9 October 2020

  I received this information from Findmypast today:                          

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New Non-Conformist & Jamaican records available to search this Findmypast Friday

Vital life event records from England and Jamaica plus a host of new and updated newspapers - here's what's new to Findmypast this week.

England & Wales Non-Conformist Births and Baptisms

Were your ancestors religious dissenters? Findmypast have added thousands of new Surrey Methodist records to this vast collection of more than 1.6 million Birth’s and Baptisms.

Each record contains both an image and a transcript of the original register. The amount of information varies, but you can generally find out the following about your non-conformist ancestors:
  • Your ancestors' names
  • Their birth and baptism dates
  • Where they were baptised
  • Their parents' names
  • Their godparents' names
  • Their family's religious beliefs
Historically, many non-conformists used their local parish church for registration purposes, despite their religious differences and even after the Toleration Act of 1689 granted the freedom to worship. Some non-conformists did keep their own registers, particularly for baptisms and burials in the period between 1689 and 1837, and it is these valuable records that make up this collection.

The original documents are all housed at The National Archives in Kew as part of their RG4, RG5, and RG8 series. There are more than 50 denominations covered; some of which existed only briefly and are no longer practiced today. The collection also includes a significant number of French Protestant or Huguenot records.

Jamaica life events

With improved search features, Findmypast’s Jamaican collection continues to grow. Explore over 780,000 new birth, baptism, marriage and death records to flesh out the Jamaican branches of your family tree.

Explore the collection as a whole or hone in on the record you need by searching each distinct record set:
Combine these latest releases with Findmypast’s exclusive archive of newspaper pages from the Royal Gazette of Jamaica to add detail and colour to your research.

Newspapers

Four new papers and generous updates to 12 others sees Findmypast’s newspaper collection continue to grow.

Brand new to the site this week are:
  • Peterborough Standard covering 1872-1962
  • Haddingtonshire Advertiser and East-Lothian Journal covering 1881-1888
  • Invergordon Times and General Advertiser covering 1879-1886, 1888 and 1892
  • Ben Brierley’s Journal covering 1874-1881, 1883-1884, 1886 and 1888-1889
While thousands of new pages have been added to:
  • Port Talbot Guardian from 1961-1980
  • Northman and Northern Counties Advertiser from 1880, 1882-1883 and 1885-1886
  • Daily Mirror from 1918
  • Kelso Mail from 1876, 1879-1880, 1883-1884 and 1886
  • Kirkcaldy Times from 1880-1882 and 1884-1885
  • Wolverhampton Express and Star from 1874-1876, 1878-1879 and 1881
  • Bradford Observer from 1954-1956
  • Evening Mail from 1861-1864 and 1868
  • Helensburgh News from 1879-1885
  • Marylebone Mercury from 1926-1932, 1934, 1936-1937 and 1946
  • Manchester Times from 1857 and 1863
  • Nantwich Chronicle from 1965-1970
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52 Ancestors - Week 351: #562 Nathaniel Pierce (1655-1692) of Woburn, Massachusetts

Nathaniel Pierce (1655-1692) is number 562 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #563 Elizabeth Pierce (1646-????) in 1681 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter #281 Mary Pierce (1682-1713)  who married  #280 Thomas Dill (1682-1718) in 1706.
*  their son #140 Thomas Dill (1708-1761) who married #141 Mehitable Brown (1714-1758) in 1733.
*  their son #70 Thomas Dill (1755-1839) who married #71 Hannah Horton (1761-1797) in 1782.
*  their daughter  #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) who married  #34 Alpheus Smith (1802-1840)  in 1826.
*  their daughter, #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1851.
*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)  in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  
 
*   Name:                    Nathaniel Pierce[1–5]    
*  Alternate Name:     Nathanell Pierce[5]

*  Sex:                        Male    

*  Father:                    Robert Peirce (1621-1706)    
*  Mother:                  Mary Knight (1621-1700)  
 
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
   
*   Birth:                     4 December 1655, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]    

*  Military:                 19 May 1676 (age 20), was at Turner Falls on Connecticut River in King Philip's War; Massachusetts, United States[1]    

*  Will:                       2 May 1691, will written, Woburn, Middlesex, Massacusetts, United States[5]
*  Death:                     before 13 December 1692 (before age 37), will proved; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]    
*  Probate:                  13 December 1692 (age 37), Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[5]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*   Spouse 1.               Hannah Converse (1660-1680)    
*  Marriage 1:             27 December 1677 (age 22), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]    

*  Child 1:                  Nathaniel Pierce (1679-1719)    

*  Spouse 2:               Elizabeth Pierce (1646-    )    
*  Marriage 2:            23 March 1680/1 (age 25), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]    
*  Child 2:                 Mary Pierce (1682-1713)    
*  Child 3:                 Hannah Peirce (1684-1688)    
*  Child 4:                 Ichabod Pierce (1686-    )    
*  Child 5:                 Robert Pierce (1689-1689)  
    
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  
 
The Pierce Genealogy book by Frederick Clifton Pierce provides a brief description of the life of Nathaniel Pierce[1]:
"NATHANIEL, Woburn, s. of Robert of the same, was sol. in K. Philip's War and was in the memorable battle at the falls of Conn. River, May 19, 1676; m. Dec. 27 1677, Hannah convers, had Nathaniel, b. Feb 2, 1678/9; his wf. d. Mar. 1678; He m. 2nd, Elizabeth (Pierce) Foster,* wid. of Hopestill of Charlestown and dau. of Thomas Pierce, Jr., and had Mary, Hannah, Ichabod, Robert.
* She had been prev. m. to Thomas Whittemore, of Woburn."
Nathaniel Pierce was born 4 December 1655 in Woburn, the son of Robert and Mary (Knight) Pierce[2].  

There is no record of Nathaniel Pierce's service during King Philip's War in 1676 except for a witness statement that he was present in the battle at Turner's Falls on the Connecticut River on 19 May 1676[1].

Nathaniel married (1) Hannah Converse (1660-1680)  on 27 December 1677 in Woburn[3], the daughter of Allen and Elizabeth (--?--) Converse of Woburn.  They had one son, recorded in the Woburn town records:

*  Nathaniel Pierce (1679-1719), who married 1701 Lydia Francis (1684-1767) in Woburn.

Hannah (Converse) Pierce died before 23 March 1680/1 when Nathaniel married (2) Elizabeth (Pierce) (Whittemore) Foster in Woburn (1646-????)[4].  She was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Cole) Pierce of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and the widow of Thomas Whittemore and Hopestill Foster.  They had four children, all recorded in Woburn town records:

*  Mary Pierce (1682-1713), married 1706 Thomas Dill (1682-1718).
*  Hannah Pierce (1684-1688)
*  Ichabod Pierce (1686-????)
*  Robert Pierce (1689-1689)

The will of Nathaniel Pierce of Woburn, a "taylor," was written on 2 May 1691 and proved in the Middlesex County Probate Court on 13 December 1692[5].  There are only three papers in Middlesex County Probate Packet 17539 - the will and two witness affidavits.  The will says:
In the Name of god Amen
I Nathanell Peirce of the Towne of Woburne in the County
of Midlesex in the Masathusetts Collony in New England Taylor
being of sound understanding do solomaly make ordayne and
constitute this writting my last will and Testament the
which lett not man presume to alter or change hereby
making voyd all former wills by me made.

And first I give my soule to God father son and holy spirit
three glorious persons but one Infinite and Eternall essence
hoping to be saved by the above merits of Jesus Christ and
beleve that thought wormes destroy this body of mine yet
my soule and body shall againe be united and I be in the
presents of God to al eternity.

Secondly I give my body to the Earth there to be decently
buried and after my Just debts and funerall charges are
Sattisfyed the rest of my Esteat I will and bequeth as followeth
first I give to Elizabeth my loving and beloved wife tenn pounds
to be payd her out of my effects she chosing in what of my
moveable Esteat she will have it in to be at her owne desease
and also the use of the whole of my housing and lands during
her terme while my Eldest son cometh of Age and after that
the use of but one halfe so long as she continueth my widow.

2ly To my eldest son Nathanell ^I give^ the twenty pounds to be payd him
out of my Effects the which I have given my bond alredy for
and after all is payd as abovesaid the rest of my Effects I appoint
to be Equally devided amongst all my Children my eldest son
being one that is to say Mary, Nathanell, Ichabod ^and Robert my
housing and lands ^and all my effects^ bouth reall and personall to be equally devided
amongst them.

I also ordaine my beloved wife and my Eldest son Nathanell
to be Executors to this my will and desire my dear friends
Danell Baldwin and Benjamin Peirce Juner my owne Brother
to be my overseers and in case my movable Esteat will not be
Suffishiant to pay my debts then my executors with the advice
of my over seers shall have power to sell those lands of mine
that may be best ?????? to pay them and give my sd over seers
tenn shillings apece as a token of my love to the conformation
hereof I the said Nathanell Peirce have hereunto sett my hand
and seale this second of May Sixteen hundred and ninety one.
Signed sealed and delivered
for the End above said before
us
William Johnson                                       Nathaneill Pierce
James Burbeen
Joseph Polly
The witness affidavits are:
Charlestown dc^br 13 1692
By y'e Honorable James Russell Esq'r
W'm Johnson Esq'r appearing p'rsonally made oath y't he was  
present & saw y'e Subscriber Nathan'll Pierce Deced Sign & Seal
and heard him Publish & declare this to be his last Will &
Testament & y't when he said it he was of a disposing minde and y't
he saw James Burbene & Joseph Polley set to theire hand
together w'th him selfe as Wittnesses to y'e same.
    Sam'a Phipps Reg'r
                                        Jurat'h Cora Ja Russell

dcbr 14'th 92:  James Burbene in prsence of James Russell
Esq'r made oath y't he was p'rsonally p'rsent and saw
Nathan'll Pierce Dated Sign & Seal & heard him publish and
Declare this to be his last Will & Testament & y't then
when he said it he was of disposing minde & that he
Saw y'e other Wittnesses W'm Johnson Esq'r and Joseph Polley
sett theire hands there unto together w'th himself as Witnesses
   Sam'll Phipps Reg'r 
                                         Jura'th  Cora Ja Russell.
NOTE;  There are no other papers in this probate packet - no inventory, account or distribution.  

Nathaniel Pierce died before 13 December 1692 in Woburn at about age 37[5].  There is a death record with only "1692" but no day or month in the Woburn vital record book.  There is no known burial location of Nathaniel or Elizabeth Pierce.
       
5)  SOURCES
1. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], Volume 1,
Births, page 193, Nathaniel Pierce entry, 4 December 1655, "son of Robert".

2. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Pierce Genealogy; Being the Record of the Posterity of John Pers, an
Early Inhabitant of Watertown, in New England ... with Notes on the History of Other Families of
Peirce, Pierce, Pearce, Etc (Worcester, Mass., Press of Chas. Hamilton, 1880), page 18, Nathaniel
Pierce sketch.
3. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn,
Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Volume 3, Marriages, page 209, Nathaniel Pierce and Hannah
Converse entry, 27 Dec. 1677.
4. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], Volume 3,
Page 209, Nathaniel Pierce and Elizabeth Foster entry, 23 March 1680.
5. "Middlesex County, Mass.: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital images, American Ancestors
(http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, 8 October 2020), Probate Case File 17539,
Nathanell Pierce of Woburn, 1692.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.  The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in   https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.


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Thursday, October 8, 2020

Seavers in the News -- Cleon W. Seaver Dies in 1942 in Newport, Vermont

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from Palladium and News [Newport, Vt.]  [Port Huron, Mich.] newspaper dated 22 April 1942:

The transcription of the article is:

"C.W. Seaver

"Cleon W. Seaver, a leading merchant of Barton for the past five years, died at the Orleans County Memorial Hospital in Newport on April 16, following a year's decline in health and a brief illness with acute Bright's disease and complications.

"Mr. and Mrs. Seaver came from Wolcott to Barton five years ago and leased the entire ground floor and basement in Masonic block where a stock of goods was put in and the store has done a large business since.  The business in Wolcott was continued but Mr,. and Mrs. Seaver made their home in Barton.

"Except for a few years with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Newport, where Mr. Seaver had owned a home for years and until his death, he had been in the mercantile business, first in North Troy, then in Wolcott and Montgomery, and in Barton.

"He was a graduate of North Troy High School and Albany and Troy, N.Y., Business Colleges, was a Mason and a member of the Congregational church in Newport.  Funeral services were held from the Converse and St. Germain Funeral Home in Newport on Saturday, Rev. John Robert Gee officiating, and interment was in North Troy cemetery.

"Mr. Seaver was born in North Troy July 18, 1886, the son of Ezra T. and Amanda (Ewens) Seaver.  He married Ethel Wright Elkins on February 28, 1915.  She survives but only distant blood relatives are living.

"Two peculiar circumstances surround Mr. Seaver's passing.  He died at the same age as his father, at the same time of the year and of the same ailment.  The other circumstance is the fact that his nearest neighbor, in residence and in business, A.L. Urie, died just three weeks previously and was about the same age, one year younger, to be exact."

The source citation is:

"C.W. Seaver," Palladium and News [Newport, Vt..] newspaper, obituary, Wednesday, 22 April 1942, page 8, column 5, Cleon W. Seaver obituary;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 8 October 2020).

This obituary provides a name, a birth date, a birth place, a death date, a death place, a marriage date, a burial location, and the names of his former neighbor, his parents and his widow, but no other relatives.

Cleon William Seaver was born 18 July 1886 in North Troy, Vermont, the son of Ezra Thomas and Almeda Alida (Ewens) Seaver.  He married Ethel Ardell (Wright) Elkins (1875-1967) on 25 February 1915 in Troy, Vermont.  They had no children.  Cleon had a brother, Clive Gilman Seaver (1891-1916), who had two children, including one who lived until 1998.  Cleon also had two step-daughters.

Cleon William Seaver (1886-1942) is my 7th cousin 3 times removed, with common Seaver ancestors of my 9th great-grandparents Robert and Elizabeth (Ballard) Seaver. 

There are over 9,500 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person leaves no descendants.  I am glad that I can honor Cleon William Seaver today.  

You never know when a descendant or relative will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors or relatives, or will provide more information about them to me.

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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.

Copyright (c) 2020, Randall J. Seaver

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Treasure Chest Thursday - 1680 Marriage of Nathaniel Pierce and Elizabeth Foster in Woburn, Mass.

 It's Treasure Chest Tuesday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1680 marriage record of Nathaniel Pierce and Elizabeth Foster in the Woburn, Massachusetts vital record book:
The Pierce-Foster marriage record is the 7th from the top on the page:


The transcription of this record is:

"Nathaniel Pierce and Elizabeth Foster, March 23, 1680"

The source citation for this record is:

Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Volume 3, Page 209, Nathaniel Pierce and Elizabeth Foster entry, 23 March 1680.

This is a Derivative Source record for the marriage of Nathaniel Pierce and Elizabeth Foster.  It is Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the marriage date, place, and the names of Nathaniel and Elizabeth.  The original record is probably a Woburn town record book that was transcribed and is no longer available.

Nathaniel Pierce (1656-1692) and Elizabeth (Pierce) (Whittemore) Foster (1646-????) are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter Mary Pierce (1682-1713) who married Thomas Dill (1682-1718).

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Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1823 Death and Burial Record for Anna Pedersdatter (1750-1823)

 My grandsons have Danish ancestry through their father.  His great-grandparents came from Denmark in 1906 and settled in Chicago.

FamilySearch has a nice list of 28 Denmark record collections, and many of them are indexed and have record images.  I am using the "Denmark Burials, 1640-1917" collection for these records.

Today, I'm looking for the 1823 death and burial record of Anna Pedersdatter in Viborg, Denmark:

Here is the burial record summary image:

So Anna Pedersdatter died 15 August 1823 and was buried 22 August 1823 in Viborg, Denmark, at age 73 years.  Her husband was named as Peder Jensen Hede in the record.

I clicked the link to browse the records, but could not find this particular record in the 392 images.  The document information above says "p290" but there are few page numbers, and image 290 is for 1821 records.  Images 301 and 302 have records for 1823, but there are none for August 1823.

The source citation for this confirmation record is:

"Denmark Burials, 1640-1917", database,   FamilySearch    (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FVRT-DP8 : 20 February 2020), Anna Pedersdatter, 1823.

I have found no birth or marriage records for Anna Pedersdatter in these church records.

From the information I have Peder Jensen Hede was born about 1753, and married Anna Pedersdatter (1750-1823) before 1797.  Their son, Lauritz Pedersen Hede (1799-1858), married Mette Catherine Poulsdatter (1802-1878) in 1830.  Peder Jensen Hede and Anna Pedersdatter are my grandsons' 5th great-grandparents.

Note that these records are also on Ancestry.com ($$) and MyHeritage.com ($$).

Previous blog posts for my grandsons' ancestors include:

*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1880 Birth of Jens/Hans Lauritzen Hede (posted 10 June 2020)
*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1863 Marriage of Hans Lauritzen Hede and Kirstine Sørensen (posted 17 June 2020)
*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1838 Birth of Hans Lauritzen Hede (posted 25 June 2020)
*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1842 Birth of Kirstine Sørensen (posted 8 July 2020)
*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1830 Marriage of Lauritz Pedersen Hede and Mette Catharine Roibol (posted 16 July 2020)
*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1830 Marriage of Hans Sørensen and Elske Cathrine Bennetsen (posted 23 July 2020)
*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1892 Confirmation of Johanne Magrethe Stenger in Skærbæk, Tønder, Denmark (posted 30 July 2020)
*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1841 Death and Burial Record of Peder Jensen Hede (1753-1841)

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Tami In About 1980 at a Restaurant -- Post 638 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

 I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! I found some more family photos hiding in Linda's family photo boxes. This is one of my favorite photographs:

I'm guessing that this photo was taken in about 1980, because Tami looks like she's 3 to 4 years old.  She's wearing a light blue frilly dress and a darker blue jacket.  She has a crown from a fast-food place (Burger King?) on her head.  She is holding a string through some of her upper teeth with both hands, and something or someone is off camera to the upper left holding the other end of the string.  She's too young to be pulling a tooth out, I think.  Maybe she's just practicing flossing? I think we are in a restaurant but can't tell which one, but it's probably in Chula Vista.

These photos were scanned from photographs created from developed film prints and are not particularly sharp, but they are what we have!

Several times a year when our children were growing up, Linda sent photographs to her parents and brother in San Francisco. When her father died in 2002, her brother sorted out the photos and gave Linda the ones that were of our family and the ones interacting with them. They were given to us in a big box of stuff back in 2006, and we finally looked at them last year! I've started digitizing them for use in these Wordless Wednesday posts.

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 6 October 2020

  Welcome to Genealogy News and Education Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop since the last issue.


1)  News Articles:


2)  New or Updated Record Collections:






3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes








4)  Genealogy Education - Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar



*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 6 October, 6 p.m.:  Advanced DNA Techniques: Deductive Chromosome Mapping, by Blaine Bettinger

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 7 October, 11 a.m.: Wringing Every Drop out of Y DNA, by Roberta Estes

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Thursday, 8 October, 9 a.m.:  From Generation to Generation: An Updated Look at Kinship Determination, by Judy G. Russell

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Thursday, 8 October, 10:15 a.m.:  Geo-Genealogy as a Problem-Solving Tool: The Case of a 19th-Century Female Teenage Immigrant, by J.H. (Jay) Fonkert

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Thursday, 8 October, 12:30 p.m.:  Spanning 150 Years of Record Loss: A Methodological Approach to Identifying Parents in Sweden, by Jill Morelli

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  #117 Revisiting Source Citations





6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):









* Kentucky Tennessee Research Associates:  Lets Look At Rev War Pension Apps - Rejected or Suspended



*  The Genealogy Reporter:  U.S. Border Crossing Records for Genealogy

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree 2020 Source-a-Thon Wrap Up (Mon 8am ET) (many more on channel)


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