Added or Updated Record Collections on MyHeritage - October and November 2018

I'm trying to have a monthly post about the new and updated record collections on MyHeritage, since they recently have added their Collection Catalog.  The end-of-September report was Added or Updated Record Collections on MyHeritage - September 2018.

On 5 December, the top of the Catalog looks like:

Those are the featured collections pinned at the top of the list.

Here is the start of the most recent collections added or updated:

The added or updated collections since 3 October are:

*  MyHeritage Family Trees - updated 4 December 2018; 3,063,736,827 tree profiles

*  MyHeritage Photos & Docs - updated 4 December 2018:  99,018,136 photos

*  Geni World Family Tree - updated 4 December 2018; 278,971,601 tree profiles

*  FamilySearch Family Tree - updated 4 December 2018; 917,913,846 tree profiles

*  Billion Graves - updated 21 November 2018; 29,422,878 records

*  US Naturalization Record Index, Northern Illinois, 1840-1950 - ADDED 15 November 2018; 1,491,656 records*  US Naturalization Record Index, New England, 1791-1906 - ADDED 15 November 2018; 615,903 records

*  Michigan Newspapers, 1817-2009 - updated 1 November 2018; 1,141,972 records 

*  Iowa Newspapers, 1837-2009 - updated 1 November 2018; 1,072,387 records 

*  Missouri Newspapers, 1845-2009 - updated 1 November 2018; 2,088,228 records 

*  Washington Newspapers, 1855-2009 - updated 1 November 2018; 3,666,501 records 

*  Oregon Newspapers, 1867-2009 - updated 1 November 2018; 1,584,745 records 

*  California Newspapers, 1847-2009 - updated 1 November 2018; 2,166,290 records 

*  Utah Newspapers, 1866-2009 - updated 1 November 2018; 1,194,866 records 

*  Arizona Newspapers, 1866-2009 - updated 1 November 2018; 870,093 records 

*  Idaho Newspapers, 1866-2009 - updated 1 November 2018; 680,126 records 

*  South Carolina Newspapers, 1866-2009 - updated 28 October 2018;  1,953,592 records 

*  Alabama Newspapers, 1870-2009 - updated 28 October 2018;  2,215,485 records 

*  Georgia Newspapers, 1881-2009 - updated 28 October 2018;  2,169,917 records 

*  North Carolina Newspapers, 1852-2009 - updated 28 October 2018;  2,699,469 records 

*  Virginia Newspapers, 1792-2008 - updated 28 October 2018; 872,907 records 

*  Queensland School Pupils Index, Part 5 - ADDED 19 October 2018; 450,748 records 

*  West Virginia Birth Index, 1853-1914 - ADDED 17 October 2018; 3,172,114 records 

*  New York City Marriages, 1950-2017 - updated 17 October 2018; 9,515,364 records 

*  England & Wales, Index of Wills and Probates, 1853-1943 - ADDED 10 October 2018; 10,295,250 records 

* Ohio Death Index, 1913-1944, 1954-1963 - ADDED 9 October 2018; 3,077,161 records 

* 1801 Denmark Census - ADDED 2 October 2018; 943,681 records 

* 1787 Denmark Census - ADDED 2 October 2018; 841,681 records 

According to the Collection Catalog  page, there are now 6,555 collections on MyHeritage (up from 6,533 on 3 October 2018) with 9,432,349,350 profiles plus records  (was 9,275,059,695 on 3 October 2018), so there are 22 new collections (as listed above), but only 8 were listed above.  There are about 157.3 million profiles records added since 3 October 2018.

The total number of "records" includes 4,359,640,410 family tree profiles and photos, so the number of records is 5,072,708,940 as of 5 December 2018.  

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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have had for several years, which I appreciate.  I have been reimbursed for travel and meal expenses in exchange for services rendered (luncheon and in-exhibit presentations) to MyHeritage at RootsTech conferences.

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Randy and Lyle in the Corn Field in 1945 -- Post 543 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

Recently, I discovered an envelope of small photographs saved when my mother died in 2002 - it was hiding in plain sight in the Genea-Cave! 

Included in the photo cache was this oldie-but-goodie - Randy and grandfather Lyle Carringer in the corn field having fun in 1945:

I'm not sure this is a corn field, but I know that Lyle and his parents grew everything on their lots on the 30th Street block in San Diego, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was a corn field.  My guess is that the field was on the south side of the houses at 2115 30th and 2114 Fern Streets.  I think that this photo was taken in 1945 because I'm walking and would be two years old in October 1945.

I look very busy here in my short pants and holding my doll, and my grandfather was very attentive.  He was a wonderful person in my life, and I loved him very much.  In 1944-5, my father was in the U.S. Navy during World War II, so Lyle was the substitute father in my life.  My mother was working, and my grandparents took care of me during this time.  

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Genealogy News Bytes - 4 December 2018

Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:

1)  News Articles:

*  FREE ACCESS! Mandy Moore Episode of Who Do You Think You Are? on TLC

*  MyHeritage Extends Deadline for DNA Test Data Upload

*  RootsTech 2019 Announces Keynote Speaker: Ukulele Master Musician Jake Shimabukuro

2)  New or Updated Record Databases:

*  New Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of December 3, 2018

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 25 November to 1 December 2018

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 25 November to 1 December 2018

*  Friday Finds 30 Nov 2018

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  LESS than 3 DAYS for the next i4GG (Institute for Genetic Genealogy) 2018 Conference!

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 5 December, 11 a.m. PST:  Ins and Outs of Indexes: Keys to Unlocking County and State Records, by Mary Kircher Roddy

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 7 December, 11 a.m. PST:  Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 9): Adding an Entry from an Online Database, by Geoff Rasmussen

*  Upcoming AmericanAncestors Webinar - Thursday, 13 December, 12 noon PST:  Using Maps in Your Family History Research, by Alice Kane

*  Research Like a Pro Podcast:  RLP 21: The FamilySearch Catalog

*  The Photo Detective Podcast:  A Vivid-Pix Redux

*  The Genealogy Guys Podcast:  #353

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #024 – Why Do So Many People Give Two Years For A Vital Record? Here’s A Little History Lesson!

*  Extreme Genes Podcast/Radio Show:  Episode 262 – Integrating Family History & The Holidays / Your Relative Race Winners Describe Their Experience

*  Ancestry YouTube:  Sir Elton John is My Relative? | My Family Secrets Revealed | Ancestry

*  Ancestry YouTube:  Emma's Eastern European Ancestry Discovered | My Family Secrets | Ancestry

*  Ancestry YouTube:  WWII War Hero's Hidden British Empire Medal | My Family Secrets Revealed | Ancestry

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Is Marrying Your Cousin Bad? - A Segment of DNA

*  Genetic Genealogy Ireland YouTube:  GDPR, Privacy & Data Protection (James Irvine)

*  Genetic Genealogy Ireland YouTube:  DNA, Privacy & Data Protection (Panel Discussion)

*  Ancestral Findings YouTube:  AF-207: 10 "Must Do" Genealogy Projects for December

*  Blaine Bettinger YouTube:  Forming and Using Genetic Networks with Genetic Affairs

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems YouTube:  How to Transfer Your Raw DNA Data for Genealogy and Family History with Diahan Southard

*  MyHeritage YouTube:  MyHeritage DNA Featured on the Steve Harvey Show

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, December 4,  2018

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 30 November 2018?

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Where Am I Saving My Digitized Family Photos?

In yesterday's Mondays With Myrt webinar discussion, the question was asked:  "Where are you saving your family tree, family photographs, stories, videos, artifacts, etc.?"  

1)  I have stored my digitized family "stuff" online in many places.  For my family tree information (names, relationships, dates, places, notes, sources, etc.), photographs and stories, I think the best, most long-lasting, place is the FamilySearch Family Tree. 

I have my family photographs on:

*  My Windows PC computer, in family file folders, with an external drive backup. 

*  iDrive, which adds my new genealogy and photograph files every midnight hour, for a yearly fee.  I can download them any time I need them.

*  Blogger, in thousands of Genea-Musings blog posts (541 in the "Wordless Wednesday" label).  Will they disappear at some time?  Perhaps.

*  Pinterest, in several Boards for specific family lines.  Will they disappear at some time?  Perhaps.

*  Flickr, in several albums for specific family lines.  Will they disappear at some time?  Probably.

*  Facebook, in several albums for specific topics.  Will they disappear at some time?  Probably.

For each of these, the webinar attendees suggested adding a family member to my account so that the account can be accessed after I pass away.

2)  Adding family tree data, family photos and stories to the FamilySearch Family Tree is more difficult than uploading a batch of photos to a photo sharing site or a blog.  In past years, I have uploaded a head shot photo to the profile of many of my recent ancestors in the "Memories" section.

After our discussion yesterday, I decided that I should add the best of my family photographs and family stories to the FamilySearch Family Tree profiles of my ancestors.  I started with my father, Frederick Walton Seaver (LH5L-4P9).  Here is his profile:

I added a "Life Sketch" several years ago for many of my ancestors.

Photographs, Documents, Family Stories, and Audio are sub-sections in the "Memories" section of the profile.  Here is the "Photos" sub-section for my father before I added another photo:

I wanted to upload another photo, so I clicked on the "Upload Photo" button on the screen above, went to my photo files, and selected the desired photo.  After I did that, the photo was added to the "Photos" page with a banner saying "Unprocessed:"

In order to process the photograph, I went through a series of steps to add a Title to the photo, tag the persons in the photo, add Details (event date, event place, and description), and add a Memory below the photo.  Here is the finished photograph entry:

I can edit any of the entries whenever I want.

This took about five minutes for each photograph, so it is not a trivial time investment for someone who has hundreds of family photographs.  But I think it is worth it.

3)  Why do I think this is the best place for me to upload my family tree data, family photographs, stories, etc.?

*  It is FREE to add content to profiles, and it is FREE to access for any person with a registration at FamilySearch.

*  FamilySearch should be around for decades if not centuries because of who they are - I sincerely doubt that any company will buy them, and I doubt that the interest of the LDS church in genealogy and family history will diminish over centuries.

*  FamilySearch has taken measures to save and preserve everything they own.  I doubt that they will stop doing this.

*  The FamilySearch Family Tree is the largest collaborative family tree - over 1 billion profiles of historical persons to date.  There are still duplicate profiles on the site, and there are millions of historical persons who have not been added to date, but thousands (millions?) of researchers are adding content to it every day.  I am.

4)  I encourage my readers to consider where they have stored their family photographs, to digitize  their family photographs, and to save them somewhere online.  Don't just leave them in the hard cover photo albums or loose piles, and don't just leave the digitized copies on your computer without backup in the cloud on a photo sharing site or in an online family tree like FamilySearch Family Tree.

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Treasure Chest Tuesday -- 1908 Death Notice for Mary Ann (Paul) Schaffner in San Francisco, California

The treasure today is the 1908 death notice for Mary Ann (Paul) Schaffner in the San Francisco Call newspaper dated 19 February 1908:

The transcription of this death notice is:

"SCHAFFNER -- Entered into rest, in this city, February 18, 1908, Mary Ann (Paul) Schaffner, idolized wife of Herman Schaffner, loving mother of Paul F. Schaffner, Herman Schaffner Jr., and Fred Schaffner, and beloved sister of Mrs. R.M. Small, a native of New Bedford, Mass.

"The funeral will take place today (Wednesday), February 19, at 1 o'clock p.m., from her late residence, 1014 Castro street between Twenty-third and Elizabeth.  Interment Woodlawn cemetery, by electric funeral car from Thirtieth street and San Jose avenue."

The source citation for this death notice is:

"DIED," death notice, San Francisco [Calif.] Call newspaper, 19 February 1908, Page 13, column 3, Mary Ann (Paul) Schaffner death notice; digital image,   GenealogyBank   (https://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 12 March 2018), Newspaper Archives collection.

Mary Ann Paul was born in November 1854 in Massachusetts, the first child and daughter of John Charles Paul and Maria T. Beamish.  She married Herman Schaffner (1851-1921) in about 1875 in San Francisco, California.  They had three sons, all named in the death notice.

Herman and Mary Ann (Paul) Schaffner are Linda's great-grandparents, whose son Paul F. Schaffner (1879-1934) married Edna Catherine McKnew (1884-1974) in 1906.  

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Monday Genea-Pourri - 3 December 2018

Here are some of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  Presented my "Discovering George W. Seaver's Life Story" talk at the North San Diego County Genealogical Society (NSDCGS) in Carlsbad on Tuesday to about 60 attendees.  I added some slides about descendancy research at the beginning.  This is a fun group of people, and it was good to see old friends again.  The problem with it is that it takes about 90 minutes to go 43 miles at 8 in the morning in stop-and-go San Diego traffic.   

2)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) yearly show and tell program and Board of Directors election meeting.  We had ten members show or describe their oldest antiques, ranging from furniture to small dolls, to the 25 members in attendance.  I did not take anything because I could not find some of my oldest antiques - they're buried in my piles in the genea-cave, I think.  

3)  Transcribed another deed for Amanuensis Monday - 1824 Deed of Samuel Stone Jr. to Zachariah Hildreth  in Townsend, Mass.  I need to download several more of these deeds from the 1835 to 1859 time frame.

4)  Found one new group of Seever persons hiding in online databases and online trees.  Added several generations adding content and sources.   I found the group by randomly searching for Seaver persons on Ancestry and found this large group.  I'm not done with it - I have TreeShared everyone in RootsMagic, but still have siblings of the oldest generations to find.

5)  Watched  Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 8): The Smoking Gun on FamilyTreeWebinars, plus several YouTube videos.  

6)  Participated in today's Mondays with Myrt webinar.  The panel discussed obtaining tickets to The GENEALOGY SHOW in Birmingham and long distance air travel, the value of Deed research (my William Champlin and Zachariah Hildreth blog posts), the new UK TV show "My Family Secrets Revealed," Pat's find of a newspaper record to document a marriage, the Kodak mini-photo printer and Nixplay photo sharing display, DearMyrtle's YouTube video on RootsMagic media, Tribal Pages family trees, and what we plan to do so that our work is retained for posterity.  

7) There were several sessions working in RootsMagic to update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and other database families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 27,705 of my persons with FSFT.  I continue to use Web Hints from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 51,417 persons in my RootsMagic file, and 98,407 source citations.   I TreeShared four times during the last week (about 300 profiles), and resolved about 500 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 85,874 waiting to be resolved, but I work on them weekly.

8)  Have 311 Shared Ancestors on my AncestryDNA list (I had 309 last week), 1031 4th cousins or closer (I had 1022 last week), and 929 pages (over 46,400 matches with at least 6 cM) (was 925 pages last week) of  matches.  I have 23 DNA Circles (was 23 last week).  I have 17 matches that are third cousins or closer (was 16 last week), and 104 matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more (was 104 last week).  My highest match has 779 cM (11.5%), and is one of my known first cousins.

9)  Have 5,140 DNA Matches on MyHeritage (up from 5,074 last week) with at least 8 cM (0.12%), with 35 matches with more than 34 cM (0.5%) or more (was 35 last week).  I have three close relatives, including a first cousin once removed, and two first cousins twice removed.  The highest DNA match is 512 cM (7.1%).  Added Notes to about 15 matches this past week.

10)  Have 1,013 DNA Relatives on 23andMe (I had 1007 last week) who share at least 0.10% (7 cM) with me.  The two closest relatives are third cousins.  Of these, only 3 share 1.0% or more, and 53 share 0.50% or more (was 51 last week), with the highest match being 1.54%. My highest match is an adoptee.  I struggle to find out anything about most of these testers.

11)  Have 2,867 autosomal DNA Matches on FamilyTreeDNA (up from 2,862 last week) who share 0.25% (18 cM) or more, with the highest match being 96 cM (1.42%).  I have 12 who share at least 1.0% (68 cM) with me, and 1,542 who share at least 0.50% (34 cM) or more (was 1,537 last  week) with me.

12) Wrote 17 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were press releases.  The most popular post last week was All MyHeritage LIVE! 2018 Classes Available on Family Tree Webinars Site for FREE with over 230 views.  Wrote three Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe blogs, and copied 1.2 gb of CVGS data to Google Drive.

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Amanuensis Monday - 1824 Deed of Samuel Stone Jr. to Zachariah Hildreth in Townsend, Mass.

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1824 deed of Samuel Stone Junior of Townsend, Massachusetts to Zachariah Hildreth of Townsend in the Middlesex County, Massachusetts Land Records: 

[Volume 262, pages 530-531]:

The transcription of this deed is:

[Volume 262, page 530, starts at bottom of left-hand page]

                                                Know all Men by these Presents
That I Sam^l Stone Jr. of Townsend in the County of Middle-[Volume 264, page 370, top of right-hand page]
[In right-hand margin]

Sam^l Stone Jr. Agent to Zachariah Hildreth
[in body of page]

sex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Trader and agent for the cred-
itors of Stephen Scales of Townsend aforesaid yeoman in considera-
tion of thirty five dollars and ninety four cents paid to me by Zach-
ariah Hildreth of Townsend afores^d yeoman the receipt whereof I
do hereby acknowledge and in s^d capacity have remised released
and forever quitclaimed and do by these presents remit release and
forever quit claim unto the said Zachariah Hildreth his heirs and
assigns forever a certain tract of land lying Southerly from the
meeting house in s^d Townsend and on the Easterly side of the
road leading from s^d Meetinghouse to Daniel Dixes beginning
at a corner or crotch of roads leading to said Dix's and the
old baybary hill road the Southerly side of said Barbery hill
road and Easterly side of road leading to s^d Dix's and in front
of Joseph H. Hildreth's house.  Thence South about eighty eight
degrees E. bounding by the Southerly side of babery hill road
about sixteen and one half rods till it comes to Simeon or Solomon
Greens land, Thence south about thirteen degrees E. bounded by said
Greens land about thirty four and one half rods to a corner of said Greens
land. Thence South about fifty five degrees E. bounding by s^d Greens land
about twelve rods to a stake and stones in a line of said Greens land.
Thence South about twenty eight degrees W. bounding by W^m Pratts
land about nine and one half rods to a stake & stones in a line of
said Pratts land and a corner of Josiah Sawtell 3^ds land.  Thence
North about fifty seven degrees W. by said Sawtells land about
forty four rods to a stake and stones by the road leading to said Dix's.
Thence North about seventeen degrs. E. about twenty eight rods by the
Easterly side of said road to the bounds first mentioned, containing
six and one fourth acres.  To have and to hold the same as aboves^d
together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belong-
ing to him the said Zachariah Hildreth his heirs and assigns for-
ever.  In witness whereof I the said Samuel Stone Jr. and Lucy my wife
she relinquishing her right of Dower or thirds in said premis-
es have hereunto set our hands and seals this fourteenth day of
April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty four.
Samuel Stone Jr. and seal.  Lucy Stone and seal.  Signed, sealed and
delivered in presence of us Edward H. Purcell, Joseph H. Hildreth.  Mid-
dlesex ss. Oct. 4th 1824.  Then the above named Samuel Stone Jr.
acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed
before me Nathaniel Cummings Just. of Peace.
                   Middlesex ss.  Nov. 19^th 1825.  Rec'd and Recorded by
                                                                  W^m F. Stone Regr.

The source citation for this recorded deed is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 4 November 2018), Middlesex County, "Deeds, 1825, Vols. 260-262," Volume 262, pages 530-531 (image 822 of 835), Deed of Samuel Stone Jr. to Zachariah Hildreth, executed 14 April 1824, recorded 19 November 1825.

It is unclear if the grantee is Zachariah Hildreth Sr. (1754-1828), who has been called "Gentleman" in earlier deeds)  or Zachariah Hildreth Jr (1783-1857), who has always been called "yeoman" in earlier deeds.  This same Samuel Stone Jr., acting as an agent for the creditors of Stephen Scales, sold Zachariah Hildreth Jr., yeoman of Townsend,  another tract of land in Townsend on 12 April 1824.  Perhaps a later deed will be found that sells this land and identifies which Zachariah was the grantee in this deed.  

I noted that this tract of land is a neighbor of land belonging to Josiah Sawtell the 3rd, who is either the father or brother of Hannah Sawtell, who married Zachariah Hildreth Jr. in 1810.

Zachariah Hildreth Jr. (1783-1857) is my third great-grandfather, who married Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.  I am descended through their son, Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married Sophia Newton (1834-1923).

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:" 

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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Best of the Genea-Blogs - 25 November to 1 December 2018

Dozens of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  Loops and Curves by Molly Rogers on the Vita Brevis blog.

*   A Powerful Challenge for Adoptees to Overcome by Dave Robison on the Old Bones Genealogy of New England blog.

*  Right Person, Right Place, Right Time: Documenting the Unknown in your DNA Test Results by Paul Woodbury on the Legacy Tree Genealogists   blog.

*  Pay Attention to Those Draft Dates & Ages When Researching Draft Registration Cards by Colleen Greene on the Colleen Greene blog.

*  How Not to Bore People With Genealogy by Amy Johnson Crow on the Amy Johnson Crow blog.

*  Clever Gifts for Genealogists – 2018 Holiday Edition by Debra Dudek on the Fountaindale Public Library Genealogy & Research Blog.

*  4 Keys To Make You a Better Genealogist by DiAnn Iamarino on the Fortify Your Family Tree blog.

*  Locating Original Records for 'Text Only' Indexes on Ancestry by Sue McNelly on the Kindred Past blog.

*  You Want What? I'll Pass by Nicka Smith on the Who is Nicka Smith? blog.

*  5 Reasons to Take Your Family Sideways by Ann Raymont on the DNAsleuth blog.

*  The Future of Online Trees by Tony Proctor on the Parallax View blog.

*  Ancestors Beyond Indian Territory? Census, Slave Schedules and More by Angela Walton-Raji on The African-Native American Genealogy Blog.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  Friday Finds: Week 48 -- 2018 by Martin Roe Eidhammer on the Norwegian Genealogy and Then Some blog.

* This Week's Creme de la Creme -- December 1, 2018  by Gail Dever on the Genealogy a la Carte blog.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I am currently reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 25 November to 1 December 2018

The following record collections were listed on the Recently Added and Updated Collections list on Ancestry.com during the period from 25 November to 1 December 2018:  

The record collections added or updated since last week include:

As you can see, none were listed for the specified week.  It was the week after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, so perhaps the collection employees were fulfilling DNA orders.  

The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at    http://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.  

By my count, there were 0 NEW collections ADDED listed this past week, per the list above.  There are now 32,673 collections available as of 1 December, an increase of  0 from last week.   

The last ADDED collection was on 6 November.  The last UPDATED Collection was on 8 November.

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Disclosure:  I have had a fully paid Ancestry.com subscription since 2000.  Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.

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