Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 27 November 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:j

*  Black Friday DNA sales

*  Ancestors of Biden, Obama, JFK, Reagan left Ireland ‘within some 10 years of each other’

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Friday Finds 27 Nov 2020

*  Findmypast Friday: Vast New Collection of Scottish Monumental Inscriptions

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  RootsTech Connect 2021 - 25-27 February 2021 (Online, Free)

*  Family History Federation's Really Useful Show returns in April 2021

*  41st Annual IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (Philadelphia PA, 2-5 August 2021)

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Library Online Classes and Webinars November 2020

*  MyHeritage Online Events for November 

*  Appleton, Wisconsin Library Presents a FREE "Find Your Ancestors" Webinar Series

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 1 December, 5 p.m.:  Once upon a time: It’s all about the story, by Carol Baxter

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 2 December, 5 p.m.:  Four ways DNA Painter can help with your family history research, by Jonny Perl

*  Upcoming SCGS Webinar -Wednesday, 16 December, 6 p.m.:  Bounty Land: It's Complicated, by Annette Burke Lyttle.

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: The 1939 Register - Why is it invaluable? by Penny Walters

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Tech Zone - Use Two-Factor Authentication for Added Security, by Thomas MacEntee

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Generations Cafe:  Research Renewal: A New Series

*  Fisher's Top Tips: #227r - Female Ancestors

*  Ancestral Findings:  What Were Your Ancestors Doing in the 1930s? | AF-399

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Digital Storytelling With Google Earth Projects - Breanne Ballard

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends: FYR Episode 14-Why Ask Why?

*  Family History Fanatics:  Fact or Fiction: You can get DNA from stamps or hair samples

*  Family History Fanatics: How to Add Stillborn Children to FamilySearch & Ancestry Family Trees

*  Genealogy TV:  Genetic Affairs: Clustering DNA Matches - Part 1 (2020)

*  Genealogy TV:  Genetic Affairs: Clustering DNA Matches - Part 2 (2020)

*  Genealogy TV:  Genetic Affairs: Clustering DNA Matches - Part 3 (2020)

*  GeneaVlogger:  AncestryDNA | CNN's: Finding Kamau Bell Episode 1 | Ancestry - Professional Genealogist Reacts

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems:  Elevenses with Lisa episode 35 Viewer Voices 2

*  MyHeritage:  Leveraging MyHeritage's German Resources Effectively

*  MyHeritage:  DNA Methodology for Unknown Parentage Research With Dabra Renard!

7)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 24 November 2020 ?

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Findmypast Friday: Vast New Collection of Scottish Monumental Inscriptions

 I received this information from Findmypast today:

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Findmypast publish vast new collection of Scottish Monumental Inscriptions in collaboration with Society partners across the country

• Over one million Scottish epitaphs, monuments and memorial inscriptions now fully searchable online at Findmypast.
• Spanning 1000 years of Scottish history, new collection covers over 800 burial grounds across the country and includes monuments that have long been lost to time
• Published online for the first time thanks to new technology and a grassroots project between Findmypast and local volunteers
• Contains some of the most interesting figures for Scottish history including Kings, Queens, the Maid of Norway, Flora MacDonald and Adam Smith.

Leading UK family history website Findmypast has today announced the publication of a vast new online collection of Scottish Monumental Inscriptions in collaboration with Society partners across the country.

Published online for the first time and available exclusively at Findmypast, “Scotland Monumental Inscriptions” enables anyone, anywhere in the world to discover their Scottish ancestors and explore the nation’s historic burial grounds from the comfort of home.

Spanning almost 1000 years of history with records dating back to 1093, this comprehensive online archive covers over 800 burial sites in 688 parishes (80% of the nation) across all 34 historical Scottish counties.

Inscriptions from some the most famous burial sites in Scotland such as Edinburgh Greyfriars & Canongate Kirkyards, the Dundee Howff, and Dunfermline Abbey Churchyard can now be accessed by family historians and history enthusiasts alike, to discover the stories behind the stones.

This revolutionary new resource is the result of a collaborative grassroots project between Findmypast and 10 Scottish local and national family history societies including:

• Aberdeen & North East Scotland FHS
• Caithness FHS
• Dumfries & Galloway FHS
• East Ayrshire FHS
• Highland FHS
• Lanarkshire FHS
• Moray Burial Ground Research Group
• Scottish Genealogy Society
• Tay Valley FHS
• Troon@Ayrshire FHS

The work of hundreds of passionate volunteers to transcribe memorials and gravestones from all over Scotland has now been made fully searchable online for the very first time.

Names, dates, locations and other biographical details such as additional family members, occupations, causes of death and more were transcribed and then digitally converted thanks to new, proprietary technology to create a national index that unlocks the long-forgotten secrets of Scotland’s dead.

Chronicling the lives and deaths of almost 1.1 million deceased, the collection has been created by merging almost 600,000 newly created records with existing documents already available on Findmypast, to create the largest single collection of its kind.

This collection also includes records of inscriptions found on buried stones, uncovered through archaeological survey with their details recorded for the first time in centuries. In addition, old books and local histories were used to document memorials that have long since been lost due lost to erosion, weathering or simply time itself, allowing researchers to gain unique new insights into to the lives of those who lived and died many centuries ago.

Some of Scotland’s most renowned sons and daughters can be found within the collection, including monarchs and their favored courtiers, Covenanters, Jacobites and revolutionaries, not to mention many thousands of poets, artists, musicians, artisans, tradespeople, laborers and more.

Myko Clelland, Regional Licensing & Outreach Manager at Findmypast said ‘Scotland is a nation of stories, but so many lie forgotten in cemeteries across the country. Through the tireless efforts of local expert volunteers, combined with new technology, these stories can be told for the first time online. What better way to bring these tales to life, than to let descendants tell these tales for themselves?’

Other new additions available to search this Findmypast Friday:

Caribbean First World War Rolls of Honour

Find out if your Caribbean ancestor fought for Britain in the First World War with new rolls of honour from The Bahamas, Barbados, St Kitts & Nevis and Bermuda. Many of the men listed in this collection served in the British West Indies Regiment. These records can reveal their names, service numbers and, sometimes, how, when and where they died.

United States, World War II Casualty Lists

Held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), these records can tell you your family heroes' names, ranks and parents' details. This initial release covers the U.S. Navy. Records from the other arms of the military services will be added over time.

British Army, Coldstream Guards 1800-1947

Now available in their own standalone record set, Findmypast have added even more service records from this famous regiment. Each record features a transcript and a full-colour, digitised copy of the original record. Use them to discover details about your army ancestors that you won't find anywhere else.

Newspapers

Four brand new publications and updates to over 20 others are now available to search on Findmypast. New to the collection are:

• Coleshill Chronicle from 1874, 1878-1880, 1882-1887, 1889-1895 and 1897-1900
• Leicester Evening Mail from 1929-1931
• Rugeley Times from 1926-1984
• Warrington Examiner from 1870-1875, 1884-1888, 1891, 1894, 1903 and 1905-1908

While the following 23 newspapers have been supplemented with additional coverage:

• Aberystwyth Times covering 1870
• Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon Gazette covering 1845, 1848-1849, 1854-1855, 1858 and 1866-1867
• Cardiff Times covering 1871 and 1876
• Carmarthen Weekly Reporter covering 1896-1900
• Civil & Military Gazette (Pakistan) covering 1881-1883, 1885, 1887, 1895-1898, 1900-1905 and 1907-1909
• Dundee Courier covering 1992
• Glamorgan Free Press covering 1899
• Halifax Evening Courier covering 1960
• Kinematograph Weekly covering 1932
• Lynn Advertiser covering 1913-1925 and 1929-1944
• Mansfield & Sutton Recorder covering 1989
• Monmouthshire Merlin covering 1841-1842, 1844-1848, 1852-1853, 1856-1870, 1872-1873, 1875-1877 and 1879-1880
• Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser covering 1894-1896 and 1899-1900
• Pontypool Free Press covering 1886-1889
• Reynolds’s Newspaper covering 1901-1911
• Rhyl Record and Advertiser covering 1878 and 1888-1900
• South Wales Daily News covering 1874, 1891, 1893 and 1898
• South Wales Daily Post covering 1895
• South Wales Echo covering 1881, 1886 and 1889
• Tablet covering 1908
• Usk Observer covering 1856-1858, 1861 and 1866
• Widnes Examiner covering 1885-1886, 1888, 1890 and 1892
• Wrexham Guardian and Denbighshire and Flintshire Advertiser covering 1875 and 1877-1879      

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Disclosure: I have a complimentary subscription to Findmypast, and have accepted meals and services from Findmypast, as a Findmypast Ambassador. This has not affected my objectivity relative to Findmypast and its products.

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52 Ancestors - Week 358: #569 Hannah (--?--) Haughton (ca 1650-ca 1690) of Boston, Massachusetts

Hannah --?-- (1650-1690)  is number 569 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #568  John Haughton (1647-1705)  in about 1675, probably in Boston, Suffolk County,  Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son #284 Samuel Horton (1686-1778) who married #285 Hannah Atwood (1686-1771) in 1714.

*  their son #142 Nathaniel Horton (1721-1771) who married  #143 Eunice Snow (1722-1816) in 1742.

*  their daughter #71 Hannah Horton (1761-1797)who married #70 Thomas Dill (1755-1839)  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:               Hannah  --?-- [1–2]    

*  Sex:                   Female  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

 

*  Birth:                 about 1650, Massachusetts, United States    

*  Death:                about 1690 (about age 40), Massachusetts, United States  

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

 

*  Spouse 1:               John Haughton (1647-1705)    

*  Marriage 1:            about 1675 (about age 25), probably Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]    

*  Child 1:                  Hopestill Horton (ca 1677-1734)    

*  Child 2:                  Dorothy Horton (ca 1680-1738)    

*  Child 3:                  Samuel Horton (ca 1686-1778)    

*  Child 4:                  John Horton (ca 1688-1710)    

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Margaret Horton Weiler wrote a periodical article "Descendants of John Haughton (Horton) of Eastham" for the Cape Cod Genealogical Society bulletin[1] and she also wrote the book Descendants of John Horton of Boston, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut, through his son, Samuel Horton of Eastham, Massachusetts[2].  The sketch for John Horton/Haughton included:

"John Horton (Haughton) lived in Boston, MA with his wife, Hannah, perhaps the Hannah Harden, daughter of Joseph and Mary Long, who died in Boston 7 Jan 1690."  

The two resources indicate that the Hannah Harden who died in 1690 might be the daughter of Joseph and Mary Long, but did not have the Horton or Haughton surname.  Harden is another possibility, but there is no authoritative evidence.

Since John Haughton was born in about 1647, it is likely that Hannah --?-- was born about 1650, perhaps in Boston. 

John married Hannah  --?-- in about 1675, perhaps in Boston.  There is no known record that provides Hannah's name at the time of marriage.  They had four children, all were probably born in Boston, and Samuel's birth was recorded there:

*  Hopestill Horton (1677-1734), married 1698 Ebenezer Snow (1680-1725).

*  Dorothy Horton (1680-1738), married 1701 David Doane (1674-1748).

*  Samuel Horton (1686-1778), married 1714 Hannah Atwood (1686-1771).

*  John Horton (1688-1710).

It is likely that John Haughton moved his family to Eastham, Massachusetts in or before about 1690, and that is where daughters Hopestill and Dorothy, and son Samuel, married and made their home, and son John died there in 1710.

Hannah may have died between 1688 and about 1694, when John married again to Ruth Browne of Boston.

There are no known death or burial records for Hannah (--?--) Haughton/Horton in Massachusetts records.

  

5)  SOURCES

 

1. Margaret Horton Weiler, "Descendants of John Horton (Haughton) of Eastham," Bulletin of the Cape Cod Genealogical Society (Harwich, Mass. : Brooks Free Library), Vol. XI, No. 3 (September 1983), pages 57-64, John Horton/Haughton of Boston and Eastham sketch.

2. Margaret Horton Weiler, Descendants of John Horton of Boston, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut, through his son, Samuel Horton of Eastham, Massachusetts ( Bradford, New Hampshire :  Penobscot Press, 1994), 121 pages.  Accessed at Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, US/CAN microfilm 1,698,100, Item 9, John Horton/Haughton sketch.

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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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Seavers in the News -- Pansy H. (Schwartz) Seaver Dies in 1945 in Brattleboro, Vt.

  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 the The Brattleboro [Vt.] Reformer newspaper dated 13 November 1945:

The transcription of the article is:

"MRS. H.E. SEAVER DIES

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Mother of Mrs. Ralph Dutton Had Lived Here Six Years

"Mrs. Pansy H. (Schwartz) Seaver, wife of Harry E. Seaver of 48 Western avenue, died Sunday morning.

"She was born in Scranton, Penn., Aug. 6, 1885, the daughter of Elwood P. and Harriet (McGargle) Schwartz and had formerly lived in Springfield, Mass. before moving to Brattleboro six years ago.  Besides her husband, she leaves two daughters, Mrs. Ralph F. Dutton of Chesterfield, N.H., and Mrs. Elliot A. Wood of Springfield, Mass.; three sons, David W. Parker of Chesterfield, N.H., George W. Parker of Springfield, Mass., and John B. Parker, Ph.M. 1/c U./S. Navy; two brothers, Hubert and Fay Schwartz both of West Springfield, Mass.; four sisters, Mrs. Ernest C. Holt, Mrs. Alonzo Jones and Mrs. Editha Bardwell all of Springfield, Mass., and Mrs. Edward Allen of Dayton, Ohio; and seven grandchildren.

"Mrs. Seaver was a member of Centre Congregational church and of the Brattleboro Grange.  The funeral will be held in Springfield, Mass., at the parlors of the Dickinson-Streeter company, 305 State street, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with an organ prelude at 1:30.

"Rev. Edward C. Dahl will go to Springfield, Mass., to officiate and the interment will be in Oak Grove cemetery, Springfield, Mass.  Friends were invited to visit at the Funeral home here Tuesday evening."

The source citation is:

""Mrs. H.E. Seaver Dies," The Brattleboro [Vt.] Reformer newspaper, obituary, Thursday, 13 November 1945, page 4, column 6, Pansy H. (Schwartz) Seaver obituary;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 26 November 2020).

This obituary provides a full maiden name and married name, no age, a birth date, a birth place, an implied death date, a death place, no cause of death, and the names of her parents, spouse, children and siblings.  

Pansy Helene Schwartz (1885-1945) married, as her second husband, Harry Ernest Seaver (1881-1956), the son of John S. and Evaline (Baker) Seaver, in 1933 in Springfield, Mass. She was married first to Walter David Parker (1883-1927), by whom she had five children.  She and Harry Seaver had no children together.

I am a 5th cousin 3 times removed to Harry Ernest Seaver, with the common ancestors being Robert and Elizabeth (Ballard) Seaver, the immigrants in 1634 to Boston, Massachusetts.

There are over 10,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person is widowed at a relatively young age, and marries again and lives a full life thereafter. I am glad that I can honor Pansy (Swartz) (Parker) 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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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1752 Birth Record of Lydia Bathrick in Westborough, Massachusetts

  It's Treasure Chest Thursday - 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 birth entry for Lydia Bathrick (1752-1795) in the Westborough, Massachusetts town record book:

The Lydia Bathrick birth entry is the fifth record on the left-hand page above:

The transcription of this record is:

"Lydia Bathrick was borne March y'e 11'th 1752 of David Barthrick and Lydia his wife."

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 November 2020), "Westborough > Births, Marriages, and Deaths," page 27 (image 267 of 1417), Lydia Bathrick birth entry, 11 March 1752.

This is probably a transcription of an original town record book for Westborough, Massachusetts, so it is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the birth of Lydia Bathrick and her parents names.

   

Lydia Bathrick (1752-1795), the daughter of David and Lydia (Maynard) Bathrick of Westborough.  She married Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802), the son of Moses and Mehitable (Grout) Brigham of Westborough, Massachusetts on 29 April 1779 in Westborough.  They are my 4th great-grandparents, through their son Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) who married Sophia Buck (1797-1882) in 1817.

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Happy Thanksgiving 2020!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to my family, friends, readers and colleagues!

Here is my traditional Thanksgiving post and poem - with a bit more afterward:

Thanksgiving

by Edgar Albert Guest (c) 1917

Gettin' together to smile an' rejoice,

An' eatin' an' laughin' with folks of your choice;

An' kissin' the girls an' declarin' that they

Are growin' more beautiful day after day;

Chattin' an' braggin' a bit with the men,

Buildin' the old family circle again;

Livin' the wholesome an' old-fashioned cheer,

Just for awhile at the end of the year.

Greetings fly fast as we crowd through the door

And under the old roof we gather once more

Just as we did when the youngsters were small;

Mother's a little bit grayer, that's all.

Father's a little bit older, but still

Ready to romp an' to laugh with a will.

Here we are back at the table again

Tellin' our stories as women an' men.

Bowed are our heads for a moment in prayer;

Oh, but we're grateful an' glad to be there.

Home from the east land an' home from the west,

Home with the folks that are dearest an' best.

Out of the sham of the cities afar

We've come for a time to be just what we are.

Here we can talk of ourselves an' be frank,

Forgettin' position an' station an' rank.

Give me the end of the year an' its fun

When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done;

Bring all the wanderers home to the nest,

Let me sit down with the ones I love best,

Hear the old voices still ringin' with song,

See the old faces unblemished by wrong,

See the old table with all of its chairs

An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

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Randy's Note:  The scene above is not what's happening this year in Chula Vista.  We are not with our family, but will  see them on Facetime and Duo on our smart phones and wish them a happy day and ask them what they are thankful for, and what they want for Christmas.

We will stay home and have dinner by ourselves, and watch TV and read books and I will do some family history work.  We don't need a roasted turkey and Linda can't eat out, so we will have some pork ribs and asparagus and fruit and our ice cream, and be thankful that we're warm, and safe, and well fed, albeit lonely. 

We are very thankful this year for our health, and the health and safety of our daughters and their families.  COVID-19 makes this year one for the ages and the memories, and we are determined to survive it and be with our family and friends and colleagues for ears to come, God willing.  

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Lucille Ball is My 7th Cousin Twice Removed

 I've been playing around with the FamilySearch Famous Relatives page (why?  Because I like to!) and found out today that, according to the entries in the FamilySearch Family Tree, I'm related to Lucille Ball (1911-1989).  Yes, "Lucy" on the all-time great TV show, "I Love Lucy."

Here are the screens that show the relationship:

The common ancestors are Samuel Bigelow (1653-1732) and Mary Flagg (1658-1720), my 8th great-grandparents.  

My father and his siblings would have been thrilled to know this!  I'm sure that my first cousins and their children, will be happy to know this.  

Have you checked out the Famous Relatives page yet?  If you have well-leafed lines in FamilySearch Family Tree, you may be surprised by who you are related to.

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Randy and Lyle in the Garden in 1945 -- Post 645 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

 I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs:

This photo was taken in about 1945 in the cornfield at the Lyle Carringer home in San Diego.  That's me as a one or two--year-old toddler holding a doll of some sort with my maternal grandfather, Lyle Carringer (1891-1976).  It was about this time that my father was in the U.S. Navy, and my mother and I were living with the Carringers.   Lyle worked all week at the department store downtown and did house and garden work on the weekends, so I was probably "helping" him in the yard.  It also gave my grandmother a break from taking care of me during the week.  

This photo (originally black and white) has been enhanced and colorized using the MyHeritage photo tools.

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Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 24 November 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:

*  Ancestry® Offers Opportunity to Explore Family Stories for Free this Thanksgiving Weekend to Bring Families Together During an Unprecedented Holiday Season

*  Announcing a New, Independent, Narrative-Driven Podcast About Preserving Family History

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 14 to 20 November 2020

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 14 to 20 November 2020

*  Records Posted at FamilySearch the Week of Nov. 23, 2020

*  ScotlandsPeople adds mothers' maiden names to 1 million death record indexes

*  NY State Historical Newspapers Adds/Updates 7 Titles - November, 2020

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  RootsTech Connect 2021 - 25-27 February 2021 (Online, Free)

*  Family History Federation's Really Useful Show returns in April 2021

*  41st Annual IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (Philadelphia PA, 2-5 August 2021)

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Library Online Classes and Webinars November 2020

*  MyHeritage Online Events for November 

*  Appleton, Wisconsin Library Presents a FREE "Find Your Ancestors" Webinar Series

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 1 December, 5 p.m.:  Once upon a time: It’s all about the story, by Carol Baxter

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 2 December, 5 p.m.:  Four ways DNA Painter can help with your family history research, by Jonny Perl

*  Upcoming SCGS Webinar -Wednesday, 16 December, 6 p.m.:  Bounty Land: It's Complicated, by Annette Burke Lyttle.

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: MyHeritage Mobile App: All New Features From 2020, by Daniel Horowitz

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems:  Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 247 

* Research Like a Pro:   RLP 124: Researching African American Ancestors Part 4

*  The Genealogy Guys: Episode #387

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 352 – Connecticut Man’s DNA Shocker and the Strange DNA Match That Could Have Led to the Wrong Conclusion

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 105: Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the U.S. 1850-1900

*  Fisher's Top Tips:  #226r - Social Security Records

*  Ancestral Findings:  Darth Vader Genealogy | AF-398

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  AmericanAncestors:  Mayflower Resources at American Ancestors

*  AmericanAncestors:  The Great Houses of Yorkshire

 

*  Family History Fanatics:  Ancestry Marriage Records Index Makes Finding Wedding Announcements on Newspapers.com Quick and Easy

*  Genealogy Adventures Live:  GA Live! Special: Does Intolerance Have A Place In Genealogy?

*  GeneaVlogger:  My own DNA test results - Family Tree DNA and MyHeritage DNA - Professional Genealogist Reacts

*  MyHeritage:  We're Live! All About MyHeritage's Theory of Family Relativity™ With Kitty Cooper!

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree LiveCast (21 November 2020) - Weekly Recap + Mayflower Project

7)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 20 November 2020 ?

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