Friday, September 3, 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 3 September 2021

 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 - Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):



*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 8 September, 11 a.m.:  Tracing Your 20th Century English Ancestors, by Paul Milner

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Your DNA Questions Answered Live with Diahan, by Diahan Southard

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:   Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color, by Anita Wills

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  FAN Club in Action: a Simple Case Study, by Geoff Rasmussen

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Paint Your Way Up Yor Tree with MyHeritage and DNAPainter, by Roberta Estes

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  America’s Turnpikes, Rivers, and Canals, by Peggy Clemens Lauritzen

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:


6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):






*  Genealogy Stories:  Writing Genealogy Crime Fiction





7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 31 August 2021?

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Findmypast Publishes 300,000 Historical Photos in Partnership With Francis Frith Collection

 I received this today from Findmypast:

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See Britain through the eyes of your ancestors

UK’s largest collection of historical local photographs now available to search on Findmypast

  • Over 300,000 historical photographs available to search online at Findmypast for the first time in partnership with The Francis Frith Collection
  • Covering all corners of the UK, Ireland and beyond, this vast new Findmypast resource enables family historians to add colour and context to their ancestor’s stories, witnessing sights and scenes of daily life from up to 150 years ago
  • Spanning 1860 to 1970, the Francis Frith collection provides a valuable photographic record of British life, chronicling over 100 years of dramatic change in vivid detail
Family history website Findmypast, has just added over 300,000 historical photographs chronicling more than a century of British life to its vast archive of family history records.

Published in partnership with the UK’s leading publisher of local photographs since 1860, Francis Frith, and available to search online at Findmypast for the first time, Findmypast’s Francis Frith collection forms a valuable photographic record of daily life in Victorian, Edwardian and 20th century Britain.

Spanning two centuries (1860 to 1970) and covering more than 9,000 cities, towns and villages across the UK and Ireland, the collection provides both family historians and history enthusiasts alike with the opportunity to come face to face with their ancestors or step back in time to witness sights and scenes from the nation’s past.

Available to search by date, location and keyword, this visually rich resource captures thousands of individual streets, landmarks, landscapes, businesses, buildings and locations that would have played a defining role in people’s lives. Each search result also details the image’s date, original description and location, including the latitude and longitude allowing for easy identification on Google maps.

Also included are images of individuals, families, significant national and local events ranging from Royal Jubilees to village fetes, as well a wide variety of images captured overseas.

The collection not only documents the changing face of locations across the British Isles, it also portrays a diverse array of localities across the world that shaped the destiny of people’s ancestors. This includes a wide array of fascinating images from Egypt, Canada, France, Germany Gibraltar, Hawaii, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.

The story of Francis Frith

Born into a Quaker family in 1822 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Francis Frith was a complex and multi-talented man who had a formidable instinct for business. After becoming a founding member of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1853 – only 14 years after the invention of photography - he founded his own photographic publishing company in 1860 with the aim of creating accurate and truthful depictions of as many cities, towns and villages as possible.

Copies of Frith’s photographs proved immensely popular with the general public. Thanks to the rapid expansion of the Victorian railway system, Britons were now travelling in greater numbers than ever before, fuelling a huge demand for photographic souvenirs.

To help meet this demand, Frith employed a team of company photographers who were trained to capture images of the highest quality according to his strict specifications.

By the 1870s, the market for Frith & Co’s products was huge, especially after Bank Holidays and half-day Saturdays were made obligatory by Act of Parliament in 1871. By 1890 Frith had succeeded in creating the first and greatest specialist photographic publishing company in the world, with over 2,000 retail stockists.

Exploring the past online

Now, more than 150 years since Francis Frith produced his first photographic souvenirs, Findmypast users can access this encyclopaedic visual journal of British life from the comfort of home.

While written records are essential for uncovering forgotten family stories, finding a photograph of an ancestor or a defining aspect of their life adds a visual richness that can completely transform our understanding of life in bygone eras.

Photographs not only open windows to the world in which our ancestors lived, they also give the past a human face, enabling for deeper connections with those who came before and a greater appreciation of the stories they left behind.

By combining Francis Frith’s remarkable images with Findmypast’s unrivalled collections of British and Irish records, family historians around the world can add colour and context to their ancestor’s stories, gaining vivid new insights into their daily lives.

Whether it be the streets they once walked, the school they attended, a business they worked at or a view they enjoyed, there is no better way to bring that past to life than seeing it through the eyes of an ancestor. As well as searching and discovering these images, users can upload them to their Findmypast family tree to add another dimension to their family history research.

Paul Nixon, head of UK data licensing at Findmypast said; One of the many joys of the Francis Frith collection is seeing how our villages, towns and cities have evolved over time. I was amazed to see that the busy road close to where I live was little more than a muddy track less than a hundred years ago. Seeing these images adds real context to the lives our ancestors lived.

“Francis Frith’s legacy to us is a national photographic archive without equal”, says John Buck, MD of The Francis Frith Collection. “It is a remarkable and unique photographic record of Britain over 110 years of change that is also a wonderful resource for local and social historians as well as genealogists or anyone compiling their family history. The Frith images also make a great talking point for young and old, as many older people love looking at our images online and sharing their memories of these places with the younger generation. During his lifetime Francis Frith himself had a steadfast belief in making photographs available to the greatest number of people, and we are delighted that the wonderful selection of nostalgic historical photographs in The Francis Frith Collection will now be seen and enjoyed by people all over the world on Find My Past.”

To access the collection at Findmypast, please visit; https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/francis-frith-collection

A selection of images approved for use can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o2-86UEGDDtZ7crQD4B_0VtDppHTj1jg?usp=sharing

The Frith images are supplied subject to the specific conditions as follows:

• The Frith images are supplied subject to the specific conditions as follows:

• The images are supplied for one time use within a period not exceeding 3 months from the date of supply;

• The images must be used for the agreed purpose only and not passed to a third party other than to achieve this purpose.

• The images must be removed from all systems once they have been used for the agreed purpose.

• Reproduction of each Frith photograph must be such that the credit line in the bottom left of the image remains visible when published.

• These images and data are supplied to you on loan subject to the express condition that they are and will remain the property of The Francis Frith Collection and may only be used for the specific purpose for which they were loaned to you. No other rights of use of any kind are granted. No reproduction or copies may be made, stored or retained in any form other than that immediately necessary for the specific purpose for which the data has been supplied to you and which has been confirmed in writing to you by an authorised officer of the Company. If you use the information supplied in any way you are deemed to have accepted this condition of supply. If you are not willing to accept this condition of supply you must immediately destroy and permanently removed from your systems.

If you have any queries regarding this condition of supply please contact Findmypast. For more information, to request additional images or to discuss feature opportunities, please contact: Alex Cox, PR Manager, Findmypast: acox@findmypast.com, +44 7464 946769


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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 395: #616 Thomas Bathrick (1680-1762) of Cambridge and Arlington, Massachusetts

Thomas Bathrick (1680-1762) is #616 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #617 Elizabeth (Lynn?) Beeger (1680-1749)  in 1701 in Cambridge, Middlesex County,  Massachusetts Bay Colony.

I am descended through:

* their son #308 John Bathrick (1702-1769)  married #309 Mary --?-- (1700-1726) in about 1720.
* their son #154 David Batherick (1722-1794) married #155 Lydia Maynard (1722-1802) in 1742.
* their daughter #77 Lydia Batherick (1752-1795) married #76 Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802)  in 1779.
* their son #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) married #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882) in 1817.
* their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) 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:                  Thomas Bathrick[2]
*  Alternate Name:  Thomas Baverick[1]

*  Sex:                   Male

*  Father:              Thomas Bathrick (1657-1683)
*  Mother:             Ruth Buck (1653-????)

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

*  Birth:                about 1680, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

*  Death:               20 August 1762 (about age 82), Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]

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

*  Spouse 1:         Elizabeth Lynn (1680-1749)
*  Marriage 1:      9 October 1701 (about age 21), Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]

*  Child 1:            John Bathrick (1702-1769)
*  Child 2:            Ruth Batherick (1703- ????)
*  Child 3:            Elizabeth Batherick (1705-????)
*  Child 4:            Thomas Batherick (1709-????)
*  Child 5:            William Batherick (1710-????)
*  Child 6:            Jonathan Batherick (1713-????)
*  Child 7:            Samuel Batherick (1718-1804)
   
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

The name Bathrick is in the early Massachusetts records as Bathrick, Batherick, Baverick, Badrick and other spellings.  

Thomas Bathrick was born about 1680, probably in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay, the son of Thomas and Ruth (Buck) Bathrick.  His parents married in 1675 in Charlestown, and had daughter Anna in late 1675 in Charlestown, daughter Ruth in 1677 in Charlestown, and son Jonathan in 1683 in Cambridge.  The son Thomas married in 1701 so 1680 is a fairly good estimate for his birth year.  Some online trees say his birth date is 15 May 1680 but I haven't found the record.

Thomas Bathrick, father of our Thomas, died in November 1683 leaving a widow and four young children.  

Thomas "Baverick" married on 9 October 1701 to Elizabeth "Beeger" in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay[1].  She was the widow of Francis "Begar" (1678-1701) of Cambridge.  Her maiden name may have been Lynn, Linn, or Lyon.  They had seven children, all born in Cambridge and recorded in the Cambridge vital record book: 

*  John Batherick (1702-1769), married (1) about 1720 Mary --?-- (1702-1726); (2) about 1727 Elizabeth Godding (1708-1747); (3) 1747 Ruth Hook (1715-1795).
*  Ruth Batherick (1703-????), married 1725 Patrick Brown (1690-1733).
*  Elizabeth Batherick (1705-????)
*  Thomas Batherick (1709-????), married 1734 Martha Tisaker (1716-????).
*  William Batherick (1710-????).
*  Jonathan Batherick (1713-????).
*  Samuel Batherick (1718-1804), married 1740 Susanna Ewers (1723-1806).

Thomas Bathrick died 20 August 1762 in Arlington, Massachusetts[2].  The record says "age  87," which implies a birth year of about 1675.  The Arlington vital record book indicates "P.R." which means that the record is from a "Private Record" - in this case "Rev. Samuel Cooke's 'Abstract of Births, Deaths and Marriages' now in the possession of the Arlington Historical Society."

There is no burial record for Thomas Bathrick on Find A Grave, and there is no probate record for Thomas Bathrick in the Middlesex County Probate Record books. 

5.  SOURCES

1. Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), Marriages, page 31, Thomas Baverick and Elizabeth Beeger entry, 9 October 1701.

2. Vital Records of Arlington, Massachusetts to the Year 1850  (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904), page 124, Thomas Bathrick death record, 20 August 1762.

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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 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 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, September 2, 2021

Seavers in the News - Joseph H. Seaver Dies in 1956 in Twin Falls, Idaho

  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 Salt Lake [Utah] Tribune newspaper dated 11 May 1956:

The transcription of the article is:

"Death Takes Pioneer
Special to The Tribune

"TWIN FALLS, IDAHO -- Joseph H. Seaver, 87, pioneer Twin Falls businessman and former state senator, died Thursday morning at his home in Twin Falls after an illness.

"Surviving are his widow, two sons, Joseph H. Jr. and William Seaver, and two grandchildren.

"Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 10:30 a.m."

The source citation is:

"Death Take Pioneer," The Salt Lake [Utah] Tribune newspaper, Friday, 11 May 1956, page 48, column 1, Joseph H. Seaver obituary;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 2 September  2021).

This obituary provides the name, age, death date and place, children's names, plus limited information about his employment.  

Joseph Henry Seaver (1868-1956) was born 17 September 1868 in Woodstock, Vermont, the son of Joseph Henry and Ella Grace (Smith) Seaver.  He died 10 May 1956 in Twin Falls.  He married Ella Grace Smith (1875-1964) on 14 November 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts.  They had three children:

*  William Howe Seaver (1902-1989).
*  Joseph Henry Seaver (1906-1978), married 1935 Ruth Bellville (1900-1984).
*  Ruth Seaver (1909-1911). 

I am a 6th cousin three times removed to Joseph Henry Seaver.  Our common Seaver ancestor is my 8th great-grandfather Shubael Seaver (1640-1730) of Roxbury, 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 has an obituary with very few details. I am glad that I can honor Joseph Henry 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.


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Findmypast Adds Contexts to UK Census Locations With New Feature

I received this from Findmypast today:

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Findmypast add new feature to help researchers learn more about where their ancestors lived 

·        Findmypast’s 1891, 1901 and 1911 census transcripts now provide key information on the surrounding local area  

·        Sourced from Findmypast’s Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895, transcripts now provide valuable contextual information and colour maps on the cities, towns, villages and parishes our ancestors called home 

·        By automatically connecting census transcripts to over 25,000 Gazeteer entries from every county in England and Wales, Findmypast is helping researchers around the world paint a fuller picture of their ancestor’s lives  

 

Findmypast has today announced the launch of a helpful new update to their UK Census search that is designed to help researchers discover more about the places their ancestor’s called home.  

 

Now live on all 1891, 1901 and 1911 English and Welsh Census transcripts, the new “Gazetteer” feature automatically matches relevant content from Findmypast’s Comprehensive Gazetteer Of England and Wales 1895 to the locations recorded on individual census returns.  

 

UK censuses are essential for discovering where your British ancestors and their family lived, often revealing the location of their home down to the name of the street and even the name or number of their house.  

 

While this information is key to piecing together their lives, many researchers, particularly those from outside of the United Kingdom, will find ancestors living in locations that they are completely unfamiliar with, making it difficult to get a sense of the local culture, landscape and what it was like to live there.  

 

By “zoning” each entry of the 1895 Gazetteer, Findmypast have been able to create a feature that brings the locations revealed by these censuses to life in vivid detail, allowing researchers to explore the cities, towns, villages and parishes that played a defining role in their family story with greater ease than ever before.   

 

With more than 25,000 individual entries and beautiful colour maps of every English and Welsh County, the 1895 Gazetteer can provide family historians with remarkable insights into where their ancestors lived their lives. 

 

As well as maps showing political boundaries, railways and geographical features, the gazetteer includes concise facts about each location, including but not limited to local history, notable inhabitants and principal trades. 

 

Of particular value for family historians is the attention paid to churches and other ecclesiastical establishments in the various parishes; this can provide invaluable help in identifying the likely locations of original records for places with which ancestors may be associated.  

 

There is also considerable historical information, mention of the main properties in each place, and the families associated with these properties. Victorian pride is shown by detailed statistics relating to commerce, shipping, manufactures and agriculture. 

 

Chris Brake, Head of Data Products at Findmypast said; “At Findmypast we are always keen to look beyond the records, and try to understand and provide more information on the context of people’s lives. The gazetteer on our later censuses (combined with the recently introduced historical maps) will provide a contemporary description of the location from a recent gazetteer - to offer our users a little more insight beyond just a place name on a census form” 
 

Now available on all 97 million English and Welsh census transcripts between 1891 and 1911, Findmypast subscribers will be able to read gazetteer entries within the census transcript itself or follow a link to the relevant image to browse maps and much more. 


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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.

The URL for this post is:  https://www.geneamusings.com/2021/09/findmypast-adds-contexts-to-uk-census.html

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1701 Marriage Entry For Thomas Baverick and Elizabeth Beeger in Cambridge, Mass.

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 1701 Marriage entry for Thomas Baverick and Elizabeth Beeger in the Cambridge, Massachusetts vital records book:
The marriage entry is the 2nd entry from the top in the Baverick listings:
The transcription of this record is:

"[BAVERICK Tho[mas] and Elizabeth Beeger, Oct. 9, 1701."

The source citation for this record is:

Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), Marriages, page 30, Thomas Baverick and Elizabeth Beeger entry, 9 October 1701.

This is an entry in a published Cambridge vital record book.  It is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the marriage of Thomas Baverick and Elizabeth Beeger on 9 October 1701 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  
   
Thomas Baverick [also Bathrick] (1675-1762) was the son of Thomas and Ruth (Buck) Bathrick of Cambridge.  Elizabeth Beeger was probably the Elizabeth Lynn (or Lyon?) who married Francis Begar (1678-1701) in 1697 in Cambridge, and then Thomas Bathrick in 1701.  Thomas and Elizabeth (Lynn?) (Beeger) Bathrick are my 7th great-grandparents through their son John Bathrick (1702-1769) who married Mary --?--) before 1722.

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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Randy's Autosomal DNA Test and Analysis Summary - 1 September 2021

 The last list of my Autosomal DNA test and analysis results was posted in Randy's Autosomal DNA Test and Analysis Summary - 27 April 2021.


Here is the update, with comparison to four months ago (27 April 2021).  I'm curious to see how my numbers have increased:

1)  Ancestry DNA:

*  Total Matches (8 cM or more):  37,777 matches (was 36,443 matches on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more: 27 matches (was 26 on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more:  153 matches (was 148 on 4/27/21)
*  4th Cousins or closer (20 cM or more): 1,676 matches (was 1,616 on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with Common Ancestors (per Ancestry):  ~440 (was 428 on 4/27/21)
*  Highest match has 779 cM (11.5%), and is a known first cousin.

2)  MyHeritageDNA:

*  Total Matches (8 cM or more):   9,978 matches (was 9,591 on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  5 matches (was 5 on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5 %) or more:  113 matches (was 108 on 4/27/21)
*  Number of Theories of Family Relativity:  11 (was 11 on 4/27/21)
*  Highest Match has 512 cM (7.1%), and is a known first cousin once removed.

3)  23andMe:

*  Total DNA Relatives Matches (7 cM or more):  1,522 Matches (was 1,522 on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  11 Matches (was 11 on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more:  132 Matches (was 128 on 4/27/21)
*  Highest Match has 163 cM (2.33%), and is a known 1st cousin twice removed.

4)  FamilyTreeDNA (changed their algorithm this priod):

*  Total Family Finder Matches (18 cM or more, but now counts segments with 8 cM or more):  4,593 Matches (was 4,029 on 4/27/21)**
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  0 (was 19 on 4/27/21)**
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more:  28 matches (was 2,722 on 4/27/21)**
     **  Formerly counted segments of 3 cM or more
*  Highest Match has 67 cM (1.42%) and is a known third cousin.

5)  LivingDNA (matches not in highest cM order):

*  Total Matches (9.5 cM or more):  387 (was 345 on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  0 (was 0 on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more: 25 (was 20 on 4/27/21)
*  Highest Match has 62 cM and is an unknown relative.

6)  GEDMatch:

*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  1 (was 1 on 4/27/21)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more: 44 (was 44 on 4/27/21)
*  Highest Match has 86.8  cM and is a known 3rd cousin

7)  Observations:

*  In 4 months, I added 0 matches with 68 cM or more.

*  In 4 months, I9 added matches with 34 cM or more.

*  My AncestryDNA 4th cousins or better has increased only 3.79% in 4 months, and total matches have increased 3.7%.  "Common Ancestors" ThruLines are 1.16% of the total matches.

*  MyHeritageDNA total matches have increased 4.0% in 4 months, and 34 cM or higher matches increased 4.6%.  I gained 0 Theory of Family Relativity matches, and they are 0.11% of total matches.

*  23andMe total matches have increased 0% in 4 months, and 34 cM or higher matches have increased 3.1%.

*  FamilyTreeDNA total matches increased 14.0% in 4 months.  

*  LivingDNA total matches increased 12.2% in 4 months. 

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Linda at the Grand Canyon in 2003 -- Post 683 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 photograph of Linda was taken in May 2003 on our trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon with our friends from Tornio, Finland, Kalle and Aila (the parents of our 1994 exchange student, Mia).  The Colorado River is down there someplace!

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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 31 August 2021

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 - Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):



*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 1 September, 11 a.m.:  Your DNA Questions Answered Live with Diahan, by Diahan Southard

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 3 September, 11 a.m.:  Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color, by Anita Wills

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 164: RLP with DNA eCourse Part 5



6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):







7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 27 August 2021?

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