Friday, December 24, 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 24 December 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, 5 January, 11 a.m.:  The Only Thing You Need to Know About DNA and Genealogy, by Diahan Southard

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Our Neanderthal Genetic Ancestry, by Ugo Perego

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Uncovering Immigrant Origins Through Cluster Research, by Dana Palmer.

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts/Radio Shows:

*  The Genealogy Guys:  Podcast 398





6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):



*  Family History Fanatics:  Top Ten Genealogy Videos of 2021






7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 21 December 2021?

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52 Ancestors - Week 411: #634 John Smith (1667-1704) of Charlestown, Massachusetts

John Smith (1667-1704)  is #634 on my Ahnentafel  List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #635 Ruth Cutler (1668-1738) in 1693 in Charlestown, Suffolk County,  Massachusetts Bay Colony.

I am descended through:

* their daughter #317 Mary Smith (1698-1746) who married #316 Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1746)  in 1717 .
* their son #108 John Phillips (1722-1800) who married #109 Hannah Smith (1725-1774) in 1749.
*  their #79 Martha Phillips (1757-1830) who married #78 Isaac Buck (1757-1846) in 1791.
* their daughter #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882) who married #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834)  in 1817.
* their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) who married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) 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:                       John Smith[1–7]

*  Sex:                           Male

*  Father:                      Matthew Smith Jr. 1626-1690
*  Mother:                     Alice Leader 1635-1684

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

*  Birth:                         28 March 1667, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–2,4]

*  Death                         31 March 1704 (age 37) Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,3–4]
*  Burial:                       after 31 March 1704 (after age 37), Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]

*  Probate:                     14 June 1705 (age 38). Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]

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

*  Spouse 1:                 Ruth Cutler 1668-1738
*  Marriage 1:             18 May 1693 (age 26), Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,6–7]

*  Child 1:                  Ruth Smith 1694-1722
*  Child 2:                  Mary Smith 1697-1746
*  Child 3:                  Elizabeth Smith 1700- ????   
*  Child 4:                  Hannah Smith 1702-1704
                   
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

The book, The Descendants of John Mack, by Sophia (Smith) Martin[1], provides some information about the Matthew Smith family, including the birth date for John Smith.  Further information on John Smith's parents and siblings were provided in the Smith and Smith The American Genealogist article "Family of Matthew Smith of Charlestown, Mass., 1637"[2] but the articles did not provide any information about the family of John Smith.

John Smith was born 28 March 1667 in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Matthew and (2) Alice (Leader) Smith of Charlestown and Woburn[1-2,4].  

On 18 May 1693 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, he married Ruth Cutler (1668-1758)[1,6-7], daughter of Thomas and Mary (Giles) Cutler of Reading and Charlestown, Massachusetts.  They had four children, all born in Charlestown:

*  Ruth Smith (1694-1722), married 1717 Thomas Upham (1694-1730).
*  Mary Smith (1698-after 1746), married 1717 Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1746).
*  Elizabeth Smith (1700-????)
*  Hannah Smith (1702-1704).

John was a tailor, and obtained several tracts of land in Charlestown as listed in his probate inventory.

John Smith of Charlestown died testate on 31 March 1704, leaving a wife and four young daughters (ages 2 to 10)[3-4].  He is buried in the Old Burying Ground in what is now Wakefield, Massachusetts[4].  The inscription on his gravestone says:

"Here lyes
 Y'e body of 
John Smith 
of Charlestown 
Bounds, Aged 
37 years. 
Died March 
y'e 31,1704."

He wrote his will on 27 March 1704 which is in Middlesex County Probate Records Estate File 20661[5]. The will is extremely difficult to read, but some parts of it can be deciphered.

*  John Smith of Charlestown, Taylor, bequeathed 5 pounds to his wife Ruth in household stuff of her choice, and the use and improvement of the house, buildings, orchards and land that he dwelled on, and all moveable goods or estate within doors and without.
*  To his eldest daughter Ruth Smith, he bequeathed his homestead and land, including barns, orchard, privileges after his wife died or married again, and she paying to her sisters as to make their shares equal to Ruth's.
*  When daughter Ruth reaches age 18 years, then she will receive one half of the use and improvement of the property and pay sisters Elizabeth and Hannah 5 pounds each when they reach their 18th year of age.
*  To daughter Mary Smith, he bequeathed the lot bought of Mr. Green and the lot near Spoot Pond.
*  He named his wife, Ruth Smith to be executrix, and Henry Green Jr. to be executor.
*  The witnesses were William Rogers, Sarah Hais and Joseph Burnap.
*  The will was proved on 14 June 1705 in Cambridge by J. Leverett.

An Inventory was appraised on 11 April 1704 by Andrew Phillips, Eleazar Batman and Joseph Burnap.  The real estate included:

**  The homestead lot with housing, land, orchard, and the wood and timber on a lot of 4.5 acres bought of Mr. Geners near the homestead, was appraised at 97 pounds.
**  A lot bought of Mr. Green with the land of the abovesaid Generses appraised at 23 pounds.
**  A lot of land lying near Spoot Pond containing 11 acres appraised at 18 pounds.
** The total personal inventory totaled 42 pounds 18 shillings, with debts due of 1 pound 10 shillings, and debts owed of 10 pounds.  So the estate appraisal was 191 pounds, 8 shillings.

His widow, Ruth (Cutler) Smith married, secondly, to Thomas Upham (1668-1735) in about 1710 in Malden, Massachusetts.  Thomas Upham was named guardian to the surviving children of Ruth (Cutler) Smith.

5.  SOURCES

1. Mrs. Sophia (Smith) Martin, The Descendants of John Mack of Lyme, Conn.; with Appendix Containing Genealogy of Allied Families, Etc. (Rutland, Vt. : The Tuttle Company, Printers, 1903), pages 1709-1713, Matthew Smith of Charlestown sketch.

2. Edward Church Smith and Phillip Mack Smith, "The Family of Matthew Smith of Charlestown, Mass., 1637," The American Genealogist, Volume 19 (1941), pages 203-207, Volume 20 (1942), pages 48-53, 162-166., Volume 19, page 206, John Smith birth entry, 28 March 1667.

3. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Wakefield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1912), Deaths, page 320, John of Charlestown, March 31, 1704, age 37 years.

4. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Mass., John Smith (1667-1704) memorial #21240718.

5. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Packets 20 000 to 21,999, Estate File 20,661 (5 images), John Smith of Charlestown, 1705; "Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 21 December 2021).

6. Roger D. Joslyn, Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to 1850 (Boston, Mass. :  New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984), 3 Volumes, Marriages, page 754, John Smith and Ruth Cutler entry, 18 May 1693.

7. "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : (accessed 21 December 2021), Charlestown > Archives, Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1629-1800, Marriages, page 515 (image 317 of 385), John Smith and Ruth Cutler entry, 18 May 1693.

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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, December 23, 2021

ICYMI: Christmas Names in the Ancestry.com Records

 Here's an oldie but a genealogy goodie for my devoted Genea-Musings readers --

I was devastated when, back in 2006, Dan Lynch posted about Christmas characters on his web site, which has disappeared. I had worked on most of those names for two weeks and was waiting for the "season" to post them.

So, here are the rest of my "character" findings (originally posted in 2006) with some recent additions:

1) Ebenezer Scroggs (1850, Harrison County OH) is as close to Ebenezer Scrooge as I can get.

2) Robert Crachet (1880, Scott County AR). Another Robert Crachet flew into New York City from Paris on Air France on 2 August 1956 - maybe to perform in a play on Broadway?

3) Three Grinch brothers (Charles, John and Lenwards) came into New York City on 6 September 1875 aboard the vessel "Egypt." There is no word if they came to steal Christmas. Obviously, if they did, they failed.

4) There is a Jasper Magi and Baldermo Magi (1930, Fairfield County CT) but no Melchior; there are Gaspar Wiseman (1930, Queens County NY) and Melvin Wiseman (1930, Muskegon County MI), but no Balthasar or Melchior similar.

5) There are 18 Harold Angel persons in the 1930 census. No Hark Angel, however.

6) Sila Knight (1870, Randolph County, AL) is the closest to Silent Night I could find. Lots of Silas Knight people.

7) There are 3 Noel Noel persons in the 1930 census.  I don't know if they are The First!

8) Angel Angel (1930, Maricopa County AZ) is one of the repeating angels, but heard on high?

9) There are two Merry Christmas girls in the 1930 census (there are lots of Mary Christmas females too).  

10) Holly Bush (1930, Roanoke County VA) sticks out.

11) Christ Tree (1930, LaPorte County IN) probably extended his branches.

12) Jessie Manger (1930, Polk County IA) - parents were not Joseph and Mary.

13)  Felix Navidad is in the 1930 Mexican census (thanks, Chris).

14) Joy Noelle lived in Blairsville, GA in 2000 (thanks, Chris).

15)  Angel Gabriel is in the 1940 U.S. Census in New York (siblings Milagro (miracle?) and Rafael) (thanks, Diane).

16)  Angel Hark is in the 1940 U.S. Census in Massachusetts (thanks, Diane).

17) Then there are Santa's reindeer: Were they:
* Cupid Wiseman
* Melvin Dancer
* Hugo Blitzen
* Chris Donder
* Rudolf Dasher
* Dasher Berry
* Prancer Saner
* Vixen Locke
* Theodore Comet

Just wondering!!

18) You know, if Bah Morgan (1900, Stephenson IL) had married Cecil Humbug (1900, Delaware County PA) we would have had more Humbugs than we would know what to do with.

19) I'm wondering if Alvin Monk (1930, Schoharie County NY), Simon Monk (1930, Lonoke AR) and Theodore Monk (1930, Cotton County OK) really got together in 1958 to sing The Chipmunk Song. Maybe they weren't a figment of Ross Bagdasarian's imagination!

OK, I'm done! I hope you enjoyed this little prance down Santa Claus Lane.

What other Christmas related names are there? C'mon, lay them on me.

One more thing - what is your Christmas Elf name?


Ah, I'm Jolly Sparkley-Toes!!  Who knew?  My wife is Tinker Pointy-Toes! What is your Christmas Elf name?

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Seavers in the News -- Annie (Voll) Seaver Dies in 1960 in Hartford, Connecticut

 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 Hartford [Conn.] Courant newspaper dated 3 July 1960:

The transcription of the article is:

"Mrs. Seaver Dies; Tapestry Artist

"Mrs. Annie Voll Seaver, 95, widow of William Seaver, and a local artist, died Friday night at a convalescent home.

"She was born in Boston and lived in Hartford for about 45 years.  She was a past president of the Daughters of the Grand Army.  She was a tapestry artist and was awarded several blue-ribbon prizes for her work.

"She leaves two grandsons, John Seaver of Alexandria, Va. and Robert Hallett of Hartsdale, N.Y.; a granddaughter, Miss Barbara Hallett of Worcester, Mass.; and three great-grandchildren.  Private funeral services will be held at the Taylor and Modeen Funeral Home, 233 Washington St.  Cremation will be in Springfield, Mass.  There will be no calling hours."

The source citation is:

"Mrs. Seaver Dies; Tapestry Artist," Hartford [Conn.] Courant newspaper, Sunday, 3 July 1960, page 22, column 5, Annie Voll Seaver obituary; Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 22 December  2021).

This obituary provides the name, age, approximate death date and place, spouse's name, grandchildren names, spouse's names, and some occupation and associations information.  But no names of her children for some reason.

Annie Louise Voll (1864-1960) was born in March 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts.  She married William Seaver (1861-1938) on 8 October 1884 in Boston, Massachusetts.  He was the son of John Collidge and Ann M. (Crane) Seaver.  They had two children:

*  Horace Seaver (1887-1945), married 1921 Ethel M. Van Vliet (1892-1934).
*  Ella F. Seaver (1890-1929), married 1912 Frank Howard Hallett (1887-1956).

William Seaver (1861-1938) is my 7th cousin 3 times removed.  Our common Seaver ancestor is Robert Seaver (1608-1683) 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's obituary provides interesting information. I am glad that I can honor Annie Louise (Voll) 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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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1693 Marriage of John Smith and Ruth Cutler in Charlestown, 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 1693 marriage record entry for John Smith and Ruth Cutler in the Charlestown, Massachusetts town records:

The marriage record is in the 1693 section near the bottom of the right-hand page:

The transcription of this record is:

"130  John Smith & Ruth Cutler M. May 18, 1693"

The source citation for this record is:

"Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Charlestown > Archives, Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1629-1800, Marriages, page 515 (image 317 of 385), John Smith and Ruth Cutler entry, 18 May 1693.

John Smith (1667-1704) was the son of Matthew and Alice (Leader?) Smith of Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay.  Ruth Cutler (1668-1758) was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Giles) Cutler of Reading, Massachusetts Bay.  They had four children.

This is a Derivative Source, copied from an original town record book for Charlestown.  It is Primary Information and direct Evidence of the marriage.

Their daughter, Mary Smith (1698-ca1746), married Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1746) in about 1717 in Charlestown.  They are my 7th great-grandparents through their son John Phillips (1722-1800).

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

ICYMI: Twelve Days of a Genealogy Christmas - Randy's Version

  A genealogy oriented version of the Twelve Days of Christmas was available on the Internet on  Kimberly Powell's site for many years, but it is, apparently, no longer available.

Way back around 2007, I decided I would do my own based on genealogy, my own needs and my own research (modified occasionally):

On the 12th day of Christmas,

My true love gave to me --

*  Twelve Revolutionary War pension files (with the Family Bible pages included) (12)

*  Eleven autosomal DNA matches with common ancestors noted (22)

*  Ten Social Security Application and Claims records (30)

*  Nine Facebook postings from distant cousins (36)

*  Eight probate files (40)

*  Seven census pages (42)

*  Six land deeds (42)

*  Five obituaries (40)

*  Four church marriage records (36)

*  Three new ancestor names for my family tree (30)

*  Two draft registration images (22)

*  A lost family Bible with births, marriages and deaths in it (12)

I've put the total number in parenthesis of each item - if you sing the song all the way through, going one number at a time.

My true love is a busy girl, isn't she?

But, but, but ... that would take all the fun out of the ancestor search, wouldn't it?

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Note:  This is another "oldie but a goodie" post over the past 15 years.  Other genealogy bloggers have done a similar list over the years - can you find them?

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Rabbit Holes With Randy -- Finding Probate Records For My Ancestors Using Record Hints on Ancestry.com

 I have found and transcribed hundreds of probate records for my ancestors and published them on this blog and listed them in my Amanuensis Monday post collection.

However, I know that I have missed finding some over the years and wanted a way to find those I've missed without searching for every one of my ancestors in the Ancestry.com state probate collections.  

Aha - maybe I can use the "Mining Ancestry.com Hints From a Specific Collection" Tool that I've used for other record collections.  I have a very mature Ancestry Member Tree with over 200,000 Record Hints, including the probate record collections.  

The most deceased ancestors I have are from Massachusetts, so I went to the "Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probates, 1635-1991" collection and noted that the Ancestry database number is 9069 (it's in the URL).  

So if I use my Tree Number ("treenum" = 113002012) and the Ancestry database number ("dbas" = 9069) in the URL to get record Hints from my tree for this database  (https://www.ancestry.com/hints/tree/113002012/hints?hf=record&hs=last&hdbid=9069) I get over 200 record hints for persons in my database (in alphabetical order):

For the first two Hints, I checked my files and I already have found and transcribed those, so I will "Ignore" them.  Note that the Hint list helpfully shows the relationships to me!

Further down the list, I see Joseph Allen (7th great-grandfather) and Ralph Allen (8th great-grandfather).  

Checking my Amanuensis Monday list, I already have Joseph's will transcribed.  But I don't have Ralph's!  I clicked on the image to see the record summary for Ralph Allen:

I clicked on the record image thumbnail to see Ralph Allen's handwritten will:

There are two pages for Ralph Allen's probate record in Barnstable County, Massachusetts - the will and a short inventory.  I downloaded them from Ancestry, renamed them, and stored them in the Ralph Allen family file directory on my computer.  I will transcribe it on one of these Mondays and add it to the Notes for Ralph Allen and to the Amanuensis Monday list.

I browsed through the rest of the over 200 entries in the Record Hint list for this Massachusetts Ancestry record collection, and found several more probate records for my Massachusetts ancestors that I have not captured (e.g., Henry Howland 1670, Nicholas Busby-1657, John Eaton-1658, etc.).

Then I went through the New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire Probate Records on and found several more probate records.  I need to do more on Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and California to find even more.  

So this was a very profitable two hours down this rabbit hole - and the results will provide me more blog fodder and information about my ancestors.  

This "Mining Ancestry.com Hints From a Specific Collection" Tool works for many of Ancestry's collections - but only for the top 10% (by number of records) of their collections which provide Record Hints.  I use it occasionally when I'm searching for something different to do in my research.  

Unfortunately, Ancestry has not been very careful in indexing these probate record collections - I often find probate papers for unindexed families with the indexed papers.  Note that in the third image that they have indexed other names found in the record - this is new and good.

Note that the link I used is specific to my Ancestry Member Tree - you will have to find your Ancestry Member Tree Number and substitute it for my tree number to make it work for you.

It's important to remember that Ancestry does not automatically find Record Hints for every person in your Ancestry Member Tree.  They provide Hints every day for a few persons in your AMT (probably randomly), but if you change something in a profile of a person, or the person appears on the screen of your Tree (pedigree or family views), then Hints will be generated.  So the user can "stimulate" Hints for persons in their AMT by looking at their tree and clicking to see more ancestors or descendants of a profile.  

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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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Seaver Family Home in Leominster, Massachusetts -- Post 699 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

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

Linda and I took a vacation to New England in July 2004.  my uncle, Edward Richmond Seaver (1913-2004) died 14 February 2004 in Arizona, and the family gathered in Leominster, Massachusetts to bury him in Evergreen Cemetery with his late wife, Janet (Roukes) Seaver.  

On this trip, I took a lot of family photos from this trip plus house photos and cemetery photos. 

This photo is of the house at 290 Central Street in Leominster.  My Seaver grandparents lived in this  house from about 1912 to the 1930s with their six children.  My grandfather was the superintendent for a plastics manufacturing company on the same property.  My father and his siblings have many good memories of this house.  Unfortunately, it was demolished several years ago and is now a parking lot.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 21 December 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 - Tuesday, 21 December, 5 p.m.: Uncovering Immigrant Origins Through Cluster Research, by Dana Palmer.

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 22 December, 11 a.m.:  Our Neanderthal Genetic Ancestry, by Ugo Perego

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Effective Use of England’s National Archives Website, by Paul Milner

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts/Radio Shows:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 180 - RootsFinder Network Graphs





6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):

*  BYU Family History Library:  MyHeritage: A Closer Look - James Tanner

*  BYU Family History Library:  Christmas Gifts - Marilyn Thomsen


*  Ellen Thompson-Jennings - Family History Hound:  Saving Your Genealogy FOREVER - Step One





*  FamilySearch:  Hearts Knit Together

*  Findmypast:  Friday's Live December 17th




7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 17 December 2021?

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