Friday Finds July 4th-10th

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• “Irish Catholic Church Records – NOW ONLINE AND FREE!!!!” by the Armchair Genealogist – Just an FYI, Deb Sweeney left me a note that this database isn’t searchable by surname and you have to know the parish where your ancestors came from. Also, most parishes didn’t start keeping records until the 1850’s. Still, a free database is a free database! Just keep those things in mind 🙂
• “AncestryDNA Doings” and “Ancestry Terms of Use Updated” by the Legal Genealogist – Ancestry.com has updated their privacy for their DNA tests and updated their terms of use. Judy G. Russell addresses both in a way that makes it clear what has changed (not much!).
• “What Happened to Baby Alpha Beta? Did the Newborn Found Behind a Grocery Find Her Birth Mother?” – on the Orange County Register website – a wonderful story how a young woman found her birth mother with help from CeCe Moore.
• “Using Etsy for Genealogy” – by GeneaBloggers – we’ve talked about using Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest for genealogy – what about Etsy?
• “Independence Day Then and Now” by Dick Eastman – neat to see!
• Dick Eastman also attended the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy that finishes up today in Jerusalem! Check out his report on part of the conference here.

Webinars/Videos

• 14 July 8pm CST webinar! FREE if watched live – “Dissect Obituaries for New Clues” by George G. Morgan
• “U.S. Immigrant Oral Histories Featuring Hatsumi Imagawa” – posted by Ancestry.com – I really enjoy these short oral histories!

Resources

• There’s a free ebook out at the moment (still free as of this morning) – The Paperless Lifestyle: Do the Impossible! Go Completely Paperless to Revolutionize Your Life  by Jason Bracht If you’ve ever thought about going paperless, now’s the time to take advantage of a free ebook!
• National Genealogical Society members! Did you get the email about the FREE year membership for FindMyPast US and Canada records?? Check out more information here!
• Just as a reminder, Fold3’s access to Revolutionary War records is still good through the 15th! Check out more information here.
• “Drouin Institute’s Free Online Database Now Holds More Than 1.6 Million Canadian Obits” by Gail Dever of Genealogy a la Carte.
• Do you use MyHeritage? There were some neat name translation technology changes that Dick Eastman talks about: “My Heritage Launches Breakthrough Global Name Translation (TM) Technology“
• FindMyPast Friday’s at FindMyPast released these records:
  • Registers of Criminal Petitions (HO18 and HO19)
  • Judges Report on Criminals (HO47)
  • British Army, Northumberland Fusiliers 1881-1920
  • Shropshire, Shrewsbury St. Julian’s parish, 1831 census