Genealogy News: April 11th-17th

I meant to publish a post yesterday but I was quite exhausted and didn’t get the chance to proof it to the extent I like. It’ll just come next week! On to my favorite weekly post: this week in genealogy!

Webinars/Videos

• The U.S. National Archives streamed live “Know Your Records: Early Naturalization Records from New England States 1790-1906.” If you missed it, you can view the program here
• “Autosomal DNA – a step by step approach to analysing your atDNA matches,” by Maurice Gleeson. The audio isn’t the best (you can hear a lot of people talking in the background) but the speaker is still clear. It’s 55 minutes long.
• Two book reviews by EOGN: one on Mind Maps for Genealogy by Ron Arons and one on A Page of History – Passport Applications 1851-1914  by Phil Goldfarb. 

. Articles/Blog Posts

• Humans of (old) New York 1896 from my favorite website of Retronaut on Mashable!
• Also from that same website, 1890s-1950s Last of the Civil War Veterans. 
• The International Conference on Jewish Genealogy extended their early registration to May 6th! Take advantage if you plan on going. 🙂
• FamilySearch has a free online book collection found here and they just reached a huge milestone! They have 200,000 books online! Read more about this collection here.

Resources

• EOGN discusses new records on FindMyPast.com including Austrialian and UK records along with some newspapers.
• Ottawa Museums and Archives is launching a virtual collection! Find more information here and here.
• FindMyPast posted new resources for FindMyPast users: New PERSI images, Derbyshire Burial Index 1538-1910, Derbyshire Marriage Index 1538-1910, Derbyshire Baptism Index 1538-1910, British Newspaper Update, Yorkshire Craven’s Part in the Great War, Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index 1505-1916, New South Wales Gaol Photographic Description Books 1871-1969, and New South Wales Government Gazette Indexes 1832-1863.

Happy Friday everyone! 🙂