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• We all heard that Ancestry.com is going to retire their Family Tree Maker software and people are wondering what to do. Legacy responded with this update and RootsMagic responded with this one. Also check out Randy Seaver’s blog post on the issue: “Other Genealogy Software Options to Replace Family Tree Maker – UPDATED“
• “Seven Decades After Pearl Harbor, DNA Testing Used to Identify Remains” – on the Telegraph – a very neat look at what DNA can do!
• “Genealogy Bargains for Friday 11 December 2015” – on Geneabloggers
• “Ten-Minute Methodology: Beyond the Index – or Not” on the BCG blog SpringBoard
• “:Links: House History Guides by City/State” by Home Scribe History blog – an awesome new (to me) blog! Great resources!
• “Now… and Not Now” – on the Legal Genealogist – more information on the new things coming to 23andMe – a MUST READ for anyone who has tested with 23andMe or are thinking about testing with them.

Webinars and the Like

• “2016 Legacy Family Tree Webinar Series Announced” – Sign up and watch the webinars live for FREE! What a great deal 🙂
• “Continuing Genealogical Studies: Genetic Genealogy, Autosomal DNA” – a new course from NGS! Check it out!

Resources

• FindMyPast Friday’s New Records:
  • Electoral Registers from Portsmouth, England, 1835-1873
  • Baptisms from Leicestershire, England
  • Burials from Leicestershire, England
  • Plague Rates from Plymouth, England, 1626-1629
• Dick Eastman’s Blog (EOGN) has new resources listed:
  • “FindMyPast Adds More Than 537,000 New Online Records This Week“
  • “Huge Free Collection of Digitized Books Now Available on MyHeritage“
  • “New FamilySearch Collections Update: December 6, 2015“

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Blogs/Articles

• Register for the 2016 NGS Conference here! The dates are 4-7 May in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida!
• “1912-1938 Traveling with the Paneths” – a neat colorful look at old pictures of a family’s travels from Retronaut
• “Fashion Moments – Detachable Collars” – from Genealogy Lady! I read about this often in historical fiction 🙂
• “5 Things to Do When Applying to a Lineage Society” by Amy Johnson Crow
• “The Ins and Outs of Social Media for Genealogists” on The In-Depth Genealogist
• “Scoping the CC License” by Judy G. Russell – it’s about Creative Commons
• “Genetic Genealogy Education” on the Spring Board blog of the BCG – it has a great list of books and articles for further information!
• “Cornish Memory: A Digital Archive of Cornish Life” – on EOGN
• “6,300 Nazi Holocaust Documents Found Behind Wall of a Budapest Apartment” on The Telegraph- so neat!

Resources

• “Announcing: GenTools Study Group – 2 Dec 2015” on Dear Myrtle – Sessions are on Wednesday and the link has a calendar of topics as well as how to enter into the chat!
• “Genealogy Bargains for Friday 4 December 2015” – on GeneaBloggers
• “New or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org – Nov 22 to 28, 2015” on Randy Seaver’s blog Genea-Musings
• “The Family History Researcher Academy is Offering an End of Year Discount” on Dick Eastman’s blog EOGN
• FindMyPast Friday’s New Records:
  • PERSI Quarterly Index Update
  • Staffordshire Dioceses of Lichfield & Coventry wills and probate 1521-1858
  • Victoria, Mental Health Institutions
  • British Army Muster Rolls, 84th Foot 1808-1818 and 60th Foot 1879-1882