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Blogs/Articles

• “Starting a Conversation” by Judy G. Russell on her blog, The Legal Genealogist – this also mentions a wonderful post by Beth Wylie called “Southern Heritage. It’s Complicated“
• “Back to the Basics with U.S. Census Research – Part II” by Diana Elder on The Family Locket
• “Make Misspellings Work for You” by Linda Barnickel on Ancestry’s blog
• “Out of the Box Bargains for Genealogy: Groupon” by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains
• “Ancestral DNA Percentages – How Much of Them is in You?” by Roberta Estes on her blog DNAeXplained
• RootsMagic is now syncing with Ancestry! Check out the following blog posts about this new feature:
  • “RootsMagic brings Ancestry Features to their Desktop Software” on the Ancestry Blog
  • “Great News: RootsMagic Now Has Ancestry TreeShare and WebHints Activated!” by Randy Seaver on his blog Genea-Musings – Also see:
    • “Looking at My New RootsMagic Upload Ancestry Member Tree and Source Citations“
    • “Using RootsMagic TreeShare – Adding Facts, Media, and Sources to My RootsMagic Tree“
  • “RootsMagic 7.5 Now Intergrates with Ancestry” on Dear Myrtle
  • “RootsMagic brings Ancestry Features to their Desktop Software” by Dick Eastman on his blog
• “Contest: Win a Home Movie and Slide Transfer Services from Larsen Digital” on Genealogy Bargains – contest ends July 3rd!
• “Research Like a Pro, Part 3: Where Did They Live?” by Diana Elder on The Family Locket
• “Genealogy Bargains for Friday 30 June 2017” on Genealogy Bargains
• FREE ACCESS to AmericanAncestors Databases! Ends on July 6th! You will need to create a guest account, which is free.

FamilySearch Mircofilm

FamilySearch has announced it will stop their microfilm distribution services by September of this year. MANY have discussed this issue already. Here are some of those discussions:

• “FamilySearch will Discontinue Distribution of Family History Microfilm” by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings
• “No More FHL Microfilm? Myrt’s Take” on Dear Myrtle
• “The End of FamilySearch Microfilm Loans: What it Means for You” by Amy Johnson Crow on her blog
• “The End of Microfilm” by Judy G. Russell on her blog, The Legal Genealogist
• “FamilySearch to Discontinue its Microfilm Distribution Services” by Dick Eastman on his blog

Media and Education

• “Interpreting Your AncestryDNA Results Digital Download Now Available!” on Genealogy Bargains – catch the sale before it ends on July 5th!
• “Episode 197 – ReclaimTheRecords.org and Freedom of Information Act Requests for Genealogical Records” by Ryan Bennett on Extreme Genes
• “Genealogy Connection #024 – David Rencher, Speaker, Instructor, and FamilySearch CGO” on The Genealogy Guys Podcast
• “Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for July 2017” on Genealogy Bargains

New and Updated Resources

• Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has the new and updated lists for both Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org
• FindMyPast’s Friday’s new and updated records includes:
  • Canada Census 1861, 1871
  • Yorkshire Parish Registers and Bishop’s Transcripts
  • Yorkshire Baptisms (1538-1914), Banns (1653-1930), Marriages (1538-1914), and Burials
  • Irish Newspapers – includes The Catholic Standard now!
  • Periodical Source Index Update – new articles from Ontario, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, and Rhode Island
• From Dick Eastman’s blog:
  • “Oregon Historical Society Adds Digital Collections“
  • “Virginia Newspaper Project Places Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Newspapers Online“
  • “Huge Genealogical Database of Ukrainians Born in 1650-1920 is Now Online“
  • “Presbyterian Church Records Now Available on ScotlandsPeople“