Bonnie Belza, who gave the well-received presentation called "DNA Kindergarten" at last year's Pinal County Workshop, has informed us that it has been recorded with BYU Webinars. It can be viewed at the following website: https://fh.lib.byu.edu/2020/03/07/dna-kindergarten-part-1-bonnie-belza-6-march-2020/
Reviews of her presentation were extremely positive and the talk is well worth your time.
October is Family History Month! (I'm missing fall foliage this year.) I would imagine many of you have been working on family history while in isolation. There are a few choices available while maintaining a social distance.
I first posted about Katherine Willson's list of Facebook genealogy sites in September of 2014. At that time she maintained a list of about 4,000 different groups or pages. Last week we watched her presentation on that subject via the NGS's virtual conference. She now has a list of 13,000+ genealogy and history links! You can take a look at the list at https://socialmediagenealogy.com/
The session was very informative; she began by explaining the difference between a "group" and a "page." Groups can be public or private and then can be visible or hidden. She also talked about managing notifications and posting a query.
Legacy has another selection of free webinars for our education this month. Check it out at www.familytreewebinars.com.
Tuesday, October 6 - "Advanced DNA Techniques: Deductive Chromosome Mapping" by Blaine Bettinger. Advanced
Wednesday, October 7 - "Wringing Every Drop out of Y DNA" by Roberta Estes. Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Thursday, October 8 - "From Generation to Generation: An Updated Look at Kinship Determination" by Judy Russell. Intermediate
Thursday, October 8 - "Geo-Genealogy as a Problem-Solving Tool: The Case of a 19th-Century Female Teenage Immigrant" by J. H. (Jay) Fonkert. Intermediate
Thursday, October 8 - "Spanning 150 Years of Record Loss: A Methodological Approach to Identifying Parents in Sweden" by Jill Morelli. Intermediate
Wednesday, October 15 - "Dealing with endogamy" by Paul Woodbury. Intermediate, Advanced
Tuesday, October 20 - "Using DNA Test Results to Confirm a Pedigree" by Angela Packer McGhie. Intermediate
Wednesday, October 21 - "Comparing the Genealogy Giants 2020: Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast, and MyHeritage by Sunny Morton. Beginner, Intermediate
Friday, October 23 - "How Old Did He Have To Be…?" by Judy Russell. Intermediate
Wednesday, October 28 - "In Black and White: Finding Historical Newspapers From Around the World" by Gena Philibert-Ortega. Intermediate
