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- “DNA is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding’s Love Life” on the NYTimes – Such an interesting story!
- “Luxurious Hindenburg Travel” on UpFront with NGS – very neat pictures of what it looked like inside!
- “1916 Rising Photos Never Before Seen Publicly Revealed” from the IrishCentral – for any Irish history lovers out there
- “Win a Free Family Tree Chart from I Chart You” – contest by Geneabloggers! Ends August 17th so act quickly 🙂 And along with that, here is today’s Genealogy Bargains brought to you by Geneabloggers.
- “Fashion Moment – Pagoda Sleeve” from Genealogy Lady
- “Library Websites for Genealogy: More Than Just the Catalog” by Amy Johnson Crow
Webinars/Videos
- “Power Platting: Using Technology to Get From Perches to Pictures” webinar by Chris Staats – free until August 19th!
- “What’s New at Ancestry: August 2015 Edition” by Crista Cowan of Ancestry.com – always good to know what new events/records are going on
Resources
- New FamilySearch Collections (from week of August 5th) – Dick Eastman has a large list of new collections available on his page. Check out all the new resources!
- FindMyPast Friday’s! This week’s new records are:
- Northumberland Baptisms
- British Army, Casualty Index War of 1812
- British Army, Deserters and Absentees in Police Gazette 1914-1919
- British Jewry Book of Honor 1914-1920
- Scottish Covenanters 1679-1688
- Church of Ireland Parish Record Search Forms
- New South Wales, 1828 Census Householders’ Returns