Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.
My criteria for Best of . are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don t list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.
Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:
Genea-Musings geneamusings.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from geneamusings.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I am trying to keep up with the new and updated record collections at FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list) every week.
As of 23 April 2021, there are 2,982 historical record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 0 from last week):
New and updated collections this week from FamilySearch are: - Collections Deleted -
rch/collection/4127799); 13,151 indexed records with 13,151 record images, DELETED
ch/collection/2849548); 35,336 indexed records with 35,336 record images, DELETED - Collections Added -
ch/collection/4123955); 1,010 indexed records with 1,010 record images, ADDED 23-Apr-2021 Kansas, Military Discharge Records, ca.1862 - ca.1999 (https://familysearch.org/sea
rch/collection/4121697); 740 indexed records with 740 record images, ADDED 22-Apr-2021
New and Updated Genealogy Record Collections on MyHeritage
MyHeritage continues to add new genealogy record collections each month - here is the list of new and updated collections since 2 December 2020:
In addition, they continue to update the Family Tree collections on a regular basis:
FamilySearch Family Tree (961,156,603 records) - updated 7 Feb 2021
In all, as of 7 February 2021, MyHeritage has 6,705 record collections with 13,110,457,753 records.
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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and gave received other material consideration in past years. I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product. This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products.