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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 18, Number 27 | July 16, 2017 Every
government puts value on preserving its history. That is why we have
national archives. Genealogy preserves history; the history of a
family. It cannot be done without access to records, just as historians
cannot preserve a nation's history without access to records. It is a
greater good than the right to privacy. It is a greater good than the
risk of identity theft.
Past issues of Nu? What's New? are
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There will be no edition of Nu? What's New? next week. I will be attending the annual conference in Orlando, Florida.
Underlined words are links to sites with additional information. Countdown to the Conference  The
37th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will begin
exactly one week from today, July 23, at the Disney Swan Resort in
Orlando, Florida. If you decided not to attend but wish you could gain
the benefits of participating in many of the lectures that will be
presented at the conference, there is an inexpensive alternative: IAJGS
LIVE!For only $149, from the comfort of your home (or favorite Internet café), you can listen to more than 60 of the lectures being given live, or on demand until November 1. These lectures have been chosen from the more than 200 talks being presented and are designed to appeal to the veteran genealogist as well as the beginner. I will be at the conference and have already identified more than 30 lectures/meetings I plan to attend. Visit the IAJGS LIVE! Site at http://iajgs2017.org/iajgs-live/. View the schedule. Sign up to attend the lectures from the comfort of your home, live or on demand. Announce Fall Season of Finding Your Roots  Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
returns for a fourth season this Fall. It wil explore the family trees
of celebrities including Aziz Ansari, Scarlett Johansson, Larry David,
Garrison Keillor, Amy Schumer, Ted Danson, William H. Macy, Mary
Steenburgen, Ana Navarro, Christopher Walken, Ava DuVernay, Bryant
Gumbel and others. The show begins on Tuesday, October 3, and runs
through December 26, at 8:00 pm ET on the Public Broadcasting System
(PBS). Check your local television schedule to determine the PBS
station and time in your area. Gates also will be the speaker at the banquet of the 37th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. His topic will be “Genealogy and Genetics in America.” Article Compares DNA Testing Services  Family History Daily
has published an essay titled “Which Genealogy DNA Test Is the
Best? A Detailed Comparison Guide to Help You Decide.” They have
included Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage DNA, AncestryDNA and 23andMe in
their comparison because “these four companies are the main
providers of genetic genealogy tests in the current market.” They
identify 17 factors to consider in determining which is best for the
consumer including such factors as cost, current size of database,
privacy concerns and turn-around time. The report can be found at http://familyhistorydaily.com/genealogy-help-and-how-to/ancestry-dna-tests-comparison-guide.FamilySearch Adds More Than 6 Million Records This Week 
A list of recent additions to FamilySearch, more than 6 million indexed records and images, can be found at http://tinyurl.com/FamilySearch071017.
This site provides direct links to the individual collections. They
include records from Brazil, Chile, France, The Netherlands, Nicaragua,
Peru and Russia (church records) and the U.S. states of New Jersey and
Ohio. Nearly 4M new items are Brazil Civil Registrations. Also included are more than 500K index records added to the 1895 New Jersey census. Note that at the website, announced collections may not be complete for the dates specified and will be added at some later date. Also note that counts shown in the announcement are the number added, not the total number available in the collection, which can be greater. New at Ancestry.com  Ancestry
has added the following record groups at their site. Note that they do
not indicate how many entries have been added. Announced collections
may not be complete for the dates specified and will be added at some
later date. New Collections U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930–2017 U.S., WWI Troop Transport Ships, 1918–1919 Updated Collections U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s–Current U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847–2017 U.S., Homestead Records, 1863–1908 Cass County, Missouri, Cemetery Index, 1875–1954 New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917–1966 U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries, 1814–1992 Mississippi, Naturalization Records, 1907–2008 JewishGen Plans Course on New York City Resources  Did
your family live in New York? There are many interesting research
possibilities in the Big Apple. JewishGen’s Intermediate Course,
“Breaking Brick Walls in the United States,” will focus on
New York Resources. This course will be especially useful to those who
visit New York City. It will have suggestions on where to research,
where to wander and how to get there.If, despite basic online research, you have not yet found the Hebrew names, birth year or town for your U.S. immigrant ancestors, consider this course. It focuses on the more esoteric documents our ancestors generated, naturalization, military and governmental records, death records (probate, obituaries, cemeteries), and local archival research. The course includes a personal mentoring program; students use JewishGen’s online FORUM, post an ancestral branch, set goals for research, and work one on one with an instructor. Eight text lessons can be downloaded to read at your own pace and an optional field trip to a New York archive will be scheduled. Read the course descriptions and requirements (8–10 hours per week) at http://www.jewishgen.org/education/description.asp?course=40088.
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