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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 21, Number 43 | October 25, 2020 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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Call for Proposals: IAJGS 41st International Conference on Jewish Genealogy  IAJGS 41st
International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be held in
Philadelphia, August 2–5, 2021. IAJGS has announced that the
Call for Proposals is now open until November 19.The conference will feature more than 100 speakers, with more than 250 sessions covering virtually every aspect of Jewish genealogy. Proposed abstracts which meet one of the following theme categories are encouraged, along with other broad topics in Jewish genealogy as well. The conference tracks are: • Early Jewish Settlers of the Americas • Innovative Methodology • Keepers of the Shoah Memory • Beginners • DNA Insights for Genealogy • Heritage and Cultural Material. Details on the Call for Proposals can be found on http://www.iajgs2021.org. Programs at the conference will be geared from first-timers to conference veterans, and will include lectures, lunches, computer labs, and networking through Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOFs). An Exhibitor Hall and Resource Room will include genealogy experts, mentors and archivists for a one-stop research experience at the conference site. Close to 1,000 participants are expected from across the U.S. and around the world. You Can Now Register for RootsTechConnect  RootsTech
is the largest genealogy conference in the world, attracting more than
20,000 people. This year, RootsTech looks a little different. To make
RootsTech a safe and accessible experience for as many people as
possible, the conference will go fully online and will be called
RootsTech Connect. Because it will be online, the conference will be at
no charge.Previous RootsTech events have had a showroom filled with vendors and products that can help you on your family history journey. With RootsTech Connect, you will have access to a virtual marketplace where you can find resources to help you in your research. In addition, there will be access to experts and help with chat rooms and video calls. RootsTech Connect will take place on February 25–27, 2021. A full schedule of classes, speakers, and events will be available in coming months. After the conference, all videos and recordings will be available online for at least a year at RootsTech.org. Classes will be available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Chinese, and Russian. As the event gets closer, more languages might be added. Additional information, including how to register is at https://tinyurl.com/FSRootsTech2021. Ancestry Adds Newspapers.com Marriage Index to Its Collection  Ancestry,
owner of Newspapers.com, has combed through more than 600 million pages
of digitized newspapers to extract and identify key names,
relationships and other facts from marriage and engagement
announcements in historical newspapers. It has placed this index on
Ancestry.com. Provided is name, publication date, publication place and
spouse. Ancestry subscribers can then click “View
Record” and have displayed other household members. To view
the actual newspaper announcement requires a subscription to
Newspapers.comThe extraction was done by computer (Optical Character Recognition, therefore, it can sometimes be inaccurate. The announcement can be found at https://tinyurl.com/AncestryAndNewspapers. Search the index at https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62116/. 23andMe Adds Family Health History Tree 23andMe just launched a new tool for Health + Ancestry Service customers in the U.S. and Canada called the Family Health History Tree. Much like any family tree, this one offers a visual representation of how you connect to different relatives. But this tree adds the ability to include important medical conditions, offering you a visual record of current and past health issues for you and your close relatives. Detailed information can be found at https://blog.23andme.com/health-traits/family-health-history-tree/. 23andMe Upgrades Its Ancestry Algorithm  23andMe has
upgraded its ancestry algorithm which it claims will improve the
accuracy, as well as reduce the amount of
“unassigned” and non-specific ancestry assignments.
It added that some 23andMe users may see some big shifts in their
results: For example, many should expect an increase in their most
common ancestry proportion and a reduction in their broad ancestries.The announcement can be found at https://tinyurl.com/TTAMUpgrade. David G. Marwell Is New President of Leo Baeck Institute  David G.
Marwell is the new President of Leo Baeck Institute. From
2000–2015 he was director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in
New York. JewishGen is an affiliate of the museum, and during his
tenure he helped shape JewishGen policy.Dr. Marwell holds a PhD in Modern Jewish History, and prior to his tenure at the museum, he was Associate Museum Director from Programs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He recently published a biography of Joseph Mengele titled Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death”. Leo Baeck Institute is a research library and archive focused on the history of German-speaking Jews. It has facilities in New York and Berlin. Family Tree Builder Now Available for Two Mac Operating Systems  MyHeritage’s
family tree software system, Family Tree Builder, is now available for
Mac computers with operating systems Catalina and High Sierra. The
software is available at no charge. Additional information, including
how to download the software, can be found at https://tinyurl.com/FTBforMac.FamilySearch Adds More Than 1.6M Records This Week  A
list of recent additions to FamilySearch, more than 1.6M index records,
can be found at https://tinyurl.com/FamilySearch101920.
This site provides direct links to the individual collections. They
include records from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, England,
Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Norway, Peru, Spain, South
Africa, United States and Zambia. 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 Collections at Ancestry.com  Ancestry has
added/updated the following record groups at their site. The list with
links to individual collections can be found at https://www.ancestry.com/cs/recent-collections.
Announced collections may not be complete for the dates specified and
will be added at some later date. There is also no indication of how
many records were added to the updated collections.Updated Collections Berlin, Germany, Deaths, 1874–1955 WEB: France, Death Records, 1970–2018 U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861–1934 South Dakota, Marriages, 1905–2018 South Dakota, Birth Index, 1856–1918 Colorado, Select County Marriages, 1863–2018
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