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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 22, Number 46 | November 21, 2021 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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sites with additional information.
DNA as Negative Evidence  Is the lack
of a DNA match negative evidence? That is what Leah Larkin, who calls
herself the “DNA Geek,” postulates. Larkin cites
noted American genealogist, Elizabeth Shown Mills, who defines negative
evidence as “conclusions or implications that can be drawn
from the absence of a situation that should exist given the
circumstances.” Dr. Larkin earned her PhD in biology from the University of Texas at Austin, where she used DNA to study the relationships among different species. Her conclusion is “that all depends.” Read her essay at https://thednageek.com/dna-as-negative-evidence/. MyHeritage Adds Labels for DNA Matches Feature  MyHeritage
has introduced labels for DNA matches, a way to organize DNA matches
into customized groups. As the company notifies you of matches, you can
assign a color-coded label to represent a different group of interest,
such as different family lines, descendants of a specific ancestor,
matches of high interest, matches that have not been investigated yet,
or matches that require a closer look when you have the chance.A further description of the feature can be found at https://tinyurl.com/pye7ra9t. DNA Testing Firms Offer Black Friday Discounts 23andMe. Ancestry + Traits Services $79. Discount ends November 29. Ancestry. $59. Discount ends November 24. Family Tree DNA. $59. No indication when offer ends. MyHeritage. $39. Offer ends November 27. AncestryDNA Announces Updated Communities  AncestryDNA
has announced updated Communities for members with ties to Czechia,
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine
and the Transdanubia Region. A community is a group of AncestryDNA
members who likely descend from a population of common ancestors,
people who lived in the same place around the same time or traveled
from the same place around the same time. There are more than 1,500
regions worldwide.Ancestry Genetic CommunitiesTM technology analyzes genetic connections between groups of AncestryDNA members. It then uses public family trees, ethnicity data, and historical records to determine where this group of people lived over time. More complete information is at https://tinyurl.com/n6cudkkj. AncestorHunt Identifies More Than 100 Jewish I/S/ Newspaper Online AncestorHunt now has a list of more than 100 America Jewish newspapers online with links to their websites. The list is at https://tinyurl.com/6ue5xbhc. Geneteka Website Has Vital Records for Eastern Europe  A posting by Jan
Meisels Allen, Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring
Committee, caused me to visit the Geneteka site (https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/?lang=eng)
for the first time. According to Allen, the site includes vital records
from Russia and Poland, as well as Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania. A
small set of records exist for Czech Republic, Brazil, Kazakhstan,
Georgia, Moldova and even Buffalo, New York.It is difficult to tell what selection process was used to decide which towns and years were selected to be indexed. It is likely that for Poland, it does not include Jewish registers. For the Mokotow ancestral town of Warka, Poland, there are Jewish records only for 1809–1825. Prior to 1826, Jewish and Catholic records were comingled. Amazingly, the site indexes Catholic records for Warka from 1619–1909. Search the collection at https://tinyurl.com/4y3erh4t. For Polish records, it requires the voivodeship as well as the town name. FamilySearch Adds 6M Records This Week  A
list of recent additions to FamilySearch, 6M index records, can be
found at https://tinyurl.com/shz5fuz2.
This site provides direct links to the individual collections. They
include records from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Denmark, El Salvador,
France, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Norway,
Paraguay, Peru, Samoa, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, United
Kingdom, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.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.New Collections International Patents, 1890–2020 Samara, Russia, Church Books 1748–1934 Updated Collections Arizona, Wills and Probate Records, 1803–1995 Colorado, Wills and Probate Records, 1875–1974 Delaware, Naturalization Records, 1796–1959 Idaho, Wills and Probate Records, 1857–1989 Michigan, Wills and Probate Records, 1784–1980 Minnesota, Wills and Probate Records, 1801–1925 Montana, Wills and Probate Records, 1866–1965 Nevada, Naturalization Petitions, 1956–1991 New Hampshire, Wills and Probate Records, 1643–1982 Oklahoma, Wills and Probate Records, 1801–2008 Oregon, Wills and Probate Records, 1849–1963 Savannah, Georgia, Naturalization Records, 1790–1910 Utah, Wills and Probate Records, 1800–1985 Washington D. C., Military Naturalization Petitions, 1918–1924 Washington, D.C., Wills and Probate Records, 1737–1952 Washington, Wills and Probate Records, 1851–1970 Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564–1950 Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561–1910 Yorkshire, England, Probate Records, 1521–1858  FindMyPast Adds U.S.
Obituary NoticesFindMyPast has added 22M U.S. obituary notices to their collection. It includes all 50 states and District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The collection now includes 56M notices in total. Additional information is available at https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/freedmens-bureau.
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