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The New York State Historic Newspapers website recently added and updated titles in July. New Titles: Dundee – The Observer Hamilton – The Emerald Press Hicksville – Mid-Island Herald Oneida – The Sachem, The Telegraph, The Weekly Dispatch and The Dispatch Syracuse – The Blue Banner Updated Titles: Albany – Capital Neighbors Buffalo – The…

The Colorado Genealogical Society will present a free Symposium on Genetic Genealogy on Friday, July 17 and Saturday, July 18. All times listed are Eastern time. Friday, July 17 – 8:30 – 10:30 p.m.8:30 – 9:30 p.m. – “Genetic Genealogy: Wonderin’ What It’s Comin’ To and How It got This Far”9:30 – 10:30 p.m. -“Ancestry…

MyHeritage.com will be offering free access to all birth records in its collection today through July 16. There are over 1 billion records on the website. You will need to set up a free user name and password to access the records. To start searching, go to: https://www.myheritage.com/research/category-2010/birth-records?s=343663401

In July, Legacy Family Tree Webinars will be offerng two free webinar weekends. Foundations in DNA – July 10-12 Genealogy and DNA DNA Overview Y-DNA Mitochondrial DNA Autosomal DNA Getting Started in Family History – July 24-26 Home Sources Forms Family Stories Documents Vital Records Census Records Cemetery & Church Records (brand new!) Online Research:…

Some good news for local genealogists — Ancestry.com is providing free remote access now through the end of July to anyone with library cards in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Just go to your home library website, go to the database section and look if your library subscribes to Ancestry.com. As previously mentioned in another post,…

From now until 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, July 1, Ancestry.ca is providing free access to a large selection of Canadian records. These include: Quebec’s Drouin Collection (baptisms, marriages, burials), Ontario births, marriages, deaths, and border crossings between Canada and the US. You will need to set up a free user name and password….

JSTOR, a digital library for researchers, students and genealogists, will expand its free online reading program until the end of 2020. You can read 100 articles for free each month without needing an institution affiliation. All you need to do is set up a free account. There are more than 12 millions academic journals articles,…

JewishGen.org will be offering a series of free webinars in June and July about Jewish genealogy research. All webinars will be offered on Wednesdays at 3 p.m. June 17 – Researching NYC Resources RemotelySpeaker: Jordan Auslander June 24 – Privacy and Genealogy: What Are The Rules?Speaker: E. Randol (Randy) Schoenberg July 1 – Rescue and…

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will be offering Free Webinar Weekends during the month on June. Each weekend you will be able to attend a different track of classes for free. For June 12-14, it will be Technology classes; on June 19-21, learn about Great Britain and on June 26-28, the track will be African American…

Each day in June, MyHeritage.com will open one of its subscription-only historical record collections to the public, providing free access to view the collection. Many of the collections are exclusive to MyHeritage. MyHeritage will be posting regular updates on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram about the collections, so be sure to check out these platforms. The…