Genealogy Roundtable

December 12th from 7-9:00pm, virtual

Church records is the topic for the December Roundtable discussion. 

What problems can church records help solve?

What denominations have you found records for?

Where do you find church records?

Join us live via Zoom for this enlightening discussion. 

A Roundtable Recap with information from the discussion, including links to helpful websites, will also be posted to the blog.

 DNA User Group

December 10^th from 7-8:30pm, virtual and in-person

The Leeds Method will be the topic of discussion at the next DNA User Group session. See this method put into practice to help a GenFriends member with a DNA problem. More information about the Leeds Method can be found at https://www.danaleeds.com/the-leeds-method/.

A free tool to construct Leeds charts has been developed by David Nowotnik of the Genealogy Association of Colleyville. This tool, the Leeds Chart Generator, can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/colleyvillegenealogy/member-contributions/leeds-chart-generator. David is hoping to participate in our DNA User Group session.

Genealogy News

American Ancestors Cyber Monday Sale ends December 2, 2024. Enjoy $30 off a new membership.

Get 50% off a full year’s webinar membership (new memberships only) at Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Learn more here. Offer expires December 6, 2024.

Newspaper.com is offering 40% off new Publisher Extra subscriptions now through December 8, 2024. Click here for details.

Fold3 Cyber Week Sale – 40% off now through December 8^th for new memberships. View offer here.

Learn new skills with virtual on-demand Encore sessions from the 2024 TxSGS Family History Conference! Conference access is available for purchase through December 31, 2024 for access through February 2, 2025. Click here for details and to register.

FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records at https://www.freebmd.org.uk/. The database was last updated on Wed 27 Nov 2024 and currently contains 295,385,672 distinct records (397,999,729 total records). On Tue 26 Nov 2024 FreeBMD users did 206,777 searches. (More information)

The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA: Y-DA, Mitochondrial, Autosomal and X-DNA by Roberta Estes is now available in full color. More information is available at the FamilyTreeDNA Blog.