The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

Irish families can be found:
Homing In on Patrick Mahon’s Family by Dara on Black Raven Genealogy

Lucinda’s Bout of Insanity Topples a Family Mystery on Family Sleuther

George Appleton: A Bad Apple by Suzi on Family Mystery

Nova Scotians – Do you recognize these sites?:
A Photographic Puzzle by Sharon Inglis on Vita Brevis

Research Resources

Alert for those researching 20th century Dutch family:
Quick Tip: Download Population Registers from the 1900s While You Can by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy

1926 Canadian Census to Be Released This Year by Patricia Greber on My Genealogy Life

Check Out the New Birth, Marriage and Death Records Page (BMD Links) by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt

Digital Public Library of America Releases Beta Version of “All-New” Website by Gail Dever on Genealogy à la Carte

Places of Wales by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections

Over 15 Million Books on the OpenLibrary.org and Archive.org by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star

Names of Emigrants from England 1773-1776 by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on The Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Old Settlers Organizations and Their Records by Paula Stuart-Warren on Genealogy by Paula Stuart-Warren

City University of New York Has Compiled the State’s First Slavery Records Index by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

Tech News

Solution Found to Upload Ancestry DNA Results to FTDNA by Gail Dever on Genealogy à la Carte

RootsTech 2018 Syllable Articles Are Available on Mobile App and Web Browser by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings

Map Your Genome at Home with a Cell-Phone Sized Human DNA Sequencer by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

Libre 6.0 Released by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

Cyberduck for Windows and Macintosh by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

The Fix Is In by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist

For WordPress Bloggers:
Tuesday’s Tip: Awesome & Easy Source Citations in WordPress by The Genealogy Girl

What’s happening at RootsTech:
Learn the Latest Apps at #RootsTech 2018 by Devon Noel Lee at Family History Fanatics

Genetic Genealogy

Contacting DNA Matches Is Now Free by Yael on MyHeritage Blog

DNA Ethnicity Estimates Are Just That. . . Estimates by Melody Lassalle on Genealogy Research Journal

Quick Tip – Working with Match Notifications from Family Tree DNA by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy

Another Look at DNA; Life After Death by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist

Methodology

100 Year Anniversary of the Spanish Influenza – An Estimated 50 Million died – How Many in My Own Family? by Diane Gould Hall on Michigan Family Trails

52 Documents in 52 Weeks #50 – Hunt’s Evaluation of Furman’s Manuscript on Strait from NJ

Finding THAT Law by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist

Missing Years by Michael Dwyer on Vita Brevis

The Genealogy Do-Over: My Golden Rules of Genealogy by Thomas MacEntee on Abundant Genealogy

Education Is for Everyone

Why Blog? by Dana Leeds on The Enthusiastic Genealogist

I’ve come across this in a couple of counties:
More Than One County Seat. . .in the Same County? by Peggy Lauritzen on Anxiously Engaged

A Simple Trick for Accessing FamilySearch Documents by Janine Adams on Organize Your Family History

Guild of One-Name Studies Free Webinars by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections

Keeping Up with the Times

Michigan State University Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Build Slave Trade Database by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

New Book: the Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections

Good Morning Britain Hosts Receive Their MyHeritage DNA Results Live on Air by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter

Reconstructing the Face of a Man 700 Years After His Death by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on The Olive Tree Genealogy Blog