It's an Assorted Catchup ... Part 2 The Other Stuff Out There for Genealogists

We hope you are staying home and staying safe. If you have some extra time for genealogy here are somethings to note going on in the genealogy world. There is a lot so we are going to make multiple posts under the Assorted Catchup ... column. This is the second Assorted Catchup ... column. If we hear of some more free access or sales we will add another post.

MyHeritage 
MyHeritage website has been offering free access to various collections during this pandemic shutdown. First it was the U.S. Census records collection, then making the use of its MyHeritage in Color tool free and unlimited until April 22 (it colorizes black and white photo scans) and now there is free access through May 23, 2020, to its U.S. Yearbook collection to which it applied its MyHeritage in Color tool to colorize black and white yearbooks. Don't forget about its Stay At Home/DNA Day Sale too.

Do not forget that Michigan records have remote access to MyHeritage Library Edition through the Michigan Electronic Library (mel.org) for free.

Family Tree Webinars 
Family Tree Webinars has been making one of its 1,000+ archived webinars free each day for the month of April. This is in addition to the new webinars that are free to view Live while it is being recorded and for the first week after being recorded.

National Archives in the United Kingdom
The National Archives in the United Kingdom is making its digitized records collection (those at its own website) free for as long as the Kew building is closed. This does not include any of its digitized collections that are with other subscription websites. So, in the complete list of Digital Collections look for collections without any website logos to the right of the collection name. See the archives' press release for details (the second link here.)

The Ancestor Hunt 
The Ancestor Hunt blog recently updated its HUGE list of links to United States and Canada digitized newspapers. If you have not checked this site out -- lately or at all -- do so. It is a good resource for locating what newspapers are available at both free and pay-sites.

Ancestry.com and Ancestry Library Edition
Remember our previous posts here and here on free access to both Ancestry.com collections and remote access through your local library. From what we understand ProQuest and Ancestry.com has extended the free remote access to Ancestry Library Edition until May 31 but we are not sure if it is an automatic extension or if libraries have to do anything to continue patron access. When we find out we will let you know.

We are sure there are more offers out there so surf the web and take a look around at those various genealogy websites. But be careful, remember if it sounds too good to be true it likely is not a good thing.

Stay home and stay safe.

See you soon at Mt. Clemens Public Library!
LE