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The New England Historic Genealogical Society and Ancestry.com will hold a Family
History Day Saturday, Oct. 16 at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center Boston.
The day includes lectures, consultations and document scanning. Attendance costs $38. Learn
more and register here.

GenealogyBank has updated more than 1,800 newspapers
and added new titles. In addition, the site will add 400,000 digital newspaper pages
(11,633 issues from 48 newspapers) in September. You
can get a peek at the list on the GenealogyBank blog.

Aug. 14 marks the 75th anniversary of Social Security, the federal program that gave
us the Social Security Death Index and the SS-5 (Social Security application). On
FamilyTreeMagazine.com, you can learn how to access these two great genealogical resources.
You also can view the Social
Security Administration’s history pages.

Ready to share your family history knowledge? Geneabloggers blogger and High-Definition
Genealogy founder Thomas MacEntee has published an e-book called Approaching
the Lectern: How to Become a Genealogy Speaker that will help you become a
more-effective speaker at conferences, society meetings and other venues. You can
download it as a PDF for $8.99, or order it in print form for $12.99.

The Genealogy Gems Podcast is
among the first 1,000 shows available through the new BlackBerry Podcasts, a free
app that lets BlackBerry users (running BlackBerry OS v4.6 or higher) listen to free
audio and video. You can get the app at BlackBerry
App World.

If you missed NBC’s “Who
Do You Think You Are?” this past spring—or you just want to relive the thrill
of seeing celebrities do genealogy on prime-time network television—you can watch
the reruns Friday nights from Aug. 13 to Sept. 3 at 8/7c on NBC.