The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection

This week's news includes: Ancestry.com has added a huge collection of African-American records with the Freedmen's Marriage Records and the Southern Claims Commission Collection at Ancestry.com ; the 1911 Irish Census is beginning to be made available at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie , and the 1862 Dublin City Street Directory is now online at http://www.libraryireland.com/Dublin-Street-D...

This week's news includes: the funeral for Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, in Salt Lake City on 2 Feb. Mr. Hinckley was the president of the LDS church since 1995; FamilyLink.com, Inc. ( http://www.familylink.com ) launches their World Collection containing more than 1.5 billion names from 35 countries; and beginning this week, George will be writing a weekly column for Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett...

This week's news items include: James LeVoy Sorenson, renowned medical device inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist died on 20 January 2008 at 86 – his companies list includes the   non-profit Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation which provides DNA testing; Genealogical.com has launched a new blog at http://GenealogyandFamilyHistory.com ; a wiki is available for users of FamilySearch and t...

This week's news includes many announcements. Memeria ( http://www.memeria.com ) launches the first house-call photo-scanning service; another genealogy podcast is available -- Genealogy Gems at http://www.genealogygemspodcast.com ; WorldVitalRecords.com has changed its name to FamilyLink.com ( http://www.familylink.com ) and has formed partnerships with other companies in recent months; RootsMagi...

Welcome to The Genealogy Guys TM Podcast for 2008! George begins the 2008 news with a press release from Wholly Genes, Inc. , of Columbia , MD , about the new Version 7.0 of The Master Genealogist (TMG) genealogy database software; George will be appearing at the all-day Mississippi Genealogical Society Confernece in Pearl . MS, just outside Jackson, on Saturday, 19 January – more information is a...

George begins with two pieces of news: he will be appearing at the Mississippi Genealogical Society's Conference on January 19th. For more information, call 601.924.9346. He also announced that he is discontinuing his long-running "Along Those Lines ..." column, which began on AOL, then appeared for years at Ancestry.com , and has been a blog for the past two years. The blog at http://ahaseminars....

George begins with the genealogical news: ▪        FamilySearch and The Generations Network, Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com , today announced an agreement that provides free access of Ancestry.com to patrons of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and the 13 largest regional family history centers effective today. ▪        Ancestry.com added 340.2M new names last week, including digi...

The Guys go straight to listener e-mail this week: the value of contacting genealogical societies for obit & funeral notice lookups and copies; Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps that have been made available at state sites, such as Florida ( http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?c=sanborn) , Georgia ( http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sanborn ), and South Carolina ( http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/sanbo...

The week's news includes: NARA partners with TOPICS Entertainment to produce two filmed histories on DVD - WWII: A Filmed History and Aviation" A Filmed History from the National Archives , both 24-CD sets; Ancestry.com has completed digitizing and indexing the British Telephone Books, 1880-1984, the full collection of the British Telcom Archives collection; the Florida State Genealogical Society...

The "News You Can Use" this week includes: Announcement of the National Genealogical Society's awards and competitions, details about which are can be found at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/awardscompcalendar.cfm ; Ancestry.com has published U.S. Passport Applications for 1795-1925 at its Web site at http://www.ancestry.com ; Fly Away Travel has announced its "2008 Genealogy at Sea" on October 25-No...

George reports news items concerning: a new home for the Welsh West Glamorgan Archives (see www.swansea.gov.uk/westglamorganarchives ); Geni ( www.geni.com )announces that more than 10 million profiles have been created on their service; Ruth Emmel of the Lee County [FL] Genealogical Society ( www. LeeCountyGenealogy.org ) has published an excellent new book titled, Let's Plant a Family Tree: How...

This week's show was recorded LIVE at the Texas State Genealogical Society Conference held on 9-10 November 2007 in Tyler, Texas, and hosted by the East Texas Genealogical Society. This was a great conference for The Guys and they were greeted, welcomed, and treated like kings! The Guys present a definition and description of what a podcast really is. They then take questions from the audience and...

News this week includes: the first ten years (1908-1917) of issues of Chicago's historic Polish newspaper, Dziennik Zwiazkowy (translated, Alliance Daily ) has been digitized by the Center for Research Libraries and is fully searchable at http://ecollections.crl.edu , along with other interesting collections;  GenWed.com ( http://www.genwed.com/ ) is a new and growing Web site that will help you l...

News stories for the week include: The Generations Network, parent of Ancestry.com, is to be acquired by Spectrum Equity Investors; the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) ( http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/ ) opens access to more than 6M new military personnel records, including all the Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) prior to 1946; Individual Deceased Personnel...

Ancestry.com's new DNA facility came online at their Web site this week, allowing people to order paternal or maternal DNA tests and getting their results online to compare against other testers. Listener e-mail includes: several more Hispanic genealogy Web sites - http://www.rootsweb.com/~cafara/index.html , http://www.gsha.net , and http://www.loscalifornianos.org ; a recommendation of a book ab...

This week's news includes details about the public outcry against the planned early closure date for the General Records Office (GRO) in the U.K., and Ancestry.com announces a digital scrapbooking application for members. Listener Thomas alerts others to a number of resources for Hispanic Heritage Month: The Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research (SHAAR) ( http://members.aol.com/shh...

We apologize for the delay in the release of this week's podcast. George suffered from laryngitis this week and was unable to record until Friday evening. The news is extensive this week. Pharos Tutors ( http://www.pharostutors.com/ ) announces that George has joined their online training staff to teach U.S.-related genealogical staff. His first class begins on 30 October 2007 with the topic of U....

The news includes announcements of new content at WorldVitalRecords.com and information about the Florida State Genealogical Society 's annual conference in November. George's Web Site of the Week is the Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System ( http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ ) maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. He also talks about the books, The Naked Quaker by Diane Rapaport and Uncovering...

News this week includes: a $10M donation by Norman B. Leventhal to the Boston Public Library's map collection; publication of new fees for ordering copies of documents from the National Archives and Records Administration ( see press release ); announcement by The National Archives (UK) of the availability of Nonconformist birth, marriage and death records online ; and the release of free upgrades...

The News includes: the launch of a new 9th The Generations Network, Inc. , Web site at Ancestry Web site for Sweden (at http://www.ancestry.se ); the introduction of DNA Ancestry (at http://dna.ancestry.com ) and DNA testing services; and the announcement of Cook County, Illinois, births, marriages, and deaths online by January of 2008. Listener e-mail reports include: many Pennsylvania Land Recor...

The Guys share some listener e-mail, including a recommendation for a Web site that reviews and ranks online computer back-up services at http://www. BackupReview.info , and additional land patents being digitized and indexed at the Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, site at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ . RootsMagic announces a new minor update for the RootsMagic software. G...

George delivers this week's significant news items, and the Guys follow with listener e-mail items, including a definition of the cemetery inscription, "DoP." This is followed by a discussion of three newer "social networking" sites for genealogists: Geni ( http://www.geni.com ); Famillion ( http://www.famillion.com/ ); and MyHeritage ( http://www.myheritage.com/ ). The Guys discuss the new Family...

The distribution of this week's podcast was delayed due to problems with the U.S. Domain Name Server (DNS) and our podcast network. We apologize for the delay. George's news items include: details about the LDS' FamilySearch Genesis digitization project;  Family Tree Maker 2008 has just been released for sale; the new portable digital microfilm scanner called the ST Genie from S-T Imaging ; and tw...

George's news report this week includes: the announcement of the non-exclusive agreement between NARA and CustomFlix Labs (a part of the Amazon.com group) to make thousands of NARA's historic films available for sale through Amazon.com in DVD-on-Demand format; The National Archives (U.K.) and Ancestry.co.uk have reached an agreement to make the digitized pension records of more than 1 million sold...

George reports on stories about: Footnote.com 's new partnership with ACPL ; new content at HistoryKat ; ScotlandsPeople 's Registers; The Remembering Site ; the launch of StoryofMyLife.com ; and the release of Elizabeth Shown Mills' new book, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace . Listener mail includes: Jungle Disk , an application to help store your data at Am...