The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection

George announces a genealogy conference in Tallahassee, Florida (www.talgen.org), a computerized genealogy conference in Provo (ce.byu.edu/cw/cwcompu), and three different genealogy cruises between late October and mid November, and reminds listeners of the writing contest deadline for ISFHWE (www.rootsweb.com/~cgc/contest.htm).  Listeners share their successes in keeping local museums in business...

George and Drew again share news and listener mailbag, including a way to store files using Gmail (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1593/), a question about how to handle conflicting information, some questions relating to Macintosh-using genealogists and suggestions about adding places to queries on mailing lists and message boards, and a question about what to do when you're left with many box...

George and Drew announce the new ProQuest offerings (two African-American newspapers, and a Civil War-era collection of pamphlets and newspapers).  George points out the renovated British Library website (www.bl.uk), and remarks on the ability to search Ancestry.com for public family trees.  George and Drew also talk about Donna Moughty's recent talk to the Florida Genealogical Society about "Who...

Drew returns from visiting Salt Lake City, where he attended board meetings of the Federation of Genealogical Societies and did some research in the Family History Library.  George announces the new Ancestry.de service for German research.  Drew describes his FGS activities, and shares some of his discoveries in the FHL, including a possible War of 1812 ancestor.  George discusses the differences...

George shares the URL for the UK postcards site (www.oldukphotos.com), talks about the Genealogy Blog Finder (blogfinder.genealogue.com), and discusses the latest issues of Digital Genealogist magazine (www.digitalgenealogist.com) and Internet Genealogy.  Drew tells about a podcast listener who used Google Maps to find something interesting about the French terrain, and notes that several listener...

George and Drew take a look back at 2006, a look ahead to 2007, and discuss a variety of ideas for doing genealogy during the winter months.  Among the items discussed during news, announcements, and listener mailbag: the extended deadline for submitting lecture proposals to the FGS 2008 Philadelphia conference (www.fgs.org); the plans for a U.S. version of the popular U.K. "Who Do You Think You A...

George shares press releases about the renaming of MyFamily.com, Inc. as The Generations Network and about the new features of the Ancestry.com personal family trees.  The mailbag brings mail from listeners whose ancestors are from "Whales", who use portable applications (from portableapps.com) stored on a USB flash drive, and who are interested in DNA testing and whether or not census index error...

Announcements include the relaunch of Ancestry Magazine, the purchase of ProQuest Information and Learning (the division of ProQuest that includes HeritageQuest Online) by Cambridge Information Group, the release of Calico Pie's Family Historian 3.1 (more info at www.family-historian.co.uk), The National Archives (UK) online release of UK Outbound Passenger Lists (with a 10% extra free if you buy...

A podcast listener writes in about free census worksheets and tutorials at www.censusmate.com.  In response to another listener question, George and Drew discuss their computer hardware: desktop computers, notebooks, smartphones, wireless networks, scanners, multi-function printers, and digital cameras.   George talks about sources of information for learning about an ancestor's occupation.  Drew...

As December begins, George suggests a place to shop for genealogy gifts: The Ancestry Store (theancestrystore.com), and he announces the new 1851 and 1861 Scotland census databases.  George also mentions the new test for U.S. citizenship.  The mailbag brings information about newspaper projects (www.library.uiuc.edu/inp and www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html), and a question about a Texas application...

After some brief items from genealogy news and listener mailbag, George and Drew discuss the recent Thanksgiving visit of George's relatives (including their photos and other family materials), and give their opinions about the relative merits of genealogy cruises vs. national genealogy conferences.  Fletcher the cat weighs in near the end of the podcast, but it turns out later that she is merely...

George announces the new Ancestry.com store (theancestrystore.com), and reminds listeners of Ancestry's new German genealogical site (ancestry.de).   George shares listener e-mail about Canadian passenger lists at Collections Canada (www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/passenger/).    George also talks about using the Internet Public Library to find links to newspaper sites (www.ipl.org).  Drew t...

George returns from speaking at the Florida State Genealogical Society conference in Melbourne, and spreads the news about the new passenger lists at Ancestry.com.  Drew talks about two new services that provide a way to listen to podcasts (including the Genealogy Guys Podcast) using an ordinary phone: Podlinez (podlinez.com) and Fonpods (fonpods.com).  Drew shares his interview with Irish genealo...

George and Drew return from the genealogy cruise and give listeners an idea of what it is like.  Drew also shares his visit to a cemetery on St. Maarten.  The first issue of Digital Genealogist (which includes an article by Drew) is now available for free online at www.digitalgenealogist.com.  George announces a new Welsh database, and reminds listeners of the November special for RootsMagic's new...

George announces Ancestorsonboard.com, a new database for passenger lists for those leaving the British Isles between 1890 and 1960.  Other topics include the new online magazine, Digital Genealogist; and the new GenealogyBank.com database service; George and Drew dig into the podcast listener mailbag and discuss such topics as a fascinating story from a cemetery visit, strange 1820 U.S. Federal c...

George and Drew mention the new Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0 browsers.  Ancestry.com has added German content.  George and Drew have taken their first look at the new NewsBank genealogy databases product, GenealogyBank.com.  George discusses an online map browsing service for Ireland, www.pasthomes.com.  Drew interviews genealogy blogger Steve Danko (www.stephendanko.com) and discus...

George announces RootsMagic's new software product, Family Atlas, and its introductory price (www.familyatlas.com/introspecial.htm).  Drew interviews professional genealogist Linda Woodward Geiger, where they talk about things to avoid when creating genealogy websites, what goes on in a state chapter meeting of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the fun of "ancestor roadshows" at state...

News includes the new RootsTelevision site (www.rootstelevision.com).  Drew shares his interview with Paul Milner, where they discuss Paul's career and Paul offers advice on conducting British research.  George talks about the usefulness of voter registration records.  Finally, has George discovered that he and Drew are related?  Listen and find out!

News items include the tragic death of genealogy librarian Ryan Taylor, an update to last week's naturalization topic including the Italian Genealogical Group's database project (www.italiangen.org/databaselist.stm), the upcoming conference of the North Carolina Genealogical Society (www.ncgenealogy.org) in Raleigh, the soon-to-be-available first issue of Digital Genealogist (www.digitalgenealogis...

George and Drew take the Genealogy Guys Podcast on the road to a monthly meeting of the Lee County Genealogical Society in Ft. Myers, Florida, where they discuss naturalization and take questions from the audience.  They share images of naturalization records and Drew points out the great example of Steve Danko's blog (www.stephendanko.com).  Drew also shares a statement from Chris Cowan, Vice Pre...

Drew interviews Audrey Collins, a reader advisor from The National Archives' Family Records Centre in London (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/visit/planfrc.htm).  George and Drew discuss the past Saturday's annual fall seminar of the Florida Genealogical Society (Tampa), and the amount of work that goes into planning and executing an all-day genealogy seminar.  The Genealogy Guys also pass along a few...

George and Drew discuss how to find out about our ancestors' occupations.  [Note: The correct URL for the USGenWeb page giving explanations of old occupation names is http://www.usgenweb.org/research/occupations.shtml] Drew shares an interview with Maureen Taylor (the Photo Detective) and David Lambert (of the New England Historic Genealogical Society) and their project involving photographs of in...

George and Drew return from Boston with a report of highlights from the 2006 Federation of Genealogical Societies conference.  George also talks about the urgent petition regarding a proposed reduction in NARA research hours (www.petitiononline.com/FGS2006/petition.html) which must be submitted no later than September 8; the brochure for the Genealogy Guys' 2007 Research Tour to London is now onli...

Just before the Genealogy Guys head off for the FGS Conference in Boston, Drew announces the Ebenezer, GA Heritage Day Festival on Labor Day for Salzburgers (www.georgiasalzburgers.com) and the University of Washington Extension Program's Genealogy and Family History Certificate (www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/gfh/gfh_mtg.asp), and shares listener tips regarding both WorldCat and st...

George talks about two January 2007 events in Salt Lake City: the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (www.infouga.org) and the NGS Research Trip (www.ngsgenealogy.org/edutripsaltlake.cfm).  George and Drew are especially pleased to announce the 2007 Genealogy Guys Research Trip to London (July 14-24).  (If you want to be placed on the list to receive information, please send an e-mail to classes@aha...