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The Genealogy Guys Podcast #142 - 2008 June 21
This week's news includes: the new Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence, Missouri, opened on 21 June; Footnote.com has announced a new, popular, and forthcoming database titles; Synium Software (http://www.synium.de/products/index.html) announces the new version 5.2 of its MacFamilyTree software which includes a 3-D family tree view; Geni.com (http://www.geni.com/home) announced that it has increased its GEDCOM file support to 15,000 individuals. Listener e-mail includes: a question about th...

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[ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:13:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #141 - 2008 June 13
This week's news includes: Ancestry.com announces the doubling of its digitized newspaper collection; and Genealogy Online, Inc., announces that a new online edition of Everton's Genealogical Helper will debut on July 1st, with more details available at  www.everton.com. This week's listener e-mail includes: congratulations and comments for George concerning his new iMac; opinions about genealogy add-ons; and a question concerning newspapers.Drew discusses his research experiences into the...

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[ Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:20:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #140 - 2008 June 4
This week's news includes: Genclass.com (http://genclass.com/) partners with Familylink.com (http://www.familylink.com/) to offer two free genealogy classes at WorldVitalRecords.com (http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/); APG names Michael Melendez of Fullerton, CA, as the first recipient of the Young Professional Scholarship; Millenia Corp. announces that new Legacy Family Tree version 7.0 is now available; construction delays at the new Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence, MO, postpone prese...

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[ Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:51:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #139 - 2008 May 28
The news this week includes: a new series at RootsTelevision.com titled Unclaimed Persons which the producers hope will raise awareness of the problem of unclaimed bodies and encourage viewers to help; Ancestry.com announces a series of free Ethnic Webinars, beginning June 3rd, to help you with researching your ancestry (click here to register); vandals wreak havoc and destroying monuments in a Riverview, Florida, cemetery; and MyHeritage Research (http://www.myheritage.com/research) announces t...

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[ Fri, 30 May 2008 18:32:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #138 - 2008 May 20
News this week includes: FamilySearch teams with FamilyLink.com to bring online  the Brenner Collection of German records (1650-1875) with more than 3.5 million names and between 900,000 and 1.5 million images; and Ancestry.com announces plans for massive additions in global content and new geographical locations, including a Chinese site with Chinese Jaipu and a Spanish-language site.George shares a special Ancestry.com web page that specifically contains the list of all the NARA microfilm...

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[ Thu, 22 May 2008 14:27:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #137 - 2008 May 14
This week's news includes: Geni, Inc. (geni.com) announces the new functional availability for users to upload GEDCOM files; FamilyLink.com (familylink.com) announces its partnership with FamilySearch to add new functions to the Family History Library Catalog, making it searchable by Internet search engines and allowing users to annotate entries; Footnote.com (footnote.com) announces the addition of the 1860 U.S. Federal Census to its Civil War Collection; and the Social Security Administration ...

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[ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #136 - 2008 May 7
This week's news includes: the Vatican has issued a letter instructing all dioceses not to give any information to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, due to concerns about the Mormons' practice of posthumous rebaptism; a new Midwest Genealogy Center (see http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/genlh/mgc.htm) will open in Independence, Missouri, on 21 June 2008 with the largest collection of genealogical materials in the U.S.; DNA links have been found from the ancient "iceman" found in...

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[ Fri, 9 May 2008 23:26:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #135 - 2008 April 29
News this week includees: Geni.com (http://www.geni.com/) announces new features, including a family timeline, posted links, send gifts, and the family Forest; Progeny Software offers its Charting Companion software to produce great-looking charts in color and with photos -- click here for more information; and the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, is presenting a Military Symposium 2008 on September 26 & 27, 2008, with guest speaker Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL, and m...

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[ Thu, 1 May 2008 14:51:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #134 - 2008 April 22
In the News, The Guys review two new publications: Hookers, Crooks, and Kooks by Jana Sloan Broglin, and Kisses from a Distance by Raff Ellis. A baby's tombstone from 1894 is discovered on a houseboat in Charleston, SC.George responds to a request about deed platting software: DeedMapper from Direct Line Software (http://www.directlinesoftware.com) sells for $99.00, while a free online deed platting tool is available for use at http://www.genealogytools.net. Drew follows up regarding the use of ...

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[ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:55:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #133 - 2008 April 15
This week's news includes the following: Ancestry.com launches the Drouin Collection of 29 million French-Canadian names from, ultimately to include 37M names by mid-2008; Ancestry.com also launched the Former Colonial Dependencies Slave Register Collection, 1812-1834; RootsMagic has extended the early Bird Registration for this year's genealogy cruise to April 30th (see http://www.RootsMagicCruise.com); Wholly Genes has announced its genealogy cruise line-up (see http://www.WhollyGenes.com/crui...

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[ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:13:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #132 - 2008 April 1
Drew addresses proving relationships using mitochondrial DNA. He then discusses two genealogical books on the subject of DNA. They are: DNA & Genealogy by Colleen Fitzpatrick and Andrew Yeiser (published in 2005 by Rice Book Press) and Family History in the Genes by Chris Pomery (published in 2007 by The National Archives in Kew, Richmond, Surrey). Both are available through Amazon.com. This weekâs news stories include: Roots Television at http://www.rootstelevision.com has won fou...

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[ Wed, 2 Apr 2008 04:15:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #131 - 2008 March 25
This weekâs news includes: NBC has purchased rights to create an American version of the popular BBC reality series, Who Do You Think You Are?; NARA recently announced the availability of nearly 9 million WWII U.S. Army enlistment records at its Web site, but be aware that there were many records that could not be scanned â and the collection is therefore incomplete; Sen. John McCainâs new book, Hard Call, indicates his descent from Scottish heroic warrior Robert the Bruce, but the claim ...

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[ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:57:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #130 - 2008 March 17
In this weekâs news: NARA (http://www.archives.gov) posts free passenger lists online, including Russian, Italian, and German lists to east coast ports; 1871 England and Wales census images are now complete on British Origins (http://www.britishorigins.com); The Generations Network, Inc. (http://www.tgn.com), parent of Ancestry.com, RootsWeb, Genealogy.com, and other entities, announced that they will move RootsWeb onto the Ancestry.com domain, using http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com, and th...

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[ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:34:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #129 - 2008 March 10
George delivers a lot of news this week: the New England Historic and Genealogical Society (http://www.newenglandancestors..org) has received a large gift of photographs from the family of Thaxter Spencer, including an unknown 1888 photo of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan; the Library of Congressâs digital preservation program has a new e-mail newsletter and you can subscribe by clicking here; NARA is soliciting comments from the public by 9 April 2008 regarding a proposal to e...

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[ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:04:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast # 128 - 3 March 2008
This week's news includes: condolences to the family of Chuck Knuthson, a great genealogical speaker, researcher, and former board member of FGS, GSG, and other organizations; Halvor Moorshead, head of Moorshead Magazines [Family Chronicle, History Magazine, Internet Genealogy, and the new Discovering Family History] is retiring and has sold the company to staff members Ed Zapletal and Rick Cree.Listener e-mail includes: Greek genealogical research links are available at Cyndi's List (at http://...

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[ Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:08:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast # 127 - 2008 February 25
This week's news includes: Congratulations to Matt Wright who becomes editorial director at FamilyLink.com; a recap of a USA Today report of 18 February about states unsealing adoption records and opening original birth records to adoptees; passenger lists of persons leaving the U.K. for the U.S., Canada, and Australia during the 1940s are available at Ancestors Onboard at http://www.ancestorsonboard.com; the National History Show will be held on 2-4 May 2008 in the Grand Hall, Olympia, London, ...

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[ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:56:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast # 126 â 2008 February 18
George reports on the genealogy news this week: Julia M. Case, beloved genealogist and author at RootsWeb has died; Moorshead Magazines has begun a new magazine called Discovering Family History for beginning genealogists and those who want a refresher, and a premier online issue is available for free at http://www.discoveringfamilyhistory.com; and other stories. The Guys share listener e-mail including: places for locating French records; safety of publishing family trees on the Internet...

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[ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:23:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #125 - 2008 February 11
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-Directory-1862/Home.php; and a new book by Terry Reigel titled A Primer for The Master Genealogist is n...

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[ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #124 - 2008 February 3
This weekâs 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; FamilyLin.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 Eastmanâs Online Genealogy Newsletter (http://blog.eogn.com/). Drew discusses search strategies for researching common surnames,...

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[ Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:37:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #123 â 2008 January 26
This weekâs news items include: James LeVoy Sorenson, renowned medical device inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist died on 20 January 2008 at 86 â 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 the LDS Family History Centers, at http://www.familysearchwiki.org.The Guys respond to l...

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[ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:27:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #122 - 2008 January 16
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; RootsMagic announces its 2008 Genealogy Cruise to the Mexican Riviera on Sept. 28 to Oct. 5, and details can...

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[ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:54:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast # 121â2008 January 6
Welcome to The Genealogy GuysTM 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 â more information is available at (601) 924-9346; the Whitier Area Genealogical Society will feature expert genealogist...

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[ Wed, 9 Jan 2008 05:50:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast # 120 â 2007 December 29
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.livejournal.com/ will remain online through April 2008.Listener e-mail provided some great ...

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[ Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:21:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast # 119 â 2007 December 22
George begins with the genealogical news: â       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. â       Ancestry.com added 340.2M new names last week, including digitized and indexed newspapers from 1...

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[ Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:25:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #118 - 2007 December 14
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/sanborn.html) and digital cameras used by The Guys: Pentax A20 Option Megapixel camera (see review at http...

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[ Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:52:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #117 - 2007 December 5
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 awards it's prestigious Award for Outstanding Achievement in Florida Genealogy to Hal J. Becker;...

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[ Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:02:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #116 - 2007 November 28
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-November 1, 2008 on the Royal Caribbean's fabulous Liberty of the Sea, sailing from ...

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[ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:32:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #115 - 2007 November 19
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 to Start Your Genealogy Research, which is geared toward young people just beginning their quest; and Bris...

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[ Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:37:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #114 - 2007 November 10
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 respond on topics relating to: French ancestors; locating information for a woman living in a New Yo...

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[ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:03:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #113 - 2007 November 2
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 locate free online marriage records, and you can submit records for inclusion in the databases; and...

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[ Sat, 3 Nov 2007 23:37:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #112 - 2007 October 27
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 Files (IDPFs) can be obtained by following instructions at http://www.no-quarter.org/gui/nq_idpf.php; ...

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[ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:22:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #111 - 2007 October 16
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 about the coal mining industry, The Day the Earth Caved In, by Joan Quigley; the ten most expensive teleph...

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[ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:22:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #110 - 2007 October 10
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/shaar/) and its newsletter (http://www.somosprimos.com); Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room (http:...

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[ Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:01:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #109 - 2007 October 5
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.S. Immigration & Naturalization Documents. Another new Pharos course features expert Helen Osborn t...

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[ Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:47:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #108 - 2007 September 25
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 Your Ancestry through Family Photographs by Maureen A. Taylor.In the first of a two-part discussion,...

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[ Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:48:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #107 - 2007 September 18
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 to Family Tree Maker 2008.George's Web Site of the Week is the Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection ...

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[ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:07:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #106 - 2007 September 12
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 Records are now online at the Pennsylvania State Archives at http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/landrec.htm...

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[ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:23:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #105 - 2007 September 4
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.George discusses his "Web Site of the Week," the Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records,...

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[ Thu, 6 Sep 2007 03:26:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #104 - 2007 August 28
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 Tree Maker 2008. They then talk about concerns over the Internet Biographical Collect...

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[ Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:39:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #103 - 2007 August 21
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 two big conferences coming in 2008. This week's listener mail includes R.J.'s quandary about his So...

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[ Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:30:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #102 - 2007 August 12
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 soldiers who fought in WWI (catalogue group WO 364) available for search and download at the Ancestry We...

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[ Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:13:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #101 - 2007 August 6
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 Amazon.com's S3 â Storage Service; and a directory of Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records (http://ww...

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[ Wed, 8 Aug 2007 01:44:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast #100 - 2007 July 29
The Genealogy Guys celebrate their 100th podcast this week!George reports on the partnering of Diversity Restoration Solutions, Slave Descendants Freedom Society, and Family Tree DNA to offer African Americans the opportunity to research their DNA. Archive CD Books USA announces the availability of a new CD, the Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims Which Have Been Presented to the House of Representatives, representing more than 100,000 names and claims from 1789 to 1882. The...

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[ Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:38:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 21 July 2006
George announces the new version of Heredis (v. X.2), available at  the MyHeredis Web site (http://www.myheredis.com/index.html), and a host of new and updated Ancestry.com databases. Drew discusses his experience with the Beta version of Family Tree Maker 2008. He also announces the launch of the English language version of GeneaSofts (http://geneasofts.geneanet.org/en/), a French site devoted to discussing and reviewing genealogy-related software programs.Responding to e-mail from a numbe...

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[ Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:37:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 15 July 2006
George announces the availability of the Beta version of Family Tree Maker 2008 and the opportunity to pre-order for mid-August delivery at the introductory price of $29.95 at the Ancestry Store. Drew and George acknowledge the undisputed "Genealogy Guys Podcast" Marathon Endurance leader!George announces the breakthrough of his >20-year brickwall to find the death date and location of his Great-uncle Brisco Washington Holder, thanks to research by a listener who located him in the ...

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[ Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:12:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 9 July 2007
George announces a new version of Pocket Genealogist software and a list of upcoming conferences. George and Drew discuss listeners' email about: "The Portal to Texas History" at texashistory.unt.edu/about/ which contains digitized books, histories, and photos of Texas; the use of WorldCat (www.worldcat.org) and Google Books (books.google.com) to locate books containing information on a French village; and strategies for getting around "brick walls." The Guys also discuss the...

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[ Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:55:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 4 July 2007
George announces some British genealogical news and Web sites, including the medieval fine rolls of Henry III at www.finerollshenry3.org.uk. Drew reviews Andro Linklater's book, The Fabric of America. And Drew and George discuss "Geographic Hygiene" -- entering place names in a standard way and checking the accuracy based on the time period, the political boundaries, and the responsible geopolitical entity at the time....

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[ Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:10:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 27 June 2007
George announces the new French and Italian services from Ancestry.com.  Drew researches the early days of musician Nellie Lutcher by checking census records.  And George and Drew discuss some books that Drew brought back home after his mother's recent funeral, including Drew's father's high school yearbook, a book of old photographs of Newberry, SC, and a heritage book from Newberry....

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[ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:41:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 16 June 2007
News includes the digitization of Canadian passenger lists (www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy), an interactive online map of Chicago (chicagoancestors.org), and Diane Rapaport's soon-to-be-released book The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England.  Listener mail includes details about Jewish marriage customs and a question about donating rare cemetery books.  In response to a listener question, George and Drew describe their list of essen...

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[ Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:33:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 14 June 2007
News about new records at Ancestry.com, and the use of DNA to attempt to solve the mystery of the Lost Colony.  Drew returns from the Southern California Genealogical Society's Genealogy Jamboree and shares interviews with Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak of Roots Television (rootstelevision.com), Leland Meitzler of Everton's (genealogyblog.com), and Susan Kitchens of Family Oral History Using Digital Tools (familyoralhistory.us)....

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[ Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:35:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 4 June 2007
News of the upcoming Polish Genealogical Society of America (www.pgsa.org) conference in Schaumberg, Illinois on September 28-30, and listener mailbag with several items about military records, and an interesting find of funeral documents on eBay.  George discusses June weddings, and Drew provides more details about LibraryThing (librarything.com).  Drew also talks about how he uses newspaper databases to locate obituaries for distant cousins....

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[ Wed, 6 Jun 2007 02:25:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 28 May 2007
Drew clarifies the item from last week concerning using photo folders as screen savers, and updates the latest regarding finding the descendants of opera singer Henri Scott.  George and Drew discuss military records of all types....

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[ Wed, 30 May 2007 01:58:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 21 May 2007
News and announcements include Lisa Louise Cooke's new weekly Genealogy Gems Podcast (available online at genealogygemspodcast.com), the latest version of Reunion software for the Macintosh (www.leisterpro.com), the Records Access digitization and indexing program of FamilySearch, and the successful recent annual conference of the National Genealogical Society in Richmond (www.ngsgenealogy.org).  George discusses Robert Pols book Family Photographs 1860-1945, and how to use books like Joel ...

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[ Wed, 23 May 2007 00:49:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 14 May 2007
Listener mailbag includes an item from the editor of the Swedish American Genealogist (www.etgenealogy.se/sag.htm) about displaying photos as screen savers.  Drew discusses Argali (argali.com), PC software that makes it easy to look for phone numbers and street addresses, and George discusses mortality schedules....

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[ Wed, 16 May 2007 00:37:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 6 May 2007
Announcements include Footnote.com's Revolutionary War documents, the WeRelate.org wiki social networking site, the June 8-10 Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree in Burbank (www.scgsgenealogy.com/jamboree.htm), the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City's study of genealogy to understand heart disease, and the Genealogy Concierge service of the Edinburgh Sheraton Grand Hotel and Spa.  Mailbag brings questions and comments about backing up USB flash drives, what to call former spouses ...

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[ Tue, 8 May 2007 01:00:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 1 May 2007
News includes the disastrous fire at the Georgetown (DC) Public Library and the new US/Mexican border crossing records collection at Ancestry.com.  Mailbag includes lessons learned from crashed external hard drives, access to a newspaper project ("Chronicling America") at www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica, and a lot of listener feedback to the past podcast discussion of FindAGrave.  Other topics include ways to get the most out of Google, and more tips for genealogical spring cl...

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[ Wed, 2 May 2007 03:07:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 23 April 2007
George announces the website FamilyLink.com (a product of World Vital Records Inc.).  George and Drew discuss uploading GEDCOM files, the use of the FindaGrave.com website, and where to begin genealogical spring cleaning....

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[ Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:21:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 18 April 2007
Announcements include the new Ancestry Press product (ancestrypress.com), free access to Ellis Island records thru April 30 (www.ellisislandexperience.com), and the annual Spring Seminar of the Alabama Genealogical Society at Samford University in Birmingham on May 5 (www.algensoc.org).  Major topics discussed include what to do when one inherits a large collection of family photographs, why you should record everyone with your research surnames in your geographic areas, and how you can mak...

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[ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:46:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 9 April 2007
Topics include: reminders about upcoming large conferences/seminars (NGS at ngsgenealogy.org, FGS at fgs.org, and the 2nd Annual Genealogy Seminar at Sea (www.genealogycruises.com); followups on translating Latin (www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/skills/dating/latin.phtml), on newspaper archives, on testing one's skills (www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/), and on looking for info from the Boston Transcript; backups of data; a new site for listeners to investigate regarding free live online ...

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[ Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:06:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 2 April 2007
George and Drew discuss the transliteration of documents (such as those in Latin), and tips for translating from one language to another.  Drew also leads a discussion about using WorldCat to locate local newspapers, partially inspired by a listener's suggestion for using the U.S. Newspaper Program (www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html).  Mailbag and news includes Roots Television's (www.rootstelevision.com) new RootsTube channel, the Virginia Freedmen Extraction and Indexing Project (blackh...

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[ Tue, 3 Apr 2007 04:00:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 26 March 2007
Drew reminds listeners to nominate individuals and genealogy societies for the awards offered by the Federation of Genealogical Societies (www.fgs.org/fgs-awards.htm); shares the British government's response to the e-petition to provide earlier access to the 1911, 1921, and 1931 British censuses; and announces that Cyndi (of Cyndi's List) has a new blog at cyndislist.blogspot.com.  George announces the Newberry Library's (www.newberry.org) annual workshop, this one focusing on Maps and Gen...

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[ Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:03:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 19 March 2007
George and Drew discuss the recent announcement regarding Ancestry.com databases no longer being available at Family History Centers, and George also announces the new Iowa database.  George mentions his recent speaking engagement in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, while Drew talks about his own visit to DeLand, Florida.  George reviews Kathy Chater's book about doing research in the UK and Ireland, and Nigel Cawthorne's book about unusual old English laws.  Listener mailbag includ...

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[ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:06:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 12 March 2007
George reviews several news books, including the multivolume set of Revolutionary War Period Bible, Family, & Marriage Records (www.revwar.patriotpublishers.com), a new book about colonial ancestors, and a fantastic new book about researching Mexican ancestry.  News includes the Jewish Genealogical Society in New York City's all-day seminar "Family History and the Holocaust: A Day of Learning" (www.jgsny.org/dayoflearning.htm).  Listener mailbag includes more info about t...

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[ Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:31:00 GMT ]


The Genealogy Guys Podcast - 4 March 2007
George and Drew share news (including a reminder of the planned research trip to London), and listener e-mail (ancestors who had pottery factories, and the U.K. National Archives podcasts).  George talks about using timelines and ancestor profiles to help explain why ancestors behaved as they did.  Drew points out that the ideas of inquiry-based learning and critical thinking apply to the processes that good genealogists engage in....

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