While George rests up from his recent trip to Ontario, Canada, Drew handles the hosting duties.  Drew begins with an explanation of all of the menu choices on the righthand side of the Genealogy Guys website (they've been updated a bit).  He then provides a checklist of 5 things he plans to do at the upcoming National Genealogical Society conference in Chicago (which are 5 things that anyone should do at any genealogy conference).  Drew then describes the workspace he uses at home to work on his genealogical research (and the advantages of displaying those historical maps).  Finally, he discusses the pros and cons of splitting his genealogical research database into two parts (and asks for feedback from listeners).

George announces that Ancestor Detective has released Clooz 2.0, a genealogy-oriented electronic filing cabinet program (www.clooz.com).  And RootsMagic will be having a free class at the NGS Conference in Chicago.  George's book on doing English research at the London repositories is available at the Lulu site (www.lulu.com/content/253150).  Genealogy Guys Podcast listeners have been busy: Steve Danko has a new genealogy blog at stephendanko.com, and Bill Puller has just started recording a technology-oriented genealogy podcast at genealogytechpodcast.com.  George explains why every genealogy society should be sure to have a complete run of their publications at the Allen County Public Library (all due to PERSI), and Drew describes exactly what hardware every genealogist needs.

Drew addresses listener comments and questions regarding brute-force searching of census districts and how to specify the repository when citing sources.  George brings up the idea of using a combination of geographical reference books, county histories, and courthouse books to locate ancestors and discover where their records are kept.

George and Drew share a number of announcements, including the roommate service being offered for the August 2006 FGS Conference (contact Bobbi King at rking24600@comcast.net), the upcoming new message board system at Ancestry.com, reminders about Genealogy Cruise 2006 (see the link to the right), the "Along Those Lines..." column (which is now at ahaseminars.livejournal.com), and a July 2007 London research trip being planned by George and Drew.  Drew opens up the listener mailbag to address a number of questions involving copyright, research trips, privacy, and free online research sources.  And Drew points out some strange goings-on with some of the Social Security Death Index data.  George talks about county heritage books as a research source.

George returns from the Ohio Genealogical Society just held in Toledo, and shares announcements about the 1841 English/Welsh census at Ancestry.com, the newly designed Society of Genealogists (UK) website at www.sog.org.uk, the new managing editor of Everton's Genealogical Helper (old friend Leland Meitzler), the updated Helm's Genealogy Toolbox (www.genealogytoolbox.com), and George's upcoming presentations at the Ontario Genealogical Society at the end of May (www.ogsseminar.org).  George and Drew discuss some issues relating to finding people in the census.  Drew explains why it is important to understand both copyright and plagiarism.  And George shares reviews of books about John Adams and Irish genealogical research.