Wed, 31 January 2007
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 boxes of a grandparent's collected papers. George announces the 2007 conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) to be held in Salt Lake City (www.slc2007.org), shares a listener suggestion about USAPhotomaps software (jdmcox.com), announces Footnote.com's digitization project involving NARA images (www.footnote.com/nara), and announces the Scottish parochial register images availability online (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk).
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Sun, 21 January 2007
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 Is the Head of This Household?" (a census overview) and Donna's role within the Genealogical Speakers Guild (www.genspeakguild.org). George also discusses a new findmypast.com offering, "Ancestors on Board", available online at www.ancestorsonboard.com, which covers outbound passengers lists from the UK.
Listener mailbag brings in the correct pronunciation of "Quinte", a brief review of Legacy software, a great eBay sucess story involving an ancestral heirloom, podcasts from the National Archives (UK), how to order "The Source" for delivery in Germany, the availability of the online version of Internet Genealogy magazine, a reminder about ICAPGen accreditation, the volunteer project to index Family History Library microfilm at www.familysearchindexing.org, a question about how to keep up with new content at the LDS FamilySearch site, ways to convert digital images into word processing text, and a system for tracking both paper and digital documents. |
Wed, 17 January 2007
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 between transcriptions, extracts, and abstracts.
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Sun, 14 January 2007
The next episode of The Genealogy Guys Podcast will be published late Tuesday. We were originally hoping to do a podcast today (Sunday), but the quality of the wireless connectivity in the hotel room at Salt Lake City has made it difficult. We appreciate your patience!
Category:Genealogy
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Mon, 8 January 2007
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 listeners have brought up LibraryThing at www.librarything.com (an online tool for keeping track of one's personal library). Drew discusses his recent library visit where he discovers the benefits of examining the newest books, and Drew and George share their tips for getting past brick walls, including unsolvedancestry.com.
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Tue, 2 January 2007
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 Are?" TV series; the name change of 1837online.com to www.findmypast.com; a website for displaying old U.K. photos; and an interesting new site (www.familysearchlabs.org) that keeps up with the latest technology projects of the LDS.
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