The news includes:

• GenSoftReviews announced its 2010 Users Choice Awards. Our sponsor, RootsMagic, was awarded first place.
• Ancestry.com announced the release of Family Tree Maker for the Macintosh. They also announced new and updated collections, including Swedish Church Records and Maine births, marriages, and deaths collections.
• The Illinois State Genealogical Society announced the unveiling of their new website at http://www.ilgensoc.org, using EasyNetSites.
• A new genealogy site has been announced. It is Tpstry at http://tpstry.com.

Listener email includes:

• Questions about the downloads of the Podcast.
• Donna asked about the Federation of Genealogical Societies' Save the Pensions! fund and its place in the Stern-NARA Fund at FGS.
• Tim writes about Drew's connection to the Perry-Boddies lines.
• Samuel asks about DNA testing to locate relations to males in Ireland.
• Victoria wants to know the reasons behind two couples in England (1851 and 1893) whose marriage registers show living at the same address at the time of their marriages.
• Ken asks about using Dropbox with his Family Tree Maker files.
• Mary asks how to shorten a rediculously long URL. George suggests the use of TinyURL and Drew suggests using bit.ly.
• Tim asks about free vs. pay information.
• Victoria relates a funny story about quirky genealogists.
• Another Victoria tells us about Shakespeare's genealogies in his plays.
• Gus tells us about obtaining military records.
• Donna asks George about differences between RootsMagic and Reunion.

George tellss everyone that there are several new book reviews coming.