The news includes:

• MyHeritage introduces Record Detective II, a new technology that expands record matching capabilities to more than 2.2 billion new record matches.
• TLC has announced the celebrities for the Spring season of Who Do You Think You Are? which premieres on Sunday, 3 April 2016.
• Registration is now open for the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records at http://www.gen-fed.org.
• Calico Pie Limited has released an upgrade to its Family Historian program.
• Findmypast has added more indexed Irish records.
• FamilySearch announces that the transcriptions of the Freedmen’s Bureau have reached the halfway point, but more volunteers are needed.
• Drew recaps the new FamilySearch collections.

Listener email includes:

• Michael shares his file name system.
• Chad is seeking information about genealogy degree and certificate programs.
• Jenny asks for tips for using GEDmatch.
• Debi shares two online newspaper resources for Oregon:
  • Historic Oregon Newspapers at http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu
  • Genealogical Forum of Oregon (GFO) at http://www.gfo.org.
• George shares an interesting story about a lock of hair for his ancestor John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• Paul asks a question about copyright on translated/transcribed original documents, and another question about how to correct a long-standing piece of erroneous information.

The Guys discuss the GEDCOM format and what it does.

The Guys also discuss putting your ancestors into context in the community.