Aug 13, 2007
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 Web site;
and The Generations
Network will sponsor a Youth Fair at the FGS Conference in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this
coming week. In addition, George announces Irish Fest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
on August 16-19, 2007, at Henry W. Maier Festival Park. Fly Away
Travel has announced its Genealogy Seminar at Sea, October
25-November 1, 2008, at www.genealogycruises.com
aboard the fabulous new Royal Caribbean Liberty of the
Seas. Steve Danko has begun a blog for the United Polish Genealogical Societies
Conference 2008 to be held in Salt Lake City on April 18-21,
2008.
George introduces a new feature, the Web Site of the Week. This
week's site is IPUMS USA's U.S. federal census enumeration forms
(1850-2000) and
enumerator instructions AND census questions for the population
schedules 1850 to present (except 1890). The site is at http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/tEnumForms.shtml.
Drew discusses comparisons of four major genealogical software
packages for PC users in the U.S.
Drew also presents his second installment of his new feature,
Genealogy Society Tip of the Week.
The Guys conclude with a discussion of identity theft, genealogy,
and the relationship or non-relationship between the two.