News this week includees: Geni.com (
http://www.geni.com/) announces new features,
including a family timeline, posted links, send gifts, and the
family Forest; Progeny Software offers its Charting Companion
software to produce great-looking charts in color and with photos
-- click
here for more information; and the Allen County Public
Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, is presenting a Military Symposium
2008 on September 26 & 27, 2008, with guest speaker Marie Varrelman
Melchiori, CG, CGL, and more information is available from
Genealogy@ACPL.info.
The Guys responded to listener e-mail: Find-a-Grave (
http://www.findagrave.com/) does include graves in the
UK and other countries; locating the physical address for a rural
postal box in 1935; more about the downloadable PDF file at
http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com about what to do
with the results of your genealogy test; Catholic priest's census
records; findings in old address books; another look at Chicago
Public Radio's March 14th podcast about the kidnapping of Bobby
Dunbar; an article titled "To Catch a Thief" at Smithsonian.com
(click
here to the exact location) tells how Civil war
buffs got onto the trail of stolen documents; and Drew discusses
uninterruptable power supply (UPS) units.