This week's news includes: Genclass.com (
http://genclass.com/) partners with
Familylink.com (
http://www.familylink.com/) to
offer two free genealogy classes at WorldVitalRecords.com
(
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/);
APG names Michael Melendez of Fullerton, CA, as the first recipient
of the Young Professional Scholarship; Millenia Corp. announces
that new
Legacy Family Tree version
7.0 is now available; construction delays at the new Midwest
Genealogy Center in Independence, MO, postpone preservationists'
tour; Moorshead Magazines, Ltd., publishers of
Family Chronicle,
Internet Genealogy, and
Discovering Family History, has issued
a call for old military uniform photos for a tentative book to
cover the U.S. Civil War through the Mexican-American War and
through World War I (no WWII) - submission details are available at
http://familychronicle.com/militaryphotos.htm;
Stonehenge has been found to have been a burial ground from 3,000
to 2,500 B.C.; a new genealogy centre has opened in Dinfermline,
Scotland;
Ancestry.co.uk has released a new
database of 8.9 million "free settlers" to Australia; and the True
Lover's Knot" discussed here has been published in
Real Simple magazine and online
here.
Listener e-mail includes: an inquiry about accessing The Guys'
Down Under: Florida videos
at
RootsTelevision.com; the
different pronunciations of "Beaufort" in North Carolina and South
Carolina;
The History of
Mecklenburg County, NC by J.B. Alexander, published in 1901,
has been reprinted by Clearfield Company (at
http://www.genealogical.com);
whether to city
every
source you work with, and a response from Elizabeth Shown
Mills' book,
Evidence
Explained; Ancestry.com continues its free ethnic research
training webinars series; a question about searching the LDS Family
History Library catalog; a question about citing websites and using
the "www." in the typed address; the Algonquin Area Public Library
is beginning a series of training lessons about Web 2.0 at
http://community.ahml.info/bakersdozen/;
and Mark Tucker, author of ThinkGenealogy.com blog (
http://www.thinkgenealogy.com)
is seeking feedback as to whether he should evolve his site into a
community site, and invites you to visit his
Mission Statement proposal and make comments.
George reveals that he has just purchased an iMac and refused to
migrate to Vista on his PC. The Guys talk about using different
computer platforms and operating systems, and George will report
back on his experience in future podcasts.