Sep 30, 2008
While George relaxes on a cruise ship off the Pacific coast of
Mexico (ok, so he's doing some genealogy lecturing on the
RootsMagic 2008 cruise), Drew handles the entire podcast himself
(not even assisted by the cats).
News items include the Louisiana
Death Records Index for 1911-1956, a new partnering between
23andMe and Ancestry.com,
GenealogyFreelancers.com
(a new reverse auction company), the beta launch of Footnote's Footnote Pages service, the
efforts by Google to digitize newspaper archives, the appointment
of former eBay executive Eric Shoup as Ancestry.com's new Vice
President of Product, the acquisition of Kindo by MyHeritage, the launch of Louis
Kessler's new genealogy software review site GenSoftReviews, a site for
those interested in access to Pennsylvania records (PaHR-Access), and
Matt Combs' new "Surname
Suggestion List" software.
Additional listener e-mail asks about the proper etiquette for
following up possible DNA surname project matches, how to get
episodes of the Genealogy Guys Podcast onto a Zune mp3 player, why
episodes of the Genealogy Guys Podcast have changed genres from
"Speech" to "Podcast", feedback on the pronunciation of "Scituate"
in Massachusetts, a query about genealogy software that would work
with both a Windows system and an iPhone, a question about
genealogy software designed to work with the new familysearch.org
family trees, how a subscriber to Ancestry.ca got a database access
problem resolved quickly, and some feedback about the new music
used during the Genealogy Guys Podcast.
Finally, Drew shares his interview with Ann Mitchell,
Ancestry.com's expert on the new search facility, recorded at the
recent Federation of Genealogical Societies' conference in
Philly.