We have a new microphone cable for the mixer this week, and we hope
that alleviates the stereo cut out problems. We are also sending
out our logo as album art.
This week's news includes:
Footnote.com announces a new
Interactive World War II Collection; The Generations Network, owner
of
Ancestry.com and other companies,
announces the appointment of Howard Hochhauser as the new CFO;
Ancestry.com's first World Archives Project Collection, Wisconsin
Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880, has been completed; The
National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) has announced two new awards to
recognize significant achievements in genealogy research, based on
records from the National Archives, and eligible applicants must
attend a U.S. college or university; the Arizona State Archives
(
http://www.lib.az.us/archives/)
has moved into the new, $29M Polly Rosenbaum Archives and History
Building in Phoenix; and the Ohio Genealogical Society (
http://www.ogs.org/) has
reached its $2.5M funding goal to construct a new 18,000 square
foot library in Bellville, Ohio, with construction beginning in
early 2009.
This week's listener email included: Brian asked if there are
online church records available for Northern Ireland, and Drew
suggested the Ulster Historical Foundation site at
http://www.ancestryireland.com/,
a pay site; Brian also has started a family site at MyHeritage.com
(
http://www.myheritage.com/) and
was concerned about privacy -- Drew found that you can log in, set
up your site, and specify that it is a) a public site, b) a private
site (for invited persons only to access), or c) a mixed site that
is a combination of public information and private information that
you define; Mike had asked for help locating his great-grandfather
in the census prior to his marriage; Gus provided an excellent link
to a website that shows the keyboard equivalents for UTF-8 special
characters, at
http://www.typeart.com/special_characters.asp;
Rollin advises us that Legacy Family Tree software allows the
recording of GPS coordinates; Peter advises us that Brother's
Keeper software also allows recording of GPS information; Karen
shares information about the importance of using small, hometown
newspapers in your research; Bill asks for help with linking to the
podcast using a WiFi radio, and Drew suggested the use of
Reciva.com (
https://www.reciva.com/); Jack
shared information about communities and church membership, and
about another look at researching the information; Russ shares
information about the destination of Episcopalian records for a
church that closes; and Jonathan discusses the transformation of
maiden names down through the generations.
Drew discusses DNA mailing lists: the International Society of
Genetic Genealogy (
http://www.isogg.org/) has a free
monthly email newsletter, as well as other resources at its site;
and RootsWeb's DNA-Newbie mailing list is available for free
subscription at
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/DNA/DNA-NEWBIE.html.
Drew also explains how a DNA paternity test works.