This week's news includes:
RootsMagic releases the public beta of Version
4 of the RootsMagic software;
Ancestry.com released five new databases in
commemoration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday; Ancestry has
replaced the
Ancestry Weekly
Journal with a new newsletter,
The Weekly Discovery; Sonja Nishimoto,
Family History Library Consultant, has invited genealogical and
historical societies and their members to contribute content to the
FamilySearch Research Wiki at
wiki.familysearch.org; the
Southern California Genealogical Society's 40th annual Jamboree
will be held in Burbank, CA, on 26-28 June 2009, and its blog is
online at
www.genealogyjamboree.blogspot.com -- and a
special guest speaker, Tukufu Zuberi of the PBS show, "History
Detectives," will address the Friday evening banquet; the
MyHeritage Genealogy Search Engine (
www.MyHeritage.com)
announces some newly released improvements; and Lisa Louise Cook of
"The Genealogy Gens Podcast" (
www.genealogygems.tv/Pages/Podcast/PodcastList.htm)
announces the guest of the most recent episode of the podcast,
Darby Hinton, who starred as Israel on the 1960s TV hit, "Daniel
Boone." The episode also celebrates the podcast's second
anniversary.
This week's listener email includes: Nancy in Ontario reported that
she had a problem with the podcast loading in her Firefox Live
Bookmark feed; Doug reminds us that the St. Albans Border Crossings
immigration records reflect immigrations from Canada (and that St.
Albans is in VT and not NH); Elliot asks for advice about what name
to record when the surname changed over the centuries; Jane asked
George for the name of his publish-on-demand resources, which is
Lulu.com; Drew
provided a resource for comparison of print-on-demand resources at
http://mashable.com/2009/03/01/publish-book/; Joel
Weintraub provides information about the origins of the 72-year
privacy policy for U.S. federal censuses and his article on the
subject at
http://members.cox.net/census1940/; Bill discusses the
fact that census images in the Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest
Online databases are not the same; TC discusses the backups of
genealogy files on
Mozy.com; Gus
recounts his experience of getting locked in a cemetery; Judy
shares a follow-up story about storing photos on an external hard
drive; Scott asks about the protocol for thanking helpful cemetery
workers; Cheryl tells us that the 1935 and 1945 Florida census
records are also available at the LDS pilot site at
http://search.labs.familysearch.org, and that many
records still need volunteers to help index them; Mary tells us
that The Master Genealogist database software allows for the entry
of GPS latitude and longitude coordinates on every event; Mac
shares a service at
http://www.mailstore.com/en that allows you to backup
email from multiple email accounts and tools in one place; and
Rollin asks for help with the definition of "freeman" as applied to
Caucasians in 1600s New England colonial records.
George reviews two new products:
Elizabeth Shown Mills has a new
QuickSheet out. It is titled, "Citing Ancestry.com Databases &
Images," and it is the perfect quick reference for your source
citations for Ancestry.com data. It is available from Genealogical
Publishing Company (
http://www.genealogical.com).
Suzanne Russo Adams, AG, has written a brilliant new book,
Finding Your Italian Ancestors: A
Beginner's Guide, published by Ancestry Publishing and
available through the Ancestry.com Store. The book is filled with
well-written explanations and discussions, and includes a wide
variety of document and Internet site illustrations.
Listen to the podcast and find out more about these two excellent
new products!