This week's news includes:
RootsMagic releases Version 4 of
its great genealogical database software; NBC will begin
broadcasting the American version of the popular British television
show
Who Do You Think You
Are? on Monday, April 20th, at 7 PM;
Ancestry.com has updated its 1940 census
substitute and will soon be adding to the U.S. Public Records Index
(USPRI); and the 1911 England and Wales census has been released
online at
http://www.1911census.co.uk.
Drew discusses
Twitter, the social networking service
being used for messaging.
This week's listener email includes: Joshua asks about adding
multiple sources for multiple marriages at Ancestry.com; Craig asks
a question about ways to access obituaries; he also asks about
family tree-oriented websites at which family trees
and family photographs; Claire informs
us that Reunion (genealogical database for Macintosh from
Leister
Productions, Inc.) has just released their iPhone app to take
your genealogy with you; James is looking for his
great-grandparents in Smith Township, Robeson County, North
Carolina; Michael shares information for locating naturalization
records for immigrant ancestors - they may have received land under
the various U.S. Homestead Acts, and the Bureau of Land Management
General Land Office (
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov)
may have information in the case files about naturalization;
Kirsten asks how to receive the podcast on her TiVo; Jerry asks
about additional sources for locating his Irish ancestors who
received a land grant in 1790 in Pendleton District, South
Carolina; Joel Weintraub shares more information about the 1940
U.S. census, which will not be released on microfilm, and he is
already transcribing information from the 1940 census enumeration
district maps; he also talks more about the 72-year rule for
release of U.S. census information.