The Guys welcome a new sponsor:
NewspaperARCHIVE.com.
This week's news includes:
Ancestors Magazine, the monthly
publication of
The National Archives in
the U.K., is now offering selected past articles in PDF format for
download at a modest fee at their Documents Online site (
click
here); Calico Pie Ltd. has released Version 4 of its popular
Windows-based genealogy database software, Family Historian, at
http://www.family-historian.co.uk;
Directgov in the U.K. provides access to ordering civil
registration records;
Footnote.com has updated its content with
over a million new images online;
WorldVitalRecords.com has
made an enhancement to its image viewer, making it possible to
magnify to 200%;
NewspaperARCHIVE.com will be
sponsoring the popular National Public Radio (NPR) news and comedy
show
Whad'ya Know? on May
16th from Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines, Iowa; and the
Ohio Genealogical
Society has scheduled the groundbreaking ceremony for its new
18,000-square foot library on May 29th at 10:30 AM.
This week's listener e-mail includes: Marty verifies that The
Master Genealogist software accepts GPS coordinates; Daniel
Horowitz of
MyHeritage Ltd. congratulates Drew
on his new book,
Social
Networking for Genealogists, available from
Genealogical Publishing
Company; Lisa asks whether
Everton's Genealogical Helper magazine
is out of business, but The Guys have no information about this;
Julie shared information about Steve Luxenberg's new book
Annie's Ghosts: A Journey
into a Family
Secret, and Drew recounts the story he heard about the book
on NPR (
click
here to listen to the story too); Gus recounts the lessons he
learned on his recent research trip to Salt Lake City; Pat reports
about migrating to Windows Vista and shares information about
software compatibility; Pat also tells about having a brother take
a DNA cheek swab,
and that
the postal clerk considered the package "hazardous"; Rich shares
information about the U.S. Census Bureau's plans to use GPS
technology in the upcoming 2010 census; Connie discusses a problem
with automatic downloads of the podcast from iTunes, and Drew
responds; Sam asks for suggestions for finding U.S. records for his
Jewish great-grandmother who arrived in 1902; Noi asks for
recommendations of episodes of the podcast that might be
particularly helpful for beginners; and Noi also would like the Web
address for the
Pleasantville
Cook-Book that Drew found online through Google Books.
Drew also discusses the advantages of being a member of the
Association of Professional
Genealogists.