This week's news includes: The Generations Network has changed its
name to Ancestry.com; The National Archives (TNA) (
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) in the U.K. has
launched truly great new learning guides online at its site, under
the tabs Research and Learning, Research Guidance, and Understand
the Archives in Minutes;
Digital
Genealogist magazine will cease publication with the
July/August 2009 issue; MyHeritage (
http://www.myheritage.com) announces new photo
features, including a photo tagging system; dynastree (
http://www.dynastree.com) announces an extended search
facility; Gus reminds us that the newly updated Reunion app from
LeisterPro (
http://www.leisterpro.com) will operate on both the
iPhone and the iPod Touch; and The Genealogy Guys Podcast will be
LIVE at the
Federation
of Genealogical Societies Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas
-- producing a live podcast recording session on Thursday,
September 3rd, at 3:30 PM.
Drew interviews Lisa Louise Cooke of the Genealogy Gems Podcast
(
http://www.genealogygemspodcast.com) at the Southern
California Genealogical Society Jamboree.
This week's listener email includes: Rich asks about what is
involved with playing and producing podcasts; Christopher tells us
that annotating and tagging photos is a feature of LifeStory
Productions' Heritage Collector Suite (
http://heritagecollector.com); a listener asked if our
podcasts are transcribed into written form, and Drew responds that
they are not; Michael asks for suggestions about his brick wall
with Murry M. Jones in Indiana; Roger, Tom, and Rich responded to
the discussion about information placed in member-only areas of
genealogical websites; Brent Ropelato of TopTenREVIEWS recommends
the genealogy software reviews (
http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com)
which George indicates does not at present include Mac software,
and may not be 100% up to date; and Larry asks for suggestions
about tracing his ancestor who supposedly is a Mayflower
descendant.