We apologize for the delay between podcasts, but we're back on
schedule again!
This week's news includes:
Ancestry.com and the Drouin Institute (
http://institutdrouin.com), holder of one of the
most important Canadian genealogical collections, announce the
successful resolution to arbitration concerning content and
indexing, and Ancestry.com has announced that the collection will
be returning to its site very soon;
dynastree announces
that it now has 10 million family trees on its site, and that they
have added new features including the ability to include family
pictures in a GEDCOM file export;
MyHeritage.com
announces that its free Family Tree Builder software (free for
download) now supports mapping, photo albums, and other new
features; the Free Library of Philadelphia has averted disastrous
budget cuts that would have closed all of its branches in early
October; and the FamilySearch Indexing Project (
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start)
has announced the release of additional new and updated
collections.
The Library of Michigan continues to hang under the threat of its
collection being dispersed by executive order of the state's
governor. The
Records
Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC), a joint group of the
Federation of
Genealogical Societies and the
National
Genealogical Society, has initiated an online petition drive at
http://www.petitiononline.com/RPAC2009/petition.html
and
The Guys strongly encourage
you to sign electronically by 30 September 2009, the
deadline date for the petition. For more information about the
situation, visit the Michigan Genealogical Council's website at
http://www.mimgc.org/LOM.html. (The Guys will continue
to report on this critical situation over the coming weeks and
months.)
This week's listener email includes: Pheobe has created a Cousin
Camp for her nieces, nephews, and cousins aged 9 to 14 and offers
to share information with others; George asks about how to cite
death notices; Rob asks how many listeners there are for the
podcast; Victoria discusses the software she uses on her Mac in
order to run Windows-based programs such as
RootsMagic;
Margaret reports on genealogists and libraries, and methods for
creating knowledge with web 2.0 technologies; Rebecca asks about
file formats for digitizing family photos and documents and saving
them into her genealogy database; Lee asks if other listeners have
seen tombstones on which the wife's maiden name is listed; and Mary
Ann asks for assistance in helping to locate more information about
her grandmother in Texas.