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This week's news includes:
Ancestry.com will present a free
online presentation on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, at 8:00 PM
Eastern Time titled "Learn the Best Strategies for Searching
Ancestry.com" - and you can register at
http://learn.ancestry.com/LearnMore/Webinars.aspx;
Ancestry.com
also announced that they have expanded their agreement with the
National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) to scan and index documents
there, and have therefore opened a new scanning facility in the
Washington, DC, area - new content collections from this new
facility are discussed in this episode; UK Minister Ed Miliband,
visiting Moscow on official business and appearing on a call-in
radio program, received a call from a relative. You can read the
BBC news story at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8295394.stm.
The City of Kennesaw, Georgia, received a grant that enabled them
to begin underground imaging of their cemetery, and you can read
all about it at
http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/etd/2/.
Note: Another update on the
Library of Michigan crisis will be provided next week.
Maureen A. Taylor, well known as The Photo Detective, has just
published a new book,
Fashionable
Folks: Hairstyles 1840-1900. It can help you date those
mystery photos you have. The book is available at
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/fashionable-folks-hair/7559085.
The Guys have a busy speaking schedule coming up! Drew will speak
about DNA on Sunday, October 11th, for the Jewish Genealogical
Society of Tampa Bay (
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fljgstb).
George will be presenting at an all-day conference for the
Louisville Genealogical Society (details at
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kylgs/seminar2.html)
in Louisville, KY, on Saturday, October 17th.
And George AND Drew will be speaking for the Western Michigan
Genealogical Society (
http://www.wmgs.org) in Grand Rapids, MI, on Friday
and Saturday, November 6th and 7th. The society is celebrating its
55th anniversary with a banquet on Friday evening, and an all-day
seminar on Saturday, titled
Got
Ancestors?! Guydes to Genealogical Research. Details are
available at
http://gotancestors.com. The day's festivities will
conclude with The Genealogy Guys LIVE!, a live recording session of
the podcast with questions and answers.
Drew interviews Dick Eastman, author of
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
(
http://blog.eogn.com). Dick will be appearing for the
Pinellas Genealogy Society in Largo, Florida,
Saturday, February 13, 2010.
The listener email includes: Carolyn raves about how much she likes
RootsMagic software; Lee continues discussing wives' maiden names
on gravestones; Roger tells us that the Scottish practice of using
maiden names of married women in birth entries in parish registers
and on gravestones. Roger
shares two examples:
http://roger.lisaandroger.com/showmedia.php?mediaID=81
shows a parish register; examples of headstones appear at
http://roger.lisaandroger.com/browsemedia.php?mediatypeID=headstones.
Pat shares concerns about official, raised seal birth certificates
from New York that are using different birth locations now rather
than the actual (and original) locations. TC shares information
about Dropbox software, a free tool to help keep data on multiple
computers in synch. It is available at
http://www.getdropbox.com and is free.
George talks about
Internet
Genealogy magazine from Moorshead Publications, the last
magazine covering Internet research topics. (Visit
http://www.internet-genealogy.com for more information
and to subscribe.) Katie asks for guidance for using pre-1850 U.S.
federal censuses and getting past some roadblocks created because
only the head of household was listed, followed with tick marks
representing gender, age, and race.