MyHeritage.com now offers shared
group subscription payments.
Family
Tree DNA is now accepting third party transfers of test
results.
Synium
Software has released MacFamilyTree 6.1 and
MobileFamilyTreePro.
FamilySearch has released 12
million new records and images for England and Mexico, 1.8 million
records to 23 U.S. collections, and 2.3 million images to its
Hungary collections.
Joel Weintraub and Steve Morse announce a new One-Step Tutorial
at http://stevemorse.org about the
forthcoming 1940 U.S. federal census release in April 2012.
WikiTree
announced that they have passed 2 million profiles and
that they have released a new Relationship Finder. In addition,
they have announced that Thomas MacEntee has joined the WikiTree
team as their Genealogy Ninja.
The Admiral Nimitz Foundation has
recently created the Society of the Sons and Daughters of World War
II Veterans. The Society's goal is to preserve the stories of
sacrifice and achievement of America's "greatest generation." They
plan to preserve important materials in digital format to preserve
them and make them available.
Listener email includes:
Nancy suggests that Colleen expand her New York query by
checking city directories.
Sue asked about the availability of software for genealogical
societies' websites. The Guys suggested that she contact EasyNetSites which
provides modular society software service.
Russ asked if The Guys were aware of the blog about the
Stockton School in East
Orange, New Jersey. Drew replied that it belonged to his
brother!
Alan advised that there is OCR software that reads
Fraktur. He obtained FreeOCR from http://www.freeOCR.net.
John asked whether Drew's Twitter feed had been
compromised.
Erin asked Drew about using his iPad for genealogical research
vs. using a netbook.
Melanie asked about a relationship term used in the 1910 U.S.
census wherein an ancestor, his wife, and four children have an
older widow living with them whose relationship is listed as
"companion." Listeners can send in their comments and suggestions
about this to us.
Grace is our new "Marathon Woman." She also asked about
RootsTelevision. Megan Smolenyak advised George recently that the
site has been taken down. The Guys hope to learn more at the FGS
Conference in Springfield, Illinois, next month.
Carole made some suggestions for Beverly's quandary about
Canadian immigration information.
The Indiana Genealogical Society issued a matching $10,000
grant challenge to help funding for the FGS "Preserve the Pensions"
program. See their site at http://www.indgensoc.org/projects/1812_pensions.php
and donate to make your dollars grow! And learn more at
http://fgs.org/1812.
Dave installed the new Mac OS X Lion, but was really upset that
Carbonite (back up) is not ready
to support it!
George G. Morgan and Drew Smith discuss genealogy on The Genealogy Guys Podcast
Drew Smith interviews leaders of the genealogy community on Genealogy Connection