RootsMagic announces new
webinars and additions to its catalog of recorded webinars.
FamilySearch
announces the addition of millions of new records on its site
and the completion of almost half of the 1940 U.S. federal
census.
The Federation of Genealogical
Societies announced that its Malcolm H. Stern-NARA Gift Fund
has participated with NARA recently in digitizing and making
available the records of the Sultana Disaster at the Fold3.com website.
Ancestry.com announced
that it has added its 10 billionth record to its site.
Laurie asked about the available DNA tests, and Drew weighs in
based on his experience.
Walter asks whether there is a DNA test available to determine
whether his mother and a good friend, who looks like his mother’s
twin, are related.
Susanne asks about genealogy sites that are free.
Bob talks about the work he and his wife are doing as arbiters
for the 1940 indexing project.
Tom asks when we think an index to the 1940 census will be
available, and comments about the indexes not being made available
until an entire state is indexed.
Amy shares information about Titanicat by Marty
Crisp.
Linda writes about resources for the descendants of the
Armenian Genocide. She tells us that University of Michigan
Professor Fatma Muge Gocek has done extensive research on this
issue with other area specialists (one is also here at U Michigan –
Ronald Suny in Political Science). If the person who asked the
question in an earlier podcast is still trying to find resources
that might help her find information on her ancestors, she might
send an e-mail to either Professor Gocek (Gocek@umich.edu) or Professor Suny
(rgsuny@umich.edu) to see if
they know where information on where people were moved or killed
and records that might be useful. Gocek, Suny, and another scholar,
Norman Naimark at Stanford, co-wrote a book, A Question of
Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire
(http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/MiddleEastern/?view=usa&ci=9780195393743)
about the genocide. The Guys both recommend checking the University
of South Florida’s Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center site at
http://lib.usf.edu/hgsc.
Ann has a question about her husband’s paternal grandfather who
was born in international waters while his mother was emigrating
from Wales to the United States. In another email, she reports on
remarkable files uncovered in the possession of a library.
Jo wrote to provide some clues and resources to Moshe who is
researching a Jewish man named Markowsky.
George G. Morgan and Drew Smith discuss genealogy on The Genealogy Guys Podcast
Drew Smith interviews leaders of the genealogy community on Genealogy Connection