MyHeritage has added 90 million new New York Ellis Island and
Other New York Passenger Lists (1820-1954).
MyHeritage has added a new feature, Do-It-Yourself Historical
Record Fixes, in its SuperSearch facililty.
Findmypast has added a new collection for tracing immigrants
from the British Isles. They have also added records from Kent, and
updates to the U.S. Marriages collection and additions to
PERSI.
Drew shares updates from FamilySearch’s recent records
additions.
Listener email includes:
Tom shares his saga of obtaining copies of passport
applications and photographs, and the rich details they
contained.
Neal asks about formats of genealogy charts to represent the
family in a graphical way.
Judy wants FamilySearch to add a priority to the digitization
of microfilmed land and property records. She has had great success
in locating genealogical data in these documents.
Neal wants advice on how to record/represent foster children in
his family tree for children who probably were not adopted.
Chris shares his organizational methods for paper documents and
scanned items, and he uses Evernote to great advantage.
Jim shared a story from Omaha, Nebraska, about a man who used
his DNA test results to find a brother he had never met.
George G. Morgan and Drew Smith discuss genealogy on The Genealogy Guys Podcast
Drew Smith interviews leaders of the genealogy community on Genealogy Connection