Apr 23, 2025

News You Can Use and Share!

• MyHeritage added 235 million historical records in February and 794 million historical records in March.
• MyHeritage released a new DNA facility named Ancient Origins, with which you can trace your origins back 10,000 years.
• MyHeritage introduced Cousin Finder.
• MyHeritage has published United States World War II Draft Registrations, 1940-1947.
• FamilySearch has added free historical records from 32 countries in April.
• FamilySearch has introduced the new FamilySearch Catalog.
• American Ancestors will open its new Family Heritage Experience on 25 April 2025 at its facility in Boston, Massachusetts.

Listener Email

• Tom discussed records obtained from the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri. He addresses how to obtain copies of all pages of the personnel file.
• Nancy asks for suggestions for naming computer files for women’s records.
• Michael Fagan has developed a tool to print large family tree posters. The tool is free at https://faganm.com/diagram/.
• Laura wrote about using French spoliation claims in learning more about her ancestors.
• Julie bought a used Flip-Pal scanner, but it did not come with the stitching software to reconstitute the area images. George suggested visiting https://flip-pal.com/support/.
• Karen has read in Drew’s Organize Your Genealogy book about using Evernote software. Drew assures her that Evernote is still a valuable tool.
• Ashley wrote to share more about the U.S. Federal Census and the 1880 Agricultural Census Schedule for North Carolina. She suggests additional places to locate images and indices that otherwise have not been digitized and added at FamilySearch, MyHeritage, and Ancestry.
• Gonzolo wants information about importing an old Family Tree Maker software file (.ftw) and generating a GEDCOM file. Drew suggested using RootsMagic Essentials software to do this.
• Nancy writes about having located a birth record for a woman in 1909 on which the birth certificate states that it was a single birth. However, the 1910 census lists two daughters of the age to have been born in 1909. How can you reconcile this?
• Donna is seeking help in locating a death record for Susan Godfrey and marriage records.

Drew provides a recap of his time at RootsTech.

Drew will be presenting at the Ohio Genealogical Society Spring Conference in Sandusky, Ohio, from 30 April to 3 May 2025.

Please let us hear from you at genealogyguys@gmail.com with your questions and comments.