Mar 12, 2008
George delivers a lot of news this week: the
New England Historic and Genealogical Society (http://www.newenglandancestors..org)
has received a large gift of photographs from the family of Thaxter
Spencer, including an unknown 1888 photo of Helen Keller and her
teacher, Annie Sullivan; the Library of Congress’s digital
preservation program has a new e-mail newsletter and you can
subscribe by clicking
here; NARA is soliciting comments from the public by 9 April
2008 regarding a proposal to enter into a non-exclusive agreement
with The Generations Network,
Inc., owners of Ancestry.com, to digitize
and expand access to record holdings in NARA’s custody (see
http://www.archives.gov/comment/tgn-preamble.html);
Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery’s registers are about to be placed on
the Internet, and more information is available at http://www.cigo.ie; Genealogical
Publishing Company (http://www.genealogical.com) has
partnered with FamilyLink.com, Inc. (http://www.familylink.com) to make
their databases available on WorldVitalRecords.com (http://www.worldvitalrecords.com);
Haaretx, Inc. (http://www.haaretz.com/) announced
with Famillion (http://www.famillion.com) the
launch of a new genealogy and social network search engine aimed at
connecting the Jewish people worldwide; MyGreatBigFamily.com
(http://www.mygreatbigfamily.com)
launches enhanced social networking websites for families;
GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com)
has added the first 20 Hispanic newspaper titles for 4 states to
its online historic newspaper collection, covering the period from
1855 to 1956, and will add many more, ultimately covering the
period 1808 to 1980; an ID thief is caught and imprisoned in New
Zealand for fraud in the theft of thousands of dollars in student
loans for deceased children whose birth certificates he had
obtained.
The Guys read and respond to listener e-mail
on many topics: George misread the URL for the multimedia
presentation software called Passage Express (which should be
http://www.passageexpress.com);
a listener and the Web Marketing Director of NewspaperArchive.com
provided information about and a free trial of their site at
http://www.newspaperarchive.com;
information is shared about the HP MediaSmart Server for compact
file backups and extensive hard drive installation; a free site to
convert files into other formats is available at http://www.youconvertit.com);
the True Lover’s Knot will be featured in the May issue of
Real Simple magazine (http://www.realsimple.com);
Newberry Library in Chicago is working on a project to document and
then digitize all state and county boundary changes in its Atlas of
Historic County Boundaries Project (AHCBP) and has 23 states
available online at http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp/;
a listener shared the image of an 1880 census Enumerator’s Daily
Report to Census Office form that he purchases on eBay; and one
listener shared information about her ancestry and, in particular,
shared her related photos that she has uploaded to the Shutterfly
photograph file sharing site at http://www.shutterfly.com.
The Guys continued with listener e-mail on the subject of genealogical DNA testing and will continue next week again with another descriptive discussion.