This week's news includes:Art Lassagne, founder of The Gold Bug
(producer of AniMap software), died on 29 September 2008 at his
home after a long battle with lung cancer;
Ancestry.ca has published the
Canadian Passenger Lists (1865-1935); the Godfrey Library
(
www.godfrey.org) of Middletown, CT,
announced that its product, the online American Genealogical
Biographical Index (AGBI), will no longer be available at
Ancestry.com after the end of this year, but it
will be available at the Godfrey
Library and at World Vital Records (
www.worldvitalrecords.com)
beginning in January 2009; Northern Hills Software (
www.northernhillssoftware.com)
announces Pocket Genealogist Version 3.3 for Windows Mobile devices
which includes support for multimedia;
Summit County Ohio Probate
Court received a grant to digitize and index to birth,
marriage, and death records, and those records will be available at
their website and those of their partners,
Ancestry.com,
FamilySearch, and the
National Association of Government Archive and Records
Administrators (
NAGARA); the
St. Petersburg Times in Florida has
brought up it digital archives of more than 100 years of its
newspapers (May 1901 through August 2007) and it is available at
news.google.com/archivesearch
(Users should type "St. Petersburg Times" before they enter their
query terms.); Dick Eastman, of Eastman's Online Genealogy
Newsletter (
blog.eogn.com), has announced the
addition of Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck to the writing team at the
enormously popular online publication [George also writes a weekly
column for Dick]; and the free 12th annual Central Florida Family
History Conference will be held on 25 October 2009 in Orlando, and
more details are available at
www.familyhistoryconference.org.
Listener email includes: Gus added this podcast to his site at
www.macapart.com/gen; Jon asked
for more information about portability of Family Tree Make 2009 on
a flash drive (and Drew will report back); Russ recounts his search
for his grandfather in the 1900 census and discusses names; Kevin
reminded The Guys to remind our listeners to celebrate October as
Family History Month
and
as Hispanic Heritage Month; Tim asked for suggestions concerning
the best national or regional conferences to consider attending for
a relative beginner; and Dee found a great online out-of-copyright
map site at
commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_maps.
George interviews Bruce Buzbee, creator of the
RootsMagic genealogical
database software. Bruce discusses this year's great cruise to the
Mexican Riviera and talks about the upcoming release of RootsMagic
Version 4, a complete rewrite of the software with many exciting
new features and improvements.