This week's news includes: The Generations Network announced the
launching at its Ancestry UK site (
http://www.ancestry.co.uk) of more
than 400 years of London history, derived from records at the
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) and the Guildhall Library; and
Footnote.com (
http://www.footnote.com) has launched
its new Great Depression Collection, including the Interactive 1930
U.S. Census, and additional records are coming soon.
George interviews Drew about his brand new book,
Social
Networking for Genealogists, published by Genealogical
Publishing Company (
http://www.genealogical.com).
This week's listener email includes: Steve discusses the new
RootsMagic
version 4 and the RootsMagic To-Go; Rich suggests another way of
telling someone that there's a mistake in their research; he
wonders if Stephen Morse would consider a single-search step at his
One Step website; and he asks if George has more information about
Brisco Holder (and George shares some surprising information); Drew
responds to a question about copyright for Nancy; Jimmy shares
information about great YouTube videos of "Depression Cooking with
Clara" at
http://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking,
and suggests that video interviews with family members doing
something they're comfortable doing is a great way to capture
information; Clive in the U.K. shares details of his research
concerning U.K. criminal records and the online catalogue of
The
National Archives in Kew (outside London) and some surprising
results about James Derrick; Sue shares information about
WeRelate.org (
http://www.werelate.org), a free
public-service wiki for genealogy sponsored by the
Foundation for On-Line
Genealogy in partnership with the
Allen County Public Library, that allows the
uploading of genealogy data and photos; Jack asks for suggestions
about where to upload scanned Bible records; and Roxanne asks for
help from listeners in order to locate companies that can scan
large quantities of family photographs.