News from Ancestry.com includes more records, such as U.S. Navy
records, improved 1850 U.S. census images, Atlanta federal
penitentiary records, more historical postcards, Bavaria muster
rolls, and other new records from Ireland, Australia, and
Paris. Footnote.com has added more Native American
records. RootsMagic has updated its website and has released
RootsMagic Essentials, a free version of the RootsMagic
software. The DAR has made an online database of many of its
genealogy records available to the general public.
Listener e-mail involves a question about
the link to New York government divisions (turns out it's on
Wikipedia); the correct pronunciation of Islip, NY (which Drew did
correct in the show notes from the episode in which he
mispronounced it) and another NY town; the Federation of
Genealogical Societies 2010 conference in Knoxville, Tennessee;
volunteering to provide free online access to records, especially
local historical records; volunteering to provide genealogy classes
at the local public library; online Navy records and other military
records; issues related to using Facebook, Genealogy Wise, and the
Genealogy Guys videos on Blip.tv; citing census records; running
Windows programs on a Macintosh; and researching Smiths in
England.
Drew shares his first experiences with Google's latest online
service, Google Wave.