The Genealogy Guys Podcast

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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.
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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.

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MyHeritage added 1.2 billion historical records in January. MyHeritage released Ethnicity Estimate v2.5, the long-awaited ethnicity model, including 79 different ethnicities
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Tom asks if there are reference materials for using AI in genealogical and historical research. (Not YouTube) Pam is searching for immigration and naturalization records for a couple who arrived ca. 1893 and wants to know if other resources are available to help locate those records. George recommends the Stephen P. Morse One-Step pages at stevemorse.org for U.S. ships’ passenger lists and the Library and Archives Canada website at library-archives.canada.ca/eng/ and look for the collection of Immigration Records at library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/immigration/Pages/immigration.aspx . Tom is seeking ships’ passenger lists for ancestors who came to the U.S. or Canada in 1879-1880. George suggests the same records he recommends to Pam above. Jean Daniel in France provides us a fascinating update on his research into his 4x grandfather, Blaise Farny. Anne wrote to follow up on research into Calvin and Rhoda Reed. She discusses Cayuga County, New York, and places that she has used for different records resources. Tom discusses his research into the USS Trigger en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Trigger_(SS-564) ) . He has been using AI tools, including ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/ ), Perplexity (https://www.perplexity.ai/ ), and Claude AI (ttps://claude.ai/).
Drew will be presenting at RootsTech 2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 6-8 March. Registration for RootsTech is open for on-site attendance and virtual sessions. Visit www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/ for details.

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The Guys wish everyone a Happy New Year!

George gives a shout-out to Ed Brown for his continued support for the podcast!

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The Genealogy Guys issued a press release announcing the discontinuation of the Genealogy Guys Learn subscription educational website effective 1 January 2025. The Guys have partnered with Legacy Family Tree Webinars to migrate their video content to Legacy over time. MyHeritage has announced the suspension of services in Russia due to Russian regulations concerning hosting personal data on its web service. MyHeritage recapped its growth in 2024 with impressive statistics. MyHeritage announced the completion of images and indexes for 15 collections of newspaper names and stories at OldNews.com. This is an addition of 11.6 billion records. Legacy Family Tree Webinars, a subsidiary of MyHeritage, announced that registration is now open for 2025. FamilySearch added free historical record collections in December 2024 from 49 countries. FamilySearch has announced its plans for 2025.
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Several people responded on the subject of genealogy-based trips to Ireland, similar to those that Irish expert Donna M. Moughty offered. We share their suggestions. Brian also responds to the question of whether there is a genealogy podcast that shares people’s stories of family history research. Christina asks whether it is worthwhile to upgrade from RootsMagic 9 to RootsMagic 10, and The Guys respond. In addition to Brian, Kamai responded to a previous podcast’s query about podcasts specifically related to family histories. Crista Cowan, known as The Barefoot Genealogist , has a podcast called Stories That Live in Us at https://www.cristacowan.com/stories-that-live-in-us-podcast . Kenith is searching for Calvin Reed, his wife Rhoda (?), and their daughter, Eliza Ruth Reed, Ohio. If you have information or research suggestions, please email The Guys.
George is working on a family book and sought the 1880 U.S. Federal Census Agricultural Schedules for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It highlights the critical absence of Agricultural Schedules, Manufacturing Schedules, Mortality Schedules, some Slave Schedules (1850 and 1860), and the unique 7-page 1880 Federal Census’ Defective, Delinquent, and Dependent Schedules. These documents all enhance the context of our ancestors’ lives and provide insights into the communities and potentially new resource clues. The originals of many of these documents were returned to individual states, and have found their way into state archives, state libraries, county courthouses, and other places. George wants the sites like MyHeritage, Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast, and others to actively renew their research to locate, digitize, and index these census documents before they are completely lost.

Drew will be speaking at the Genealogical Society of Kendall County, Texas, on Saturday, 15 February 2025. See https://gskctx.org/ for details.

Drew will also be presenting in person at RootsTech 2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 6-8 March 2025. Registration for RootsTech is open for on-site attendance and virtual sessions.Visit https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/ for details.

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Drew's guest is Brian Rhineheart, owner of CivilWarRecords.com, a service that retrieves military-related records from the National Archives in Washington, DC. In this episode, Drew and Brian discuss the various types of military-related records available either online or only in physical form, and how genealogists can learn more about their ancestors' military connections prior to requesting records.

Brian also offers listeners a code ("connection") valid from the original posting date of this episode for two weeks, good for a discount on his record retrieval service.

For all who celebrate it, the Guys wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

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MyHeritage has introduced LiveMemoryTM , a new facility to animate entire photographs. It runs from an app on your phone and is currently free. Ancestry announces its project to index and digitize Korean War-era military records housed at NARA. Vivid-Pix announces it will expand Alzheimer’s Research by donating 5% of sales through 3 December 2024. FamilySearch celebrates 130 years of family discovery!
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Brian asks whether there is a genealogy podcast that shares people’s stories of family history research. Julie asks if there is a user guide/book discussing how to effectively research at MyHeritage. George has contacted Daniel Horowitz at MyHeritage for information. Stay tuned! Peggy expands on requesting U.S. military records from the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri, and what is available there. Anne suggests seeking information about WWII military service information in newspapers published near the basic training camps and through local libraries’ scrapbooks and vertical files. With Donna Moughty retiring from leading Irish genealogy research trips, Judy asks whether other people might be conducting such trips. Kevin comments about natural disasters and how they impacted our ancestors. He cites his paternal great-grandfather who was born 3 days after the Johnstown Flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on 31 May 1889. Mike writes a follow-up about German immigration, discussed in Episode #429, and shares his research about his German ancestor. He also cites the sinking of the PS General Slocum on 15 June 1904 and its impact on the immigrant German community of Kleindeutchland in Manhattan, New York. Michael comments on annulments and the lack of divorce records, and about circumstances that might make such records non-existent.
Book Review

Drew reviews Nathan Dylan Goodwin’s newest book, The Hollywood Strangler , the third installment of the Venator Series.

Drew also comments on how he has just submitted his final assignment to Nathan for the pilot genealogy mystery writing online course.

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The Guys have been on a hiatus because of Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the damage in Florida.

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David Rencher, Chief Genealogy Officer at FamilySearch, received the Italian Heraldic Genealogical Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. MyHeritage has given its Inbox a fresh new look. MyHeritage added 56 million new records in September 2004. MyHeritage has updated its Theory of Family Relativity facility by 40%. Ancestry has launched its largest update to DNA matches. Findmypast has added large numbers of Cornwall baptisms, marriages, and burials. RootsTech 2025 registration Is now open and an early bird discount registration rate is available through 31 October 2024.
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Kelly asks for suggestions to locate marriage annulment records. Kristina has located her grandfather’s WWII draft registration card and wants to know how to proceed to obtain his service records. Jean shares a website, “A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations” at the JewishGen website .
Drew discusses the WikiTree Symposium online on 1-3 November 2024. He will be presenting a talk about Copyright and Plagiarism. Schedule .

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MyHeritage has acquired MesAieux.com, Quebec’s most popular family history service with more than 15 million historical records. MyHeritage added more than 84 million new records across 16 collections in August 2024. MyHeritage has added 261 million obituary records to its OldNews facility.
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Julie is searching for any Pennsylvania birth records from ca. 1810 and marriage records. The Guys share some suggestions.
Drew talks about his recent participation in WikiTree.com’s WikiGames over two weekends.

Drew is currently taking Nathan Dylan Goodwin’s online mystery writing class and learning how to develop a compelling genealogical mystery novel.

The Guys discuss U.S. immigration and the naturalization process. They recommend Loretto Dennis Szucs’ book, They Became Americans , as a definitive guide to naturalizations.

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Please let us hear from you at genealogyguys@gmail.com with your experiences with U.S. immigration and naturalizations, and with other questions you have about your genealogical research.

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MyHeritage added 20 million historical records in June. MyHeritage and Family Tree DNA announced a new partnership to connect DNA tests to family trees. JewishGen announced a new partnership between its Romania Research Division and the Jewish Federation of Romania to photograph and document Jewish graves. Drew talks about 19.4 million historical records released by FamilySearch in May 2024.
Book Review

The Guys review the latest book by Nathan Dylan Goodwin, The Deserter’s Tale , a new Morton Farrier genealogical crime mystery.

Listener Email
Sam writes about the new RootsMagic 10 update and the book. Drew warns listeners about some fake book entries in Amazon. Stacy Cole responds to an earlier email about her strategies in researching the James James family in Georgia.
The Guys discuss their experiences at the South Carolina Genealogical Society's summer workshop at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

George shares how Patrick McCawley, the Deputy Director of Archives and Records Management , spent time sharing with him a history of South Carolina’s geopolitical organization from colonial times to the present. From parishes to electoral districts to counties and boundary changes, George now has a deeper understanding of South Carolina for his research there.

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MyHeritage added 123 million historical records in April and May. MyHeritage added millions of Nordic newspaper pages to OldNews.com. RootsMagic has released Version 10 of its award-winning software.
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Jean-Daniel wrote to share an update about his research into Blaise Farny. Karin educates us about names for Austrian ‘sailors’. Lisa wrote to compliment Cathleen from New Hampshire’s research of her mother’s paternal grandfather, Georg Sokop. She was inspired to research a friend’s Jewish ancestry using DNA. Ray has been researching his third great-grandfather, James James, and located two people of that name in close proximity. The county courthouse burned, and he is asking for other records to distinguish between the two men.
Drew discusses the upcoming South Carolina Genealogical Society’s upcoming conference at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History on 12-13 July 2024. He is presenting, and George will be there observing and conducting personal research in the archive.

George shares how he is preparing for his genealogical research at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, at the Newberry County courthouse, and in the upstate South Carolina environs.

Drew discusses new features of AncestryDNA tools.

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MyHeritage added 71 million historical records in March, including French censuses! MyHeritage added three important New York City historical records collections, including indices and images. MyHeritage has added a multi-photo scanner to the MH mobile app. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland, has unveiled a new Mass Digitization Center. It will address digitizing records in various formats up to 10 times faster yearly. American Ancestors has announced the appointment of Ryan J. Woods as its new President and CEO. Ancestry announced its largest partnership with the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to date. As part of the project, Ancestry will invest over the next five years to digitize tens of millions of records that will be added to Ancestry.com. Ancestry has made a new record collection available to honor the 125,000 persons of Japanese descent who were unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. between December 1942 and January 1948. FindMyPast has added more recent new records to its collections of Scotland Deaths (1855-2024), England and Wales Deaths (2007-2024), and Northern Ireland Deaths (1980-2024).
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Cathleen describes her research into her mother’s paternal grandfather, Georg Sokop, including traditional and DNA investigations. She is looking for advice to extend her research. Don writes about Swedish research, including Swedish churches and membership lists, and the resources at Ancestry and ArchivDigital. Jean-Daniel wrote to thank us for sharing an email about Blaise Farny. He now has a great to-do list. He has located an Ivoryette photo of Farny from 1892, and is investigating to locate the original among family members so that he can see if anything is written on the back. Tom wrote to follow up on slide scanning, and to suggest resources for scanning long panorama photos. He also discusses the Stories Behind the Stars Project, which seeks to preserve and expand the information about the more than 421,000 Americans who lost their lives in WWII. Check the STARS website at https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/ . Nick let us know about his efforts to organize thousands of notes in Evernote, doing several each day.
Drew discusses attending his 50th high school reunion, what a wonderful time we had, and how important it was.

Drew will be presenting at the South Carolina Genealogical Society Conference on 12-13 July at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History in Columbia. George will also be attending and conducting personal research.

Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

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MyHeritage added 168 million historical records in February. MyHeritage launched OldNews.com, a new website for exploring historical newspapers. MyHeritage introduced all-new profile pages with hints. Vivid-Pix announced the roll-out of Memory Stations, integrating scanning, its correction software, tagging, and more. Findmypast has begun digitizing, indexing, and publishing British Home Children records. The National Archives (TNA) announced that it will digitize the 1941 National Farm Survey records thanks to a generous grant from Lund Trust.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

In our DNA Segment, DNA expert Diahan Southard discusses Family Tree DNA and Y-DNA haplogroups with Drew Smith.

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Laura writes about backup GEDCOM files and MyHeritage, and Daniel Horowitz responds. Jenna writes to respond to Sheila’s quest to digitize and tag a 30” long x 6” high-resolution photograph. She shares FamilySearch’s ability to tag people in a Memory at https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/tagging-people-in-a-memory . Anne writes in response to Jean Daniels' email about researching an ancestor. Anne cites Anabaptists in New York State. Kristen is seeking more advice for locating records for a missing family member, Arthur Tozer. Ashley wrote about changes that people make to FamilySearch records without sources.
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David from Addison, Texas, is the winner of our drawing for a MyHeritage DNA kit. More drawings will be announced later this year.

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RootsTech, the world’s largest genealogy conference, takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, and online next week, 29 February through 2 March 2024. FamilySearch International and American Ancestors announced a collaboration on the 10 Million Names Project. The project “seeks to recover the names and restore information to families of the estimated 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America, including the area that would become the United States.”
DNA Segment

In our DNA Segment, DNA expert Diahan Southard discusses Ancestry DNA with Drew Smith.

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Douglas responds regarding our discussion of slide and negative scanners. He reminds people to check with their local library for the availability of a scanner for checkout. He was able to use a Wolverine slide and negative scanner. (It and the Kodak model discussed on the last podcast are available through Amazon.) Jeannie discusses FamilySearch’s computer indexing problems. Mike writes again to provide additional information about the Old Fulton Postcards website and the New York local government historians’ (LGH) roles. Ryan asks about two different marriage records dated the same date in adjoining states for the same couple. Laura writes in response to Dennis’ questions about writing a family history, and uses the “52 ancestors in 52 weeks” approach presented by Amy Johnson Crow. Matt is seeking a missing Pennsylvania death record from 1914. He has conducted extensive research and is looking for more suggestions. Kristen is seeking advice for locating records for a missing family member, Arthur Tozer.
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Don’t miss the opportunity to win a free MyHeritage DNA Kit. Listen to the MyHeritage ad later in this episode for details on submitting your entry to our raffle. MyHeritage recapped their activities in 2023: 4M DNA kits in their database 9M faces tagged with Photo Tagger 700M historical records added in 366 new collections 320M new Family Tree profiles added 4M MyHeritage and Reimagine mobile app downloaded 19M new Theories of Family Relativity™ New AI tools added: PhotoDater™, AI Record Finder™, and AI Biographer™ 3M photo dates estimated with PhotoDater 26M photos uploaded 2,112 webinars on Legacy Family Tree Webinars 605 articles added to the MyHeritage Wiki George recaps MyHeritage’s Historical Record Collections added in December 2023. Drew recaps FamilySearch’s 2023 highlights. FamilySearch announced the historic release of the 1931 Census of Canada. Drew shares what to expect from FamilySearch in 2024.
DNA Segment

Our popular DNA Segment returns with expert Diahan Southard and Drew Smith in conversation about 23andMe.

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Mike writes about genealogy podcasts and the lack of references made to the newspaper research site, Old Fulton New York Postcards website at https://www.fultonhistory.com/ for a collection of New York newspapers and postcard images, and Advantage Archives at https://www.advantagearchives.com/ . Sheila writes concerning how to get a “long photo” (30” long x 6” high) scanned and then how to locate software to tag each person’s face with their name. The Guys suggest obtaining advice from archivists at university archives and special collections, and state/provincial/national archives, to find out who offer large scanning jobs services. Julie writes to discuss her and her daughter’s interesting DNA matches (and non-matches) with another individual on different websites. Dennis’s 40 years of collecting data in Germany and Ireland was entered into Family Tree Maker and uploaded to Ancestry. The data seems to have disappeared and he asks for suggestions. He also seeks suggestions about how he and his sisters can/should format the family history they are planning to compile. Laurie writes to ask about the possibility of a researcher being able to bulk-download data from databases such as Ancestry for a specific county. Diana writes to advise us that there is a law in New York state requiring that each county have a county historian to help preserve and promote the history of that county. They can guide you to resources and other organizations. There is a website at https://www.aphnys.gov where you can identify and contact these people. Judy asks for advice and recommendations about sorting potential ancestors who share the same name in a specific area at the same time. Tom has inherited family photos, slides, and negatives from his mother. He is seeking information about scanners to effectively digitize these things. George suggests the Kodak Slide N Scan with a 5” color LCD screen which scans to an SD or SDHS card.
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The Genealogy Guys Learn site is still on sale through January 1, 2024! MyHeritage announces the release of a new exclusive collection: marriage certificates for North Rhine and Westphalia from 1874 through 1899. MyHeritage announces the release of AI Record Finder™, an interactive, free text chat to help locate historical records about an ancestor among MH’s 20 billion records. MyHeritage announces the release of AI Biographer™, which compiles a Wikipedia-like article about a person’s life. It uses details from matching historical records and family tree profiles. The Society of Genealogists has officially reopened at its new address on Wharf Road in London, England. The Society of Genealogists has launched a brand-new search tool called SoG Explore. The Guys give a shout-out to Graham Walter, who has been named Chairman of the Society of Genealogists’ Trustees. Scottish Indexes reached a new milestone with the addition of 180,000 prison record entries among over half a million records from 38 Scottish Prisons. Visit https://www.scottishindexes.com/ScotlandsCriminalDatabase.aspx . Drew recaps the highlights of the newest record releases at FamilySearch from October and November 2023.
Listener Email
Ashley asks about uploading Ancestry DNA results to MyHeritage as compared with taking a test there. Ashley also asks about searching probate court books for records of the institutionalization of a great-grand-uncle in Dayton, Ohio, and needs suggestions to help find his records. Jean Daniel from Metz, France, asks for suggestions about locating records for a 4x grandfather who spent some years in the U.S. Kelly is looking for ideas to help locate records about her great aunt, Wilhemine Mae Rauch (b. 1909 in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA), and twice married to Floyd Stevens. Listener suggestions are also requested.
The Guys give a shout-out to Scott Fisher for his years of work on the Extreme Genes Podcast, which is ending this month.

The Guys recommend a new podcast by Mike Scozzari called “Roots: Everyone Has a Story,” which can be found at https://www.michaelscozzari.com/podcast .

Drew and George talk about some of the topics most likely to dominate in 2024, including AI, DNA, and conferences.

Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

Please also tell your friends and your genealogical society about our free podcasts, blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

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We just added a new video to the subscription Genealogy Guys Learn site . It is "Archives and Special Collections: An Introduction" by associate librarian emeritus Drew Smith. MyHeritage memorializes two of its employees, Ron Shemer and Ilay Nachman, who were killed on 7 October 2023 at the onset of the Hamas-Israel War. My Heritage announced the addition of 43 million historical records in September 2023. MyHeritage released the 1931 Canada Census with a new index. Drew recaps the highlights of the newest record releases at FamilySearch on 10, 17, and 24 September 2023.
Listener Email
Gavin reminds everyone to check multiple websites for record collections that may have been indexed differently. He was researching his great-grandfather's family's immigrant arrival at Ellis Island, NY. He searched at MyHeritage and found his wife's brother and family indexed with his great-grandfather's name as the individual they were traveling to meet. He found a great match. He performed a similar search at Ancestry.com, and the result did not show up because Ancestry doesn't index the name of the individual the immigrants were traveling to meet. Therefore, different sites' collections are often indexed differently and may yield different matches and clues. Kayla wrote about her exhaustive efforts to trace her great-uncle, James Edward Farden. The family story is that he went AWOL and disappeared from subsequent records. Judi writes again about her Irish Bannon ancestry and asks Drew and his brother about possible DNA matches with her line. Julie wrote about her great-great-grandmother Ann Marie Delaney, who was born in County Laois in Ireland and immigrated to the U.S. She asked Drew about a possible connection to his ancestors.
Drew discusses his 10-day research trip to Ireland with his brother that began on 4 October 2023, with a week in Dublin led by expert Donna Moughty. He shares some places he visited, some of the things he learned, and the vital importance of advance preparations that he recommends for all research trips.

Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you'd like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

Please also tell your friends and your genealogical society about our free podcasts, our blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

And don't forget to order Drew's new book, Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy , from Genealogical Publishing Company (https://genealogical.com/ ) or Amazon.com.

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In the previous episode, The Genealogy Guys Podcast announced that, in partnership with MyHeritage.com, we were giving away a FREE MyHeritage DNA Kit. The winner is Shontè Anthony from Maryland. An email with the code to redeem the kit is in the mail!

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The Black Cemetery Network (BCN) at https://blackcemeterynetwork.org is hosting an event in Tampa, Florida on 14 October 2023 from 10 AM to Noon to commemorate Black History and the Memorial Park Cemetery. It will begin with presentations at the C. Blythe Andrews Library, 2607 E. Dr. MLK Jr. Boulevard, followed by an on-site walk in the Memorial Park Cemetery next door. You are cordially invited to join us for this exciting event and to help spread the word. Drew Smith and I, along with volunteers from across the country, have been deeply involved with the Zion Cemetery Project in Tampa for several years. It seeks to document all of the people interred in the "erased African-American cemetery" and bring their stories to life. All of the tombstones were removed, and portions of the property were "developed," leaving this sacred ground partially covered by buildings and the cemetery erased. The University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa has been supporting and promoting this work. The Black Cemetery Network was established and strives to support and publicize efforts across the U.S. to trace the "erased" cemeteries and promote projects like the Zion Project to un-erase them and to honor those buried in these cemeteries. As the Zion Project work is approaching its end, Drew and I, USF, and the Black Cemetery Network are about to begin work on three (3) "erased" cemeteries in St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, and beyond in that county. We are very proud to be part of these projects and to recognize and celebrate the lives of those early residents who built and shaped our communities. Registration for RootsTech 2024, the premier global family history conference, is now open. The event will be held from 29 February through 2 March 2024 in both in-person and virtual formats, from the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Learn more and register at https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/home . MyHeritage has announced the release of PhotoDater™, a groundbreaking, free new feature that estimates the year a photo was taken using AI technology. MyHeritage added 89 million historical records to its site in August 2023. George summarizes these collections. Drew recaps the highlights of the newest record releases at FamilySearch in August 2023.
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Drew talks with Rick Voight, CEO of Vivid-Pix, and Sue Kaufman, manager of the Genealogy Collection at the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research in Houston, Texas. They discuss the initiative of the National Genealogical Society and Vivid-Pix and the cross-country tour that Rick is making to share the information.

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In a follow-up to our discussion in episode #418 about the U.S. Patent and Trademark Database (USPTO at https://www.uspto.gov/patents/search , Kim writes about a patent filed and approved by great-grandfather James D. Nairne (#1,088,443), and wants to know more, including whether it was used and/or whether it was transferred. Carol Ansel, Director of the Godfrey Memorial Library (https://www.godfrey.org/scholar/godfrey-home.html ), wrote to expand on Drew’s description of their collection and services. Jean wrote about a recent search in the deed records in Suffolk County [New York] for an entry for her great-grandfather, Adolph J. Mueller. The deed concerned the sale of paint to the Charles H. Brown Paint Company for the sum of $1. She is looking for the reason why this transaction was recorded in a deed book. Nicole is researching her Dulaney ancestral line from Virginia, supposedly back to Ireland. Drew shared some insights during our last episode. Nicole describes her research and asks for recommendations for more records of Samuel Delany. Ashley wrote about her Irish research into Andrew Dickey triggered by a small Bible, inscribed to him in 1847. He was a teacher in Ireland. She is also looking into his sisters in the U.S.
Drew begins his 10-day research trip to Ireland on 4 October 2023 with his brother, led by expert Donna Moughty. He shares some preparations he has made and will tell us about his adventures in upcoming podcasts!

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The Genealogy Guys Podcast, in partnership with MyHeritage.com, is giving away a FREE MyHeritage DNA Kit. Please send an email to genealogyguys@gmail.com with your name and mailing address by no later than midnight U.S. Eastern Time on 31 August 2023 for your chance to win!

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American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society has announced the 10 Million Names Project. The Project is a collaborative effort dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America (specifically, the territory that would become the United States) between the 1500s and 1865. Learn more at https://10millionnames.org/ . A great new book written by African-American and Native American expert Angela Walton-Raji has been published by Arcadia Publishing, Inc., titled Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes . It is now available at Amazon.com. Drew recaps the highlights of the newest records releases at FamilySearch.
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Lisa sent a follow-up about her census mystery searching for her ancestor Felice Giuseppe Maturo and his brother, Liberato Maturo, in the 1910 U.S. Federal Census in New Haven, Connecticut. Mell wrote to ask for suggestions to research her ancestor Felix White in the area around Columbus, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Lisa wrote about the Ancestry Hints, what they are and aren’t. This includes the “Family Data Collection” and “Geneanet Community Trees”. Nicole is researching her Dulaney ancestral line from Virginia, supposedly back to Ireland. Drew shares some insights.
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The International African American Museum (IAAM) has officially opened in Charleston, South Carolina, and is partnering with Vivid-Pix with the installation of Vivid-Pix Memory Stations that allow visitors to scan, restore, save, and share their precious photos, documents, and stories. The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has been gifted a new index containing 3.2 million searchable names to mark the centenary of PRONI. These are related to Valuation records between 1864 and 1933. The General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO) now allows you to order instant-access images of birth records from 1837 to 1922 and death records from 1837 to 1887. The digital images cost £2.50 each and can be downloaded, and then printed. (The records are images of the details from the certificate but not the certificate itself.) Drew recaps the newest records releases at FamilySearch.
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Lisa wrote about her census mystery searching for her ancestor Felice Giuseppe Maturo and his brother, Liberato Maturo, in the 1910 U.S. Federal Census in New Haven, Connecticut. The Guys researched and Drew shares our findings. Tom wrote about his ancestor who served in the Revolutionary War and who he just discovered was a enslaver in Kentucky.
The Guys discuss U.S. patents. For both of them, one of their great-grandfathers filed two patents for inventions. The Guys were able to search the USPTO (United States Patents and Trademarks Office) patent database at https://www.uspto.gov/patents/search or Google's Patent database, and quickly located the patent files. Each file contained a schematic diagram of the invention and text pages with detailed descriptions. (Trademarks can be searched in the trademarks database at https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search .) Please listen to the podcast for details about disconnects and reloading pages in the databases.

Drew recommended acquiring a small glass desktop whiteboard that can sit between the keyboard and display and provide additional storage. An example (the one that Drew bought) can be found on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PBK52W5 , but many companies sell them in a variety of colors.

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SUMMER SALE CONTINUES! The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription website is on sale for $64.00 per year – a 35% saving ! We have scores of videos and written courses, and new content is added each month. Visit https://genealogyguyslearn.com/ , click the Enroll Now button, and complete the subscription form. Be sure to click on the Add Coupon link and use coupon code Summer2023 . This deal is for new subscriptions only and is in effect until midnight ET on 30 June 2023. Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has announced the release of the 1931 Census of Canada. They are also collaborating with Ancestry and FamilySearch to make images and indexes available. MyHeritage has released ReImagine, a new photo scanning and editing tool for iOS and Android mobile phones. MyHeritage announced a recap of the release of 46 million historical records collections in May 2023. George recaps those collections. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. The TSLAC Newspaper Collection is now live and available for free online. More than 4,500 issues of historical Texas newspapers from TSLAC’s collection, published from 1855 to 1930, are available online through UNT’s Portal to Texas History . The National Genealogical Society (NGS) and Vivid-Pix announced the Family Matters Community Outreach Toolkit Lending Service for NGS member organizations. Read the full press release at the Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2023/05/ngs-and-vivid-pix-announce-family.html . Drew recaps the newest records releases at FamilySearch.
Listener Email
Judy in Avon, Ohio, wrote again to state that she had not fully explored the RootsMagic tutorial videos. She is now much more comfortable with RM9 and fully endorses it. Judy also wrote that she has tested DNA with Ancestry and discovered one match that has taken her research back another generation. Drew provides some guidance about how to proceed. Michael wrote to reinforce the idea of focusing research on one’s great-grandparents and setting goals for what you want to learn about them. Cindy wrote again concerning her Swedish conundrum. She thanked The Guys for their advice. She has also done more research without success and asks listeners to share suggestions. Jerry wrote to reference our Episode #407 and a link http://www.ancestrallines.net/overview/ , a page that presents a new pedigree numbering system that has been developed for the family history and genealogy community as an alternative that visibly displays ancestral lines and generations in multiple presentation formats. He had trouble accessing the site, but The Guys confirmed that the .net site is still available.
Drew will be presenting this weekend, June 23-24, at the Barbara J. Brown Family History Seminar being held at the Archives of Michigan in Lansing. This annual event is a hybrid event. Participants can attend sessions either online or onsite. Registration details are available at https://www.michigan.gov/mhc/archives/family-history-seminar#RegistrationDetails .

Drew is busy preparing for his Irish research trip in early October with Donna Moughty and accompanied by his brother. He stresses that, before you make any research trip, prepare as much as possible in advance so you don’t lose valuable onsite time having to do that preliminary work there.

Don’t forget to order Drew’s new book, Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy , from Genealogical Publishing Company (https://genealogical.com/ ) or Amazon.com.

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Please also tell your friends and your genealogical society about our free podcasts, blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website. And the Genealogy Guys Learn site is on sale through 30 June 2023. (See above.)

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SUMMER SALE! The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription website is on sale for $64.00 per year – a 35% saving ! We have scores of videos and written courses, and new content is added each month. Visit https://genealogyguyslearn.com/ , click the Enroll Now button, and complete the subscription form. Be sure to click on the Add Coupon link and use coupon code Summer2023 . This deal is for new subscriptions only and is in effect until midnight ET on 30 June 2023. MyHeritage has released a new update to the data in its Theory of Family RelativityTM . The number of matches has increased by 78% to 136,713,021! MyHeritage announced the release of 20 million historical records collections in April 2023. George recaps those collections. MyHeritage recently added the 1910 Norway Census Collection. It now announces the addition of high-quality images for the collection. Ancestry and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced the resumption of the digitization of the War of 1812 Pension Files project. The indexed images will be available for free at Fold3 forever. Listen for updates about this important project. Drew recaps the newest record releases at FamilySearch.
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Jennifer in Oberlin, Ohio, responded to the email from Judy in Avon, Ohio, that we discussed in Episode 415. Judy wanted help with learning to use RootsMagic more effectively. Jennifer suggested attending the weekly drop-in genealogy group at the Oberlin Public Library. Missi wrote a long email asking for The Guys’ suggestions for how to restart her genealogy, what methodology to employ, how far to research collateral lines (siblings, in-laws, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) There are lots of things discussed and some good suggestions provided. Eric responded to Cindy from Episode 412 and her search for a Swedish immigrant. He suggested obtaining and reviewing naturalization records, which include the name of the person, country, and place of origin, name of the ship, port of arrival, and arrival date. The Petition for Naturalization form (second papers) required the name of the person now applying and the name under which the person arrived at the port. (They could be different.) The Swedish Household Examination Records are accessible at MyHeritage and can help in tracing the person back to birth, and the names of family members in the household. The Guys responded to Tom in Episode 415 who was searching the 1910 U.S census records in Cranesville, Erie County, Pennsylvania, to locate ancestors. The Guys did a great deal of research, and then asked Tom to provide names. Drew researched again and unfortunately could not find the people in any of the townships or precincts in the county. He concluded that the family was away or missed by the enumerator. Kathleen also responded to Judy in Avon, Ohio, offering supportive comments about learning basic tasks and then expanding her range, using RootsMagic’ videos, its online help, and maybe the new RootsMagic book. Ashley wrote with a question about ancestors’ passport application records. The Guys suggested using Ancestry’s or MyHeritage’s collections: U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925.
Don’t forget to order Drew’s new book, Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy , from Genealogical Publishing Company (https://genealogical.com/ ) or Amazon.com.

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Drew's new book, Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy , has been published by Genealogical Publishing Company. It is being acclaimed as the best new book for beginning genealogists. You can order it at https://genealogical.com/store/generation-by-generation/ or at Amazon.com. A color ebook version will be available soon. MyHeritage announced the release of 38 million historical records collections in March 2023. George recaps those collections. FamilySearch has named Debbie Gurtler as the new Assistant Director of the FamilySearch Library. Findmypast has released two important collections: Ireland, Diocese of Dublin Marriage Licenses, 1638-1858, and Ireland, Diocese of Dublin Wills and Grants, 1270-1858.
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Jean wrote to announce that she has purchased Drew's new book for the West Hempstead Library in New York. Laura in Connecticut wrote about researching the Smith surname in Ireland. Judy in Ohio wrote to ask about getting help with learning how to use RootsMagic more effectively. The Guys suggested watching the scores of recorded videos at the RootsMagic site. (Visit https://www.rootsmagic.com/ and click the Learn dropdown list. There also are short videos on RootsMagic TV on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/RootsMagicTV . D. A. wrote about the print quality of images in the new RootsMagic 9 book. Donna Moughty responded to address Gabriel's Irish research request for suggestions in researching his ancestor James Thomas Donoghue. Donna's thoughtful comments will be helpful to all Irish researchers. Rick in Wisconsin wrote concerning reporting formats that he can use for use in documenting his family's Benedict Arnold, who was not the infamous Benedict Arnold. Tom posed a research conundrum he has encountered in researching his family in the 1910 U.S. Federal census in Cranesville, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He cannot locate the enumeration district (ED) for that place. The Guys spent some time replicating his research and delving into EDs in that area and, using people living in Cranesville in 1920 and locating them at the same residences in 1910, narrowed the ED down to #66. We've asked for specific names and will recheck those as well. Listener suggestions are also very welcome.
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Drew Smith’s new book, Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy , has been published by Genealogical Publishing Company. It is being acclaimed as the best new book for beginning genealogists. You can order it at https://genealogical.com/store/generation-by-generation/ or at Amazon.com. A new Kindle version will be available soon. MyHeritage announced the release of cM Explainer™, an innovative, free new feature on MyHeritage that estimates familial relationships between DNA Matches with high accuracy. Learn more at https://blog.myheritage.com/2023/03/introducing-cm-explainer-to-predict-relationships-between-dna-matches-with-greater-accuracy/ . MyHeritage announced the third installment of their pro bono DNA Quest initiative with 5,000 free DNA testing kits to be donated to help reunite adoptees with their birth families through genetic testing. Learn more at https://blog.myheritage.com/2023/03/myheritage-announces-third-installment-of-dna-quest-initiative/ . MyHeritage added 19 million new records to its collections in February 2023. See the complete list at https://blog.myheritage.com/2023/03/myheritage-adds-19-million-records-in-february-2023/ . RootsMagic has released RootsMagic 9 for both PC and macOS with the addition of new tools. There is a new book, Getting the Most Out of RootsMagic 9 , that describes how to use the new version. As always, there are new videos about all the operations of the software. Learn more at http://blog.rootsmagic.com/?p=3635 . Ancestry has launched a new mobile app called Storymaker Studio to assist in creating and sharing family stories on the go. Learn more at https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/newsroom/press-releases/ancestry--launches-storymaker-studio- . FamilySearch has announced that the 1931 Census of Canada will be released on 1 June 2023 at the Library and Archives (LAC) Canada website. Read more at https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/corporate/website-updates/pages/census-1931.aspx . Following the release, LAC will collaborate with Ancestry and FamilySearch to create an advanced searchable database. The International African American Museum has set its opening day in Charleston, South Carolina, for Tuesday, 27 June 2023. Learn more at https://iaamuseum.org/ .
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Susan wrote to say she was unable to order software from Evidentia at https://evidentiasoftware.com/ . Apparently, they were migrating their website and encountered some delay with the transfer. However, the site is up and running again. Gabriel wrote about an Irish mystery for his ancestor, James Thomas Donoghue. Listeners are urged to share ideas and suggestions. Rosemary wrote about finding Order Book B (1812-1822) for Lewis County, Kentucky. Work is underway with the Kentucky Department of Library Archives and FamilySearch to make the images, transcription, and index available for use. Debbie wrote about her search for her husband’s gg-grandparents, Corbin Gallaher and Elizabeth Johnson Riley. She shared her research and was looking for advice. George located an 1860 U.S. census record that shows Corbin Gallagher and wife Elizabeth operating a hotel in Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, USA, with a John and Elizabeth Gallagher, as well as staff and guests. (See https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/39477398:7667?_phsrc=nPp614&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=corbin&gsln=gallagher&ml_rpos=1&queryId=98f1cd13552743d06264ab0091c344ad . George later found a marriage record listing at Ancestry for the couple dating from 25 June 1836 in Mason County, Kentucky at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2586443:61372?tid=&pid=&queryId=e3e3038ff052. 3aeb5f8f53e8eefabe27&_phsrc=nPp617&_phstart=successSource . The Guys suggest also searching for surname spelling variations. Suggestions are urged from our listeners.
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Drew Smith's new book, Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy , has been published by Genealogical Publishing Company. You can order it at https://genealogical.com/store/generation-by-generation/ . On January 4, 2023, the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) proposed substantial increases to the fees required to access historical records held by the USCIS Genealogy Program. The proposed hikes are especially infuriating, given that many of these records should already be publicly and readily available at the National Archives. They have proposed a fee as high as $340 for a single document. Send your comments by Monday, March 6, 2023. Visit the "Records, Not Revenue" website at https://www.recordsnotrevenue.com/ to learn more about how to make your voice heard. RootsTech, the FamilySearch annual genealogical mega-conference, will be held March 3-5. There's still time to enroll for in-person attendance or virtual participation at https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/event/rt2023 . MyHeritage added 41 million historical records in January 2023. George details each collection. Genealogical Publishing Company (https://genealogical.com/ ) has announced the “My GPC Library” subscription service that provides access to nearly 800 titles spanning 70 years of publishing. A 15% introductory discount is currently available for 6-month and 1-year subscriptions at https://genealogical.com/subscriptions/ . More titles will be added over time.
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Curt and Lisa both wrote to offer suggestions for Cindy's questions in Episode 412 regarding Swedish research. Nancy responded to Donna's inquiry in Episode 412 concerning suggestions about methods for how to pay for foreign genealogical research. Joshua asks about a format for a letter to be used in disproving incorrect family connections. Judi sent a detailed email to Drew regarding Bannon families in Essex County, New Jersey, and in Ireland. Timo wrote to advise how to turn off AirTag notifications for usual places.
Drew's Upcoming Ireland Research Trip

Drew discusses a genealogy research trip he and his brother are making to Ireland in October 2023. He continues to talk about the preparations he is making and will provide more over the coming months. And you can be sure he will report back about how well his preparations served him on the trip.

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MyHeritage announces a new, free, searchable collection, Israel Immigration Lists, consisting of 1.7 million records from 1919 onwards, transcribed by MyHeritage from images stored at the Israel Archive. Dr. Wanda Wyporska, Chief Executive Officer of the Society of Genealogists, is stepping down in March 2023 to accept a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at another organization. World Archives has rebranded as Storied and has launched a new, next-generation family history platform at https://storied.com/ . The Family History Library has been renamed the FamilySearch Library, and Family History Centers have been renamed FamilySearch Centers. Drew recaps the vast new and expanded collections at FamilySearch from January 2023.
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Dave asks for suggestions about the thousands of genealogy research tasks he has entered into his Family Tree Maker software. He would like suggestions for how to view these tasks on his iPhone and iPad. Donna wants suggestions about methods for how to pay for international genealogical research, and The Guys ask listeners for input. Irene provides tips for Drew on his upcoming Irish research trip. Cindy is researching a friend’s Swedish grandfather who emigrated from Sweden to the U.S. She is looking for his origins in Sweden, and has performed extensive research but without success. George suggested MyHeritage’s collection of Swedish Household Examination Books and asks listeners for other suggestions.
Drew’s Upcoming Research Trip

Drew discusses a genealogy research trip that he and his brother are making to Ireland in October 2023. He continues to talk about the preparations he is making and will provide more over the coming months. And you can be sure he will report back about how well his preparations served him on the trip.

Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

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MyHeritage announces Global Name TranslationTM for DNA Matches. (See our Genealogy Guys Blog posting at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2022/12/myheritage-announces-new-global-name.html . Drew shares the 2022 FamilySearch Genealogy Highlights. Drew recaps the vast new and expanded collections at FamilySearch from November and December 2022.
Book Review

George and Drew review Nathan Dylan Goodwin’s latest genealogy mystery book, The Sawtooth Slayer , a Venator Cold Case. Top-notch!

Listener Email
Deborah wrote about the 60 Minutes segment concerning Black cemeteries in Florida. See the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT9TaQcWcFs . Shannon wrote concerning how to locate and obtain medical information for people who were institutionalized in asylums.
Drew’s Upcoming Research Trip

Drew discusses a genealogy research trip that he and his brother are making to Ireland in October 2023. He talks about the preparations he has begun and will provide more over the coming months. And you can be sure he will report back about how well his preparations served him on the trip.

Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

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Watch the Genealogy Guys Blog (blog.genealogyguys.com ) or our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/genealogyguys ) on Friday, 25 November 2022, for a big announcement!

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MyHeritage has completed publishing the 1950 U.S. Census for all the states and territories. MyHeritage has released a new, fun photo tool called AI Time MachineTM . The Society of Genealogists has announced the purchase of new premises for themselves in London. Drew recaps the vast new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
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Melissa contacted us to make a connection in Chester County, Pennsylvania, about the Worrall family. Phoebe asks Drew about pursuing an MLIS degree. Tom wrote concerning the possible unreliability of dates chiseled on tombstones. Edward asks for advice about breaking through a brick wall in 1750s Pennsylvania. Donald wrote about the excellent holdings of the Chester County Archives in Chester County, Pennsylvania. (http://chesco.org/192/Archives-Records .
George talks about the record types he uses in researching the Zion Cemetery Project in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida.

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We apologize for the delay in the publication of this episode. Hurricane Ian and some severe computer problems have presented production challenges.

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American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society celebrated the lifetime contributions of David Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer of FamilySearch, with its Preservation and History Award on 27 October 2022. MyHeritage has announced three major improvements to their service: Sorting abilities for Shared DNA Matches; The addition of 30 new historical record selections and 31 million new records added in September; and New and improved Family Statistics for your uploaded family tree/GEDCOM. Nathan Dylan Goodwin’s newest book, the second book in the Venator Cold Case Series, The Sawtooth Slayer , has just been released in paperback and Kindle formats. RootsTech 2023 registration is open for the largest genealogy conference, to be held 2-4 March 2023 in Salt Lake City, Utah. You may register to attend in person or virtually at https://www.rootstech.org . George shares information about the BYU Family History Technology Lab at https://familytech.byu.edu . Genealogy-related games and research and visualization tools are fun and fascinating. Drew highlights new and updated collections added at FamilySearch in September.
Listener Email
Daniel writes to describe a DNA brick wall challenge. Tom B. discussed WWII-era photos and the fact that he has scanned them. Now, what should he do with the originals? Tom S. wrote to share a brick wall breakthrough that he, his cousin, and his mother made by checking various online services and then going back and checking them for new record additions.
George discussed his work on scanning photos he has carried with him for as long as 60 years. He discussed the Fujitsu SV600 Scanner, the ScanSnap software that comes with the scanner, his storage in Dropbox, his naming conventions, and using Vivid-Pix Restore to improve the images. He discusses his conundrum about how to obtain images from photo negatives, Kodak photo disks, and other non-paper media. He shares surprises he found that help him identify persons in many unlabeled photos. Finally, he shares Tom B.’s concerns about what to do with originals.

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MyHeritage has added 74 collections with 130 million new historical records. Read our blog to learn more. Unlock the Past has announced that the Family History Down Under 2022 Conference will be held 8-11 November 2022 at Castle Hill, near Sydney, Australia. You can attend in person or virtually. Full details and registration can be found at https://www.fhdu22.com/ . Findmypast has implemented Tree Search at its site “with instant connections and new discoveries waiting to help your family tree bloom.” Findmypast has added Derbyshire Baptisms, Durham Marriages, and Northamptonshire Burials Baptisms. FamilySearch was presented with the Historic Preservation Award by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Drew highlights new and updated collections added at FamilySearch in July and August.
Listener Email
Angela had written asking for suggestions for locating railroad employment records in the U.S. for his Italian great-grandfather. Expert Paula Stuart-Warren provides a wealth of resource suggestions. Karl asks about using DNA testing to identify the parents of Nathanial Oak, born circa 1645 in England or Wales. Drew provides suggestions regarding Y-DNA testing and joining a DNA surname group at Family Tree DNA. Kristina writes to celebrate her success in finding a wealth of criminal records for her great-grandfather at the Indiana State Archives.
Giveaway

The Guys are giving away a copy of their Brick Wall Research Strategies quicksheet, based on their book, Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques (McGraw-Hill, 2013). Send an email to genealogyguys@gmail.com by midnight EDT on 30 September 2002. Write BRICK WALL in the subject line, and include your name and postal address in the body of the email. This offer is only valid for U.S. residents.

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The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription website has added several new written and video courses, with more coming regularly. You can subscribe at https://genealogyguyslearn.com/ . MyHeritage released 22 new collections in June. Findmypast has added new records to its Middlesex Baptisms, Surrey Baptisms, and Greater London Burial Index collections. Drew highlights new and updated collections added at FamilySearch this week.
DNA Segment
Drew and DNA expert Diahan Southard discuss AncestryDNA's new SideView feature. https://www.yourdnaguide.com/ydgblog/ancestrydna-sideview
Vivid-Pix Memory Segment
Drew interviews Allison Singleton of the Allen County Public Library about their plans to mobilize photo scanning to retirement facilities.
Listener Email
Kathy writes to thank George for his spot-on coverage of the 1950 U.S. Federal Census and what is and isn’t available. Karen in Australia tells us the difference of update frequencies at Ancestry’s ThruLines and MyHeritage’s Theory of Family Relativity. Brian writes about digitizing your family history research as a method of guaranteeing that your work is preserved after you are gone. He also talks about surname binders and other organizational considerations. He suggests you check out the Ancestral Lines Pairing System at https://www.ancestrallines.net/overview/ . Judith is interested in the possibility of obtaining records from the Orange Orphan Home in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. George responds to Jim about James Berry Holder [Sr.] and available records to verify both his birth and death dates. Mark shares his six-step plan for organizing his genealogical materials. It is a focused task list that can be used by anyone.
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The Guys want to thank everyone in the genealogical community for supporting their decision to terminate sponsorship by Find a Grave and Newspapers.com (subsidiaries of Ancestry.com). MyHeritage announces the release of the addition of two significant record collections: Norway Emigration Registers, 1867-1973, and the Vienna, Austria, Jewish Emigrant Applications, 1938-1939. MyHeritage announces a new update to its Theory of Family Relativity. The Genealogist has added a link to their Map Explorer georeference facility to the 1891 Census for the UK. It allows you to jump from the census household record to a detailed map to see where your ancestors lived and explore the neighborhood. Findmypast has added half a million new records for Pennsylvania: List of British Prisoners in the War of Revolution; Episcopalian Births and Baptisms; Episcopalian Marriages; Episcopalian Deaths and Burials; and Episcopalian Congregational Records.
DNA Segment
DNA expert Diahan Southard returns to discuss with Drew a comparison of Ancestry's ThruLines and MyHeritage's Theory of Family Relativity.
https://www.yourdnaguide.com/ydgblog/ancestry-thrulines

https://www.yourdnaguide.com/ydgblog/myheritage-theory-of-family-relativity

Vivid-Pix Memory Segment
Drew interviews Hayley Studer, CEO of achi, to discuss achi's involvement with the study of using photographs to engage persons who have memory issues.
Listener Email
Mark shares information about how he has used social media to create private Facebook pages for relatives to share posts, photographs, and other information. Brian wrote to comment on the importance of sourcing all of the information you contribute to FamilySearch's Family Tree and to other online sites. Karin listens in Germany and wrote to comment about our previous discussion of African ancestry showing up in DNA results, and also shared two important online resources for German research: GEDBAS at https://gedbas.genealogy.net/?lang=en OFBs at https://ofb.genealogy.net/ Gigi wrote about having located prison records for one man at Ancestry and subsequently connecting with a half-second cousin (his daughter). Kate wrote to share her discovery of her great-uncle’s prison records and mug shots at the California State Archive.
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Family Tree Magazine announced their 101 Best Genealogy Websites for Genealogy for 2022, and the Genealogy Guys Podcast was again included. MyHeritage published 11 million new German historical records (Germany, Hesse, Deaths) MyHeritage added 1.3 billion historical records in 37 collections in April and May. The Genealogist is a tiered subscription website for English genealogical research at https://www.thegenealogist.com/ . They have announced the addition of georeferenced maps for the 1901 census. These allow you to search to locate people in the census and then view a map that pinpoints the residence so that you can gain a visual perspective of the exact location. Findmypast has added: British Army, Recommendations for Military Honours and Awards, 1935-1990; South Africa, Local Armed Forces Nominal Rolls, 1899-1902; Britain, Campaign, Gallantry & Long Service Medals & Awards; England, Newspaper Birth Notices; England, Newspaper Marriage Notices; and England, Newspaper Death Notices. FamilySearch has published its 100,000th article on the FamilySearch Research Wiki. FamilySearch has announced that RootsTech 2023 will be a blended conference with both in-person and virtual presentations. Drew shares highlights of new historical records at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment
DNA expert Diahan Southard returns with a new discussion with Drew about Y-DNA.

YDNA Testing (how many markers: https://www.yourdnaguide.com/ydna

Inspiring YDNA stories:

YDNA Reveals a Scottish Clan Connection

Combining Test Types–YDNA and Autosomal–To Find Connections between Families of the Same Surname

YDNA “Paternity Test” for an Ancestor: Identifying an Ancestral Birth Father

YDNA Points to an Unexpected–and Specific–Part of the World for Paternal Origins

Listener Email
Mark shares information about how his Eagle Scout group project mapped and transcribed tombstones in the Aldrich Family Cemetery in his Rhode Island hometown. They then cleared tons of small brush. He has recently worked to add missing entries to Find a Grave. Julie shared the 1950 U.S. Federal Census images with her parents. She downloaded the enumeration districts in which they lived. They enjoyed taking “a virtual” walk down the streets and remembering their neighbors, playmates, and schoolmates. Julie enjoyed their stories and learned a great deal about their lives. Bill writes about how he uses the FamilySearch Family Tree In conjunction with his desktop database and trees he has loaded to Ancestry and MyHeritage. Matt is seeking additional research strategies to obtain copies of a court case in Philadelphia for a 4th great-uncle. Tom wrote about himself, his mother, and a sister having a small trace of African-American ancestry at the GEDmatch site. The Ancestry DNA matches also show a small percentage. He wants to know more. Drew provides some advice, including the possibility that this may be “noise” in the matches. Curtis is looking for mug shots for his father’s father since he was arrested and spent time in prison several times. Lynn asks about what to do with one’s genealogy work as inheritance.
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George recommends listening to MyHeritage’s podcast, “Blast From My Past”, which can be found at https://shows.acast.com/blast-from-my-past . Ancestry introduces its Ethnicity Inheritance powered by SideViewTM Findmypast has added new records to its UK collection Electoral Registers & Companies House Directors. Lynn Turner has been named the new Director of the FamilySearch Family History Library. Drew shares an overview of new and expanded record collections at FamilySearch.
1950 U.S. Federal Census Discussion
Drew discusses the AI indexing processes in use by Ancestry and FamilySearch, and census records at MyHeritage. Kathy from California emailed us with questions about the availability of a number of the different census record forms from this census. George covers the different forms used and whether they were imaged before they were destroyed and which are digitally available. These include P1 (Population Schedule), P2 (Individual Census Report), P3 (Infant Cards), P4 (Crews of Vessels Report), P5 (Overseas Census), P8 (Native Americans), and various P forms used for enumerating territories. Michael from Germany used Stephen P. Morse’s extensive census tools at https://stevemorse.org/ to locate enumeration districts and access a sample P1 form. Detailed information about the 1950 Census is available on the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) pages at https://1950census.archives.gov/ and on subsequent pages. Don’t overlook the FAQs at https://1950census.archives.gov/howto/faq.html which is filled with a wealth of information you should know.
Listener Email
Chris asks for suggestions about how to locate/pinpoint a specific headstone. George provides some suggestions. Rebecca wants to know if there is a way for Find a Grave to notify a person when their memorials have been deleted or reassigned to another person. Tina wrote to say she enjoyed the Vivid-Pix Memory Segment regarding using photographs with patients suffering from dementia patients. We will be hosting more interviews soon. Keep listening! Tina also asked about how to balance using RootsMagic, Ancestry, and FamilySearch without feeling that she is duplicating efforts. Timo in Germany wrote with suggestions about place name changes and how to structure them in your genealogy. He suggests the use in German research of the website at http://gov.genealogy.net/search/index . He says: “The GOV is for Germany and many former German places the place to go to look up the former names, belongings in civil registers or churches. It might happen that a village belong[s] to the one civil register and to another church. With the GOV you could search for the current or the former name of a city, village, or a place itself.&rdquo ‘Let me give you the example of Riegersdorf (German name), now Rudziczka (Polish): http://gov.genealogy.net/item/show/object_188576 .&rdquo ‘You will find both names and the time period, type (village), population (1492 in this case), webpages (GenWiki), external ID (which is for library uses), link to GenWiki, geo position = coordinates to find the place on a map.” Maya wrote to say that she had about 200 letters written in Yiddish, which she does not read. She offered them to the National Library of Israel for digitation and preservation and possibly translation. Jo Ann has an ancestor from Rowan County, North Carolina, whom she thinks may have been a spy during the American Revolution. She asks for places she might go to in order to investigate the story. Matt in Omaha, Nebraska, tells us he uses quotation marks around a name – such as “Mr King” – to force the search for that exact string. Laura writes to ask why someone might have/use two desktop genealogy database programs. Ed is working on publishing a family history for distribution within his family. He has an older work that he would like to use and incorporate some of its content. He asks about how to give credit to the original author. The Guys discuss copyright and fair use considerations and suggest how the source citations could/should be included.
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News You Can Use and Share! The 1950 U.S. Federal Census has been released and The Guys discuss several aspects: The images are available at: the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) at https://1950census.archives.gov/ ; MyHeritage.com at https://www.myheritage.com/ ; Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/ . There are a number of important census tools available to you at: NARA Census Resources at https://1950census.archives.gov/howto/ ; the MyHeritage Content Hub at https://myheritage.com/census/us/ ; the MyHeritage Census Helper at https://www.myheritage.com/census-helper-241251921 ; Ancestry.com 1950 Census District Finder at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/district-map/62308 ; and One-Step Web Pages by Stephen P. Morse at https://stevemorse.org/ . The Guys discuss the 1950 enumeration process and extra pages used by enumerators. Drew shares some information from a recent Ancestry survey. George discusses MyHeritage’s news from RootsTech including: LiveStory Blast From My Past Podcast Family Tree Timeline Filae Family Tree Profiles Drew discusses the release of records online by the New York City Municipal Archives at https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/ . The David Rumsey Map Collection has announced a partnership with Machines Reading Maps (MRM) to read and add searchable text to the map collection. The Society of Genealogists has announced the beginning of a digital project called TreeSearch which will digitize historical pedigree rolls in their collection. Findmypast has added 50K new Lincolnshire Burials, and the Quaker Women’s Petition of 1659. FamilySearch is seeking volunteers for its 1950 U.S. Census Community Project. The Genealogist at https://www.thegenealogist.com/ has updated their version of the 1939 Register with a new, detailed mapping feature and 258,000 newly unredacted persons.
Listener Email
David writes concerning using placenames for events based on what governmental entity was in control at the time of the event. Marianna writes about GEDmatch and having received three suspicious email inquiries. Suzanne asks about obtaining court records for a murder trial in Perry County, Alabama, in which some family were involved.
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MyHeritage has published 5.8 million records from 28 collections from JewishGen (https://www.jewishgen.org/ ) made possible through a collaboration with the Museum of Jewish Heritage (https://mjhnyc.org/ ) and JewishGen. Ancestry announces the new Ancestry Stories on the Ancestry mobile app to combine photographs, shared historical records, and text to craft a story about an ancestor in your family tree. George shares an excellent online resource, Immigration History, at https://immigrationhistory.org/ . Drew shares complete details about the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the upcoming release of the 1950 U.S. Census on 1 April 2022. (See the NARA page at https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1950 RootsTech 2022 arrives this week on 3-5 March. Sign up for free at https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/ . Then enjoy connecting with other attendees at RootsTech Relatives at https://www.familysearch.org/en/connect/ . Drew shares his regular recap of highlights of new historical records at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment

Drew discusses helping adopted people with DNA expert Diahan Southard. Resources for this discussion include:
https://www.yourdnaguide.com/dna-birth-family DNA Mystery Match? How to Respond DNA Support Resources for Adoption and DNA Surprises (NPE) Handling Unexpected DNA Connections DNA Test Surprise: Breaking the News with Compassion
Vivid-Pix Memory Segment

Drew talks with Sue Kaufman, Senior Manager of the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research (part of the Houston Public Library) in Houston, Texas.

Listener Email
Drew follows up on Kendra’s cemetery project work previously discussed in Episode #401. (The Zion Cemetery Project uses Trello as a database management tool.) Kendra works with the Randolph County Public Library in Asheboro, North Carolina. They have an interactive cemetery map at https://www.randolphlibrary.org/ under History & Genealogy>Randolph County Cemeteries (or https://randolphlibrary.libguides.com/c.php?g=710731&p=8447398 ). Pam asked about GEDmatch (https://www.gedmatch.com/ ) and the ability to specify that you do or do not want your data to be accessible by law enforcement. Sunni asked about headright, especially concerning her ancestor in Georgia, and asks why headrights might possibly only be partially executed. George provides an explanation of what a headright is and how some may not have been completed. Michael asks Drew about his Boddie/Bodie family. Drew provides lots of details and refers Michael to the book, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia , by John Bennett Boddie.
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News You Can Use and Share! The National Institute for Dementia Education recognizes the value of Photo Recognition Therapy for dementia patients. Our sponsor Vivid-Pix is an integral participant in this effort. Read the full press release at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2022/02/national-institute-for-dementia.html . MyHeritage has added a new Table View for search results. The Association of Professional Genealogists announced their new elected leadership. The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) has announced its new director, Amberly Beck. MyHeritage has established the new Chris Darrington scholarship for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. Full details are available at https://slig.ugagenealogy.org/cpage.php?pt=620 . Findmypast has published 2.1 million records for Berkshire, England, the Jamaican Manumission Index, and new records for Norfolk, England. FamilySearch announces its plans for 2022. FamilySearch announced its 1950 US Census Community Project and has invited volunteers to participate. See details at https://www.familysearch.org/en/info/us-census/1950-census/ . Drew shares his regular recap of highlights of new historical records at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment

Drew and DNA expert Diahan Southard discuss whether the GEDmatch website still has a role to play. More details from Diahan are here: https://www.yourdnaguide.com/upload-to-gedmatch

Vivid-Pix Memory Segment

Drew talks with Joshua Freitas, Chief Research Officer of the CERTUS Institute (https://www.certusseniorliving.com/certus-institute ) and Rick Voight, CEO of Vivid-Pix (https://www.vivid-pix.com/ ).

Listener Email
A number of listeners shared the way that they listen to the podcast, including Pocket Casts (https://www.pocketcasts.com/ ); Podcast Addict (https://podcastaddict.com/ ); Overcast (https://overcast.fm/ ); and Plex TV (https://www.plex.tv/ ). Pat describes genealogical research through the decades. Timo responds to our listener who is seeking to translate 300 letters written in French. He has used Transkribus (https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/ ) and their French translation module at https://readcoop.eu/model/french-general-model/ . [A download is necessary.] Vic has used Fiverr (https://www.fiverr.com/ ) to locate translators and has worked with a French translator. Kendra is working on several African American projects, including slave schedules, a church, and a cemetery. She asked how the research on the Zion Cemetery Project is organized. Drew and George provide lots of details, and they invite listeners to share their project information.
Zion Cemetery Project
Drew presented at a community meeting on 16 February 2022 at the Tampa Bay History Center. Dr. Antoinette Jackson, the Anthropology Chair at the University of South Florida and primary investigator for the project, led the meeting. She showcased the Black Cemetery Network (https://blackcemeterynetwork.org/ ) which was created to provide a coordinated place for Black cemetery research and preservation projects. The Guys urge our listeners to check the site, join, and to share details about projects in their areas. The first funeral in 100 years was held at Zion Cemetery on 17 February 2022. It was held to commemorate Anna Rebecca Wyche. Read the article from the Tampa Tribune at https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/history/2022/02/17/100-years-after-the-black-cemetery-was-erased-tampas-zion-hosts-a-funeral/ .
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Welcome to our 400th episode of the Genealogy Guys Podcast! We’re celebrating this milestone – in addition to our 80 episodes of Genealogy Connection!
The Guys congratulate the Johnson County Genealogical Society in Overland Park, Kansas, and the Pinellas Genealogy Society in Largo, Florida, on their 50th Anniversary Year!

News You Can Use and Share
Newspapers.com celebrates its accomplishments in 2021, including 25 million clippings by users, and shares some plans for 2022. Findmypast has released the long-awaited digitized 1921 Census of England and Wales. FMP has also released the 1921 Census of England and Wales Official Reports, and these add summarized data to provide more insight into the lives of the communities in which your ancestors may have lived. Drew shares his regular recap of highlights of new historical records at FamilySearch.
Listener Email
Debra asked about consumer credit directories. George reached out to genealogist and author Michael J. Leclerc who provided the background of these interesting directories which ultimately became Dun & Bradstreet. Learn where the records are located and the rules for access. (Michael’s book, Benjamin Franklin’s Family: Volume I: English Ancestors , is a definitive book on the man.) Jason and Rachel shared their experiences with the reMarkable 2 e-ink tablet and how it helps them with their genealogical work. The Guys also shared how they are using their reMarkables. Eric wrote to provide feedback on our recent discussion about how to record location names on events in genealogical databases. Kimberly wrote to share one of the RootsMagic 8 reports that can help you determine who might be around for the 1950 U.S. Federal Census. John wrote to describe how he uses PowerPoint templates for timelines. Rich obtained records for his uncle’s WWII service in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the top-secret operations group. The OSS Society at http://osssociety.org can help put you in touch with someone who can help with your research and access. Anita asks about computer-assistive/OCR software that might scan and translate handwritten French documents.
Zion Cemetery Project

George provides an update on his research into people buried in the erased African-American Zion Cemetery in Tampa. Drew provides a project update.

The Guys Speak

The Guys will be presenting for the Ventura County [California] Genealogical Society’s virtual conference on 19 February 2022.

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Genealogy Book Club

The Guys are participating in a virtual genealogy book club hosted by the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa. Is your society doing anything like this? Let us know!

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News You Can Use and Share The Guys welcome two new sponsors to our family: Newpapers.com and Find a Grave. Researchers studying the Clotilda , the last known slave ship to reach America, have discovered much of the ship is still intact. They anticipate that there may be surviving DNA and other artifacts. FamilySearch has published a Year in Review for 2021. Drew provides an overview of the latest updates from FamilySearch.
Listener Email
Tom asks questions about the reMarkable tablet and their data plans. Tom has also digitized Super-8 movies from Christmas 1960. He is also looking for a timeline to use to track his father’s WWII military service. George suggests checking Cyndi’s List at https://cyndislist.com/charts/timelines/ . Listeners are urged to email The Guys with their suggestions. Karen is searching for information about an ancestor who settled in Augusta County, Virginia. She and a cousin are trying to determine if he came from Ireland, and they are questioning the veracity of a book that published content extracted from old county records that purport that he (and others) were Scotch-Irish. Sean Daly shares that Geneanet has passed 1 million indexed soldiers of Napoleon. He has written a blog post at https://en.geneanet.org/genealogyblog/post/2021/12/geneanets-community-has-indexed-over-a-million-of-napoleons-soldiers that includes a link to the collection. Bunny is looking for suggestions for kick-starting her Polish ancestral research. Matthew M. shares an extensive website that provides free access to digitized church registers from across Europe, including Germany, Austria, Poland, Serbia, and Slovenia. The site is Matricula Online at https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/ . Matthew G. is frustrated that the tax records for New Jersey are locked at FamilySearch. Drew suggests using their free look-up service as one aid, but raises the question for FamilySearch as to whether these records can be unlocked and made available.
Genealogy for Librarians and a New Book

Drew is teaching a genealogy course for librarians at the University of South Florida in Tampa in this new semester. It will incorporate videos made with Vivid-Pix and some of the foremost genealogy librarians in the U.S. The students will be using the pre-publication text of his forthcoming beginning genealogy book that will be published this year.

Zion Cemetery Project

George has been immersed in researching people buried in the “erased” African-American cemetery in Tampa. The project seeks to learn more about the people buried there, their families, any descendants, and more. He shares his vision of some of the products of this project.

Genealogy Guys Learn

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription site continues to grow each month. Drew has recorded a video, “Organizing Your Genealogical Files”, that has made its debut this month. New content is added every month. You can subscribe at https://genealogyguyslearn.com/ .

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The Guys announce the winner of the drawing for the Irish quicksheets by Donna M. Moughty as Richard A. Yehle of Sacramento. Look for the next drawing in the coming year.

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MyHeritage has announced that they have surpassed one million subscribers. Vivid-Pix has created free classes on “How to Zoom” and “Gathering Traditions” at https://www.vivid-pix.com/education/ . Vivid-Pix and Reunions Magazine share “7 Best COVID Travel Tips” in the December 2021 issue of the magazine. Findmypast has added the new Kent Electoral registers (1570-1907) and additions to the Kent Burials collection. They also added Warwickshire, Coventry Workhouse Deaths (1845-1943), Warwick Baptisms, and Waterford Poor Law Unions Board of Guardians Minute Books. Free registration for RootsTech 2022 has opened at http://RootsTech.org . (Drew will be speaking.) Drew provides an overview of the latest updates from FamilySearch.
Listener Email
In anticipation of the release of the 1950 U.S. Federal Census in April 2022, Laura asks how to produce a report from RootsMagic 8 of people alive at the time of the census. Keith is searching for his maternal grandfather. He can find a WWII draft registration card but cannot locate him in the 1940 census. Concetta asks about restricted FamilySearch records and how to locate them.
Book Review

The Guys review Nathan Dylan Goodwin’s latest Morton Farrier, Forensic Genealogist, mystery titled The Foundlings . He weaves a masterful tale about researching several infants born out of wedlock who were abandoned. The Guys think this is another excellent book from a talented author.

Tech Review

The Guys have each acquired a great new tool, the reMarkable 2. It is an ultra-thin tablet for taking notes, drawing, converting handwritten notes to text, saving them as PDFs to the cloud, organizing notes and documents, emailing notes, downloading PDFs and webpages, note-taking on PDFs, and even reading eBooks. (It isn’t a web browser.) The writing surface is almost identical in feel to writing on paper, and there are loads of templates for almost any type of note-taking or project you can imagine. The reMarkable 2 is a great tool to help you stay focused, and The Guys talk about how they are using theirs. Learn more at https://remarkable.com/ .

George talks about how he is continually working on his personal genealogy using MyHeritage, RootsMagic 8, and other tools. Drew talks about how he has been working on cleaning up his places in RootsMagic 8. The Guys also talk about their work on the Zion Cemetery Project.

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The Guys announce the winner of the drawing for the “Basics of Birth Certificates” quicksheet as Karen Webster of Queensland. Look for the next drawing later in the program.

News You Can Use and Share!
MyHeritage has introduced labels for DNA matches. News by way of the Society of Genealogists (https://www.sog.org.uk/) A new database of Ireland’s World War I dead has been launched at https://irelandsgreatwardead.ie . The National Library of Scotland has added Ordnance Survey maps for more than 400 English and Welsh towns (1840s to 1890s) at https://maps.nls.uk/os/townplans-england/towns.html . More will be added later. The Society of Genealogists has launched its Forum, an online place at its website (https://www.sog.org.uk/ ) for members to connect and share with others with common interests. Findmypast has added to its United States Obituaries Notices collection. It has also added the United States Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages. Indian Army Records of Service 1900-1947 have also been added. The 1939 Register has been updated to make available a number of previously redacted records. Drew provides an overview of the latest vast updates from FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew discusses how to get your DNA out there in as many places as possible with Diahan. Diahan provides directions here: https://www.yourdnaguide.com/transferring?rq=transfer

Listener Email
Kathleen talks about Facebook and finding our podcast. Dana discusses searching for records of a great-grandfather from Poland who relocated first to Canada and then to the United States, and what challenges citizenship records presented. Dana also shares that creating a spreadsheet comparing the timelines of the great-grandfather and others can be very useful. Natalie thanks The Guys for suggestions about how to join a FamilySearch indexing group for Eau Clair County, Wisconsin. Matt discusses his ancestors’ frequent movements between Germany and France before emigrating to the U.S. Tom discusses DNA matches, and the fact that some people upload a tree that may not be a biological family tree. The difference between a ‘genealogical family tree’ and a ‘biological family tree’ can confuse matters when adopted people are researching DNA matches. Donna M. Moughty, who leads excellent research trips to Ireland, has two planned trips in 2022: one in May and another in October. The trips will go to both Dublin and Belfast. Please visit her website at https://www.irishfamilyroots.com/ for details about the 2022 trips.
The Guys discuss using fan charts to represent your family tree and to help maintain focus on your linear research.

Quicksheet Drawing

Our next quicksheet giveaway is a trifecta! Donna M. Moughty has donated her three excellent guides in her Irish Research Series . Guide #1 is “Preparing for Success in Irish Research”; Guide #2 is “Irish Civil Registration and Church Records”; and Guide #3 is “Land, Tax and Estate Records in Ireland”. Send an email to genealogyguys@gmail.com by midnight Eastern Time on 15 December 2021. Put IRELAND in the subject line and your name and postal address in the body. Winner will be announced on the next podcast.

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Genealogy Guys Learn currently offers 40 video and 20 written courses with new content added every month. Courses range from beginning to advanced topics. A complete list of current courses and new topics coming soon can be found at https://ahaseminars.com/cpage.php?pt=29 .

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The Guys announce the winner of drawing for the “Brick Wall Strategies” quicksheet as Dana from Salem, Oregon. Look for the next drawing later in the program.

News You Can Use and Share!
RootsMagic 8 has been released. MyHeritage has updated its Theory of Family RelativityTM facility and massively increased the number of theories being produced. MyHeritage has added 462 million exclusive new French historical records. Nathan Dylan Goodwin’s latest forensic genealogical mystery book, The Foundlings , has just been released. Findmypast has added new U. S. marriage records and has released new marriage and banns records for Essex, England, 1537-1935. Findmypast has announced that the 1921 Census of England and Wales will be released on 6 January 2022. Drew recaps the vast new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew discusses MyHeritage's Theory of Family Relativity with Diahan.

Listener Email
Steve writes about locating his biological grandfather through DNA research. Stuart shares the usefulness of records in the “British Royal Navy Allotment Declarations 1795-1852” collection at Findmypast. Carol and Ed both wrote to express how much they enjoyed the interview with Bruce Buzbee of RootsMagic on the Genealogy Connection podcast (episode #080). Ed wrote about our discussion concerning pedigree collapse. Jean wrote to provide listeners with additional online resources for New York marriages. Tom asks about how valid are low cM levels in DNA matches and asks what level of grandparents should he be searching for. Cathy writes about Civil War records for homes for disabled veterans. Natalie asks how she can get involved with indexing at FamilySearch for a specific area of Wisconsin and specific church records. David wants advice about locating records of a great-great-grandfather who died at sea while emigrating from Ireland to the U. S. in the 1850s-1860s.
Quicksheet Drawing

The Guys will give away a quicksheet reference guide for “Basics of Birth Certificates”. Send an email to genealogyguys@gmail.com by midnight Eastern Time on 15 November 2021. Put BIRTH in the subject line and your name and postal address in the body. The winner will be announced on the next podcast.

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The Guys announce the winner of the drawing for the “Basic Birth Certificates” quicksheet as Francis from Cumming, Georgia. The next drawing is announced later in the program.

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage announces its new and improved colorization model for MyHeritage in ColorTM . MyHeritage has added two significant new collections. They are the Newspaper Name Index, USA and Canada, and the Scotland Census, 1841-1901. MyHeritage will be adding an index to the other half of the newspaper collection soon. The Society of Genealogists in London announced that its library catalog has been made available on the Library Hub Discover service. Findmypast has added the largest collection of historical local photographs, the Francis Frith Collection, to its searchable collections. Findmypast has added a new feature to the 1891, 1901, and 1911 censuses. It is a link for every search result to the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 and a detailed map is displayed on which you can see where your ancestors lived. Findmypast has added new parish records for Warwickshire, the Warwickshire, Coventry, Midwife’s Birth Register 1845-1875, and Turks & Caicos Life Events. Ancestry has released its new DNA ethnic estimates and includes 8 new regions. Drew recaps the vast new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew discusses endogamy vs. pedigree collapse with Diahan.

Listener Email
Judy writes to discuss challenges with New York State marriage records. Pam asks about records included in the updates from FamilySearch. George responds with suggestions, including a detailed discussion about how to use the search records facilities at FamilySearch for the following categories of records: indexed collections; image-only collections; and the catalog. He also recommends the use of the FamilySearch Research Wiki to access records online. Stacy Cole shares keen insights into the idea that the enslaved, once emancipated, took the surname of their last enslaver. Ryan wrote to provide an update on his research from six years ago about records relating to his great-grandmother’s suicide. He has had success finding elusive records and shares his experience.
Update on the Zion Cemetery Project

Drew provides an update on the fascinating Zion Cemetery Project in Tampa. He and volunteers are working to identify descendants and family members, gather information about the interred's lives and historical context, and create a lasting memorial. They are collaborating with University of South Florida faculty and alumni, members of local genealogy societies, community members, and nationally known professional genealogists. More updates will be shared in future podcast episodes.

Quicksheet Drawing

The Guys will give away a quicksheet reference guide for “Brick Wall Research Strategies”. Send an email to genealogyguys@gmail.com no later than 12 midnight Eastern Time on October 1, 2021. Put BRICK WALL in the subject line and your name and postal address in the body. The winner will be announced on the next Genealogy Guys Podcast.

Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

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George and Drew are available for virtual presentations for your local society. Contact us at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

News You Can Use and Share!
Ancestry announces the release of a massive collection of Freedman’s Bureau records with every-name indexing and images. The records are free to use with your free Ancestry guest membership. Ancestry announced a change in its Terms of Service concerning their rights to use content that members upload. MyHeritage announced that it is acquiring Filae, the French genealogical company. MyHeritage has released 9.7 million new and updated records for Pernambuco, Brazil, and 4.7 million birth, marriage, and death records from New Zealand. MyHeritage has made major improvements to its Online Family Tree, and these improve navigation and access to records links. The Society of Genealogists in London, England, has appointed Dr. Wanda Wyporska as its new CEO, effective 1 October 2021. Findmypast has released new and updated collection records: Scotland, Parish Births (1564-1929), Marriages and Banns (1561-1893), and Deaths (1564-2017); British Army, Royal Engineers (1900-1949); British Army tracer cards; Essex Parish Records; Royal Engineers Casualty Cards; an expanded Greater London Burial Index, and more. Findmypast is making over 1 million pages of 158 historical British newspapers available for free. Drew recaps the vast new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew discusses the importance of descendancy research with Diahan.

Listener Email
Stuart reported on his recent success with Drew’s Key Lime Pound Cake recipe. (Drew originally discussed this recipe in a December 2019 episode, and emailed copies to anyone who requested it.) Jane asks for suggestions about what to do with her mother’s 60+ years of genealogical research files.
Quicksheet Drawing

The Guys will give away a quicksheet reference guide for “Basics of Birth Certificates” in the U.S. Send an email to genealogyguys@gmail.com by midnight U.S. Eastern Time September 1, 2021. Put BIRTH in the email subject line and your name and postal address in the body. The winner will be announced on the next podcast.

Drew’s WikiTree Challenge

Drew’s genealogy was the focus on a one-week genealogy challenge at WikiTree. Volunteer researchers delved into his genealogy to break through brick walls and to expand his knowledge. Watch the two YouTube videos – the Challenge and the Results – to share the excitement. Here are the links:

The Challenge (the first 5 minutes and then again starting at minute 31): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAtp16w5pU&t=5s

The Results!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lmu1Lc-fVM&t=4s

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News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage has released 10.7 million records for the Austria-Hungary Roman Catholic Indexes. 1612-1966, and Austria, Vienna Catholic Church Records Index, 1585-1918. MyHeritage has upgraded their Theory of Family Relativity facility for DNA matches to allow you to confirm or reject a theory. American Ancestors has introduced a new database for the only surviving copy of the 1810 U.S. Federal Census for Salem, Massachusetts. ScotlandsPeople has announced a delay of the release of the images of the 1921 Scottish Census until the latter half of 2022. Thanks to the Society of Genealogists for providing us with that news! Findmypast has published new or expanded collections: Ireland, Court of Chancery Bill Books (1627-1884); Ireland, Court of Exchequer Bill Books (1627-1884); Ireland, Petty Sessions Court Registers; Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Census & Population Lists (1792-1821); Manitoba Vital Records; U.S. Census of Revolutionary War Pensioners (1840); U.S., Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment, 1776; additional England Roman Catholic Parish Registers; Pembrokeshire Parish Registers; Scotland, Modern and Civil Deaths & Burials (1855-2021); Australia, Inward, Outward & Coastal Passenger Lists (1826-1972); and Canada, Black Nova Scotians (1784-1837). FamilySearch has announced dates and details about RootsTech 2022. Drew recaps the vast new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew discusses with Diahan the new Ancestry DNA feature that allows you to identify how you are related to your matches, if you know.

Listener Email
Alan wrote to discuss questions about reducing his library’s holdings. Kristina shared details about how she solved a brick wall using Geni.com, newspapers, and DNA. Pam wrote about the dilemmas faced when trying to sort through donations to her local historical society. Drew and George discuss the need for library and archive policies to guide both libraries and donors. Drew shares insights from the GENEALIB mailing list. Note that the following link will work only for GENEALIB subscribers: http://listserv.usf.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind2107&L=GENEALIB&X=O6A5CAB430DB224809C#4
Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

Please also tell your friends and your society about our free podcasts, our free blog , and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

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George and Drew are available for virtual presentations for your local society. Contact us at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

We gave away two copies of Genealogical Publishing Company’s Russia Genealogy Research at a glance reference guide and announced the winners.

News You Can Use and Share
The Genealogy Guys Podcast is one of Family Tree Magazine 's 101 Best Websites 2021. See full list at https://www.familytreemagazine.com/best-genealogy-websites/ . MyHeritage announced its new Photo Repair tool. The FamilySearch Family History Library is reopening 6 July 2021. The Society of Genealogists announces that negotiations for a new home are underway. 1871 Irish Census transcriptions for the Roman Catholic parish of Drumconrath are now online at http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000635150#page/5/mode/1up . The Early British Census project is now online at http://ebc.byu.edu . A new webpage has been launched for the Maps for Local History at the National Library of Scotland at https://maps.nls.uk/communities/local-history/ . NARA's National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) has a backlog of 500,000 outstanding records inquiries. It is estimated that it will take 18-24 months to resolve the backlog. The British Library and Findmypast have announced the renewal of their long-term partnership to digitize the British Newspaper Archive and make it available online. Findmypast has added new collections or new records to: Middlesex Baptisms; Carmarthenshire, Wales, Parish Records; Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Registers; Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions; England Roman Catholic Parish Registers; and Crime, Prisons & Punishment records and mugshots. More than 400,000 naturalization records for the Bronx and Queens, New York, will become available online as part of a new federally-funded project. FamilySearch International announced the release of the FamilySearch GEDCOM 7.0 standard. The new data standard will accommodate media and other data in addition to text. Developers will certainly be busy programming to implement the new GEDCOM standard. Drew recaps the vast new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew discusses working with distant matches with Diahan.

Listener Email
Jean congratulated us on our inclusion in Family Tree Magazine’s 101 Best Genealogy Websites. She also shared that she had success with using the old Ancestry message boards to locate a grandfather's cousin. Donna Moughty won one of the Russia Genealogy Research guides and it gave her the incentive to restart her research into her grandfather who was born in what now is Ukraine. She also has a few openings for her Ireland research trips this October. Learn more at https://www.irishfamilyroots.com/ or email her at moughty@mac.com . Graeme wrote about the discovery of 215 unmarked graves on the property of a residential school in Canada for indigenous children. He asked Drew for what processes of investigating and repatriating the children’s remains can be used. Tom wrote about his DNA research for his wife’s biological grandfather.
Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

You should also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our free blog , and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Let us hear from you at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

George and Drew are available for virtual presentations for your local society. Contact us at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage announced a new filtering option for the DNA Matches page. You can filter based on any of their 2,114 Genetic Groups. Ancestry announced that it now has more than 1,400 regions offered between communities and ethnic regions in its DNA matches. The Society of Genealogists in London, the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC, and The National Archives in Kew, Richmond (London) have all reopened with limited capacity and required reservations required. Findmypast introduces new and improved address search in census records. Findmypast has added new collections or new records to: Australia, Military Commemorative Rolls & Rolls of Honor; Kent Parish records; the 1939 Register; British Army, Royal Engineers; Coldstream Guards; Monmouthshire Parish records; Glamorganshire Parish records; Australia Inbound, Outward & Coastal Passenger Lists 1826-1972; Middlesex Poor Law records; Scots Guards’ service records (WWII); Norfolk Churchyard and Memorial Images (browse); Scotland, Modern and Civil Births 1855-2019; Scotland, Modern and Civil Marriages 1855-2019; Scotland, Modern and Civil Deaths & Burials 1855-2021. Drew recaps three weeks of vast new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew discusses with Diahan what the TiP report is on Family Tree DNA and how to use it.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle says that we shouldn't worry about what others are doing.

Russia At a Glance Reference Guides Giveaway

We are giving away two copies of Genealogical Publishing Company’s at a glance reference guides. If you are interested, send us an email to genealogyguys@gmail.com by June 1st . Include RUSSIA in the header line and your name and mailing address in the body. We’ll draw two winners after June 1st .

Listener Email
Floreen wrote to thank us for the Genealogy Connection interview with Drew Smith. Margaret wrote to update us on her work on Pointe Coupee, Louisiana plantation journal transcription records. She has a blog at https://lakeland-briarsplantationrecords.blogspot.com/ with details. Patrick shares his success locating family members in Iowa who “disappeared” after 1881. James wrote to share his frustration with delays with obtaining military records from the National Personnel Record Center. (The facility was closed for over a year with the pandemic and is now beginning to work to catch up.) Cindy couldn’t locate her grandparents in the 1930 census. She reminds us all not to forget newspaper research. Terri is looking for an unknown father. Drew suggested using DNA testing and joining the Facebook group DNA Detectives for more help. Laura shares how MyHeritage helped her discover an uncle she never knew existed.
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George and Drew are available for virtual presentations for your local society. Contact us at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

Drew's guest is...Drew Smith! After receiving a number of requests from listeners, George interviews Drew as the Genealogy Connection guest.

Drew is the genealogy librarian at the University of South Florida Libraries in Tampa, has authored or co-authored several genealogy books, is a regular columnist for the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly , and speaks regularly at local, national, and international genealogy meetings and conferences.

Learn more about Drew by visiting:
Aha! Seminars The Genealogy Guys Podcast/Genealogy Connection The Genealogy Guys blog Drew's Rootsmithing blog

News You Can Use and Share
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has made a grant to Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (enslaved.org) . MyHeritage announced significant updates to their website Navigation Bar. MyHeritage has introduced Deep NostalgiaTM special animations to its photo collection. The National Archives in the UK (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ ) will reopen its reading rooms on 27 April 2021. Advance reservations are required. Findmypast has added new records to existing collections: Norfolk Baptisms; Norfolk Banns & Marriages; Norfolk Burials; Philadelphia Roman Catholic Parish Records; England & Wales Deaths 2007-2020; Ireland, Northern Ireland Deaths 1998-2020; Cincinnati Roman Catholic Parish Registers; Cambridgeshire, Licensed Victuallers; and more. Drew recaps huge new and expanded collections at FamilySearch numbering in the millions of records.
The DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew and Diahan discuss MyHeritage's new Genetic Groups and how to use them.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List tells us that it's time to refresh.

Our Listeners Speak
Laura discusses the fact that her family cannot be found in the 1920 U.S. federal census. Jeffery has built his own cemetery website so that he can see people’s information the way he prefers. You can check it out at http://www.wikigrave.com/ . Pat writes about the probate for her South Carolina ancestor. Vic wrote seeking advice for how to label his photographs so that they are easier to organize, file electronically, and quickly locate. George recommends Vivid-Pix RESTORE software (https://vivid-pix.com/ ) that can enhance all types of images, add metadata, and then allow quick searching. Joshua writes about FamilySearch and its multiple collections of birth and marriage records, and that sometimes each collection’s content is often different. George addresses marriage records: marriage indexes, marriage bonds, and marriage books.
And finally...

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The Genealogy Guys Podcast is back after a 3-month hiatus!

NEWS YOU CAN USE AND SHARE!
The new International African American Museum has launched its membership programs. RootsMagic has invited the public to participate in a community preview of RootsMagic 8 to provide pre-release feedback. Visit https://www.rootsmagic.com/preview/get/ to get involved. MyHeritage ... ... announced the release of a new record collection, United States Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956. ... introduced Photo Storyteller, a new way to record stories and add narrative behind your favorite family photos. ... .announced Deep Nostalgia to animate faces on your family photos. ... added millions of historical Lithuanian-Jewish records from the LitvakSIG’s work, 1795-1940. ... introduced Genetic Groups using high resolution of 2,100+ geographic regions. Nathan Dylan Goodwin has a new book, The Chester Creek Murders , featuring new characters and forensic DNA research. Findmypast has introduced a new and improved image viewer and has added many new and expanded collections: Ireland, Londonderry City Burials (1853-1961); New York Catholic Parish Registers (browse) for Bronx, Yonkers, and Ulster Counties; additions to the Denbighshire Parish Records; and additions to Essex Baptisms, Kent Baptisms, and Kent Marriages FamilySearch has remodeled its library in Salt Lake City and has launched a new webpage. Drew recaps huge new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
We’ll be participating in the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society (WSGS) Gene-A-Rama on April 9-10 and the Ohio Genealogical Society Conference on April 14-17.

Drew has been writing a daily blog entry throughout March about his work with his ancestors on the collaborative FamilySearch Family Tree.

Drew is also coordinating the project to document African Americans interred in Tampa’s Zion Cemetery and their descendants.

We have new Patreon members this week. We’d like to thank all our supporting Patreon members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

You should also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our free blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Visit our Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/ for even more news between podcasts.

Let us hear from you at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

George and Drew are available for virtual presentations for your local society. Contact us at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education site is on sale through December 31, 2020 for $69 for your first year's subscription (new subscribers only). Regularly $99, this is our lowest price of the year! Visit http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/11/genealogy-guys-learn-on-sale-through.html for full details of obtaining the discount and our current course catalog. (Listen to the podcast to get the discount code.)

The winner of the Genealogy Publishing Company’s At a Glance sheet on “Polish Genealogy Research” is John from North Tonawanda, New York.

The call deadline for submitting applications for the Unsung Heroes Awards and the Unsung Heroes Awards Society Grant is January 1, 2021, at midnight EST. Don’t miss it! Details can be found on our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/12/the-genealogy-guys-and-vivid-pix-call.html .

News You Can Use and Share!
MyHeritage announced the release of a new colorization model for MyHeritage iIn ColorTM . RootsMagic 8 is making progress with thousands of testers. Listen for a new announcement soon, and listen to their ad for a great holiday sale price. The Germans from Lithuania Name Index is now online at https://www.germansfromlithusania.org . The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) presented its 2020 awards. Included are Loretto Dennis “Lou” Szucs as recipient of the Laura G. Prescott Award for Exemplary Service to Genealogy and Amy E. K. Arner, who received the Honorary Life Membership. Michael J. Leclerc has been selected as the new managing editor of the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly . Findmypast has added new collections or new records to: Scotland Monumental Inscriptions; US World War II Casualty Lists; Essex Baptisms; Devon Baptisms; Berkshire Probate Index; Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions; U.S. Obituary Notices; and Ireland Billion Graves Cemetery Index. Enslaved.org has built a robust, open-source online facility to discover and explore nearly a half million people and 5 million data points for enslaved Africans. From archival entries to spreadsheet entries, the lives of the enslaved can be seen in richer detail. Visit https://enslaved.org/ . FamilySearch has announced that it is has added 20 languages – up now to 30 languages – for researching in its website. Drew recaps three weeks of huge new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew and Diahan discuss CODIS, the DNA database used by U.S. law enforcement, and how the major DNA testing companies interact (or not) with U.S. law enforcement.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle tells us that it is time to review.

We Hear from Our Listeners!
Tom wrote to thank The Guys for leads to books and other materials about life in Scotland and its history between 1900 and 1930. He also describes some ironies he has discovered in WWI and WWII in his wife’s family. Mark shared his brick wall happy dance that resulted from locating a social item in a 1902 newspaper gossip column. William is trying to locate a birth certificate in Texas for his grandfather. He has located one for his grandfather’s brother but not for his grandfather. Suggestions are welcome from our listeners. Lisa wrote to discuss her genealogical numbering using the Ahnentafel method and how she files her evidence.
We’d like to thank all our supporting Patreon members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

You should also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our free blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website and the current sale through December 31, 2020.

Visit our Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/ for even more news between podcasts.

Let us hear from you at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

George and Drew are available for virtual presentations for your local society. Contact us at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

Announcement

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education site, is on sale through December 31, 2020, for $69 for your first year's subscription (new subscribers only). Regularly $99, this is our lowest price of the year! Visit http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/11/genealogy-guys-learn-on-sale-through.html for full details for obtaining the discount and our current course catalog.

News You Can Use and Share!
ProQuest and Ancestry have extended remote access to Ancestry Library Edition in participating libraries through March 2021. MyHeritage announced that Family Tree Builder software is now available for the macOS Catalina and macOS High Sierra platforms. MyHeritage has published three new collections from Wales: Wales, Parish Births and Baptisms; Wales, Parish Marriages and Banns; and Wales, Parish Deaths and Burials. MyHeritage announces a Gift membership at a 50% discount. See their blog at https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/11/introducing-the-myheritage-gift-membership/ . The National Archives (TNA) in the UK has announced that they are doubling the monthly limit on downloading free digital records from their website from 50 to 100. You must register for a free account on their site. Findmypast has released: Warwickshire, Coventry Blitz, German Air Raids 1940-1941; British Armed Forces, First World War Soldiers’ Medical Records; new Yorkshire Baptisms; new Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions; British Armed Forces Soldiers’ Wills 1850-1986; Ireland, Londonderry (Derry) War Memorial 1914-1918; and British Red Cross & Order of St. John Enquiry List, Wounded & Missing 1914-1919. Newspapers.com announces the first phase of their Marriage Index Collection – 50 million wedding announcements. Geni announced that its World Family Tree now connects over 150 million profiles. Drew recaps the huge new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew discusses with Diahan how traditional paternity tests differ from the autosomal DNA tests that genealogists use.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle tells us to file as we go.

We Hear from Our Listeners
Tom asks about having hired a consultant who created his tree at Ancestry.com under her account. He wants to download that GEDCOM to RootsMagic but cannot share that tree with other people per the Ancestry settings. He is looking for suggestions for how to deal with this. Tom is looking for books and other materials about life in Scotland and its history between 1900 and 1930. Drew provided some book references, but we welcome our listeners’ input and suggestions. Mark is searching for a great-grandfather ostensibly born in Alabama in 1881. He thinks his great-great-grandfather may have been “insane”. He is seeking suggestions on how to research the legal and practical aspects of “insanity” in the 1800s. We ask our listeners to share their knowledge and suggestions.
Review and Drawing

Drew reviewed “Polish Genealogy Research”, a Genealogical Publishing Company quick sheet by Rosemary A. Dembinski Chorzempa. GPC is giving one copy of this quick sheet away to one Genealogy Guys Podcast listener. Listen to the episode on how to enter this drawing. But act fast!

Contact Us!

We’d like to thank all our supporting Patreon members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

You should also tell your friends or your local genealogical society about our free podcasts, our free blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website and the current sale through December 31, 2000.

Visit our Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/ for even more news between podcasts.

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George and Drew are available for virtual presentations for your local society. Contact us at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

News You Can Use and Share!
MyHeritage has just released a major collection of Historical Norwegian Church Records (1815-1938) including millions of digitized and scanned records of births and baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials. MyHeritage has released three historical record collections from Wales: Parish Births and Baptisms; Parish Marriages and Banns; and Parish Deaths and Burials. Ed Thompson of Evidentia will be producing a new YouTube Livestream, the “Genealogy Software Showcase” to showcase the software in detail, its functionality, and more. Get in at the beginning by joining for free at https://genealogyshowcase.tech/ . Findmypast has released: England & Wales Non-Conformist Births and Baptisms for Surrey Methodists; Jamaica Life Events; Caribbean Rolls of Honor WW I; new records of Kent Baptisms and Burials; 90K new Warwickshire Burials (1874-2016); Scotland, Ayrshire Census & Population Lists (1801-1831); and records from the Greater London Burial Index for St. Olave’s (1583-1665). Drew recaps the huge new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew asks Diahan to explain why some DNA testing companies ask for saliva (spit!) and some are fine with cheek scrapings. Learn more at:
https://www.yourdnaguide.com/ydgblog/2019/11/26/dna-test-no-saliva-spit

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle tells us about the importance of doing screenshots.
How to Take a Screenshot, https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/ Use Snipping Tool to capture screenshots, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13776/windows-10-use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots How to take and annotate screenshots on Windows 10, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-take-and-annotate-screenshots-on-windows-10-ca08e124-cc30-2579-3e55-6db63e36fbb9 Mac screenshots: 4 ways to capture your MacBook's screen, https://www.cnet.com/how-to/mac-screenshots-4-ways-to-capture-your-macbooks-screen/ How to Take a Screenshot on a Mac, https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-take-a-screenshot-on-a-mac Take a screenshot on your iPhone, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200289 Take a screenshot or record your screen on your Android device, https://support.google.com/android/answer/9075928?hl=en SnagIt, https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html LightShot, https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html
Zion Cemetery

Drew is actively involved with researching the African-American Cemetery in Tampa that was “erased and built over. Here is his presentation for the 2020 Family Heritage Festival coordinated by the Tampa Hillsborough Public Library system.

Drew’s Family Research

Drew discusses his recent focus on his Weinglass ancestors and their descendants. He has made some progress on one of the family lines.

We’d like to thank our newest Patreon member, Simona MacAngus. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

You should also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our free blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Let us hear from you at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

George and Drew are available for virtual presentations to your local society. Contact us at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

News You Can Use and Share!
The National Genealogical Society and the Federation of Genealogical Societies officially merged on 1 October 2020. Vivid-Pix launches a new version of their RESTORE software for Windows and macOS with new features. MyHeritage has just refreshed the data for its Theory of Family Relativity for the third time since its release, expanding the connections you can make with DNA matches with other users. Findmypast has released: Swiss Emigrants to the American Colonies, 1733-1734; Emigrant [Church of England] Ministers to the Americas; Winthrop Fleet Passenger List, 1630; London, Black Poor, 1786; Sierra Leone Resettlement Scheme, 1787; Caribbean Marriage Index, 1591-1905; and new Devon Burials. FamilySearch, American Ancestors.org, and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants announce that more than 10K Mayflower Society member applications and family trees have been placed online. FamilySearch will present RootsTech Connect, a free virtual conference on 25-27 February 2021. Registration is open at https://www.rootstech.org . Drew recaps the huge new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew asks Diahan about why different family members have different DNA matches.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle reminds us that life is short.

You Send Us Email
Lisa asks about the status of RootsMagic 8 and whether it will run on her MacBook Pro. We plan to interview Bruce Buzbee, the RootsMagician, when the new version of the software is released. Margaret is transcribing plantation journals from the 1840s to 1860s for two plantations in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, owned by William Taylor and wife Lucy Lewis Thom Taylor. She asks for advice about where to place originals and place them online. Laura shares information about a transcription resource used by archives, universities, libraries, and others called From the Page (https://fromthepage.com/ ). Marianna, Victor, and Nancy all wrote about downloading Ancestry messages and describing their methods of doing so. Robert is a genealogist and a licensed private investigator. He would like to help others and asked for suggestions about the best ways to let yourself be known. Kim wrote about Jim’s experiences with his half-brother and her own similar experiences. Neal is writing an extensive family genealogy book and asked for recommendations about using Ahnentafel formats for the work.
We’d like to welcome and thank our newest Patreon member, Simona MacAngus. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

You should also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our free blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Let us hear from you at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

George and Drew are available for virtual presentations to your local society. Contact us at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

We are happy to celebrate our podcast’s 15th anniversary this week!

News You Can Use and Pass On!

We have lots of news and awards information to share this week:
The Genealogy Guys Podcast and Vivid-Pix announced the winner of the Unsung Heroes Society Grant for scanning equipment and software. It is the Morgan County Partnership in Martinsville, Indiana. They won a scanner and software worth $500! This win will enable then to scan and index much more before their bicentennial in 2022. See our blog for all the details. The Genealogy Guys Podcast and Vivid-Pix announced the winner of the Unsung Heroes Awards. The Individual Winner is Rosemary McFarland of Mount Eden, Kentucky, for her vast work on a wide variety of Kentucky records. The Society Winner is the Eller Family Society for its digitization of decades of their newsletters and chronicles and many other materials. The Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park announced that park volunteer Pat Rand was awarded the Regional Hartzog Award for 2020 for her work on the U.S.-Mexican War Soldiers and Sailors Database. The Federation of Genealogical Societies held its virtual conference on 9/2-4, 2020. They announced a wide range of awards. You can read the full press release in our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/09/federation-of-genealogical-societies.html . FamilySearch has announced RootsTech Connect 2021: A Free Global Virtual Event on February 25-27, 2021. Registration is open at rootstech.org. MyHeritage has announced that their search engine for historical records has been redesigned. It makes searching their treasure trove of 12.5 billion records easier and more intuitive. Read more about that at their blog at https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/08/the-myheritage-search-engine-for-historical-records-just-got-better/ and many other topics. Ancestry will provide for up to 10,000 K-12 teachers across the USA a free 6-month World Explorer subscription. The deadline to apply is September 30, 2020. Ancestry has completed digitization of archives featuring 19 million Holocaust records. They are available free and in perpetuity as part of the Arolsen Archives Collection. Findmypast has added new records to the Wales Probate Index (1544-1858); the Caernarvonshire Parish Registers; Denbighshire Burials; Montgomeryshire Monumental Inscriptions; Scotland, Burgess & Guild Brethren Index; and Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Life Events. Dick Eastman, author of the weekly update for the Plus Edition of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, has announced that the newsletter is now offline for a variety of reliability problems. However, he is working with professionals to create a new Plus Edition website and hopes to have the newsletter back up very soon. FamilySearch has partnered with Ontario Ancestors to announce a new book scanning project. They hope to commence the project before the end of 2020. Drew recaps the huge new and expanded collections at FamilySearch.
The Guys also talk about what they have been doing with their own genealogy.

We’d like to welcome and thank our new Patreon members. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

You should also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our free blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

There have been numerous genealogical institutes over the last several weeks. As a result, we were unable to schedule a Genealogy Connection podcast recently. However, it will be back soon!

News You Can Use and Share!
The Blackstone Group Inc. has reached an agreement to purchase a majority stake in Ancestry.com. Ancestry has extended to late August the deadline for saving your small DNA matches. Drew shares some recent large collection additions and changes for Ancestry. William Dollarhide has published a new 2020 multiple volume set of Census Substitutes and State Census Records at Family Roots Publishing Company - https://www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product_view.php?id=3770&title=Census%20Substitutes%20&%20State%20Census%20Records,%20Third%20Edition,%20Volume%205%20%E2%80%93%20Western%20/%20Pacific%20States%20&%20Nationwide%20Chapter%20(Printed%20Book%20&%20eBook%20Bundle) Findmypast has updated their collections of Hampshire Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials. Drew recaps two weeks of highlights of FamilySearch record collection releases. Drew has been attending the virtual International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies conference this week. In preparation, he reviews Genealogical Publishing Company’s Genealogy at a Glance publication "Finding Eastern European Jewish Ancestors" by Janette Silverman, available at https://genealogical.com/store/genealogy-at-a-glance-finding-eastern-european-jewish-ancestors/ .
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew asks Diahan to explain how the various DNA testing companies determine the best minimum matching thresholds.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle is taking this episode off because of backlogs from institutes and a family medical situation. (Don't worry, Cyndi herself is fine!)

Our Listeners Talk to Us
In response to Lori’s email in Episode #382 about becoming a transcriber, we had two responses: Floreen suggests getting involved with the National Archive and Record Administration’s Citizen Archivist program at https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist . You can choose which records you want to transcribe. Dana also suggests the Citizen Archivist program. She also suggests Zooniverse, a site that allows transcribing of many disciplines. They are at https://www.zooniverse.org/ . Five projects of especial interest to genealogists are “Anti-Slavery Manuscripts”, “The American Soldier”, “Every Name Counts” (Nazi murdered persons), “American World War I Burial Cards”, and “Measuring the Anzacs”. Linda writes in detail about the upcoming changes in the Ancestry Message Boards and her experiences. (We welcome email and comments from our listeners on this topic.) Jim shares his experiences having used DNA to locate a half-brother and the bad experiences he had. He also located a new half-niece and contacted her to find her “aloof” to the knowledge. (We’d love to hear from our listeners about their experiences with this, good or bad, to represent their own experiences.
We’d like to welcome and thank our new Patreon members: Kendell Carr and Melanie Green-Armstrong. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you’d like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started.

You should also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our free blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

The Genealogy Guys are available for webinars using Zoom, a simple-to-use online video meeting tool that handles up to 100 people logged in at a time. Our catalog of Genealogy Topics is available at https://ahaseminars.com/ along with information about Genealogy Webinars. Contact us to schedule a webinar for your society.

Send us email at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

News You Can Use and Share with Others
The Upper Midwest Jewish Archives at the University of Minnesota is working to digitize its Jewish World archives, its collection of Jewish World Newspapers, 91 bound volumes from 1915 to 2007. The first three years’ newspapers are complete. The Society of Genealogists will reopen their library in London on 7 August 2020. Only a limited number of simultaneous SOG members will be admitted. No food or drink will be allowed. Findmypast added new records: Surry Baptisms; Surrey Marriages; Surrey Burials; Warwickshire Burials; Warwickshire, Coventry Pawnbroker Tickets 1915-1923; Idaho Reconstructed 1890 U.S. census; Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions; Derbyshire Deaths and Burials; National School Admission Registers & Log Books 1870-1914; Peru Civil Registration Records 1874-1996; and 12 new newspaper titles. Ancestry added new collections in July: Wyoming BMDs; Idaho BMDs; Women of Protest (suffragette photos from the LOC); USC Shoah Interviews – Index only to be released at Ancestry; Doubs, France Censuses; and Westminster Parish Records. Ancestry is ready to change its messaging system. You can download the existing folder structure but you'll need to do it soon. Ancestry will shortly be eliminating the display of very small DNA matches, most of which likely would be nearly useless to researchers as they are false positives. Fold3 recently completed their collection of U.S. Veterans Gravesites (1775-2019). Records date to the Revolutionary War and include veterans, spouses, and dependents interred in military cemeteries. Drew recaps two weeks of highlights of FamilySearch record collection releases.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Diahan and Drew discuss best practices for managing messages exchanged with DNA matches.

Best strategies for contacting matches:
How Contacting Your DNA Matches is Like a First Date

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle tells us to pay attention to collateral relatives for our brick-wall ancestors.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Debbie asks how to subscribe to the Genealogy Guys Blog using Feedly. You'll find some information on the blog itself at blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/01/day-10-organize-your-rss-feeds.html , but Drew will create more instructions soon. John writes to add two more strategies for potentially identifying formerly enslaved persons after the U.S. Civil War. Edward shares his experiences with expanding information about family members, especially siblings, using cemetery records. Robin poses a great question about ways to publish errata for a previously published family history book that contains errors. The Guys offer several suggestions and encourage listeners to share their ideas and techniques in handling errata. Lori wants to know how to become a records transcriber. We welcome suggestions from our listeners. John writes from Scotland wanting to know why the iOS/iPadOS Ancestry app will be available only to users of the next iOS/iPadOS operating system. The Guys suggested contacting Ancestry directly, but we welcome input from our listeners. Marise writes about having heard about the Leeds method of using colored dots at Ancestry. She uses then to identify the town of origin of DNA matches. She also talks about using pseudonyms in her searches.
The Genealogy Guys are available for webinars using Zoom, a simple-to-use online video meeting tool that handles up to 100 people logged in at a time. Our catalog of genealogy topics is available at https://ahaseminars.com/ along with information about genealogy webinars. Contact us to schedule a webinar for your society.

Thank you again to our Patreon supporters! You can support us at https://patreon.com/genealogyguys . You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Send us email at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

The Genealogy Guys and Vivid-Pix announce two exciting programs:
The Unsung Heroes Societies Grant Program will award grants to two societies each year to facilitate their digitizing, indexing, and transcribing photographs and documents. The grantees will each receive a high-quality scanner, a backup and online storage software package, and two copies of Vivid-Pix RESTORE software to improve the legibility of documents, the color/contrast of photographs, and to add image tags and other important information to the image metadata. The grant package is valued at $500. The Unsung Heroes Awards Program continues to recognize individuals, societies, and libraries for their work in digitizing, indexing, and transcribing photographs and documents and making that work accessible to the genealogical community. Award winners will receive a commemorative certificate, a customized mug that can include an image of their choice, and a copy of Vivid-Pix RESTORE . Individual winners will also receive a one-year subscription to Genealogy Guys Learn .
Grant applications and award nominations are due by midnight EDT on 1 August 2020. Full details are available on our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/05/the-genealogy-guys-podcast-and-vivid.html .

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage has added 7 new reports to MyHeritage Health. MyHeritage launched its Photo Enhancer in June and within 10 days had enhanced more than one million photos. The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) will hold its 40th international conference virtually on 10-13 August 2020. Details and registration are available at iajgs2020.org . The Georgia State Legislature has passed SB372 which extends the privacy of birth records to 125 years and the privacy of marriage, divorce, and death records to 100 years. The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) has established three new scholarships. They will afford persons of color and those from underrepresented groups in society and culture the opportunity to attend APG's Professional Management Conference. Two of the scholarships, honoring Kenyatta Berry and the late James Dent “Jimmy” Walker, are intended to benefit genealogists of African-American or other African-rooted heritage. The third scholarship is intended to support a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or gender-questioning genealogist in attending APG's flagship conference. The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) announced a new scholarship, the “Board for Certification of Genealogists Scholarship for African American Students.” Up to three scholarships will be awarded each year to offset the cost of participating in an intensive genealogical education program, as well as the cost of applying for the CG credential. Findmypast has added: Scotland Roman Catholic Church Parish Records; Scotland, Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), Electoral Registers (1864-1931); more United States Marriages; U.S., Pennsylvania, Civil War Veterans’ Card File; U.S., New Jersey, Military Records Index; U.S., Rolls of Soldiers in the Revolutionary War; and Yorkshire Baptisms. More than 400,000 U.S. naturalization records from the Bronx and Queens will become available online in 2022 as part of a three-year project. Drew recaps new record additions, updates, and indexes at FamilySearch.
Diahan Southard

Drew asks Diahan about the Leeds method.

https://www.yourdnaguide.com/leeds-method

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle discusses how to stay focused.

Tools for Research Plans - Create them in:

Word

Google Docs

Evernote

OneNote

Trello

Templates and forms for research planning:

Cyndi’s List > Charts & Forms, https://cyndislist.com/charts/research/

Cyndi's Routine Records Sources, https://bit.ly/2EY54CS

Cyndi's Records Checklist Template, https://bit.ly/2xZhDXR

Cyndi's Research Log or Research Notes, https://bit.ly/2R9lE4L

Cyndi's Simple Research Plan, https://bit.ly/2xLC6jp

Cyndi's Preferred Research Plan, https://bit.ly/2xKPLaI

Adventures in Genealogy Education, Research Plan Template in Word, https://bit.ly/2Y9lhgj

See also: Cyndi's List - Research Methodology, https://cyndislist.com/research-methodology/

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Jean on Long Island congratulates The Guys on their inclusion in the 101 Best Genealogy Websites for 2020 published by Family Tree Magazine . Donna writes asking why Facebook has removed a friend’s individual obituary posts made to multiple groups as “spamming” and has issued the friend a “final warning” to stop. She wants to talk with a human being at Facebook to explain her work and motivations. Our listeners are encouraged to share their suggestions. Andrew’s great-great-grandfather owned three enslaved persons according to the U.S. federal census records of 1860 and no names are listed. He would like to trace the enslaved individuals and is looking for suggestions. Our listeners are encouraged to share their suggestions.
Genealogy Guys Learn Subscription Sale

The Genealogy Guys have placed Genealogy Guys Learn, their subscription genealogy education website, on sale through the month of July 2020. The first year’s subscription is $79 (regularly $99). Visit the site at https://genealogyguyslearn.com/ , click on the red ENROLL button at the bottom of the screen, and complete your information. Use the code JULYSALE to get the reduced price. See our blog post at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/07/genealogy-guys-learn-july-sale.html for details, including a link to another blog post at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/07/genealogy-guys-learn-list-of-full.html with the full list of videos and written course available and coming soon. And remember that we add new content every month!

The Genealogy Guys are available for webinars using Zoom, a simple-to-use online video meeting tool that handles up to 100 people logged in at a time. Our catalog of Genealogy Topics is available at https://ahaseminars.com/ along with information about Genealogy Webinars. Contact us to schedule a webinar for your society.

Thank you again to our Patreon supporters! You can support us at https://patreon.com/genealogyguys . You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Send us email at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

Family Tree Magazine announced the 101 Best Genealogy Websites of 2020 and The Genealogy Guys Podcast was on the list. Thank you!

The Genealogy Guys and Vivid-Pix announce two exciting programs:
The Unsung Heroes Societies Grant Program will award grants to two societies each year to facilitate their digitizing, indexing, and transcribing photographs and documents. Each grantee will receive a high-quality scanner, a backup and online storage software package, and two copies of Vivid-Pix RESTORE software to improve the legibility of documents and the color/contrast of photographs, and to add image tags and other important information to the image metadata. Each grant package is valued at $500. The Unsung Heroes Awards Program continues to recognize individuals, societies, and libraries for their work in digitizing, indexing, and transcribing photographs and documents and for making that work accessible to the genealogical community. Award winners will receive a commemorative certificate, a customized mug that can include an image of their choice, and a copy of Vivid-Pix RESTORE . Individual winners will also receive a one-year subscription to Genealogy Guys Learn .
Grant applications and award nominations are due by midnight EDT on 1 August 2020. Full details are available on our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/05/the-genealogy-guys-podcast-and-vivid.html .

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage is seeking users of their mobile app with more than 100 individuals in the app to observe their behaviors while using the Discoveries feature. Users will be interviewed while using the app. If interested in helping out, contact Keren Szabason, the Product Designer, at keren.szabason@myheritage.com . MyHeritage launched an exclusive new collection: Germany, North Rhine Westphalia, Death Index 1870-1940. MyHeritage has introduced Cross-Language Record Matches to help users locate ancestors' records in different and often unexpected languages. Joel Weintraub has been working in advance of the release of the 1950 U.S. Federal Census. He has created YouTube videos about that, as well as other topics such as immigration. Visit https://tinyurl.com/ycsg7af8 for a page showing the title of the videos, running time, and YouTube address of each of the videos Vivid-Pix brings back memories of family reunions past and makes new reunion memories for this year. See our blog post at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/06/relive-past-reunions-create-this-years.html for all the details. The FamilySearch Family Tree has added support for the entry of same-sex couples. BillionGraves has launched a new feature called QualityCheck to improve the accuracy of its searchable cemetery inscriptions. The Family History Show in the UK has moved online at https://thefamilyhistoryshow.com/online . It will be held on 20 June 2020. Early-bird registration is now available. All content on British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk is currently free through 30 September 2020. See their blog at https://blog.history.ac.uk/2020/03/british-history-online-makes-all-research-content-free-to-individual-users/ . Findmypast has added 1939 Register Map Search. Findmypast has added new and additional content to: British Army Service Records; Royal Engineers Journals (1939-1945); Royal Air Force, Operations Record Books (1939-1945); Royal Air Force, Combat Reports (1939-1945); England & Wales, Electoral Registers (19201932); Britain, Histories & Reference Guides; Canadian Directories & Almanacs; and Canada, Ontario, Toronto Emigrant Office Records Index. Drew recaps new record additions, updates, and indexes at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew and Diahan talk about why someone might not share any ethnicity with a DNA match.

https://www.yourdnaguide.com/ethnicity-results

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle discusses her own website, Cyndi's List!

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Lisa Tompson of the Martin County [Florida] Genealogical Society tells us what their society is doing to conduct meetings these days. Jeff shared information with Drew about Private William Boddy in the Civil War. He provided a link to Boddy's journal: http://new.webfreemanual.asia/?q=Private+william+boddys+civil+war+journal+by+william+boddy&ref=cespolora.duckdns.org&base=pdfmans . Bruce is researching the Sailors' Snug Harbor retirement home on Staten Island, New York (1833-1976) and the mariners buried there. He is compiling information and stories, and listeners are encouraged to email us if they'd like to contact Bruce about his project. Floreen wrote about Drew's interview with Diahan Southard and about her own DNA research into her great-grandfather. Judy wrote to alert people that if you are paying for someone else's DNA test, make sure you will have access to the information.
The Genealogy Guys are available for webinars using Zoom, a simple-to-use online video meeting tool that handles up to 100 people logged in at a time. Our catalog of Genealogy Topics is available at https://ahaseminars.com along with information about Genealogy Webinars. Contact us to schedule a webinar for your society.

Thank you again to our Patreon supporters! You can support us at https://patreon.com/genealogyguys . You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Send us email at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

MyHeritage is offering our podcast listeners and blog readers a discount on their Complete collection through 29 May 2020. (New subscribers only.) Regularly $300.00, the price is $213.87, a great deal for all family researchers! Read our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/05/myheritage-offers-special-price-for.html for the details and your order form.

We appreciate your feedback on our new microphones. We’re working on techniques and welcome your comments.

We welcome Diahan Southard to the podcast in the regular DNA Segment feature with Drew Smith. She is a leading voice for consumer DNA testing from her position as Founder of Your DNA Guide. Diahan teaches internationally, consults with leading testing companies and forensics experts, and is the author of Your DNA Guide: The Book .

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage recapped the additions to its collections for April and George shares those. MyHeritage has just added three new Greek collections: Greek Electoral Rolls (1863-1924); Corfu Vital Records (1841-1932); and Sparta Marriages (1835-1935) including images of licenses and the marriage register. Findmypast has added records: Durham Home Guard (1939-1945); Faces of the Fallen (1939-1945); UK Electoral Registers & Companies House Directors (2002-2020)’ The War Illustrated (1938-1947); U.S. National Veterans Cemetery Index; Georgia WWII Draft Registration Cards (1940-1942); and additional Louisiana Draft Cards. Drew recaps new record additions, updates, and indexes at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Diahan Southard

Drew asks Diahan about why DNA testing companies give us two different numbers for each of our matches, and whether or not both numbers matter. Learn more about shared centimorgans and segment length at YourDNAGuide.com.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle shares some quick text tips for your computer!

Keyboard tools:

CheatSheet (Mac), https://mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/

TypeIt, https://www.typeit.org

Keyboard Maestro (Mac), https://www.keyboardmaestro.com

AutoHotkey (Windows), https://www.autohotkey.com

Keyboard shortcuts in Windows, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12445/windows-keyboard-shortcuts

Text expanders:

TextExpander (Windows or Mac and a Chrome extension), https://textexpander.com

QuickKey (Mac), http://quickkey-app.com

Keyboard Maestro (Mac), https://www.keyboardmaestro.com

TypeIt4me (Mac), https://www.ettoresoftware.com/mac-apps/typeit4me/

FastFox (Windows or Mac), https://www.nch.com.au/fastfox/index.html

9 Best Text Expander Apps for Windows (Free and Paid), https://techwiser.com/text-expander-apps-for-windows/

Browser extensions and add-ons:

Auto Text Expander for Google Chrome, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-text-expander-for-go/iibninhmiggehlcdolcilmhacighjamp

Auto Text Expander for Firefox, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-text-expander/

Text Blaze for Google Chrome, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-blaze/idgadaccgipmpannjkmfddolnnhmeklj

ProKeys for Google Chrome, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/prokeys/ekfnbpgmmeahnnlpjibofkobpdkifapn

Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) for Firefox, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shortkeys/

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Michael discusses his big descendancy research project and has traced thousands of descendants for only several of eight brothers. Our listeners are encouraged to email us to share suggestions and to discuss their own similar projects. Sara commented on research logs and timeline software we discussed on 3 December 2019. She hasn’t found the right research logs for her work. Suggestions from listeners are welcome for us to share with her. Tom is looking for a DNA researcher to analyze his wife’s matches. He is looking for her father from ca. 1925 in Reno, Nevada. Anonymous is a younger member of a genealogical society. She and a few others have suggested virtual seminars/webinars but the proposition has fallen on deaf ears. She is seeking suggestions for how to move the society forward and to develop and sustain it.
The Genealogy Guys are available for webinars using Zoom, a simple-to-use online video meeting tool that handles up to 100 people logged in at a time. Our catalog of Genealogy Topics is available at https://ahaseminars.com/ along with information about Genealogy Webinars. Contact us to schedule a webinar for your society.

Thank you again to our Patreon supporters! You can support us at https://patreon.com/genealogyguys . You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Send us email at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

The Genealogy Guys have invested in new microphones and cables to improve the sound quality of the podcast. They discuss the new equipment and thank our Patreon supporters for supporting us in this investment. Bear with us as we learn to use the new mikes!

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage has improved its MyHeritage In ColorTM facility by providing new technology to use colorization settings to further enhance photographs. The MyHeritage Yearbook collection now allows you to toggle between black-and-white and color on yearbook pages. MyHeritage’ Theory of Family RelativityTM facility in its DNA matches has grown tremendously. In the next few weeks, a banner will appear at the top of your DNA Matches page. Click on “View Theories” to see all theories found, old and new. Ancestry offers 450K yearbooks and more than 62 million pages in its huge searchable collection. Findmypast launched a photographic collection of more than 10,000 images in celebration of VE Day. Findmypast added additions and new records to the collections: Scotland, Edinburgh & Lothian Death and Burial Index; Scotland, Aberdeenshire Poll Tax 1696; Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions; and Cambridgeshire Burials. The Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference registration is now open. It will be held 2-5 September 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri. Drew recaps new record additions, updates, and indexes at FamilySearch.
Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle reminds us to remember the beginners.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Vic thanks us for discussing LibraryThing and tagging on Episode #377. Legacy Libraries is another facility at the site to look at famous people’s libraries at https://www.librarything.com/index_catalog.php?search=legacy&page=legacy . Mary posted at our FB page that she listened to Drew’s interview with Libby Copeland (Genealogy Connection #68) four times!
Tell us about how your society is meeting virtually/online, the tools you’re using, the positive things, and any negative things. This will help other societies connect their members.

The Genealogy Squad

The Genealogy Squad just celebrated its one-year anniversary with more than 33.5K members!

Welcome Cari Taplin, CG, as a new Administrator of The Genealogy Squad, along with George G. Morgan, Drew Smith, and Cyndi Ingle. We have moderators in England and Australia to help answer your questions and direct you to resources. And our members help one another in a friendly environment.

Thank you again to our Patreon supporters! You can support us at https://patreon.com/genealogyguys . You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Send us email at genealogyguys@gmail.com .

The Genealogy Guys Learn site (https://genealogyguyslearn.com/ ) April sale ends at midnight Eastern U.S. Time on 30 April. Look for details and instructions on the Genealogy Guys Blog on March 31 and at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/04/the-genealogy-guys-learn-is-on-sale-for.html . Don’t miss your opportunity to get written and video education and more at a bargain price, and new content is added every month .

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage makes its entire yearbook collection available for free through 23 May 2020, and you can now display pages and photos in color as well as black-and-white. AncestryDNA has added many new communities around the world, and their ethnic estimate research panel has been updated to include indigenous communities in Australia. Drew discusses Ancestry’s records and developments in the coming months. The National Archives in the UK has announced that it is offering free access to its records. Check their blog at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/digital-downloads/ . A list of records available can be found at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/?research-category=online . Findmypast has added Northumberland Baptisms and Marriages, Durham Baptisms, Surry Burials, and more. Drew recaps new record additions, updates, and indexes at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Blaine T. Bettinger

Blaine explains what a centimorgan is, who it is named for, and why it's important.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle discusses why working with others is so important to genealogical research.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Tom discusses the recent interview with Diahan Southard and whether or not he needs her new book. Vance recounts his family’s excitement at developing the family’s tree, information found on our podcast episode # 295 (4 October 2015), and recording telephone calls with relatives.
Organize Your Books with LibraryThing

Drew reminds you to “Organize Your Books” as he wrote about on Day 11 of his January Getting Organized series of blog posts (http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/01/day-11-organize-your-books.html ). The Guys then discuss LibraryThing (https://www.librarything.com/ ) and the ease of cataloguing your entire collection of books. As of 18 March 2020, LibraryThing is free and allows you to add an unlimited number of books. You can tag and organize your books into groups. There is a LibraryThing app for the Apple iOS that allows you take it with you anywhere. The app allows you to snap an image of the ISBN and immediately add the book to your library. Pre-ISBN books also are easily added using a search of author and partial title.

George reminds you to back up your browser bookmarks.

Thank you again to our Patreon supporters! You can support us at https://patreon.com/genealogyguys . You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

Drew brings back Diahan Southard to Genealogy Connection in order to discuss Diahan's new book, Your DNA Guide: the Book . Diahan explains how the book is structured and outlines the 4 basic DNA research concepts that have made her own work successful.

More information about the book can be found at https://www.yourdnaguide.com/your-dna-guide-the-book

Diahan's previous interview can be found in Genealogy Connection #047: http://genealogyguys.com/genealogy-connection-047-diahan-southard-dna-expert-speaker-and-writer

The Genealogy Guys Learn site (https://genealogyguyslearn.com/ ) is on sale for the entire month of April. Look for details and instructions at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2020/04/the-genealogy-guys-learn-is-on-sale-for.html . This is your opportunity to get more written and video education at a bargain price, and new content is added every month .

News You Can Use and Share
Vivid-Pix announced it’s “Round Tuit” education program at https://vivid-pix.com/education.html . MyHeritage provides free access to all its U.S. census records through 12 April 2020. MyHeritage has added new content to its Knowledge Base. The Society of Genealogists in London is working with FamilySearch to digitize approximately 9,000 family history books and over 5,000 pamphlets in a project to take at least two years. Findmypast added 116 million new records to their collection of English and Welsh Electoral Registers. Findmypast added new Scottish records including the Ayrshire, Kilmarnock Valuation Roll (1874), Ratepayers (1838-1846), and Voter Lists (1837-1852). Drew recaps new record additions, updates, and indexes at FamilySearch. Another article about The Guys will be published in Podcast Magazine at the end of March at https://podcastmagazine.com/ .
Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle discusses whether you should have only one family tree or more than one.

Splitting or Combining Family Trees | Ancestry

by Crista Cowan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrdQXvtP0yE

Splitting an Ancestry® Family Tree

https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Splitting-an-Ancestry-Family-Tree

Merging Ancestry® Family Trees

https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Merging-Ancestry-Family-Trees

How do I divide my existing tree into parts if I edit online? (MyHeritage)

https://faq.myheritage.com/en/article/how-do-i-divide-my-existing-tree-into-parts-if-i-edit-online

How do I merge two family trees (MyHeritage)

https://faq.myheritage.com/en/article/how-do-i-merge-two-family-trees

Your Legacy Database - Should You Split It?

https://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/03/your_legacy_dat.html

WikiTree Help: Splitting a GEDCOM

With instructions on how to do this for several programs

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Splitting_a_GEDCOM

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Shannon asks us to let our listeners know about free genealogy resources. Jean thanks us for reminding people to use their library cards to access the many online resources available at their websites.
Book Review

Drew reviews the latest book by Nathan Dylan Goodwin, The Sterling Affair , and gives it a great thumbs-up.

Thank you again to our Patreon supporters! You can support us at https://patreon.com/genealogyguys . You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website.

The Genealogy Guys Learn site (https://genealogyguyslearn.com/ ) will be on sale for the entire month of April. Look for details and instructions on the Genealogy Guys Blog on March 30, and links to the blog will be placed on Facebook at The Genealogy Guys Podcast and The Genealogy Squad pages. This is your opportunity to get more written and video education at a bargain price, and new content is added every month .

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage introduced MyHeritage in ColorTM to colorize your black-and-white photos. MyHeritage has added 1.3 billion records of U.S. City Directories. MyHeritage has introduced fan charts as a way to display your family trees online. Geneanet , the leading genealogy website in Europe, has launched its DNA matching service. Ancestry announced the completion of a project to digitize and index 36 million of the U.S. WWII young men’s draft cards. Ancestry has updated and improved its collection, New York, New York, Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909. Findmypast added 18 million new U.S. marriage records for Texas, 1937-2010. Findmypast added 36K new Wales Billion Graves records, Hampshire baptisms, marriages, and burials, and Surrey baptisms, marriages, and burials. Findmypast published more than 190K new records in partnership with the Galway County Council. They include Galway Poor Law Union Records, Galway county burials, and more records from the Waterford Poor Law Union Board of Guardians Minute Books. Church of England will begin a project, “Google Maps for Graves.” The Genealogy Squad Facebook group passed 30,000 members this week. Share the link with your friends so that they can join! FamilySearch has introduced the Explore Historical Images tool to search digital-image-only records. Drew recaps new record additions, updates, and indexes at FamilySearch. Use your library card to explore all the databases offered at their website. ProQuest has arranged for Ancestry Library Edition to be made available remotely from home. JSTOR is offering free registration. Be sure to use Google Books for public domain content. The Guys are featured in an article at Indie Podcast News at https://indiepodcastnews.com/2020/03/20/from-no-facebook-group-to-13000-plus/ . Another article about The Guys will be published at the end of March in Podcast Magazine .
DNA Segment with Blaine T. Bettinger

Blaine and Drew discuss the use of DNA data for research at the 23andMe site.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle says that there is no such thing as a brick wall! She suggests:

The brick wall is you - what you don't know, where you don't know to look, etc. She encourages you to take advantage of:

Genealogical education

Read, read, read

Books, magazines, guides, wikis

Podcasts

Webinars

Seminars

Conferences

Institutes

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Tom wrote some time ago about the availability of facial recognition software for personal use. Rick Voight of Vivid-Pix tells us that this is a combination of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. It’s not available to individuals yet at any kind of reasonable price, but he believes “the ability and technology are on the horizon.”. Jenn wrote to ask how to research ancestors' patents. Mark wrote a follow-up to his sharing of the article about Mt. Vesuvius and survivors. Archaeologists in Italy are trying link remains they found in Pompeii in the 20th century to Pliny the Elder at https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-remains-found-by-pompeii-really-are-pliny-the-elder-new-tests-indicate-1.8439072 . Susan wrote a fascinating account about she discovered that she was donor-conceived. Marise is looking for information about marriage and naturalization records that were probably destroyed in the fire that was an aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Listeners, share whatever you can with us!
Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts, our blog, and Genealogy Guys Learn .

One last reminder of the deadline to respond to the proposed price increases by the USCIS. Details are here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/01/24/2020-01189/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-fee-schedule-and-changes-to-certain-other-immigration

News You Can Use and Share
Both 23andMe and Ancestry have announced layoffs related to the downturn in the DNA testing market. MyHeritage has released millions of new records in late December and throughout January. The Society of Genealogists has alerted us through their newsletter of several new British and Irish collection news updates, including updates at the PRONI website, the ability to share screenshots from the GRO, and an addition of more civil marriage records at IrishGenealogy.ie Bucks County in Pennsylvania has put deeds online back to 1684. The U.S. National Archives has put Record Group 77 (Civil Works Map Files) online and has digitized Record Group 145 (Aerial Indexes). Findmypast has added Britain, Royal and Imperial Calendars, plus more baptisms, marriages, and burials for Durham. FamilySearch is celebrating Black History Month with new collections and articles. Drew provides a long list of updated collections for FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Blaine T. Bettinger

Drew asks Blaine about X-DNA and how it can be used.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle discusses "Research the Records before the Ancestor":

FamilySearch Wiki - wiki.familysearch.org

For US research - Ancestry Wiki - wiki.rootsweb.com

Libraries, archives, genealogical & historical societies in that area too.

Anne Moss-Biggs Library at Robeson Community College, https://guides.robeson.edu/c.php?g=632482&p=4422915

BYU - North Carolina Research Outline, http://files.lib.byu.edu/family-history-library/research-outlines/US/NorthCarolina.pdf

How-to guides, research outlines, pathfinders. For example, Robeson County, NC:

Don't forget to look at each level of government or record-keeping. Don't stick with just the parish or the county, look also at the state, the territory, and the federal government too.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Janet follows up on George's discussion of Pompeii in a previous episode with a link to the article, provided here: https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-rome/the-survivors-of-mount-vesuvius/?mqsc=E4108051&dk=ZE022EZF2&utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=BHDDaily%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=ZE022EZF2 Janet also provides a link to an article about the possible identification of a skull that may have been that of Pliny the Elder: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/02/dna-tests-suggest-skull-found-near-pompeii-likely-to-be-pliny-the-elder/?fbclid=IwAR1QO1VcshOeybYVUjpgcxkhtRk2NsSyDW5WDjsh--3onCB1xalaVOcjXRw Katherine shares with us the perfect children's picture book for Black History Month: Emma, by Cheryl Wills. It's available here: https://www.amazon.com/Emma-Cheryl-Wills/dp/168265642X Donna asks about how to search online library catalogs for a list of 800 books, all at once.
Please tell your friends and your society about our free podcasts.

Enroll in Genealogy Guys Learn at https://genealogyguys.learn for written courses, videos, and helpful resources. New content is added every month!

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Drew speaks with Randy Fredlund, co-founder of Vivid-Pix, the makers of RESTORE. Randy explains how an electrical engineer who once worked for Eastman Kodak became interested in how to improve personal underwater photography, and how that led to developing software to help genealogists recover the details in old faded or discolored family photos.

To learn more about Vivid-Pix RESTORE, go to https://vivid-pix.com/restore.html .

We hope you are enjoying Drew’s “31 Days of Getting Organized” series at The Genealogy Guys Blog . Day 0 begins at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2019/12/day-0-introducing-31-days-of-getting.html , and you can follow each day. (Use the Tag labeled Organization for quick access to all of these entries.)

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage added millions of new records in November 2019 and in the first half of December. MyHeritage added new records for Germany in late December: the Hesse Birth Index (1874-1911) and the Hesse Marriage Index (1849-1931). The Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Park Service announced the launch of the U.S. Mexican War Soldier & Sailor Database, coming on 27 January 2020. (See press release at our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/search/label/Mexican%20War . Fold3 has recently added the “UK Militia Attestation Papers, 1806-1915,” containing great personal information for each individual. The Royal Air Force Museum has launched a new website containing casualty forms of the officers of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. The site is located at https://www.casualtyforms.org . Donna Moughty announced her two annual research trips to Ireland: the Belfast trip October 10-17, 2020, and the Dublin trip October 17-24, 2020. Space is limited. Details are available at https://www.irishfamilyroots.com/2020-research-trips . Findmypast has released updates to the 1939 Register, British Armed Forces’ World War I Medical Records, and the U.S. National Veterans Cemetery Index. They also have released records for Kent Baptisms, Marriages and Banns, and Burials. FamilySearch has released GEDCOM Version 5.5.1, the first update in ten years. FamilySearch’s 2019 highlights include 1.24 billion people in the Family Tree, 6.3 billion searchable records and images online, 8.75 million new photos and stories added, and 15.5 million volunteer hours contributed. FamilySearch has announced new things coming in 2020: sitewide support for new languages; improvements to the user experience with the Family Tree; updates to Memories to allow topic tagging; improvements in social interactions and social media; and a new tool, Explore Images, allowing users to view images within days of their capture. Drew recaps new record additions, updates, and indexes at FamilySearch.
DNA Segment with Blaine T. Bettinger

Blaine and Drew discuss chromosome mapping at the DNA Painter site.

Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle discusses thinking of your end goal.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Robin wrote about loose papers and about oversized documents and photographs and how she approached copying them. Now, the question is where to send them for permanent storage. Mark captured George’s interest with an article from the Biblical Archaeology Review (January-February 2020 issue) titled “Rescuing and Recovering Vesuvius’s Survivors.” The report addresses the people who escaped the volcano’s eruption on 24 August 79 C.E. [A.D.], where they moved, the customs they took with them, and intermarriages. The author, Steven L. Tuck, performed extensive research, including identifying people and events using genealogical standards. Excellent article!
Don’t forget! The Genealogy Guys and Vivid-Pix have issued a new call for nominations for the Unsung Heroes Awards. Submissions will be accepted until midnight EST on 1 February 2020. Awards will be announced at RootsTech 2020 in Salt Lake City. Full details and links to nomination forms can be found on our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2019/12/genealogy-guys-and-vivid-pix-issue-call.html . You can even nominate yourself!

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On 14 November 2019, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) proposed a sudden and unprecedented 492% increase in fees required to access historical records held by the USCIS Genealogy Program. Many of these records should already be publicly accessible under the law. The USCIS is essentially holding them hostage, demanding individuals pay exorbitant and unjustifiable fees to access documents of our immigrant ancestors. YOU HAVE UNTIL DECEMBER 30, 2019, TO SUBMIT COMMENTS TO HELP STOP THIS FEE INCREASE. We strongly urge you to visit https://www.recordsnotrevenue.com/ and protest this action!

News You Can Use and Share
Verogen, Inc., has purchased GEDmatch. Drew explains the new opt in/out requirement to accept the terms of service in order to continue to use the site. MyHeritage added 18.6 million new historical records in October 2019. In the first half of November, they added another 18.8 million records. In the second half of November, they added another 8.8 million new records. Drew announces those record collections. The Ohio Genealogical Society has issued a call for lecture proposals for its 2021 Conference to be held in Columbus, Ohio. Nathan Dylan Goodwin has a new book coming out in January 2020 titled The Sterling Affair . Findmypast has released Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions; Scotland, Renfrewshire Death & Burial Index; Scotland, Stirlingshire & Perthshire Burials; Northumberland Baptisms, Marriages, and Burial collections; Northumberland and Durham Memorial Inscriptions; and Texas County Tax Rolls (1846-1910). FamilySearch celebrates its 125th anniversary. FamilySearch adds the ability to document all family relationships, including same-sex marriages and adoptions. Drew discusses many new and expanded collections from FamilySearch.
Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle recommends that listeners try something new.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Lili wrote a great follow-up to our previous discussion of research logs. The Guys talk about more options and setting up a calendar/to-do list to recheck online sites. Linda wrote to compliment us on what she is learning at the new Genealogy Guys Learn subscription site. Linda also wrote to discuss RM7 not running under the new macOS Catalina operating system. Drew discusses downloading and installing CrossOver software from CodeWeavers . Dianne encourages people to regularly recheck FamilySearch and other online sites frequently for the addition and update of records. Eugene shares a story about a man whose 1870 diary details his departure from Michigan to California and each day until his wife and children joined him. Janet responded concerning a recent listener email about foreign service. She shared a link concerning foreign service list resources at the Hathi Trust Digital Library website at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001719572 . Jeryl of the Genealogical Society of Sarasota [Florida] wrote to discuss their work to record and map all the cemeteries in the county. They are looking for cemetery mapping software in which to record their work. We ask our listeners to share any information they have to help the GSS in its endeavor.
The Genealogy Guys and Vivid-Pix have issued a new call for nominations for the Unsung Heroes Awards. Submissions will be accepted until midnight EST on February 1, 2020. Awards will be announced at RootsTech 2020 in Salt Lake City. Full details and links to nomination forms can be found on our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2019/12/genealogy-guys-and-vivid-pix-issue-call.html . You can even nominate yourself!

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

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Jennifer Mendelsohn is an expert on Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jewish genealogical research and the use of DNA. She and Drew discuss how she applies her journalistic skills to her research, how she demonstrates the universality of the immigration experience of our ancestors, and how she ended up being part of the 2019 memoir Inheritance by Dani Shapiro. You can follow Jennifer on Twitter - @CleverTitleTK

The Genealogy Guys enjoyed Thanksgiving with friends and Drew's dessert (a key lime pound cake). Listeners can email for the recipe. George reminded everyone that new content is being added every month to the Genealogy Guys Learn educational subscription site, and there's currently a sale price that is available until December 14.

News You Can Use and Share
George discussed the plans by Bruce Buzbee of RootsMagic to delay release of RM 8 until some issues have been addressed. This will push the release into 2020. Drew talked about the new health reports available from MyHeritage through its DNA product, and the new list view for MyHeritage family trees. George and Drew shared new record collections from Findmypast and FamilySearch. Drew raised the alarm for the USCIS proposed rate increases for obtaining information, and listeners should visit the Records, Not Revenue site to learn more and to register their objections to the new costs.
Blaine T. Bettinger and the DNA Segment

Blaine explained to Drew how the new beta product for 23andMe works in creating proposed family trees based on nothing but DNA matching. Learn more from Blaine at his DNA Central subscription website.

Cyndi Says with Cyndi Ingle

Cyndi took listeners through the sometimes difficult process of figuring out how the records in online databases were sourced. And don't forget to visit Cyndi's List to find links to all the genealogy sites you'll ever need!

Our Listeners Talk to Us

Leslie asked about research logs, and Drew gave his thoughts on using a blog for a public research log or using Evernote or Microsoft OneNote for a more private and flexible research log.

And As Always...

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

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Michael J. Leclerc returns to Genealogy Connection to talk to Drew about Michael's new book, Benjamin Franklin's Family (Volume I: English Ancestors) . More information about the book can be found at http://franklinsfam.com/

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local genealogy society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

The Genealogy Guys Learn educational subscription site launched on October 1st and is a great success. New content has been added at the beginning of November and more is scheduled soon.

Drew reports on his trip to present at RootsTech London. He reminisces on his profound trip to the Cambridge American Cemetery, where he visited the grave of his father’s brother who was killed in 1943.

News You Can Use and Share
The Australian government has provided $10M in funding to the National Archives of Australia to digitize 850,000 World War II records over the next four years. Ancestry has significantly updated its collection of U.S. obituaries. AncestryDNA has expanded its reference panel to deliver more precise DNA ethnicity results. This is being rolled out by year's end. Ancestry has introduced AncestryHealth® to provide health insights for testers and their families. Findmypast has released: Scotland, Will and Testament Index, 1481-1807; Scotland Monumental Inscriptions; Westmorland Baptisms, Marriages, & Burials; Philippines Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, and Burials from 1642-1974. DNA-Central.com has released a new newsletter and discusses updates to courses about 23andMe, ANC101, and YDNA101, and announced 6 new courses: Introduction to Autosomal DNA, Introduction to GEDmatch, GEDmatch Advanced, Introduction to DNA Painter, and Introduction to Shared Matches and Genetic Networks. Kevin Borland released a press release about Borland Genetics at https://www.borlandgenetics.com/ , a toolkit that acts on raw DNA files of related individuals, enabling to reverse-engineer your ancestors. Drew discusses many new and expanded collections from FamilySearch.
Blaine T. Bettinger

This week’s discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on the meaning and use of FIR and HIR.

Book Review

George reviews William Dollarhide’s brand-new book, The Census Book: Facts, Schedules & Worksheets for the U.S. Federal Censuses . George recommends the book highly, saying it should be on every U.S. researcher’s and library’s bookshelf.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Faye heard us mention Augsburg, Bavaria, records and asked where they were. George wrote back with a link from the FamilySearch News. Gail asked if Genealogy Guys Learn includes content from all learning levels. We firmly believe that so many of us started at different levels with disparate documents that everyone would benefit from starting over again. This approach allows everyone to build or rebuild the foundation for solid research. You can, of course, use portions of the written courses or videos for the topics for which you have an immediate need. However, we guarantee that you will find important new "Aha! moments" in each course or lesson. Nancy recalled that Drew is a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies and whose study focuses on Bodie, Boddie, and all other spelling variations. She sent information about a Stephen Body from Maryland. Drew is always interested in more of these links. Tom inquired about an individual whom he believes was a doctor who departed from Norfolk, Virginis, for Stamboul [Istanbul], Turkey at the end of September 1931. He wants to know if this person could have had some affiliation with the U.S. State Department. Ryan asked a fascinating question about what primary photograph to use to represent an ancestor in an online tree or in software. What age is preferable? We’d love to hear opinions from our listeners. Darren attended RootsTech London and asks about relationship software that might exist to link friends, associates, neighbors, witnesses, and others.
Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more free news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Enroll in Genealogy Guys Learn at https://genealogyguyslearn.com for written courses, videos, and helpful resources. New content will be added every month!

And join The Genealogy Squad Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad/ for the highest quality help from the administrators Blaine T. Bettinger, Cyndi Ingle, Drew Smith, and George Morgan, and from almost 25,000 members worldwide!

The Genealogy Guys Learn educational subscription site launched on October 1st . Podcast listeners receive a 10% discount. Listen to Episode #368 for the details.

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage added 44.4 million records in September, including NYC Birth Index (1878-1909); NYC Death Index (1862-1948); Netherlands Civil Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Church Burials; and more. The Society of Genealogists in London has announced it is searching for new premises to move into after 35 years. Findmypast announces the launch of its Tree-to-Tree Hints. Findmypast announces Pennsylvania Cemetery and Burials collection; New Jersey Vital Records and Vital Records Browse; Cumberland Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials; U.S. Directories & Almanacs; transcripts of Ukraine births and deaths 1784-1879; and 12 million transcripts from Spain of baptisms, marriages, and burials spanning 1502-1950. Findmypast has updated the 1939 Register with new entries. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has turned over 4 centuries of digitized Catholic records to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) for archival storage. RootsTech 2020 on 26-29 February 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is open for registration. The FamilySearch Research Wiki has surpassed the publication of 90,000 excellent articles. Drew discusses many new and expanded collections from FamilySearch.
The DNA Segment with Blaine T. Bettinger

This week's discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on the Big Y test.

Cyndi Says with Cyndi Ingle

Cyndi Ingle’s “Cyndi Says” segment discusses how to keep an open mind.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Kirstin loved our blog article, “Yearbooks Can Reveal Great Clues,” and shared her own story. Walter asked how to obtain the RSS feed to The Genealogy Guys Blog. Mike responded with more details about his genealogical filing system. Bill responded to Kelly, the teacher in Idaho, looking for resources for her genealogy instruction. He tells us about Ancestry.com’s K-12 program at https://www.ancestryk12.com/ that helps provide Ancestry.com, Fold3.com, and Newspapers.com for use in classrooms. Eric shares an interesting story about discovering family members within your group of friends.
Book Review

George provides a review of a new book about researching U.S. Christian church records. It is How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records (With Specific Resources for Major Christian Denominations before 1900) by Sunny Jane Morton and Harold A. Henderson CG. George recommends this book to every genealogist and to every library collection. He gives this book a 10-star review for this much needed and well-written book.

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more free news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Enroll in Genealogy Guys Learn at https://genealogyguys.learn for written courses, videos, and helpful resources. New content will be added every month!

And join The Genealogy Squad Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad/ for the highest quality help from the administrators Blaine T. Bettinger, Cyndi Ingle, Drew Smith, George Morgan, and almost 24,000 members worldwide!

HAPPY FAMILY HISTORY MONTH!

In this special episode of The Genealogy Guys Podcast, the Guys announce their newest business offering, Genealogy Guys Learn (genealogyguyslearn.com ), a subscription-based educational website designed to provide genealogy courses and videos for researchers of all skill levels.

To learn more about the site and see screenshots, visit The Genealogy Guys Blog (blog.genealogyguys.com ).

Julianna Szucs speaks at many national genealogy conferences and is part of the Research Team at Ancestry.com that uncovers the stories behind some of the genealogy-themed videos we see. Learn more about Julianna at https://www.biography.com/author/juliana-szucs

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local genealogy society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Listen for a major announcement from The Guys on October 1, 2019!

News You Can Use and Share
MyHeritage acquires Promethease and SNPedia. MyHeritage announced the launch of MyHeritage Education to enhance your understanding of their website platform. MyHeritage has added a new French record collection, the Nord Civil marriage Records, 1792-1937. Findmypast has added Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, and Congregational Records. The JewishGen website has reorganized its homepage and made vast improvements to the organization and speed of access to its databases. The National Genealogical Society and the Federation of Genealogical Societies have announced their intent to merge. Drew discusses many new and expanded collections from FamilySearch.
Blaine T. Bettinger

This week’s discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on triangulation.

Cyndi Ingle

FamilySearch is much more than just a large family tree. FamilySearch is misunderstood. FamilySearch is made up of multiple pieces and parts. Today Cyndi Says pay attention to the FamilySearch Catalog.

FamilySearch - Search Historical Records
https://www.familysearch.org/search/
Currently more than 2,520 databases of records

FamilySearch Catalog
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search/
Search the catalog of genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) made available by FamilySearch online and in libraries and centers worldwide.

FamilySearch Digital Library
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/
The Family History Library is actively digitizing its family histories, local histories, and other collections to make them searchable and available online to researchers worldwide.

FamilySearch Family Tree

https://www.familysearch.org/tree One large family tree that we can all contribute to

FamilySearch Genealogies
https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree

A collection of individual genealogies contributed to or collected by the church

FamilySearch Wiki
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page
A free, online genealogy and family history guide that lists websites, provides research strategies, and suggests records and resources to help you find ancestors from all over the world.

FamilySearch Learning Center
How-to videos and articles for education
https://www.familysearch.org/ask/landing…

FamilySearch Memories
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/
The Memories Gallery is a place where all of the photos, stories, documents, and audio recordings that you add to FamilySearch are collected.

FamilySearch Indexing
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/
The volunteer indexing project running worldwide to index all the record collections on FamilySearch.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Debra thanks us for the podcast and for The Genealogy Squad on Facebook. Kelly is a teacher in Idaho and asks for inexpensive suggestions of materials to help her students’ research. Jim commented about Mike’s ahnentafel filing system discussed in episode 366. Robin wrote to describe another personal filing system. Tom asked for learning links about GEDmatch. Ginny asked whether there is a DNA testing company that only matches to your paternal side. Corrine found a DNA cousin match on both sides of her family that helped with multiple brick walls. Kim was talking at work about a funeral she had just attended, when a coworker commented that the name was familiar. It turned out that their grandmothers were cousins. It’s a very small world!
Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Join The Genealogy Squad Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad/ .

And listen for our major announcement from The Guys on October 1, 2019!

Elissa Powell is a popular Pittsburgh-area genealogy speaker and instructor. She has been heavily involved with the Board for Certification of Genealogists, and she is the co-director of the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP).

You can find out more about Elissa and her available lectures at http://www.powellgenealogy.com/

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local genealogy society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

News You Can Use and Share
Unsung Heroes Awards for 3Q2019 will be announced at the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Washington, DC, this coming week. Ancestry.com has published two unique Holocaust Records collections for free, making them searchable for the first time. Ancestry.com has announced that it now shows parental relationships on each person. Vivid-Pix launched its Zoom/Transcribe software update on July 9th at the Allen County Public Library. Yankee Publishing has acquired Family Tree Magazine . American Ancestors and the Archdiocese of Boston have announced a major expansion in their partnership to digitize important sacramental records in the history of Boston’s Catholic Church. Findmypast.com has announced numerous changes to a number of their collections: Middlesex Baptisms; Huddersfield Baptisms; Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions; Essex Baptism Index, Marriages and Banns, and Burial Index; Derbyshire Births and Baptisms; Kent Burials; Maryland Index to Colonial Probate Records; and Maryland Wills and Probate Records. FamilySearch has announced that users can now correct name indexing errors in records. Drew discusses many new and expanded collections from FamilySearch.
Book Review

George delivers a review of David McCullough’s book, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West . The book brings to life the stories of the New Englanders who migrated west to settle the Old Northwest Territory, especially Ohio. Highly recommended.

Blaine T. Bettinger

This week’s discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on what happens to DNA samples after they arrive at the testing labs.

Cyndi Ingle

Cyndi Ingle’s “Cyndi Says” segment discusses using YouTube for learning more about genealogical resources.

U.S. National Archives, https://www.youtube.com/USNationalArchives

Library of Congress, https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress

The National Archives UK, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheNationalArchivesUK

The British Library, https://www.youtube.com/britishlibrary

National Archives of Australia, https://www.youtube.com/user/NationalArchives1

Archives New Zealand, https://www.youtube.com/user/archivesnz

Library and Archives Canada, https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryArchiveCanada

National Genealogical Society, https://www.youtube.com/user/NGSGenealogy

Ohio Genealogical Society, https://www.youtube.com/user/OhioGenealogicalSoci

Ancestry.com, https://www.youtube.com/user/AncestryCom/

Findmypast, https://www.youtube.com/user/findmypast

MyHeritage, https://www.youtube.com/user/MyHeritageLtd/

Fold3, https://www.youtube.com/user/Fold3Team

GenealogyBank, https://www.youtube.com/user/GenealogyBank

Cyndi's List - How To - Internet Video, https://www.cyndislist.com/how-to/internet-video/

Cyndi's List - Video & Audio - Internet Audio & Video, https://www.cyndislist.com/video/internet/

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Don writes about DD-214 forms given to military personnel at the time of their discharge. Trisha asks Drew for recommendations about how to catalog Civil War books and manuscripts in their library. Margie writes to further discuss Bishops Transcripts of English and Welsh parish registers. Laura wants to know more about the demographics of AncestryDNA matches. Tom wants to know more about American social life in the late 1890s, and George finds a book for him. Mike shares details about how he has organized his genealogical records.
Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Join The Genealogy Squad Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad/ .

Listen for a major announcement from The Guys on October 1, 2019!

Pat Stamm is a popular genealogy speaker and long-time genealogy educator, who specializes in research in the St. Louis, Missouri area.

You can find out more about Pat and her available lectures at http://stlouisgenealogy.com/

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local genealogy society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Shannon Combs-Bennett is a popular genealogy speaker and writer. Her new book, co-authored with Brianne Kirkpatrick, is entitled The DNA Guide for Adoptees: How to Use Genealogy and Genetics to Uncover Your Roots, Connect with Your Biological Family, and Better Understand Your Medical History .

You can read more from Shannon at her blog Trials and Tribulations of a Self-Taught Family Historian .

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local genealogy society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

News You Can Use and Share

The Genealogy Guys and Vivid-Pix announce that nominations for the Unsung Heroes Awards for the 3rd quarter of 2019 are being accepted until midnight Eastern Time on 1 August 2019. Learn more at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2019/06/genealogy-guys-and-vivid-pix-announce.html and at Aha! Seminars, Inc., at https://ahaseminars.com/ .

MyHeritage has begun selling DNA kits at Costco in the UK, added new features to its mobile app, and introduced the “Genealogy Basics” Blog Series.

The schedule and details about MyHeritage LIVE in Amsterdam on 6-8 September 2019 have been announced. Details can be found at https://blog.myheritage.com/2019/06/myheritage-live-2019s-schedule-genealogy-dna-and-so-much-more/ .

RootsMagic has upgraded and enhanced its Live Chat support at its website. This complements their telephone support and other customer support resources.

Penguin Random House has posted the winning bid to acquire the book publishing rights for F+W Media, which includes Family Tree Books.

American Ancestors, the online site of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, commemorates Juneteenth with the launch of a new website: The GU Memory Project is named for Georgetown University and the 272 enslaved individuals listed on the 1838 bill of sale, and the GU272 Memory Project website (gu272.americanancestors.org ) features fully documented genealogies of the families who were sold, along with audio interviews of their modern descendants speaking about a wide range of topics, from personal memories of family members to racism in America.

Findmypast announces new and updated collections including: the Greater London Burial Index; New Jersey Marriage Index, 1901-2016; International Records Update for Sweden, Iceland, and Luxembourg; Lancastershire Baptisms, Marriages and Banns, and Burials; and updates to its British and Irish newspapers.

Ancestry unveiled over 225 new AncestryDNA communities and moved its ThruLines, MyTreeTags, and Improved DNA Matches out of beta and into production.

Drew recaps some major record additions at FamilySearch, including some massive new collections.

Blaine T. Bettinger

This week’s discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on the reasons for Y-DNA testing, how to choose the most appropriate Y-DNA test, and when to upgrade.

Get more from Blaine in the Genetic Genealogy Tips and Techniques group on Facebook, and at Blaine's DNA Central subscription site .

Cyndi Ingle

Cyndi Ingle’s “Cyndi Says” segment discusses Using Tabs in Your Browser.

Tab tools:

OneTab - Chrome & Firefox

https://www.one-tab.com

Humble New Tab - Chrome & Firefox

https://ibillingsley.ca

Toby - Better Than Bookmarks - Chrome & Firefox

http://www.gettoby.com

Tabli - Chrome

https://www.gettabli.com

TabLister - Safari

https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.paulgriffinpetty.tablister-54DM2A49PR

See also:

14 Best tab managers for Chrome as of 2019

https://www.slant.co/topics/7734/~tab-managers-for-chrome

The Best Chrome Extensions for Managing Tabs

https://www.howtogeek.com/354145/the-best-chrome-extensions-for-managing-tabs/

The 10 Best Extensions for Chrome Tab Management

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-extensions-chrome-tab-management/

The Best Firefox Extensions for Managing Tabs

https://www.howtogeek.com/357715/the-best-firefox-extensions-for-managing-tabs/

12 Incredibly Useful Ways to Manage Multiple Tabs in Firefox

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/12-incredibly-useful-ways-manage-multiple-tabs-firefox/

How to use Safari’s tab management and bookmark stashing to avoid losing web pages

https://www.macworld.com/article/3267710/safari-tab-management.html

8 Ways to Manage Tabs in Microsoft Edge Browser

https://www.webnots.com/8-ways-to-manage-tabs-in-microsoft-edge-browser/

Get more from Cyndi Ingle at Cyndi's List (cyndislist.com ).

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Chris wrote about seeking a GEDCOM splitter program for use in breaking his large tree into pieces. He found a program called Splitter at http://www.llenrup.com/ . Petty wants to know if it is still possible to become a professional genealogist and The Guys respond. Ray is seeking information about early Native American records and other resources that might exist, particularly in North Carolina for Cherokee. The Guys ask our listeners to share information that they might know or suggest.
George and Drew end the episode by discussing some additional ways to improve the use of the physical genealogical workspace.

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Join The Genealogy Squad Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad/ .

Janet Hovorka, the "Chart Chick", is the co-owner with her husband Kim of Family Chartmasters, a company that produces beautiful printed family trees. She is a popular speaker at genealogy conferences and the author of the Zap the Grandma Gap books.

Learn more about Janet at janethovorka.com .

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local genealogy society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Our podcast hosting service, Libsyn, has partnered with Entercom to distribute podcasts on Radio.com . That means that this podcast will be available there.

Drew talks about Apple’s announcement that it is discontinuing iTunes in the next version of the macOS, Catalina, and what that means for music, podcast, and television users who upgrade their Mac's operating system this fall.

The launch of the new Facebook group page, The Genealogy Squad , took place on May 6, 2019. Membership is nearing 15,000. You can join at https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad . And read our blog posting at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2019/06/the-genealogy-squad-you-are-not-alone.html about where our members are located.

News You Can Use and Share

New historical birth, marriage, and death registers for Ireland are available at https://www.irishgenealogy.ie .

Findmypast has released Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Death & Burial Index records, Pennsylvania Register of Mine Accidents, Cardiganshire Baptisms, Marriages & Banns, and Burials, Kent Baptisms, Marriages & Banns, and Burials, Phillimore Marriage Registers, and updates to Italian and Danish records.

Drew recaps some major record additions at FamilySearch.

Blaine T. Bettinger's DNA Segment

This week’s discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on creating a DNA testing strategy that will both fit your budget and will get your DNA testing data on as many sites as feasible.

Cyndi Ingle's "Cyndi Says"

Cyndi Ingle’s “Cyndi Says” segment discusses how you can use Google to search for specific file types.

File types indexable by Google:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35287?hl=en

filetype:pdf

filetype:doc or filetype:docx

filetype:xls or filetype:xlsx

filetype:ppt or filetype:pptx

filetype:kml or filetype:kmz

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Katherine writes to tell us she earlier connected with one of our Unsung Heroes Award winners, Stacy Ashmore Cole. Scott, Gloria, and Katherine wrote praising the Genealogy Connection interview with Sunny Morton. Debra wrote about how much she enjoyed the Genealogy Connection interview with Russ Worthington. She also shared two good tips. Tom wants help and advice about splitting his existing single family tree at Ancestry into multiple trees. Listener suggestions and insights are welcome.
The Guys discuss how they have their home genealogical research workspaces set up, and how George has created lighting under his hutch.

The Guys share some of their upcoming speaking schedules. You can always learn more at https://ahaseminars.com/eventListings.php?nm=52 .

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Sunny Morton is an internationally known and award-winning writer and speaker. In this episode, Sunny shares her thoughts about writing, and discusses her upcoming book about using U.S. church records for genealogical research.

Find out more about Sunny at sunnymorton.com .

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local genealogy society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

The Guys have resolved the high-pitched sound problem and have replaced the six affected episodes (GGP 359, 360, 351 & GC 52, 53, 54) with clean ones. Read more at our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2019/05/6-previous-episodes-re-released-with.html .

Winners of the Unsung Heroes Awards for 2Q2019 will be announced on Saturday, June 1, 2019, at the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree in Burbank. A special presentation will be made at 1:30 PM in the convention center lobby, followed by the remainder in the Exhibit Hall at the Flip-Pal/Vivid-Pix booth.

The launch of the new Facebook group page, The Genealogy Squad , took place on May 6, 2019. Membership has topped 11,800 in just three weeks and is still growing fast. The principals are Blaine T. Bettinger, Cyndi Ingle, George G. Morgan, and Drew Smith. You can join at https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad .

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MyHeritage announced the launch of the MyHeritage DNA Health+Ancestry test on May 20, 2019. It includes dozens of personalized and easy-to-understand health reports in addition to the ethnicity results, a chromosome browser, and matching with others in their database. A new kit is $199; an upgrade to your existing DNA kit is $120. Read their announcement at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/search/label/MyHeritage%20Health%20%26%20Ancestry%20Test and learn more at their website.

Ancestry announced that it has surpassed 15 million members in its DNA network.

Findmypast has announced the launch of ancestor sharing for users with family trees online. This is an optional feature.

Findmypast has released Queensland Soldier Portraits (1914-1918), and has announced the launch of over 114 million new birth, christening, marriage, death, and burial records covering 20 European nations (1502-1960).

FamilySearch celebrates 20 years online.

Drew recaps some major record additions at FamilySearch.

Blaine T. Bettinger

This week’s discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on the researcher's problem of confirmation bias, and how it can affect both DNA-based research and traditional genealogical research.

Cyndi Ingle

Cyndi Ingle’s “Cyndi Says” segment highlights web resources about archives. She provides links to:

Alabama Mosaic, http://www.alabamamosaic.org

Alaska’s Digital Archives, http://vilda.alaska.edu

Arizona Memory Project, http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov

Arkansas History Commission (AHC), http://www.ark-ives.com

Online Archive of California, http://www.oac.cdlib.org

Colorado Virtual Library, http://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org

Connecticut Digital Collections, http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/dld/CT_Digital_Collections

State of Delaware – Digital Archives, http://archives.delaware.gov/exhibits/exhibits-toc.shtml

Florida Memory, https://www.floridamemory.com

Georgia’s Virtual Vault, http://cdm.georgiaarchives.org:2011/cdm/

Hawaii State Archives Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.hawaii.gov/greenstone3/library

Idaho State Archives, http://history.idaho.gov/idaho-state-archives

Illinois Digital Archives, http://www.idaillinois.org

Indiana Digital Archives, https://secure.in.gov/apps/iara/search/

Iowa Heritage Digital Collections, http://www.iowaheritage.org

Kansas Memory, http://www.kansasmemory.org

Kentucky Digital Library, http://kdl.kyvl.org

Louisiana Digital Library, http://louisianadigitallibrary.org/

Maine Memory Network, http://www.mainememory.net

Archives of Maryland Online, http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/html/index.html

Digital Commonwealth - Massachusetts Collections Online, https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org

Seeking Michigan, http://seekingmichigan.org

Minnesota Reflections, http://reflections.mndigital.org

MDAH Digital Archives - Mississippi Department of Archives and History, http://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/

Missouri Digital Heritage, http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh

Montana Memory Project, http://montanamemory.org

Nebraska State Historical Society, http://nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml

Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records Digital Collections, http://www.nsladigitalcollections.org

New Hampshire Historical Society, https://www.nhhistory.org

New Jersey Digital Highway, http://www.njdigitalhighway.org

New Mexico's Digital Collections, http://econtent.unm.edu

New York State Archives' Digital Collections, http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov

North Carolina Digital Collections, http://digital.ncdcr.gov

Digital Horizons (North Dakota & Minnesota), http://digitalhorizonsonline.org

Ohio Memory, http://www.ohiomemory.org

Oklahoma Digital Prairie, http://digitalprairie.ok.gov

Oregon State Archives, http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/default.aspx

Pennsylvania State Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us

Rhode Island State Archives - Digital Library, http://sos.ri.gov/archon/?p=digitallibrary/digitallibrary

South Carolina Digital Library, http://scmemory.org

Digital Library of South Dakota (DLSD), http://dlsd.sdln.net

Tennessee Virtual Archive, http://teva.contentdm.oclc.org

Texas Digital Archive, https://www.tsl.texas.gov/texasdigitalarchive

Digital Utah, http://pioneer.utah.gov/digital/utah.html

Vermont State Archives, https://www.sec.state.vt.us/archives-records/state-archives.aspx

Library of Virginia, http://www.lva.virginia.gov

Washington State Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov

West Virginia Division of Culture and History, http://www.wvculture.org

Wisconsin Historical Society, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org

Wyoming State Archives, http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Florence wrote to Vivid-Pix to share her delight with the new software. John asks about maintaining a source database in MS Word, in Evidentia, or in EndNote. The Guys ask our listeners for their feedback. Tom and his wife are headed to Washington, DC, in May 2020 and plan to research at NARA. The Guys provide some advice but also ask listeners to share their recommendations for a successful research trip.
Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Russ Worthington may be best known to genealogists as "Cousin Russ," an actual cousin of and friend to DearMyrtle. Russ blogs and speaks online and at conferences about genealogy database software and other technology topics. Russ and Drew talk about the use of online tools and video to educate genealogists, and why Russ doesn't have any brick walls (yet).

Find out about where you can see and read more from Russ at this page: http://dearmyrtle.com/blog2/index.php/2017/10/03/who-is-cousin-russ/

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local genealogy society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

The Genealogy Guys announced the launch of The Genealogy Squad Facebook Page on May 6, 2019, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad . The principals are Blaine T. Bettinger, Cyndi Ingle, George G. Morgan, and Drew Smith. In the first 7 days, membership has exceeded 8,000 members.

The deadline for nominations for the 2Q2019 Unsung Heroes Awards is midnight Eastern Time, May 15, 2019. Awards will be announced at the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree in Burbank on June 1, 2019. Details and nomination materials are available at https://ahaseminars.com/cpage.php?pt=24 .

News You Can Use and Share

The Guys were honored at the Ohio Genealogical Society 2019 Conference in Mason, Ohio, on May 4 with an award acknowledging their exceptional support for the Society and its annual conference.

We are sad to report the passing of Donn Devine, JD, CG Emeritus, of Wilmington, Delaware on May 8, 2019. Donn was a leader in the genealogical community and will be deeply missed.

Vivid-Pix announces a new release of its RESTORE software that includes image metadata creation and Artificial Intelligence image improvement capabilities. A free trial is available for Windows or Mac at https://vivid-pix.com/restore.html . Use code 3GENEALOGYGUYS or 3GENEALOGYGUYSR. Past purchasers receive a free update to RESTORE.

Ancestry posted a blog post describing how the updated Ethnicity Estimate works and how to preserve your older estimate if you so choose (but there's a deadline for that).

MyHeritage recently added the 1940 Denmark Census to its historical database.

The British Newspaper Archive continues to add to its digital titles from Britain and Ireland.

Findmypast has announced the launch of ancestor sharing for users with family trees online. This is an optional feature.

Findmypast has released Queensland Soldier Portraits (1914-1918), Scotland Monumental Inscriptions, Panama Records, new pages for their British and Irish newspapers, British India Office Deaths and burials, an update to the 1939 Register, Bahamas Records, DAR Lineage Books (1890-1921), additions to the Philadelphia Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms and Parish Registers, and Lincolnshire Parish Records.

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City is adding Sunday (main floor only) and longer Monday hours to its schedule.

Drew recaps three weeks of record additions at FamilySearch.

Blaine T. Bettinger

This week’s discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on deciding who to test, how to approach them, and how to manage multiple tests.

Cyndi Ingle

Cyndi Ingle’s “Cyndi Says” segment highlights the importance of browsing websites rather than depending solely upon search facilities.

A sampling of major online providers. Browse the collections of records, instead of searching:

Cyndi's List, browse the Categories, http://www.CyndisList.com/categories/

Ancestry.com, browse their Card Catalog, http://search.ancestry.com/search/cardcatalog.aspx

FamilySearch, Browse All Published Records, https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list

FindMyPast, browse their List of All Records, http://www.findmypast.com/articles/world-records

Fold3, browse their List All Records, http://www.fold3.com/documents/

GenealogyBank, browse their List of All Newspapers, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/sourcelist/

MyHeritage, browse their Collection Catalog, https://www.myheritage.com/research/catalog

NewspaperArchive, Browse Available Papers by Location, http://newspaperarchive.com/browse/

Newspapers.com, Browse Newspapers, http://www.newspapers.com/browse/

Our Listeners Talk to Us
George learns that the Girl Scouts also have a genealogy program for its members. Carol wanted to know how to obtain Vivid-Pix RESTORE directly from the company as opposed to via Amazon. Marlise talks about how she got involved with her genealogy research during a long illness. She also asked for an interview with an expert on the topic of Jewish DNA. Jesse detailed his search and brick wall woes for an ancestral line.
The Guys share parts of their upcoming speaking schedule. You can always learn more at https://ahaseminars.com/eventListings.php?nm=52 .

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Crista Cowan is Corporate Genealogist at Ancestry.com and known widely as "The Barefoot Genealogist". Crista and Drew discuss the widespread use of video to educate genealogists, and what other directions genealogical education might take going forward.

Learn more about Crista at http://cristacowan.com/

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local genealogy society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

The Genealogy Guys welcome Cyndi Ingle , founder of Cyndi’s List , to the podcast for a regular feature called Cyndi Says , beginning with this episode. She joins Blaine T. Bettinger, founder of DNA Central , and his regular featured discussion with Drew about DNA.

We have a big announcement coming on May 1st . Check our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com that day and our Facebook page.

A reminder that the Genealogy Guys are accepting nominations for the next round of the Unsung Heroes Award. The deadline is midnight on May 15th and winners will be announced on June 1st online and at the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree. Details are at https://ahaseminars.com/cpage.php?pt=24 .

News You Can Use and Share
Findmypast has added Poor Law and BMD records for Kent. Drew recaps free FamilySearch record additions.
Blaine T. Bettinger's DNA Segment

This week’s discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on the Shared cM Project. Blaine operates a subscription-based DNA education service at DNA Central .

Cyndi Ingle's Cyndi Says

Cyndi Ingle’s debut of “Cyndi Says” highlights how to use Google to search all the contents of a specific website. You can find more from Cyndi at Cyndi's List !

Our Listeners Talk to Us
Lisa is interested in suggestions for how to engage young people in genealogy. The Guys respond and so can you. Linda has questions about her second great-grandfather, including whether he might have been indentured to a shipping company, his rapid movement westward, and where she might find his naturalization records.
The Guys share some of their upcoming speaking schedule. You can always learn more at https://ahaseminars.com/eventListings.php?nm=52 .

Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts.

Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Sue Kaufman is the Manager of the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research in Houston, Texas, and has previously worked at the Allen County Public Library's Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She has also been active in national and state genealogy societies, and in the American Library Association. She talks with Drew about her path to becoming a genealogy librarian, and how patrons can become better prepared for a visit to a library or other repository.

Learn more about the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research .

The Genealogy Guys and Vivid-Pix announce that nominations are being accepted for the next round of the Unsung Heroes Awards . Nominations are due by May 15, 2019, and winners will be announced on June 1, 2019.

The Genealogy Guys announce that Cyndi Ingle , founder of Cyndi’s List , will join the podcast for a regular feature called "Cyndi Says".

News You Can Use and Share
Findmypast has added Poor Law and BMD records for Kent. Drew recaps free FamilySearch record additions.
Book Reviews

George reviews the following books:
Writing a Memoir - from Stuck to Finished! by Karen Dustman Published: The Proven Path from Blank Page to Published Author by Chandler Bolt Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Families: Baldy, Kerstetter, and Long by Gregory Edwin Price From the Emerald Isle to the Cream City: A History of the Irish in Milwaukee
The DNA Segment with Blaine T. Bettinger

This week’s discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on DNA testing on ancestral artifacts such as envelopes, stamps, and hair samples, and also covers testing the recently deceased.

Our Listeners Talk to Us
John shares his spreadsheet for comparing families in the early US federal censuses (1790-1840). Lili let us know that she was successful in getting her lineage society application submitted and approved. Congratulations, Lili! Neal is trying to obtain a War of 1812 Discharge Certificate for his ancestor from the National Archives and Records Administration. Daniel’s ancestors and family members changed surnames, and he is asking for some reasons why they might have done so. Ryan is looking for resources about his ancestor who moved from Philadelphia to Nebraska and then back again to help him understand the reasons, the migration route, and more.