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**The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection**

“The Genealogy Guys” are two avid genealogists who host a weekly chat. The podcast includes news of the genealogy community, book and software reviews, guest interviews, and a lot of fun chat.

Latest Episodes:

The Genealogy Guys Podcast #367 Sep 19, 2019

Show notes

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/treeOne 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!

Genealogy Connection #060 - Elissa Scalise Powell, Speaker and Instructor Sep 03, 2019

Show notes

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.

The Genealogy Guys Podcast #366 Aug 24, 2019

Show notes

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!

Genealogy Connection #059 - Patricia Walls Stamm, Researcher, Speaker, Educator Aug 11, 2019

Show notes

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.

Genealogy Connection #058 - Shannon Combs-Bennett, Researcher, Speaker, Author Jul 22, 2019

Show notes

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.

The Genealogy Guys Podcast #365 Jul 07, 2019

Show notes

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.

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