The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection

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The Genealogy Guys Podcast #339 - 2018 February 22 Feb 24, 2018

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The news includes:

MyHeritage has recently released a new component of its DNA section: Ethnicities Around the World.
MyHeritage announces an exclusive offer to Family Tree DNA customers who are not yet MyHeritage subscribers: a 50% discount on the MyHeritage Complete Plan for $125 per year, with a Price-Lock Guarantee for as long as you keep your subscription.
The Utah Business Magazine has recognized Legacy Tree Genealogists president, Jessica Taylor, with its prestigious Forty Under 40 Award.
The Utah Genealogical Association (UGA) honors Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FUGA, FMGS, with the Award of Merit.
The Genealogical Institute on Federal Research Alumni Association has announced the recipient of the Richard S. Lackey Scholarship for 2018, Linda MacIver of Boston, Massachusetts.
Findmypast has added resources to its Suffragette Collection, and new records for its Devon Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials and for its Yorkshire Banns, Marriages, and Burials collections.
The National Genealogical Society (NGS) has named Alison Hare, CG, and Nancy A. Peters, CG, as co-editors of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ), effective with the March 2019 issue. They succeed retiring editors Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS, FUGA, and Melinde Lutz Byrne, CG, FASG.
Drew shares updates from FamilySearch's recent records additions.

George reviews a new book, Manorial Records for Family Historians, by Geoffrey Barker. (St. Agnes, South Australia: Unlock the Past Publications, 2017) http://www.unlockthepast.com.au/unlock-past-publications

Drew reviews a new book, There Is Something About Edgefield: Shining a Light on the Black Community through History, Genealogy & Genetic DNA by Edna Gail Bush and Natonne Elaine Kemp. (Takoma Park, MD: Rocky Pond Press, 2017)

Listener email includes:

Ricky writes to inquire about MyHeritage.com's content offerings as compared to those of Ancestry.com.
Drew responds to emails from Cassandra and Wendy concerning his interview with Angie Bush (Genealogy Connection #36). He first described the DNA Painter tool by Johnny Perl (based on Blaine Bettinger's work) at http://dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4. The tool allows you to enter the shared centiMorgan value from a DNA match and calculates possible relationships. He also clarifies that MyHeritage DNA does provide a notes field, but that this wasn't available when he interviewed Angie Bush.
Drew responds to Molly who asked about Angie's comments about a DNA cluster worksheet. Angie responds that the worksheet is an internal company worksheet document. Drew asks listeners to share any information about a similar tool that they might know of.
Jenny asks for suggestions to shrink the size of her Family Tree Maker for attached media. Drew refers her to MacKiev and to FTM user groups on Facebook.
Marcia asks about the viability of using her Mac for genealogy work with RootsMagic.
Robin asks for suggestions about capturing communications in messages on Facebook and making the data available in text formats, including in Evernote.

Genealogy Connection #038 - Eric Wells, Education Coordinator for The NextGen Genealogy Network Feb 12, 2018

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Eric Wells is the Education Coordinator for The NextGen Genealogy Network, and regularly does live interviews with noted genealogists. You can find out more about Eric here.

Genealogy Connection #037 - Michael J. Leclerc, Speaker, Writer, and Researcher Feb 06, 2018

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Michael J. Leclerc is an internationally known genealogy speaker, writer, and researcher, with specialties in New England and French Canadian research. To learn more about Michael, visit mjleclerc.com.

The Genealogy Guys Podcast #338 - 2018 January 28 Jan 30, 2018

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The Guys announce an incentive for listener support at Patreon at www.patreon.com/genealogyguys.

The news includes:

MyHeritage has recently added or updated a vast number of collections including U.S. Yearbooks, Newspapers from Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, Sweden, Germany, and Palestine.
ScotlandsPeople has added more than 233,000 new statutory images, and improvements to their 'Name Variants' search facility.
Legacy Tree Genealogists will be a sponsor for the DNA Innovation Contest at RootsTech.
Findmypast has added records from the island of Jersey, Hertfordshire, the New Jersey Birth Index (1901-1903), and new British newspaper titles.
The World War II Research and Writing Center announced the publication of four new World War II Quick Guides by Jennifer Holik, available for Kindle at Amazon. Details at http://wwiiresearchandwritingcenter.com/portfolio/kindle-quick-guides/.
Newspapers.com has added newspapers for Tampa Bay in Florida, available in their enhanced subscription.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society honored Boston historian and author William M. Fowler, Jr., with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Drew shares a press release from FamilySearch detailing what's coming in 2018.
Drew shares updates from FamilySearch's recent records additions.

Drew reviews a new book, The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, 4th edition, by Val D. Greenwood. (Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2017)

Listener email includes:

The Guys provide suggestions to Mark for finding episodes of the podcasts specifically about countries, states, record types, etc., using the Search facility at our website.
Gloria Christine discusses how she navigates past the scarcity of available records for New Jersey.
Jerry shares the story of his maternal grandparents, and why they had to be married a second time for the records. Drew addresses the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in response to Jerry's comment about historical context in this story.
Christine came across a great page at the Waukesha County Wisconsin Genealogy website at http://www.linkstothepast.com/waukesha/defn.php. It includes: Common Foreign Words on Tombstones compared in English, Bohemian, Bohemian dialect, German, French, and Welsh; an example of information in a Czech birth record translated into English; information about the Woodmen of America; and a list for Understanding the Art and Symbols on Tombstones.
Matthew discusses his search for the father of his great-grandfather, the absence of documentary records, and how he has been working with DNA to help solve the brick wall problem.

Genealogy Connection #036 - Angie Bush, Genetic Genealogist Jan 22, 2018

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Angie Bush is a Utah-based genetic genealogist and a popular speaker at national genealogy conferences on DNA topics. Learn more about Angie at her APG profile.

Note: At the time the interview was recorded, MyHeritage did not yet have the feature of adding notes to your DNA matches. That is now an option.

The Genealogy Guys Podcast #337 - 2018 January 15 Jan 18, 2018

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The news includes:

The Guys are pleased to welcome Legacy Tree Genealogists (www.legacytree.com) as a new sponsor for both The Genealogy Guys Podcast and the Genealogy Connection podcast.
Ancestry.com's RootsWeb site has had an exposure to its IDs and passwords, so Ancestry has shut the site down while working to enhance security there and to contact RootsWeb users to change passwords.
MyHeritage recently released surveys to explore how genetics impacts various aspects of their lives.
MyHeritage has made major updates and improvements to their DNA Matching. They also have added an initial release of the long-requested chromosome browser.
The U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Maryland, recently discovered 46 long-forgotten flags underneath captured British flags from the War of 1812 in display cases. The new flags date from other conflicts, and most have not been seen for almost 100 years.
The Britain, Ireland and the Isles Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists has launched new social media channels, including at YouTube.
Findmypast has released several extensive collections of data from South Carolina.
Drew shares updates from FamilySearch's recent records additions.

The Guys talk about new publications of interest:

Moorshead Magazines has released a new guide in their Tracing Your Ancestors Series titled "DNA and Your Ancestry", written by Dr. Maurice Gleeson, MB. It's available at https://your-genealogy-history-store-usa.myshopify.com/collections/tracing-your-ancestors-series.
Mystery Author Dan Waddell has a new short story in his Blood series titled "Blood Underground", available for free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers at Amazon.com.
Nathan Dylan Goodwin, author of the Forensic Genealogist book series has just finished writing a new book, The Wicked Trade.. It should be available soon. And Nathan will be at RootsTech.

Listener email includes:

Tom asks about DNA analysis and how to create a process that identifies known relationships or matches from AncestryDNA.
Dave asks about adoption and kinds of evidence that can be used to document it.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library has ended interlibrary loans of their microfilmed newspaper collection.
Jim poses questions concerning autosomal DNA matches, estimated cousin relationships, and ranges of centiMorgan matches with different relationships.

Genealogy Connection #035 - Ed Thompson, Creator of Evidentia Software Jan 09, 2018

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Ed Thompson is the technologist behind Evidentia Software. Learn more about Ed and his software at evidentiasoftware.com.

The Genealogy Guys Podcast #336 - 2017 December 27 Dec 29, 2017

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The news includes:

MyHeritage has added 90 million new New York Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists (1820-1954).
MyHeritage has added a new feature, Do-It-Yourself Historical Record Fixes, in its SuperSearch facililty.
Findmypast has added a new collection for tracing immigrants from the British Isles. They have also added records from Kent, and updates to the U.S. Marriages collection and additions to PERSI.
Drew shares updates from FamilySearch's recent records additions.

Listener email includes:

Tom shares his saga of obtaining copies of passport applications and photographs, and the rich details they contained.
Neal asks about formats of genealogy charts to represent the family in a graphical way.
Judy wants FamilySearch to add a priority to the digitization of microfilmed land and property records. She has had great success in locating genealogical data in these documents.
Neal wants advice on how to record/represent foster children in his family tree for children who probably were not adopted.
Chris shares his organizational methods for paper documents and scanned items, and he uses Evernote to great advantage.
Jim shared a story from Omaha, Nebraska, about a man who used his DNA test results to find a brother he had never met.

Genealogy Connection #034 - Henrietta Martinez Christmas, New Mexican researcher, writer, and speaker Dec 20, 2017

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Henrietta Martinez Christmas is a native New Mexican who has been doing research in her part of the country for decades. Read what she's written about New Mexican research at http://1598nm.blogspot.com/.

Genealogy Connection #033 - Daniel Horowitz, MyHeritage Genealogy Expert Dec 05, 2017

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Daniel Horowitz is a Genealogy Expert for MyHeritage. To learn more about Daniel, visit searchingformyroots.com.

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