The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection - The Genealogy Guys Podcast #407

The Genealogy Guys Podcast #407

08/14/22 • 67 min

The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection

News You Can Use and Share!

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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News You Can Use and Share!

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.

Please Support Our Sponsors

You can support our sponsors who bring these podcasts to you for free by visiting their links as follows:

MyHeritage at https://www.myheritage.com/
RootsMagic at https://rootsmagic.com/
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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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Previous Episode

The Genealogy Guys Podcast #406

New You Can Use and Share!

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.

Genealogy Guys Learn

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription site continues to grow. New content is regularly added, with another new video coming in early August. Subscribe to Genealogy Guys Learn at https://genealogyguyslearn.com/.

Please Support Our Sponsors

You can support our sponsors who bring these podcasts to you for free by visiting their links as follows:

MyHeritage at https://www.myheritage.com/
RootsMagic at https://rootsmagic.com/
Vivid-Pix RESTORE at https://www.vivid-pix.com/restore/

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

Please let us hear from you at [email protected].

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The Genealogy Guys Podcast #408

News You Can Use and Share!

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 [email protected] 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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