News You Can Use and Share!

• 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).

Listener Email

• 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.

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News You Can Use and Share!

• 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.

Listener Email

• 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.

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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David from Addison, Texas, is the winner of our drawing for a MyHeritage DNA kit. More drawings will be announced later this year.

News You Can Use and Share!

• 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.

Listener Email

• 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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