This week's news includes: Sirius Innovations introduces a new genealogy website at "with a focus on using today's technology in documenting a family's history"; Ancestry.com has introduced the Ancestry Toolbar for use with your browser (IE o...

This week's news includes: Ancestry.com launches the world's largest collection of Jewish documents; they also have added French collections at their Ancestry.fr site: Paris, France, & Vicinity Births, marriages, Deaths, marriage Banns -- AND -- to...

This week's news includes: Ancestry.com has renamed its self-publishing tool from AncestryPress to MyCanvas, and has also doubled its yearbook collection; ItsOurTree.com announced that its site ( can help predict male baldness through members' postings...

This week's news includes:Art Lassagne, founder of The Gold Bug (producer of AniMap software), died on 29 September 2008 at his home after a long battle with lung cancer; Ancestry.ca has published the Canadian Passenger Lists (1865-1935); the Godfrey L...

While George relaxes on a cruise ship off the Pacific coast of Mexico (ok, so he's doing some genealogy lecturing on the RootsMagic 2008 cruise), Drew handles the entire podcast himself (not even assisted by the cats).  News items include the Loui...

This week's news includes: The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) recognized genealogists with achievement awards at the FGS Conference in Philadelphia; FGS also recognized two outstanding awards at the same conference; The Genealogy Sear a...

CELEBRATING OUR 150TH EPISODE!The Guys are celebrating the 150th episode of the podcast which began on 4 September 2005. Thank you for listening and sharing with all of us!This week's news includes: The Generations Network, Inc., announced that Ancestr...

A correction to last week's story about the death of a Confederate widow can be found in last week's show notes.The news this week includes: an update about the collapsed project to digitise the UK's GRO's Birth, Marriage, and Death records from 1837 f...

This week's news includes: Alberta Martin, 93, the last widow of a Civil War veteran, died Monday, 18 August 2008, in a nursing home in Enterprise, Alabama; Footnote.com ( has announced membership price increases effective 1 September 2008 ($11.95 per ...

This episode is dedicated to our dear friend, Tom Ryder, who passed away today in Port Charlotte, Florida.This week's news includes: Ancestry.com extends its global reach to China with an exclusive partnership with the Shanghai Library - the new site i...

This week's news includes: archaeologists are actively working to locate the identities of everyone interred at Fairview Cemetery, an African American cemetery in Staunton, Virginia; DNA Heritage ( has succeeded in overcog a patent claim in the U.K. th...

This week's news includes: FamilySearch and Ancestry.com team up to publish new images and enhanced indexes to the U.S. federal censuses; Ancestry.com announces a number of new databases and upgraded collections; GeneTree ( adds a Y-chromosome testing ...

This week's news includes: Abraham Lincoln's ancestry is questioned; Ancestry.com announces new databases, including WI Death Index (1959-1997), NC Death Certificates (1909-1975), TN Divorces (1800-1865), and U.S. Colored Troops Service Records (Civil ...

This week's news includes: George Washington's boyhood home is found; and new features are unveiled at MyHeritage ( e-mail includes: a recap about Henri Guest Scott and the Scott family; Panoramio ( allows you to place photos on Google Earth and Google...

This week's news includes: the new Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence, Missouri, opened on 21 June; Footnote.com has announced a new, popular, and forthcog database titles; Synium Software ( announces the new version 5.2 of its MacFamilyTree soft...

This week's news includes: Ancestry.com announces the doubling of its digitized newspaper collection; and Genealogy Online, Inc., announces that a new online edition of Everton's Genealogical Helper will debut on July 1st, with more details available a...

This week's news includes: Genclass.com ( partners with Familylink.com ( to offer two free genealogy classes at WorldVitalRecords.com ( APG names Michael Melendez of Fullerton, CA, as the first recipient of the Young Professional Scholarship; Millenia ...

The news this week includes: a new series at RootsTelevision.com titled Unclaimed Persons which the producers hope will raise awareness of the problem of unclaimed bodies and encourage viewers to help; Ancestry.com announces a series of free Ethnic Web...

News this week includes: FamilySearch teams with FamilyLink.com to bring online  the Brenner Collection of German records (1650-1875) with more than 3.5 million names and between 900,000 and 1.5 million images; and Ancestry.com announces plans for...