The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection

News You Can Use and Share!

• George recommends listening to MyHeritage's podcast, "Blast From My Past", which can be found at https://shows.acast.com/blast-from-my-past.
• Ancestry introduces its Ethnicity Inheritance powered by SideViewTM
• Findmypast has added new records to its UK collection Electoral Registers & Companies House Directors.
• Lynn Turner has been named the new Director of the FamilySearch Family History Library.
• Drew shares an overview of new and expanded record collections at FamilySearch.

1950 U.S. Federal Census Discussion

• Drew discusses the AI indexing processes in use by Ancestry and FamilySearch, and census records at MyHeritage.
• Kathy from California emailed us with questions about the availability of a number of the different census record forms from this census. George covers the different forms used and whether they were imaged before they were destroyed and which are digitally available. These include P1 (Population Schedule), P2 (Individual Census Report), P3 (Infant Cards), P4 (Crews of Vessels Report), P5 (Overseas Census), P8 (Native Americans), and various P forms used for enumerating territories.
• Michael from Germany used Stephen P. Morse's extensive census tools at https://stevemorse.org/ to locate enumeration districts and access a sample P1 form.
• Detailed information about the 1950 Census is available on the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) pages at https://1950census.archives.gov/ and on subsequent pages. Don't overlook the FAQs at https://1950census.archives.gov/howto/faq.html which is filled with a wealth of information you should know.

Listener Email

• Chris asks for suggestions about how to locate/pinpoint a specific headstone. George provides some suggestions.
• Rebecca wants to know if there is a way for Find a Grave to notify a person when their memorials have been deleted or reassigned to another person.
• Tina wrote to say she enjoyed the Vivid-Pix Memory Segment regarding using photographs with patients suffering from dementia patients. We will be hosting more interviews soon. Keep listening!
• Tina also asked about how to balance using RootsMagic, Ancestry, and FamilySearch without feeling that she is duplicating efforts.
• Timo in Germany wrote with suggestions about place name changes and how to structure them in your genealogy. He suggests the use in German research of the website at http://gov.genealogy.net/search/index. He says:
  • "The GOV is for Germany and many former German places the place to go to look up the former names, belongings in civil registers or churches. It might happen that a village belong[s] to the one civil register and to another church. With the GOV you could search for the current or the former name of a city, village, or a place itself.&rdquo
  • 'Let me give you the example of Riegersdorf (German name), now Rudziczka (Polish): http://gov.genealogy.net/item/show/object_188576.&rdquo
  • 'You will find both names and the time period, type (village), population (1492 in this case), webpages (GenWiki), external ID (which is for library uses), link to GenWiki, geo position = coordinates to find the place on a map."
• Maya wrote to say that she had about 200 letters written in Yiddish, which she does not read. She offered them to the National Library of Israel for digitation and preservation and possibly translation.
• Jo Ann has an ancestor from Rowan County, North Carolina, whom she thinks may have been a spy during the American Revolution. She asks for places she might go to in order to investigate the story.
• Matt in Omaha, Nebraska, tells us he uses quotation marks around a name – such as "Mr King" – to force the search for that exact string.
• Laura writes to ask why someone might have/use two desktop genealogy database programs.
• Ed is working on publishing a family history for distribution within his family. He has an older work that he would like to use and incorporate some of its content. He asks about how to give credit to the original author. The Guys discuss copyright and fair use considerations and suggest how the source citations could/should be included.

Genealogy Guys Learn

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription site continues to grow. New content is added every month, and the May 2022 video is "Crowdsourcing Your Brick Walls" by Drew Smith. You can subscribe at https://genealogyguyslearn.com/.

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• The 1950 U.S. Federal Census has been released and The Guys discuss several aspects:
  • The images are available at: the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) at https://1950census.archives.gov/; MyHeritage.com at https://www.myheritage.com/; Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/.
  • There are a number of important census tools available to you at: NARA Census Resources at https://1950census.archives.gov/howto/; the MyHeritage Content Hub at https://myheritage.com/census/us/; the MyHeritage Census Helper at https://www.myheritage.com/census-helper-241251921; Ancestry.com 1950 Census District Finder at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/district-map/62308; and One-Step Web Pages by Stephen P. Morse at https://stevemorse.org/.
  • The Guys discuss the 1950 enumeration process and extra pages used by enumerators.
• Drew shares some information from a recent Ancestry survey.
• George discusses MyHeritage's news from RootsTech including:
  • LiveStory
  • Blast From My Past Podcast
  • Family Tree Timeline
  • Filae Family Tree Profiles
• Drew discusses the release of records online by the New York City Municipal Archives at https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/.
• The David Rumsey Map Collection has announced a partnership with Machines Reading Maps (MRM) to read and add searchable text to the map collection.
• The Society of Genealogists has announced the beginning of a digital project called TreeSearch which will digitize historical pedigree rolls in their collection.
• Findmypast has added 50K new Lincolnshire Burials, and the Quaker Women's Petition of 1659.
• FamilySearch is seeking volunteers for its 1950 U.S. Census Community Project.
• The Genealogist at https://www.thegenealogist.com/ has updated their version of the 1939 Register with a new, detailed mapping feature and 258,000 newly unredacted persons.

Listener Email

• David writes concerning using placenames for events based on what governmental entity was in control at the time of the event.
• Marianna writes about GEDmatch and having received three suspicious email inquiries.
• Suzanne asks about obtaining court records for a murder trial in Perry County, Alabama, in which some family were involved.

Genealogy Guys Learn

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription site continues to grow. New content is added every month, and the March 2022 video is "Using AncestryDNA Today" by Drew Smith. You can subscribe 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:

• Find a Grave at https://www.findagrave.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=genealogyguys
• MyHeritage at https://www.myheritage.com/
• com at https://go.newspapers.com/radio.php?xid=4093&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=genealogyguys
• RootsMagic at https://rootsmagic.com/
• Vivid-Pix RESTORE at https://www.vivid-pix.com/restore/

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Drew's guest is Crista Cowan, Corporate Genealogist at Ancestry.com and also known as the Barefoot Genealogist. In this episode, Drew and Crista discuss the upcoming release of the 1950 U.S. census, RootsTech 2022, and some recent announcements from Ancestry. To learn of Crista's background, see GC episode #054.

News You Can Use and Share!

• MyHeritage has published 5.8 million records from 28 collections from JewishGen (https://www.jewishgen.org/) made possible through a collaboration with the Museum of Jewish Heritage (https://mjhnyc.org/) and JewishGen.
• Ancestry announces the new Ancestry Stories on the Ancestry mobile app to combine photographs, shared historical records, and text to craft a story about an ancestor in your family tree.
• George shares an excellent online resource, Immigration History, at https://immigrationhistory.org/.
• Drew shares complete details about the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the upcoming release of the 1950 U.S. Census on 1 April 2022. (See the NARA page at https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1950
• RootsTech 2022 arrives this week on 3-5 March. Sign up for free at https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/. Then enjoy connecting with other attendees at RootsTech Relatives at https://www.familysearch.org/en/connect/.
• Drew shares his regular recap of highlights of new historical records at FamilySearch.

DNA Segment

Drew discusses helping adopted people with DNA expert Diahan Southard. Resources for this discussion include:

• https://www.yourdnaguide.com/dna-birth-family
• DNA Mystery Match? How to Respond
• DNA Support Resources for Adoption and DNA Surprises (NPE)
• Handling Unexpected DNA Connections
• DNA Test Surprise: Breaking the News with Compassion

Vivid-Pix Memory Segment

Drew talks with Sue Kaufman, Senior Manager of the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research (part of the Houston Public Library) in Houston, Texas.

Listener Email

• Drew follows up on Kendra's cemetery project work previously discussed in Episode #401. (The Zion Cemetery Project uses Trello as a database management tool.) Kendra works with the Randolph County Public Library in Asheboro, North Carolina. They have an interactive cemetery map at https://www.randolphlibrary.org/ under History & Genealogy>Randolph County Cemeteries (or https://randolphlibrary.libguides.com/c.php?g=710731&p=8447398).
• Pam asked about GEDmatch (https://www.gedmatch.com/) and the ability to specify that you do or do not want your data to be accessible by law enforcement.
• Sunni asked about headright, especially concerning her ancestor in Georgia, and asks why headrights might possibly only be partially executed. George provides an explanation of what a headright is and how some may not have been completed.
• Michael asks Drew about his Boddie/Bodie family. Drew provides lots of details and refers Michael to the book, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia, by John Bennett Boddie.

Genealogy Guys Learn

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription site continues to grow. New content is added every month, and the March 2022 video is "Using AncestryDNA Today" by Drew Smith. You can subscribe 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:

• Find a Grave at https://www.findagrave.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=genealogyguys
• MyHeritage at https://www.myheritage.com/
• Newspapers.com at https://go.newspapers.com/radio.php?xid=4093&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=genealogyguys
• RootsMagic at https://rootsmagic.com/
• Vivid-Pix RESTORE at https://www.vivid-pix.com/restore/

Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members. Your 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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• The National Institute for Dementia Education recognizes the value of Photo Recognition Therapy for dementia patients. Our sponsor Vivid-Pix is an integral participant in this effort. Read the full press release at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2022/02/national-institute-for-dementia.html.
• MyHeritage has added a new Table View for search results.
• The Association of Professional Genealogists announced their new elected leadership.
• The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) has announced its new director, Amberly Beck.
• MyHeritage has established the new Chris Darrington scholarship for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. Full details are available at https://slig.ugagenealogy.org/cpage.php?pt=620.
• Findmypast has published 2.1 million records for Berkshire, England, the Jamaican Manumission Index, and new records for Norfolk, England.
• FamilySearch announces its plans for 2022.
• FamilySearch announced its 1950 US Census Community Project and has invited volunteers to participate. See details at https://www.familysearch.org/en/info/us-census/1950-census/.
• Drew shares his regular recap of highlights of new historical records at FamilySearch.

DNA Segment

Drew and DNA expert Diahan Southard discuss whether the GEDmatch website still has a role to play. More details from Diahan are here: https://www.yourdnaguide.com/upload-to-gedmatch

Vivid-Pix Memory Segment

Drew talks with Joshua Freitas, Chief Research Officer of the CERTUS Institute (https://www.certusseniorliving.com/certus-institute) and Rick Voight, CEO of Vivid-Pix (https://www.vivid-pix.com/).

Listener Email

• A number of listeners shared the way that they listen to the podcast, including Pocket Casts (https://www.pocketcasts.com/); Podcast Addict (https://podcastaddict.com/); Overcast (https://overcast.fm/); and Plex TV (https://www.plex.tv/).
• Pat describes genealogical research through the decades.
• Timo responds to our listener who is seeking to translate 300 letters written in French. He has used Transkribus (https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/) and their French translation module at https://readcoop.eu/model/french-general-model/. [A download is necessary.]
• Vic has used Fiverr (https://www.fiverr.com/) to locate translators and has worked with a French translator.
• Kendra is working on several African American projects, including slave schedules, a church, and a cemetery. She asked how the research on the Zion Cemetery Project is organized. Drew and George provide lots of details, and they invite listeners to share their project information.

Zion Cemetery Project

• Drew presented at a community meeting on 16 February 2022 at the Tampa Bay History Center. Dr. Antoinette Jackson, the Anthropology Chair at the University of South Florida and primary investigator for the project, led the meeting. She showcased the Black Cemetery Network (https://blackcemeterynetwork.org/) which was created to provide a coordinated place for Black cemetery research and preservation projects. The Guys urge our listeners to check the site, join, and to share details about projects in their areas.
• The first funeral in 100 years was held at Zion Cemetery on 17 February 2022. It was held to commemorate Anna Rebecca Wyche. Read the article from the Tampa Tribune at https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/history/2022/02/17/100-years-after-the-black-cemetery-was-erased-tampas-zion-hosts-a-funeral/.

Genealogy Guys Learn

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription site continues to grow. New content is added every month. You can subscribe 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:

• Find a Grave at https://www.findagrave.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=genealogyguys
• MyHeritage at https://www.myheritage.com/
• Newspapers.com at https://go.newspapers.com/radio.php?xid=4093&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=genealogyguys
• RootsMagic at https://rootsmagic.com/
• Vivid-Pix RESTORE at https://www.vivid-pix.com/restore/

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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The Guys congratulate the Johnson County Genealogical Society in Overland Park, Kansas, and the Pinellas Genealogy Society in Largo, Florida, on their 50th Anniversary Year!

News You Can Use and Share

• Newspapers.com celebrates its accomplishments in 2021, including 25 million clippings by users, and shares some plans for 2022.
• Findmypast has released the long-awaited digitized 1921 Census of England and Wales. FMP has also released the 1921 Census of England and Wales Official Reports, and these add summarized data to provide more insight into the lives of the communities in which your ancestors may have lived.
• Drew shares his regular recap of highlights of new historical records at FamilySearch.

Listener Email

• Debra asked about consumer credit directories. George reached out to genealogist and author Michael J. Leclerc who provided the background of these interesting directories which ultimately became Dun & Bradstreet. Learn where the records are located and the rules for access. (Michael's book, Benjamin Franklin's Family: Volume I: English Ancestors, is a definitive book on the man.)
• Jason and Rachel shared their experiences with the reMarkable 2 e-ink tablet and how it helps them with their genealogical work. The Guys also shared how they are using their reMarkables.
• Eric wrote to provide feedback on our recent discussion about how to record location names on events in genealogical databases.
• Kimberly wrote to share one of the RootsMagic 8 reports that can help you determine who might be around for the 1950 U.S. Federal Census.
• John wrote to describe how he uses PowerPoint templates for timelines.
• Rich obtained records for his uncle's WWII service in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the top-secret operations group. The OSS Society at http://osssociety.org can help put you in touch with someone who can help with your research and access.
• Anita asks about computer-assistive/OCR software that might scan and translate handwritten French documents.

Zion Cemetery Project

George provides an update on his research into people buried in the erased African-American Zion Cemetery in Tampa. Drew provides a project update.

The Guys Speak

The Guys will be presenting for the Ventura County [California] Genealogical Society's virtual conference on 19 February 2022.

Genealogy Guys Learn

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription site continues to grow each month with new content. You can subscribe at https://genealogyguyslearn.com/.

Genealogy Book Club

The Guys are participating in a virtual genealogy book club hosted by the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa. Is your society doing anything like this? Let us know!

Support Our Sponsors

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

• Find a Grave at https://www.findagrave.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=genealogyguys
• MyHeritage at https://www.myheritage.com/
• Newspapers.com at https://go.newspapers.com/radio.php?xid=4093&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=genealogyguys
• RootsMagic at https://rootsmagic.com/
• Vivid-Pix RESTORE at https://www.vivid-pix.com/restore/

Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members. 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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• The Guys welcome two new sponsors to our family: Newpapers.com and Find a Grave.
• Researchers studying the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach America, have discovered much of the ship is still intact. They anticipate that there may be surviving DNA and other artifacts.
• FamilySearch has published a Year in Review for 2021.
• Drew provides an overview of the latest updates from FamilySearch.

Listener Email

• Tom asks questions about the reMarkable tablet and their data plans.
• Tom has also digitized Super-8 movies from Christmas 1960. He is also looking for a timeline to use to track his father's WWII military service. George suggests checking Cyndi's List at https://cyndislist.com/charts/timelines/. Listeners are urged to email The Guys with their suggestions.
• Karen is searching for information about an ancestor who settled in Augusta County, Virginia. She and a cousin are trying to determine if he came from Ireland, and they are questioning the veracity of a book that published content extracted from old county records that purport that he (and others) were Scotch-Irish.
• Sean Daly shares that Geneanet has passed 1 million indexed soldiers of Napoleon. He has written a blog post at https://en.geneanet.org/genealogyblog/post/2021/12/geneanets-community-has-indexed-over-a-million-of-napoleons-soldiers that includes a link to the collection.
• Bunny is looking for suggestions for kick-starting her Polish ancestral research.
• Matthew M. shares an extensive website that provides free access to digitized church registers from across Europe, including Germany, Austria, Poland, Serbia, and Slovenia. The site is Matricula Online at https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/.
• Matthew G. is frustrated that the tax records for New Jersey are locked at FamilySearch. Drew suggests using their free look-up service as one aid, but raises the question for FamilySearch as to whether these records can be unlocked and made available.

Genealogy for Librarians and a New Book

Drew is teaching a genealogy course for librarians at the University of South Florida in Tampa in this new semester. It will incorporate videos made with Vivid-Pix and some of the foremost genealogy librarians in the U.S. The students will be using the pre-publication text of his forthcoming beginning genealogy book that will be published this year.

Zion Cemetery Project

George has been immersed in researching people buried in the "erased" African-American cemetery in Tampa. The project seeks to learn more about the people buried there, their families, any descendants, and more. He shares his vision of some of the products of this project.

Genealogy Guys Learn

The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription site continues to grow each month. Drew has recorded a video, "Organizing Your Genealogical Files", that has made its debut this month. New content is added every month. You can subscribe at https://genealogyguyslearn.com/.

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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The Guys announce the winner of the drawing for the Irish quicksheets by Donna M. Moughty as Richard A. Yehle of Sacramento. Look for the next drawing in the coming year.

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News You Can Use and Share

• MyHeritage has announced that they have surpassed one million subscribers.
• Vivid-Pix has created free classes on "How to Zoom" and "Gathering Traditions" at https://www.vivid-pix.com/education/.
• Vivid-Pix and Reunions Magazine share "7 Best COVID Travel Tips" in the December 2021 issue of the magazine.
• Findmypast has added the new Kent Electoral registers (1570-1907) and additions to the Kent Burials collection. They also added Warwickshire, Coventry Workhouse Deaths (1845-1943), Warwick Baptisms, and Waterford Poor Law Unions Board of Guardians Minute Books.
• Free registration for RootsTech 2022 has opened at http://RootsTech.org. (Drew will be speaking.)
• Drew provides an overview of the latest updates from FamilySearch.

Listener Email

• In anticipation of the release of the 1950 U.S. Federal Census in April 2022, Laura asks how to produce a report from RootsMagic 8 of people alive at the time of the census.
• Keith is searching for his maternal grandfather. He can find a WWII draft registration card but cannot locate him in the 1940 census.
• Concetta asks about restricted FamilySearch records and how to locate them.

Book Review

The Guys review Nathan Dylan Goodwin's latest Morton Farrier, Forensic Genealogist, mystery titled The Foundlings. He weaves a masterful tale about researching several infants born out of wedlock who were abandoned. The Guys think this is another excellent book from a talented author.

Tech Review

The Guys have each acquired a great new tool, the reMarkable 2. It is an ultra-thin tablet for taking notes, drawing, converting handwritten notes to text, saving them as PDFs to the cloud, organizing notes and documents, emailing notes, downloading PDFs and webpages, note-taking on PDFs, and even reading eBooks. (It isn't a web browser.) The writing surface is almost identical in feel to writing on paper, and there are loads of templates for almost any type of note-taking or project you can imagine. The reMarkable 2 is a great tool to help you stay focused, and The Guys talk about how they are using theirs. Learn more at https://remarkable.com/.

George talks about how he is continually working on his personal genealogy using MyHeritage, RootsMagic 8, and other tools. Drew talks about how he has been working on cleaning up his places in RootsMagic 8. The Guys also talk about their work on the Zion Cemetery Project.

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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.

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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