The Genealogy Guys Podcast #319 - 2016 December 9

The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection

The Guys congratulate Pam Cooper of Vero Beach, Florida, head of the Genealogy Collection at the Main Library of the Indian River County Library System, on her retirement. Pam has had a spectacular career and has been a driving force in the national genealogical community for more than 20 years. We wish her nothing but great things!

The news includes:

• MyHeritage DNA is getting huge quantities of orders for their kits. The Guys have ordered theirs, and George has already sent his back.
• MyHeritage has also released an exclusive collection of 26 million Denmark Church Records covering 1813-1919.
• RootsMagic has announced in an open letter to its users that the sync facility with Ancestry.com is still in beta testing and is very close to being released, but that it will not make its original planned release date before the end of this year.
• Findmypast releases Royal Irish Constabulary Service Records, additional British Newspapers records, Pennsylvania Baptisms (1709-1760) and Marriages (1816-1849), and additions to its U.S. Marriages collection.
• Drew shares new releases by FamilySearch.

Listener email includes:

• Matthias in Germany responded to Brandon’s mystery about his great-great-grandfather, Bernard Frank James Dietz in episode #318. He offers several finds:
  • Bernard F. "Barney" Dietz – Death Certificate http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1948/1948_00024215.PDF
  • Bernard F. "Barney" Dietz http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Dietz&GSiman=1&GScnty=1511&GRid=27540791&
  • Father of Bernard, Henry Dietz, Death Certificate http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1916/1916_00004216.PDF
• Matthias also created a Google spreadsheet of all kinds of information and links about his emigrants. He shared the link (at https://goo.gl/9Cy053) for our listeners to see and consider as a format for themselves.
• Janelle in New South Wales also responded to Brandon with a suggestion about using DNA.
• Richard Holter shared a detailed research report for his great-grandfather, James Walter Holder, and asked for suggestions. Listeners are welcome to make suggestions as well.
• Jeff is interested in recommendations for books and other resources to help him help his wife get started on her Hungarian and Russian Jewish ancestors. The Guys suggest three outstanding websites:
  • Avotaynu (http://www.avotaynu.com) is a publisher of books, maps, and other products for the Jewish researcher.
  • JewishGen (http://www.jewishgen.org) is a website with free, easy-to-use materials for Jewish research including databases, research tools, InfoFiles, and online classes.
  • FamilySearch Wiki (https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page) offers more than 84,000 research guides, including the Jewish Genealogy Research Outline, the Jewish Genealogy Research guide, the Jewish Records article, and more, all of which provide excellent guidance. [Underlined words can be entered as just a few of the search terms for Jewish research guides.]
  • FamilySearch Learning Center (https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.html) has online genealogy courses, including some on Jewish topics.

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