The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection
George G. Morgan and Drew Smith discuss genealogy on The Genealogy Guys Podcast Drew Smith interviews leaders of the genealogy community on Genealogy Connection
Episodes
News You Can Use and Share!
- MyHeritage added 235 million historical records in February and 794 million historical records in March.
- MyHeritage released a new DNA facility named Ancient Origins, with which you can trace your origins back 10,000 years.
- MyHeritage introduced Cousin Finder.
- MyHeritage has published United States World War II Draft Registrations, 1940-1947.
- FamilySearch has added free historical records from 32 co...
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- MyHeritage added 1.2 billion historical records in January.
- MyHeritage released Ethnicity Estimate v2.5, the long-awaited ethnicity model, including 79 different ethnicities
Listener Email
The Guys wish everyone a Happy New Year!
George gives a shout-out to Ed Brown for his continued support for the podcast!
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- The Genealogy Guys issued a press release announcing the discontinuation of the Genealogy Guys Learn subscription educational website effective 1 January 2025. The Guys have partnered with Legacy Family Tree Webinars to migrate their video content to Legacy over time.
- MyHeritage ha...
Drew's guest is Jarrett Ross, the GeneaVlogger. Jarred has been producing hundreds of YouTube videos about genealogy for the past 7 years. You'll learn how Jarred started with genealogy and video production, and a lot about the history of Sephardic Jews.
You can find out more about Jarrett's videos at https://www.youtube.com/@GeneaVlogger
Drew's guest is Brian Rhineheart, owner of CivilWarRecords.com, a service that retrieves military-related records from the National Archives in Washington, DC. In this episode, Drew and Brian discuss the various types of military-related records available either online or only in physical form, and how genealogists can learn more about their ancestors' military connections prior to requesting records.
Brian also offers listeners ...
For all who celebrate it, the Guys wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
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- MyHeritage has introduced LiveMemoryTM, a new facility to animate entire photographs. It runs from an app on your phone and is currently free.
- Ancestry announces its project to index and digitize Korean War-era military records housed at NARA.
- Vivid-Pix announces it will expand Alzheimer’s Research by donating 5% of sa...
The Guys have been on a hiatus because of Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the damage in Florida.
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- David Rencher, Chief Genealogy Officer at FamilySearch, received the Italian Heraldic Genealogical Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
- MyHeritage has given its Inbox a fresh new look.
- MyHeritage added 56 million new records in September 2004.
- MyHeritage has updated its Theory of Family Relativity fa...
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- MyHeritage has acquired MesAieux.com, Quebec’s most popular family history service with more than 15 million historical records.
- MyHeritage added more than 84 million new records across 16 collections in August 2024.
- MyHeritage has added 261 million obituary records to its OldNews facility.
Listener Email
- Julie is searching for any Pennsylvania birth records from ca. 1810 and marriage rec...
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- MyHeritage added 20 million historical records in June.
- MyHeritage and Family Tree DNA announced a new partnership to connect DNA tests to family trees.
- JewishGen announced a new partnership between its Romania Research Division and the Jewish Federation of Romania to photograph and document Jewish graves.
- Drew talks about 19.4 million historical records released by FamilySearch in May 2024.
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- MyHeritage added 123 million historical records in April and May.
- MyHeritage added millions of Nordic newspaper pages to OldNews.com.
- RootsMagic has released Version 10 of its award-winning software.
Listener Email
- Jean-Daniel wrote to share an update about his research into Blaise Farny.
- Karin educates us about names for Austrian ‘sailors’.
- Lisa wrote to compliment Cathleen from New Hamp...
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- 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 add...
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- 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 re...
David from Addison, Texas, is the winner of our drawing for a MyHeritage DNA kit. More drawings will be announced later this year.
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- 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 “see...
Drew's guest is Donna Moughty, who led the research trip to Dublin that Drew joined in October 2023. In this episode, Drew and Donna discuss her experiences over many years in leading research trips to Ireland, and how researchers need to prepare before going on a research trip (no matter where their ancestors were from). To learn of Donna's background, see GC episode #002.
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- Don’t miss the opportunity to win a free MyHeritage DNA Kit. Listen to the MyHeritage ad later in this episode for details on submitting your entry to our raffle.
- MyHeritage recapped their activities in 2023:
- 4M DNA kits in their database
- 9M faces tagged with Photo Tagger
- 700M historical records added in 366 new collections
- 320M new Family Tree profiles added
- 4M MyHeritage and Reimagine mobile ...
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- The Genealogy Guys Learn site is still on sale through January 1, 2024!
- MyHeritage announces the release of a new exclusive collection: marriage certificates for North Rhine and Westphalia from 1874 through 1899.
- MyHeritage announces the release of AI Record Finder™, an interactive, free text chat to help locate historical records about an ancestor among MH’s 20 billion records.
- MyHeritage announces ...
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- We just added a new video to the subscription Genealogy Guys Learn site. It is "Archives and Special Collections: An Introduction" by associate librarian emeritus Drew Smith.
- MyHeritage memorializes two of its employees, Ron Shemer and Ilay Nachman, who were killed on 7 October 2023 at the onset of the Hamas-Israel War.
- My Heritage announced the addition of 43 million historical records in September ...
In the previous episode, The Genealogy Guys Podcast announced that, in partnership with MyHeritage.com, we were giving away a FREE MyHeritage DNA Kit. The winner is Shontè Anthony from Maryland. An email with the code to redeem the kit is in the mail!
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- The Black Cemetery Network (BCN) at https://blackcemeterynetwork.org is hosting an event in Tampa, Florida on 14 October 2023 from 10 AM to Noon to co...
The Genealogy Guys Podcast, in partnership with MyHeritage.com, is giving away a FREE MyHeritage DNA Kit. Please send an email to genealogyguys@gmail.com with your name and mailing address by no later than midnight U.S. Eastern Time on 31 August 2023 for your chance to win!
News You Can Use and Share
News You Can Use and Share!
- The International African American Museum (IAAM) has officially opened in Charleston, South Carolina, and is partnering with Vivid-Pix with the installation of Vivid-Pix Memory Stations that allow visitors to scan, restore, save, and share their precious photos, documents, and stories.
- The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has been gifted a new index containing 3.2 million searchable ...
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