The Genealogy Guys Podcast #214 - 2011 January 17

The news includes: GenSoftReviews announced its 2010 Users Choice Awards. Our sponsor, RootsMagic, was awarded first place. Ancestry.com announced the release of Family Tree Maker for the Macintosh. They also announced new and updated collections, including Swedish Church Records and Maine births, marriages, and deaths collections. The Illinois State Genealogical Society announced the unveiling of their new website at http://www.ilgensoc.org, using EasyNetSites. A new genealogy site has been announced. It is Tpstry at http://tpstry.com. Listener email includes: Questions about the downloads of the Podcast. Donna asked about the Federation of Genealogical Societies' Save the Pensions! fund and its place in the Stern-NARA Fund at FGS. Tim writes about Drew's connection to the Perry-Boddies lines. Samuel asks about DNA testing to locate relations to males in Ireland. Victoria wants to know the reasons behind two couples in England (1851 and 1893) whose marriage registers show living at the same address at the time of their marriages. Ken asks about using Dropbox with his Family Tree Maker files. Mary asks how to shorten a rediculously long URL. George suggests the use of TinyURL and Drew suggests using bit.ly. Tim asks about free vs. pay information. Victoria relates a funny story about quirky genealogists. Another Victoria tells us about Shakespeare's genealogies in his plays. Gus tells us about obtaining military records. Donna asks George about differences between RootsMagic and Reunion. George tellss everyone that there are several new book reviews coming.