The Genealogy Guys Podcast #231 - 2012 January 31

The news includes: Who Do You Thing You Are? debuts for its third season on NBC on Friday, February 2, 2012. Fold3 announced that it is providing free access to all of its Black History Collection records throughout the month of February in celebration of Black History Month. brightsolid is one of the major sponsors for RootsTech 2012 in Salt Lake City this week. brightsolid has announced that they have recruited renowned genealogist D. Joshua Taylor as their business development manager and media spokesperson in the U.S. WikiTree has announced that they have closed new user registration. New members must now be invited by current WikiTree members. Ancestry.com, Behind the Name, and WeRelate have announced a new approach for searching for variant names. Learn more at http://www.werelate.org/wiki/WeRelate:Variant_names_project. Ancestry.com is partnering with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to bring more than 300 years of Pennsylvania records online. George G. Morgan's new book, How to Do Everything Genealogy, 3rd edition, has just been published by McGraw-Hill in softcover and in electronic format. George will soon announce how people can order a signed copy. Registration is now open for the Federation of Genealogical Society's 2012 Conference on August 29 to September 1, 2012, in Birmingham, Alabama. Registration is open for the Southern California Genealogical Society's Jamboree on June 8-10, 2012, in Burbank, California. DNA genotyping is being used to help answer the centuries-old mystery of the so-called "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Learn more at http://the-scientist.com/2012/01/01/lost-colony-dna/. Listener email includes: Joel Weintraub tells The Guys about a collection of One-Step tools for working with the forthcoming 1940 U.S. Federal Census at Steve Morse's website. Patricia has a question about her great-grandfather, John A. Hamilton. Rob of New Port Richey, Florida, asks about access at the University of South Florida Tampa Library and at the Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library system to records outside of Florida. Margaret discusses how she shares family history information with relatives and others using her blog and Dropbox. Steve shares information with family members in a similar manner. He also talks about his experiences in transferring data between genealogy database programs, a topic that The Guys discussed in a previous episode. Avi asks questions concerning his family members who lived in the area of Troy, New York. Phil asks for help because he has discovered that his grandmother had four first names. The Guys reviewed several new items: Family Roots Publishing has a new book by Ruby Coleman titled Genealogical Research in Nebraska. (Order at http://www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product_view.php?id=1545.) Genealogical Publishing Companyhas released three new QuickSheet publications written by Elizabeth Shown Mills. They are: The Historical Biographer's Guide to the Research Process The Historical Biographer's Guide to Finding People in Databases & Indexes The Historical Biographer's Guide to Cluster Research (the FAN Principle)