The Genealogy Guys Podcast #311 - 2016 August 2

Drew gives George the week off, and begins with the following news: Evidentia Software has a special deal for purchases made between August 31 and September 14, 2016, such that 10% of all sales in the Evidentia store will go toward the War of 1812 Pension Digitization Project. FamilySearch's recent indexing event involved a record number of indexers! The 2017 International Germanic Genealogy Conference will be held in Minneapolis in July, and more information can be found at www.ggsmn.org. BCG and Legacy Family Tree Webinars have partnered to produce free live webinars. Findmypast has released a variety of new records, in particular a very large collection of materials relating to crime. Listener email lets us know about: A Florida man was discovered to have been leading a double life, because someone discovered a marriage record for a man who should have been deceased. Chris indicates why she enjoys the podcasts, and gives feedback on the new podcast series. Gigi has a dilemma about whether to update a birth location on FamilySearch on the basis of the sources she has discovered. Drew describes his new 3-month digital organizing project, the details of which can be found in recent posts to his own blog, rootsmithing.com.