George's news report this week includes: the announcement of the non-exclusive agreement between
NARA and
CustomFlix Labs (a part of the
Amazon.com group) to make thousands of NARA's historic films available for sale through Amazon.com in DVD-on-Demand format;
The National Archives (U.K.) and
Ancestry.co.uk have reached an agreement to make the digitized pension records of more than 1 million soldiers who fought in WWI (catalogue group WO 364) available for search and download at the Ancestry Web site; and
The Generations Network will sponsor a Youth Fair at the
FGS Conference in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this coming week. In addition, George announces
Irish Fest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 16-19, 2007, at Henry W. Maier Festival Park. Fly Away Travel has announced its Genealogy Seminar at Sea, October 25-November 1, 2008, at
www.genealogycruises.com aboard the fabulous new Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas. Steve Danko has begun a blog for the
United Polish Genealogical Societies Conference 2008 to be held in Salt Lake City on April 18-21, 2008.George introduces a new feature, the Web Site of the Week. This week's site is IPUMS USA's U.S. federal census enumeration forms (1850-2000) and enumerator instructions AND census questions for the population schedules 1850 to present (except 1890). The site is at
http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/tEnumForms.shtml. Drew discusses comparisons of four major genealogical software packages for PC users in the U.S.Drew also presents his second installment of his new feature, Genealogy Society Tip of the Week.The Guys conclude with a discussion of identity theft, genealogy, and the relationship or non-relationship between the two.