Topics this week include:
- Loretto "Lou" Dennis Szucs receives the Silver Tray Award from the Utah Genealogical Association.
- Ancestry.com includes new London-related content, including Births, Baptisms, Deaths, Burials, and Poor Law Records.
- Leland Meitzler includes a calendar on his blog at genealogyblog.com.
- The National Archives (UK) adds new information about Henry VIII.
- The National Archives (US) at Kansas City, Missouri relocates to the Union Station Complex.
- Readex, a division of NewsBank, adds a new product line : American Newspaper Archives.
- WorldVitalRecords.com reveals an improved search and browse function.
- The Ontario Genealogical Society will be holding its OGS Conference 2009 on May 29-31 at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario.
- The Purcell Family of America has a new website at www.pfaroots.org and a Purcell surname DNA project (contact Doug Purcell at [email protected])
- A podcast listener asks for a medal after listening to all Genealogy Guys Podcast episodes between January 13, 2009 and now (but he's not happy with the newer music).
- George meets someone at the front door with information about Census 2010.
- A listener describes using Google's Picasa Web Albums to store and share photo albums.
- A listener asks about the availability of New FamilySearch (because RootsMagic 4 provides a way to access it when it becomes available).
- The CEO of Sampa Corporation contacts the Genealogy Guys to describe a free service to share life events with family and friends.
- A listener asks whether or not everyone with the same surname (or a spelling variant) should be included in a genealogy database even if the relationship hasn't been established yet.
- Melissa Shimkus of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana announces that new military content has been added to their site www.genealogycenter.info.
- Joel Weintraub, associate of Steve Morse, responds to the idea of a one-step search for "everything", but one of his provided links is not quite the error message you may think it is.
- Ian Pereira lets us know about his company's free book publishing site at HowTo.co.uk.
- A listener asks for advice for a first-time visit to a national genealogy conference.
- A listener asks about how to proceed with a DNA test that may confirm a family story.
- A listener asks about pension files and NARA.
- Drew talks about Dropbox, an online service that synchronizes working files across computers.