The news includes:
- MyHeritage introduces Record Detective II, a new technology that expands record matching capabilities to more than 2.2 billion new record matches.
- TLC has announced the celebrities for the Spring season of Who Do You Think You Are? which premieres on Sunday, 3 April 2016.
- Registration is now open for the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records at http://www.gen-fed.org.
- Calico Pie Limited has released an upgrade to its Family Historian program.
- Findmypast has added more indexed Irish records.
- FamilySearch announces that the transcriptions of the Freedmen’s Bureau have reached the halfway point, but more volunteers are needed.
- Drew recaps the new FamilySearch collections.
Listener email includes:
- Michael shares his file name system.
- Chad is seeking information about genealogy degree and certificate programs.
- Jenny asks for tips for using GEDmatch.
- Debi shares two online newspaper resources for Oregon:
- George shares an interesting story about a lock of hair for his ancestor John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- Paul asks a question about copyright on translated/transcribed original documents, and another question about how to correct a long-standing piece of erroneous information.
The Guys discuss the GEDCOM format and what it does.
The Guys also discuss putting your ancestors into context in the community.