The Genealogy Guys Podcast #314 - 2016 September 16

The news includes:

• A new genealogical service called genealogyDOTcoach has been launched at https://genealogy.coach that makes professional genealogists available for short, inexpensive consultations to help you extend your research and get past brick walls.
• MyHeritage announces their new DNA matching service, allowing you to upload your DNA testing results and/or order testing kits. Learn more at http://blog.myheritage.com/2016/09/dna-matching-now-live/.
• MyHeritage announces the publication of 33 million Finnish church records online.
• RootsMagic answers questions concerning its planned sync with Ancestry by the end of this year.
• WikiTree announces a Source-a-Thon on 1-3 October 2016. Learn more at wikitree.com/Source-a-Thon.
• Findmypast launches an economical 12-month for $34.95 in the U.S. market.
• Findmypast launches a large variety of new collections and additions to existing ones.
• ScotlandsPeople has announced that it will be offline from 23:59 (BST on Wednesday, 21 September 2016 until Monday 26 September as they work to install the new ScotlandsPeople website.
• Ancestry.co.uk has announced the launch on 7 September of a new podcast series titled “It’s About Time” narrated by Sir Tony Roberts.
• FamilySearch has launched it’s new Pressroom at http://media.familysearch.org.
• FamilySearch has made the records of the Guild of One-Name Studies available at its site.
• Drew summarizes the recent releases from FamilySearch.
• The Florida Genealogy Society of Tampa will host its annual Fall Seminar on Saturday, 1 October 2016, with guest speaker Judy G. Russell. An Ask-a-Genealogist program will take place on 30 September 2016 at the Florida History and Genealogy Library in the downtown main library. Details are available at http://fgstampa.org.

Listener email includes:

• Judith shares information about the online collections at the University of Chicago at http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/, http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/browse-sports.html, and https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/finding-aids/?view=digitized.
• Eileen thanks Drew for his discussion of RootsMagic and Evernote on the previous podcast.
• Timo shares a unique gazetteer for Germany and former German regions called GOV (Genealogisches Ortsverzeichnis) at http://gov.genealogy.net/language/select?lang=en. He also generously shared his slides from his presentation at RootsTech 2014 at http://compgen.de/userfiles/downloads/rootstech/GOV_DEV1231.pdf.
• Drew apologizes to John about any confusion between the mention of the Scozzari surname in the previous episode and his Salvatori Chisari. Anyone who can help on the latter can email The Guys and we’ll pass the message on.
• Richard asks for suggestions about locating information about Robert George “Bobbie” Jones in Florida records.

Drew talks about his ongoing organization project.

Drew gives a shout-out for Martha Ibanez Zervoudakis, secretary of The Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, Florida, for her recent program at the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa titled “Introduction to Cuban/Spanish Research.

George talks about a new blog he has started called “As George Remembers It” at http://georgegmorgan.blogspot.com.

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