The Genealogy Guys Podcast #427

News You Can Use and Share!

• MyHeritage added 123 million historical records in April and May.
• MyHeritage added millions of Nordic newspaper pages to OldNews.com.
• RootsMagic has released Version 10 of its award-winning software.

Listener Email

• Jean-Daniel wrote to share an update about his research into Blaise Farny.
• Karin educates us about names for Austrian ‘sailors’.
• Lisa wrote to compliment Cathleen from New Hampshire’s research of her mother’s paternal grandfather, Georg Sokop. She was inspired to research a friend’s Jewish ancestry using DNA.
• Ray has been researching his third great-grandfather, James James, and located two people of that name in close proximity. The county courthouse burned, and he is asking for other records to distinguish between the two men.

Drew discusses the upcoming South Carolina Genealogical Society’s upcoming conference at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History on 12-13 July 2024. He is presenting, and George will be there observing and conducting personal research in the archive.

George shares how he is preparing for his genealogical research at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, at the Newberry County courthouse, and in the upstate South Carolina environs.

Drew discusses new features of AncestryDNA tools.

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