The Genealogy Guys Podcast #303 - 2016 March 6

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: Historic Oregon Newspapers at http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu Genealogical Forum of Oregon (GFO) at http://www.gfo.org. 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.