Link to the Show / Show NotesThis week's news includes: Ancestry.com has added a huge collection of African-American records with the Freedmen's Marriage Records and the Southern Claims Commission Collection at Ancestry.com; the 1911 Irish Census is beginning to be made available at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie,
and the 1862 Dublin City Street Directory is now online at http://www.libraryireland.com/Dublin-Street-Directory-1862/Home.php;
and a new book by Terry Reigel titled A Primer for The Master Genealogist is now available from Wholly Genes Software.
The Guys discuss news about DNA, including: "One Embryo from Three Parents" in a case where mitochondrial disease has been corrected with a third personâs mitochondrial DNA; and an intriguing finding by scientist Hans Eiberg in Norway about blue-eyed persons
and their common forebear 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.
The Genealogy Guys make their television debut today at Roots Television in a new series, "Down Under: Florida." The series is not unlike PBSâ "History Detectives" in that they investigate persons in the past whose cemetery markers and stories have piqued their interest. Check out the first of their new online television programs. The Guys describe for listener (and now viewer!) Donna in Hawaii the production process.
Listener e-mail includes: discussion of Horry and Marion Counties in SC; comments about the genealogical value of address books; and more.
The Guys talk about climatic changes and their effects on our ancestors, including the influence on their migrations and settlements.
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