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In this weekâs news: NARA (http://www.archives.gov)
posts free passenger lists online, including Russian, Italian, and German lists
to east coast ports; 1871 England and Wales census images are now complete on
British Origins (http://www.britishorigins.com);
The Generations Network, Inc. (http://www.tgn.com),
parent of Ancestry.com, RootsWeb, Genealogy.com, and other entities, announced
that they will move RootsWeb onto the Ancestry.com domain, using http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com,
and that there should be no changes to the online experience of users â and
that RootsWeb will continue to be free; and WorldVitalRecords.com (http://www.worldvitalrecords.com)
now has over 1 billion names at its site.
The Guys respond to many listener e-mail topics: the correct
pronunciation of Haaretz, the largest newspaper in Israel
which is beginning a new start-up genealogy social network, is âHah-AH-retzâ,
which is Hebrew for âThe Land.â; university databases and the possibility of
accessing them remotely; missing census page images at Ancestry.com for Decatur
County, Indiana; the availability of the 1846 Slaterâs Commercial Directory of
Ireland at http://failteromhat.com/slater.htm.
The Guys continue discussing listener e-mail about DNA and
Drew continues his discussion of the topic to try to educate us all.
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