George announces the new French and Italian services from Ancestry.com.  Drew researches the early days of musician Nellie Lutcher by checking census records.  And George and Drew discuss some books that Drew brought back home after his mother's recent funeral, including Drew's father's high school yearbook, a book of old photographs of Newberry, SC, and a heritage book from Newberry.

News includes the digitization of Canadian passenger lists (www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy), an interactive online map of Chicago (chicagoancestors.org), and Diane Rapaport's soon-to-be-released book The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England.  Listener mail includes details about Jewish marriage customs and a question about donating rare cemetery books.  In response to a listener question, George and Drew describe their list of essential books for the genealogy reference shelf.

News about new records at Ancestry.com, and the use of DNA to attempt to solve the mystery of the Lost Colony.  Drew returns from the Southern California Genealogical Society's Genealogy Jamboree and shares interviews with Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak of Roots Television (rootstelevision.com), Leland Meitzler of Everton's (genealogyblog.com), and Susan Kitchens of Family Oral History Using Digital Tools (familyoralhistory.us).

News of the upcoming Polish Genealogical Society of America (www.pgsa.org) conference in Schaumberg, Illinois on September 28-30, and listener mailbag with several items about military records, and an interesting find of funeral documents on eBay.  George discusses June weddings, and Drew provides more details about LibraryThing (librarything.com).  Drew also talks about how he uses newspaper databases to locate obituaries for distant cousins.