The news includes:

• The Suzanne Winsor Freeman Memorial Student Genealogy Grant has been established and will be awarded to a student attending the 2011 Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree. Application deadline is March 1, 2011. For more information, contact Denise Levenick at dmlevenick@gmail.com or at 626.688.8974.
• NBC launches the second season of "Who Do You Think You Are?" on Friday, February 4th.
• Ancestry.com has announced the discontinuation of its Expert Connect service.
• Moorshead Magazines, publishers of Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, and History Magazine, have a special offer. Buy two books, Life During the Civil War and Tracing Your Civil War Ancestors, and pay shipping for just one.  Visit Family Chronicle at http://www.familychronicle.com for more information and to order these books.
• MyHeritage.com has announced a major upgrade on its Smart Matching (tm) technology at its website.

The Guys open one of the boxes of family materials that Drew's brother, Jeff, sent him in December. Drew explores the wealth of new materials he has received and he and George describe and discuss them in detail. Photographs, letters, certificates and diplomas, V-mail, letters, and more are included. Here are links to two pages:

Drew's Mother and Friend beside Jeep (ca. 1943) Marriage Card received by Drew's Parents

The news includes:

• GenSoftReviews announced its 2010 Users Choice Awards. Our sponsor, RootsMagic, was awarded first place.
• Ancestry.com announced the release of Family Tree Maker for the Macintosh. They also announced new and updated collections, including Swedish Church Records and Maine births, marriages, and deaths collections.
• The Illinois State Genealogical Society announced the unveiling of their new website at http://www.ilgensoc.org, using EasyNetSites.
• A new genealogy site has been announced. It is Tpstry at http://tpstry.com.

Listener email includes:

• Questions about the downloads of the Podcast.
• Donna asked about the Federation of Genealogical Societies' Save the Pensions! fund and its place in the Stern-NARA Fund at FGS.
• Tim writes about Drew's connection to the Perry-Boddies lines.
• Samuel asks about DNA testing to locate relations to males in Ireland.
• Victoria wants to know the reasons behind two couples in England (1851 and 1893) whose marriage registers show living at the same address at the time of their marriages.
• Ken asks about using Dropbox with his Family Tree Maker files.
• Mary asks how to shorten a rediculously long URL. George suggests the use of TinyURL and Drew suggests using bit.ly.
• Tim asks about free vs. pay information.
• Victoria relates a funny story about quirky genealogists.
• Another Victoria tells us about Shakespeare's genealogies in his plays.
• Gus tells us about obtaining military records.
• Donna asks George about differences between RootsMagic and Reunion.

George tellss everyone that there are several new book reviews coming.

This week's news includes:

• NBC announces that season two of "Who Do You Think You Are?" premieres on Friday, February 4th.
• The Federation of Genealogical Societies has appointed Matthew Wright as the new Editor of the FGS FORUM electronic magazine. He succeeds Sandra Hargreaves Luebking who has worked on FORUM for the last 25 years.
• The 1910 Census for Norway is online at http://www.digitalarkivet.no. An English version of the site is available at http://www.digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=e.
• The New England Historic Genealogical Society (at http://AmericanAncestors.org) announces 4 upcoming events:
  • New Visitor and Welcome Tour - January 8
  • Using AmericanAncestors.org - January 12
  • Dom's, An Odyssey - January 19
  • Winter Weekend Research Getaway: Effective Use of Technology - January 19
• The revamped ScotlandsPeople is up and running
• The Ontario Genealogical Society announces the appointment of Elizabeth Lapointe as editor of its journal, Families
• The new book, Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts, by Paul K. Graham, has been published. Visit http://pkgraham.com/atlas for more information.
• WikiTree announces a host of new widgets at http://www.wikitree.com/articles/draft-widgets.html.
• Moorshead Publishing has released its new book, ttracing Your Civil War Ancestors, by David A. Norris. For more informaation, visit http://www.familychronicle.com.
• Genealogical Publishing Company (http://www.genealogical.com) has issued its new laminated "Genealogy at a Glance" reference sheet for Scottish Genealogy Research.

This episode's listener email includes:

• Claire shares how she can best clean up family trees and copy people from one tree to another using RootsMagic.
• Judy attests to the fact that the book we recently reviewed, Shaking the Family Tree, by Buzzy Jackson, is a great read.
• Chris has military woes, and asks questions about obtaining copies of military records.
• Barbara wrote to tell us about an article in American Ancestors magazine from Fall 2010 about the article titled "Tracing the Origins if Joseph Herbert," and recommends it for the way the sources are cited.

The Guys discuss the use of CrossOver, and George tells about how simple it was to relink all the graphics for his ancestor research using RootsMagic.

Drew discusses his personal research and the fact that his brother has sent him two new boxes of materials.