The Genealogy Guys Podcast #431

The Genealogy Guys Podcast #431

From The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection by George G. Morgan & Drew Smith

November 27, 2024 · 60 min

About this episode

The episode discusses Thanksgiving wishes, genealogy news, and listener questions about family history research.

For all who celebrate it, the Guys wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! News You Can Use and Share! MyHeritage has introduced LiveMemory TM , a new facility to animate entire photographs. It runs from an app on your phone and is currently free. Ancestry announces its project to index and digitize Korean War-era military records housed at NARA. Vivid-Pix announces it will expand Alzheimer's Research by donating 5% of sales through 3 December 2024. FamilySearch celebrates 130 years of family discovery! Listener Email Brian asks whether there is a genealogy podcast that shares people's stories of family history research. Julie asks if there is a user guide/book discussing how to effectively research at MyHeritage. George has contacted Daniel Horowitz at MyHeritage for information. Stay tuned! Peggy expands on requesting U.S. military records from the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri, and what is available there. Anne suggests seeking information about WWII military service information in newspapers published near the basic training camps and through local libraries' scrapbooks and vertical files. With Donna Moughty retiring from leading Irish genealogy…

People in this episode

Hosts: George G. Morgan, Drew Smith

Topics covered

  • Thanksgiving
  • genealogy news
  • military records
  • family history
  • research tips
  • Alzheimer's research
  • family discovery

Keywords

  • genealogy
  • MyHeritage
  • Ancestry
  • military records
  • family history
  • Alzheimer's research
  • family discovery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MyHeritage, Ancestry, Vivid-Pix, FamilySearch

Places: St. Louis, Missouri, Johnstown, Pennsylvania

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