The Genealogy Guys Podcast #437

The Guys are celebrating 20 YEARS of the podcast!

News You Can Use and Share!

• MyHeritage is making a landmark move to Whole Genome Sequencing for its at-home DNA test. See https://blog.myheritage.com/2025/10/myheritage-upgrades-its-dna-tests-to-whole-genome-sequencing/ for more details.
• MyHeritage has released a major update to its Theory of Family Relativity with 103 million new theories.
• MyHeritage announced that the 1921 England & Wales Census is now available to search online.
• MyHeritage has added 95 million marriage records extracted from newspapers using advanced AI on MyHeritage.
• Legacy Family Tree Webinars has expanded to offer a new series of webinars in Spanish.
• Newspapers.com and Gannett Co., Inc., are partnering to make hundreds of newspapers available online. [Gannett Co., Inc. has just rebranded as USA Today Co.]
• FamilySearch added 21 million new records in October and 18 million new records in November.

Listener Email

• Hal Barker writes to encourage people to use the Korean War Project website (https://www.koreanwar.org/) for research on military ancestors and family members involved in this conflict.
• Julia writes to inquire about organizing a genealogy society project about the Roe Institute. Drew recommends Trello as a preferred project management software package.

WikiTree will conduct a WikiTree Challenge in which volunteers will deep-dive into George's family tree and hope to break down some walls with new information. You can watch the Kickoff Meeting at 12:00 PM (Eastern Time) at https://wikitree.zoom.us/j/83430757286, and you'll want to watch George's results Reveal on 17 December 2025 at 8:00 PM (Eastern Time) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Ea6XxZFRY.

You can see Drew's WikiTree Challenge videos at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAtp16w5pU (starting at the 31 minute 18 second mark) and the reveal at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lmu1Lc-fVM.

Registration for RootsTech 2026 is now open at https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/registration.

Drew discusses his work with MyHeritage's Theory of Relativity matches.

Please let us hear from you at [email protected] with your questions and comments.