This week’s news items include: James LeVoy Sorenson,
renowned medical device inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist died on 20
January 2008 at 86 – his companies list includes the  non-profit Sorenson Molecular Genealogy
Foundation which provides DNA testing; Genealogical.com has launched a new blog
at http://GenealogyandFamilyHistory.com;
a wiki is available for users of FamilySearch and the LDS Family History
Centers, at http://www.familysearchwiki.org.The Guys respond to listener e-mail, including: genealogy
software questions about DNA information and the GEDCOM 5.5 format standard; a
site for sharing serialized family history information, with a sample at http://wwar1.blogspot.com; a suggestion
to visit the extensive Genealogy and Family History Links Library at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/;
Bryan Mawer’s Sugar Refiners and Sugarbakers website at http://home.clara.net/mawer/intro.html
about the sugar industry, primarily in the UK (16th-20th centuries); and a
question about when ships’ crew were included on manifests (and other forms),
including information about INS requirements – at http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/maritime/great-lakes-crew-lists.html.





Drew and George discuss the explosion of social networking
sites for genealogists and some of the issues regarding choosing one or more to
use. The list includes: Geni.com (http://www.geni.com/),
Famillion (http://www.famillion.com),
Ancestry.com (http://www.geni.com/),
OneGreatFamily.com (http://www.onegreatfamily.com),
FamilyTreeDNA.com (http://www.familytreedna.com/),
MyHeritage.com (http://www.myheritage.com/),
23AndMe (https://www.23andme.com/),
MyHeritage.com (http://www.myheritage.com/),
ItsOurTree.com (http://www.itsourtree.com/
and available in multiple languages), Amiglia.com (http://www.amiglia.com), Kindo.com (http://kindo.com/), and TreeX.com (http://treex.com/tree/). Others include
KinCafe (http://www.kincafe.com/),
FamilyLink (http://www.familylink.com/
- formerly WorldVitalRecords.com), OurStory.com (http://www.ourstory.com/), WeRelate (http://www.werelate.org), and Famiva (http://www.famiva.com/).



Drew has revived his personal blog with a new name, Internet
domain, and a new look. The blog, called Rootsmithing, can be found at http://rootsmithing.com.