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• Congratulations to Lisa Louise Cooke, podcaster and blogger at Genealogy
  Gems (and Family
  Tree Magazine podcast host). Appadvice.com named
  Lisa’s Genealogy Gems Podcast app a must-have in the Hobby
  category of its AppList. Appadvice.com reviewers called it “a great resource for
  both amateur and professional Genealogists … The interface is easy to use and the
  type and controls are larger, making this application ideal even for older users.”

The Genealogy Gems podcast app features streaming of the Genealogy Gems podcast, plus
show notes and bonus material. It’s available for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad (at
the iTunes store) and Android phone (in the Marketplace).

• FamilySearch added 4.3 million record images
  this week, nearly half of those to its Hungary Civil Registration, 1895–1980, collection
  (my
  husband is a quarter Hungarian, so this moves up his tree a few notches on my
  to-do list).
  

Other new records come from Austria, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Panama, and
the US. Note these record images aren’t yet indexed, so you’ll need to browse them. See
the updated collections and link to them from here.

• The California Genealogical Society and Ancestry.com are
  putting on an Ancestry Day Nov. 5 in San Francisco. It’ll include classes, Ancestry.com
  experts to answer your questions and one-on-one consultations with genealogists. The
  early bird price ends Oct. 5. You
  can register here.