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Episode 78: A New Year and a New App, News, Mailbox & a Musical Gem

Happy New Year!! Contest Winners Announced: The winner of the FTM Organize Your Genealogy Life CD: Carroll Berryman The winner of the 2 day admission ticket to the Mesa, AZ Family History Expo: A.C. Ivory of UT 2nd winner: Patty Mitchell of AZ. Get more information about the conference and banquet at Family History Expos Lisa will be speaking at the Ontario Genealogical Society Conference in Toronto, Canada May 14 through the 16th of 2010 at the Doubletree Hilton at the Toronto Airpor ...

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This episode is a LIVE presentation of The Genealogy Gems Podcast presented at the Family History Expo in Mesa, Arizona on Friday, January 22, 2010. Lisa introduces her Stage Manager (and daughter!) Lacey Cooke. Download the Free Genealogy Gems Toolbar GUEST: Gena Philibert Ortega, Genaâs Genealogy Blog Worldvitalrecords - www.worldvital.com Genealogywise - www.genealogywise.com GUEST: Thomas MacEntee, Geneablogger The Top 10 Genealogy Blog Myths Use Google Reader Geneablogge ...

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To listen to the Podcast: Click the Play button on the media player in the column on the right.  Click the >| button to scroll through the episodes in the media player. NEWS: Sign up for the Genealogy Gems Free e-Newsletter Footnote.com - In honor of Pearl Harbor Day  they are making their interactive WWII collection available for free for the month of Dec 2009.   MAILBOX:  Michael in Irvine, CA writes in about The Genealogy Gems Toolbar Download the free Genealogy ...

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Are you ready for Christmas yet? If you would like to help out the podcast while you shop, just click this box... ...to access the Amazon site and look for your first item.  When you do that Genealogy Gems will get credit for anything you buy while you're on the Amazon site - and you don"t pay anything extra!  Thank you! NEWS: RootsMagic, Inc. announced the immediate availability of RootsMagic Essentials, free desktop genealogy software based on their award-winning RootsMag ...

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New to the Podcast?  Click the media player on the right to begin listening or subscribe to the podcast for free in iTunes.  (Click here to learn more about how to download and subscribe to podcasts in iTunes.  Click here to watch a video tutorial) News: Attend one of Lisa's classes:Lisa will be speaking at the Family History Expo in Mesa, Arizona on January 22 & 23, 2010 New lower shipping for Lisa's book at Lulu.com:Visit the Genealogy Gems Store at Lulu.com where ...

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Sit back and enjoy this episode about a Gem of a web site:  www.DeadFred.com  Founder Joe Bott tells us what drove him to create the site and some amazing and inspiring stories of Ancestors found! Here's a link to the photograph of Gustavo Hammel that Karen Hammel found on the DeadFred web site. Our Dog Howie was featured in BARK! magazine (below)   

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NEWS: Lisa covers digitized newspaper records recently posted at the Library of America's Chronicling America web site As well as news from Ancestry.com including new records, the new social networking with records feature, and updated to their Member Connect Feature. Watch Lisa's 2 part video series on Member Connect with David Graham of Ancestry.  Go to the Genealogy Gems TV Channel at YouTube and Click on the Videos section. Become a fan of The Genealogy Gems Podcast at Facebook.&nb ...

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Something new this week...I'm trying out a videocast of the Genealogy News segment of The Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 73. Click the video file attached to these show notes (which ends with the "mp4" extension) to play on your computer or download to your Video iPod from iTunes (should be available in iTunes Oct. 8 mid day) I want to hear from you! Did you watch the videocast? Do you enjoy getting your genealogy news this way? Did you download it to a Video iPod? Email your commen ...

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In recognition of St. Patrick's Day, the New England Historic Genealogical Society is offering access to its Irish databases free to the public for a limited time.Irish DatabasesAccess includes the following Atlases, Maps and Reference Materials; Census, Tax and Voter Lists; Church Records; Newspapers and Periodicals and Societies and Organizations:Atlases,  Maps and Reference MaterialsAn Hibernian Atlas; or General Description of the Kingdom of IrelandCensus, Tax and Voters ListsProte ...

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News: Read Lisa's Blog post âGoogle Books Revolutionary Next Stepâ How to Order Key Civil War Records by Tamie Dehler, Tribune-Star  Mailbox: A listener writes in to share her experience with Genealogy WiseJoin the Genealogy Gems Podcast Group at Genealogy Wise. Check out the free program Transcript 2.0 that listeners are raving about.  GEM: Probate Records with Jana Broglin, CG How to Find Probate Records: Research the local jurisdictionFind where wills are filedLook in Index ...

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And at this conference I am debuting a brand new item that I've been working on for months and it"s ready, and it will be available for the first time at the Expo.  Itâs actually inspired by you - you know you are all such gems to listen in to the show, and I was thinking about that, and it just seemed to me that there ought to be something wonderful to wear that shows off what a real genealogy gem you are.   So this weekend Iâm making available for the first time the ...

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NEWS: For the month of August 2009 Footnote.com is providing free access to the 1930 census images.  To get the free access just go to  www.footnote.com/1930census/ and register with your email address.  Genealogy Insider Blog by Diane Haddad at Family Tree Magazine.  National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections  (NUCMUC) is celebrating it's 50th year. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections is a free Library of Congress program.  Informatio ...

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Family Tree University  Google announced last week that it has quadrupled its searchable archive of historical news articles, many of which are free to access.From the Genealogy Insider Blog     The National Archives just announced that it has launched what it calls a Narations blog.  The new blog is going to focus on online public access to records of the U.S. National Archives     The Salt Lake City Family History Expo is almost here   MyHeritage.co ...

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For more info on next year's Jamboree:Southern California Genealogical Society My Table Mates at the Friday Night Jamboree Banquet Read Lisa's Blog Posts about this year's Jamboree: Tukufu Zuberi Wows Researchers at Jamboree Listen to Lisa's one on one interview with Tukufu in Episode 63 How My Mom Prepared Me For The Geneablogger SummitPhoto Above:  With Dick Eastman Top 10 Things I Noticed At The Geneablogger Dinner  NEWS: Family Tree Magazine WebinarFinding Your Fam ...

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NEWS: The Genealogy Guys are going to be at the Federation of Genealogical Societies conference in Little Rock, AR  Sept 2-5 2009 recording their show before a live audience on Sept 3 at 3:30 pm.   Listen to Drew Smith interview Lisa on the Genealogy Guys Podcast Episode 177   The Library of Congress has launched "The Library of Congress on iTunes U, featuring historic video and sound recordings.  Download iTunes Lisa discusses the start up and rocky road of the n ...

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GEM: 65th Anniversary of D-Day I've written a blog post about the D-Day anniversary that includes an article that appeared in the Yorkshire Post about how the memory of WWII is slipping through the cracks of time.  In my own family my grandfather"s brother Elzie Cecil Moore who we called Uncle Elzie participated in the invasion of Normandy and received the bronze star and a purple heart for a shot he took to his shoulder during the invasion.  Shortly after that he recei ...

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This special Memorial Day episode is dedicated to the men and women of the armed forces who lost their lives defending our country.(This podcast episode is audio only)  

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This special Memorial Day episode is dedicated to the men and women who lost their lives defending our country. (This podcast episode is an Enhanced Version which will include images that will appear on your Video iPod screen or in iTunes artwork area.  Download the mp4 file to your hard drive or download in iTunes)

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MAILBOX: Lisa reads an email from Mark Winter in Hixson, TN TIP:  "I use my digital camera to help document my findings.  It is also very helpful in copying photographs so I don't have to take the originals.â QUESTION:  âI have had several relatives ask for book of the family.  In a podcast do you discuss considerations in what kind of "book" to produce?â ANSWER: The Genealogy Gems Podcast episode 13I cover publishing family history books using Kodak Ga ...

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Get a free copy of my e-book 5 Fabulous Google Strategies for the Family Historian as a thankyou for signing up for the free e-newsletter.  NEWS:  Lisa discusses 9 newspaper databases being launched by Genealogy Bank  MAILBOX FOLLOWUP:  Russ Worthington's answers to a listener"s question on familial relationships in Family Tree Maker. How To Re-Order Spouses How to Enter Intra-Familial Marriages    Listen to Family History: Genealogy Made Easy GEM: ...

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