The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show

Note to Genealogy Gems App Users: New Wallpaper Bonus Content this episode! A big THANK YOU to the Jackson County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society in Jackson, Ohio for sharing Genealogy Gems with their website visitors. Footnote Update Their Interactive Census will remain free to the public through April 30, 2010 They've also added new content and ehanced their image viewer! Family History...

Who Do You Think You Are? airs on Friday nights at 8:00 p.m. on NBC. Updated schedule Become a Premium Member Premium episode 43 features Lisa Kudrow in part 2 of a behind the scenes question and answer (available for a limited time.) British Records: Chelsea Pensiones' service records 1883 - 1900 are now available at Findmypast.com National Archives UK Quick Animated Guides Document Downloads at...

The Genealogy Gems Podcast is Three Years Old This Month! THANK YOUS Elyses blog post on genealogy podcasts Renee Huskey wrote in her Free Stuff Friday post about the Genealogy Gems Toolbar FAMILY SEARCH Recently Completed Projects Argentina, Balvanera. Registros Parroquiales 1833 thru 1934 [Parte A] Canada, British Columbia. Deaths, 1872 thru 1986 [Part 4] Jamaica. Civil Births, 1878 thru 1899 [P...

Google Earth for Genealogy video series All 6 videos are also part of Genealogy Gems Premium Membership Family Tree Magazine's Top 40 Genealogy Blogs Lisa's recent blog posts about the new TV series Who Do You Think You Are? WDYTYA: You're Gonna Get It. And You're Gonna Love It! WDYTYA TV Guest Appearances & Tips WDYTYA Held It's Own in the Ratings If I Don't Say This I Think My Head Will Explode...

Share Who Do You Think You Are? with Friends and Family Share Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 81 with your friends and family Who Do You Think You Are? premieres on NBC on Friday, March 5 at 8:00 pm. NEWS: Lisa will be speaking at the Ontario Genealogical Society Conference in Toronto Canada being held may 14 through the 16, 2010 at the Doubletree by Hilton at the Toronto Airport. Veterans History...

MAILBOX: Sign up for the Genealogy Gems Podcast e-Newsletter You'll get Lisa's 20 page e-book called 5 Fabulous Research Strategies for the Family Historian free in your welcome email. Follow the techniques in the e-book and you'll better results with your Google Searches when you're online doing your research! And if by chance you have already signed up you haven't been receiving the newsletter b...

THANK YOU to all the genealogy bloggers who got the word out about the new Genealogy Gems iPhone app which is now available in the iTunes store: Kimberly Powell of the About Genealogy blog Miriam Robbins Midkiff of Ancestories The Genealogy Guys Schelly Dardashti of the Tracing the Tribe blog Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog Lisa has gotten great feedback from those of you who have already downloade...

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. 2013 Update: the Genealogy Gems Toolbar has been discontinued. GUEST: Gena Philibert Ortega, Genaâs Genealogy Blog Worldvitalrecords - www.worldvital.com Genealogywise - www.genealogywise....

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. 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 Tor...

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. 2013 Update: The Genealogy Gems Toolbar has been discontinued. Listener Gordon Churchill writes in to ask about using compiled gen...

Are you ready for Christmas yet? If you would like to help out the podcast while you shop, just click the box below... ...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...

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 Genealogy Gems Store Archiv...

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)

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 an...

News: Read Lisa's Blog post "Google Books Revolutionary Next Step" How to Order Key Civil War Records by Tamie Dehler, Tribune-Star Mailbox: A listener writes in to share her experience with Genealogy Wise Join 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...

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. It's 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...

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 MyHeritage.com, has ann...

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 Collectio...

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. Downl...

For more info on next year's Jamboree: Southern California Genealogical Society 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 Top 10 Things I Noticed At The Geneablogger Dinner NEWS: Genealogy Gems Premium eLearning Members can watch the webinar Finding Your Family In Old Newspapers in t...

Published June 7, 2009 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 p...

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)

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)

Published May 11, 2008 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." QUESTION: "I have had several relatives ask for book of the family. In a podcast do you discuss considerations in what kind of "book" to produce?" ANSWER: The Genealogy G...

April 26, 2009 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...