Episode 115 - How to Travel to Your Ancestors Homeland

Genealogy Gems Podcast
Episode 115 with Lisa Louise Cooke

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Published August 6, 2011

In this episode you're going to learn the details that go into planning a trip to your ancestor's homeland.

NEWS:Read Jenna's blog post called Monday Midwest Family history Expo posted on 8/1/11.

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GEM: More Online Newspapers This week the Library of Congress updated Chronicling America to include newspapers from 3 new states added to the program in 2010 and additional coverage for 1836-1859. New Mexico, Tennessee and Vermont are now included with 22 other states and the District of Columbia in Chronicling America's almost 4 million pages of historic newspaper pages, published between 1836 and 1922. So you can start searching at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Swedish Genealogical Society of Colorado is going to host the SwedGenTour 2011 September 17, 20118:30 am to 4:30 pm, Aurora, Colorado. You can register at the SGSC website.

Genealogy Gems Podcast App Users are getting a special bonus with this episode. Swedish Researcher Yvonne Hendrickson has graciously provided a a terrific pdf file called How to Find Your Swedish Roots. Get the app for the iPhone & iPadGet the app for the Android

GEM: Railway RecordsAncestry.ca has partnered with the UK's National Archives to launch the Railway Employment Records, 1833 & 1963, an online collection containing the employment-related records of British railway workers dating back to the invention of the locomotive in the early 19th century. The records date from 1833 and by the middle of the 20th century.

FamilySearchFamilySearch recently announced that they have digitized historic records from eight countries and added them to FamilySearch.org. In addition to 1.8 million new U.S. records, collections from seven other countries were added including Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Mexico, Philippines, and Poland.

NewspapersThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced on July 27, 2011 awards totaling $3.8 million to 13 institutions representing their states in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). These means there will be new digitized historic newspapers coming to the free Chronicling America section of the Library of Congress website in mid-2012.

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New Video Cast on YouTube on UK NewsGenealogy Gems video channel at YouTube packed with over 50 family history related videos. Nick Barratt and Laura Berry of Your Family History magazine out of the UK at www.your-familyhistory.com. They have created a new YouTube video channel called appopriately enough Family History Show.

MAILBOX:RootsMagic questions so I went right to the source Bruce Buzbee, founder of RootsMagic and he's got the answers.

Would I create a "land" fact in the entry for my great-grandfather, and just describe the land in it? Thanks again for your terrific podcasts. I just started listening to the Family Tree podcasts, and am excited to start using the tips shared in those episodes as well.

Bruce recommends adding a "Property" fact type (which is one of the fact typesbuilt into RM and which is officially supported in GEDCOM). You can use the date field to show the time period the land was owned, and can use the note to enter any description of the land.

Then he recommends using the various documents as sources for that fact type. When you are adding a new source to RM, you can type "land" into the "Search for source type" field on the "Select Source Type" screen to filter the list of source types down to ones relating to land...