Episode 58 - Exciting New Records, Income Tax History, & Family History Valentines

Genealogy Gems Podcast
Episode 58 with Lisa Louise Cooke

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Published Jan 31, 2009

#1 Diane Haddad's Family Tree Magazine Genealogy Insider Blog New and Next at Ancestry.com

#2. From Paper (or Film) to the Web

#3 Online Searching: It's Complicated

#4 Inside Ancestry.com's Top-Secret Data Center

#5 Diane reveals the secret identity of the mysterious Ancestry Genealogy Blogger. Or does she? You'll have to check that one out for yourself.

In fact if you're an Ancestry user or are considering a subscription I highly recommend Diane's blog series at the Genealogy Insider.

The latest edition of the Carnival of Irish Heritage & Culture has been published over at Small-leaved Shamrock http://www.small-leavedshamrock.blogspot.com

The next edition of the Carnival of Irish Heritage and Culture will be a St. Patrick's Day "virtual parade" online. Anyone who would like to particiate is welcome, whether or not they have Irish roots. For more information on how to participate or to check out the latest carnival head over to http://www.irishheritagecarnival.blogspot.com.

Recent Genealogy Gems News Blog postings:

I wrapped up my ten genealogy strategies for the new year on Jan 21, 2009

I also posted about the new American version of the television show Who Do You Think You Are? Set your recorders to Monday nights at 8PM on NBC starting April 20.

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There are some milestones going on these days as well. The Library of Congress just crossed the 25,000 mark for books digitized. A good article appeared about that on the Voice of America website: Scanning Project Digitizes 25,000 US Library of Congress Book

What's new at Lisa's Family History: Genealogy Made Easy podcast. Subscribe to the show for free in iTunes

On January 16, 2009 we started in on Online Family Trees. Read more.

The more I explore them the more I become convinced that they are a powerful research tool that I predict in the next few years will become an absolute necessity for family historians.

Episode 12: I you a comprehensive overview of online family trees. And then we go straight to the source with an in depth interview with Kenny Freestone, Senior Product Manager at Ancestry.com whose primary responsibility is their online family tree tool.

Episode 13: We continue exploring our tree options with Scott Huskey of Photoloom.com. They offer an incredible online visual approach to trees and research that centers around your own personal family photos. Then I talk to Sasha Masick of GeneTree, who spices up their family tree tool with a DNA testing component.

Episode 14: You've got to tune in to hear how to go from one name and birth year, to three generations of family in 1 hour or less. It's absolutely possible, and I'll show you how in this episode. Then as we finish up with online family trees, I thought it was important to go over the techniques for following up on all those great connections you can make by posting your family tree online. We'll get started in Episode 14 talking about how to locate telephone numbers online, the prep work you need to do before you start to dial, breaking the ice and conducting the interview.

Then we'll finish up in Episode 15 on Feb 6 with what we as the interviewer should be doing during the call, what to do if No Answers, we'll cover the "Must Ask" Questions, and how to wrap up the call.

NEW RECORDS ONLINE

The folks over at the 1911census.co.uk officially launched their website this month. And they have added many of the counties that were unavailable during beta testing including Lancashire, Essex, Kent, Yorkshire (West Riding), Nottinghamshire and Herefordshire so you can now access those British census records from 1911.

World Vital Records recently added 20 newspaper databases from Mexico and Canada ranging from 1833-1994:

NOTES: To download the show notes with all the items and websites I discuss, go to https://lisalouisecooke.com/podcasts and click on the link for this episode number.

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