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• Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 252

  14-04-2021 21:13 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  
  Find Images and Photos in Old Newspapers with Newspaper Navigator Newspaper Navigator is a new free online tool for finding images and photos in old newspapers at Chronicling America. It doesn’t work the way the Library of Congress website works, so in this episode I show you how to navigate the Newspaper Navigator. It’s a fun session that […]
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• 10 Top Tips for Beginning German Genealogy

  14-04-2021 01:14 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Set Your Reminder to Watch the Show Watch the LIVE Premiere of Elevenses with Lisa Episode 52: 10 Top Tips for Beginning German Genealogy.  Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021 Time: 11:00 am Central Place: Genealogy Gems YouTube channel or click the video player below.  Show Notes Coming Soon   text
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• Off the Beaten Path: Uncommon Routes in Family History Research - Three-day Course 27-29 April

  09-04-2021 16:13 via sog.org.uk
  
  Join us for a three-day intensive online Home Enrichment Course. We’ll join you in your home on Zoom so you won’t have to travel anywhere. In our twelve sessions, we’re offering all the other features that are so popular on our Zoom courses: talks, question and answer sessions with the tutors, additional group discussions, expert help every day, lots of friendly people who share your interests. All included in the cost.This Course is for anyone who wants to uncover what was dif
  
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• The 1950 Census for Genealogy

  07-04-2021 00:40 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  The census is the backbone of genealogical research. Here in the United States it gives us a cohesive look at our ancestors every 10 years between 1790 and 1940. And now there is a new census on the horizon!   The 1950 census is an exciting one because it may include your great grandparents, grandparents, […]
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• To Name Unknown Soldiers Who Died, Military Mulls DNA Methods

  06-04-2021 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Forensic genealogy techniques that have successfully tracked down elusive serial killers may soon be used to help identify thousands of American service members “known but to God.”
  
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• To Name Unknown Soldiers, Military Mulls Crime-Solving DNA Methods

  06-04-2021 16:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Forensic genealogy techniques that have successfully tracked down elusive serial killers may soon be used to help identify thousands of American service members “known but to God.”
  
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• April 2021 Discounted Book of the Month - My Ancestor was a Leather Worker

  02-04-2021 18:56 via sog.org.uk
  
  Were your family involved in the leather trade? it would be no surprise if some of them were. in the mid 1850s, thousands of workers earned a living in the leather trade. your ancestors might have been tanners, shoemakers, saddle and harness makers, or curriers. They might have made cricket balls or sporrans.If you have found references to any of the leather trades in family documents or census entries, would you like to know more about what your ancestor was doing and what life was like? In thi
  
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• Queens Man Is Charged in 1976 Killing of Pregnant Teenager Evelyn Colon

  02-04-2021 11:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Luis Sierra, 63, of Ozone Park, was arrested this week in the killing of Evelyn Colon, a Jersey City 15-year-old whose dismembered remains were found along a riverbank in Pennsylvania, the authorities said.
  
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• How to Write and Self Publish Your Family History Book with Author J.M. Phillips

  31-03-2021 18:05 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  If you’ve been wondering how to write and self-publish a book about your family history, my guest has answers for you! In Elevenses with Lisa Episode 50 author J.M. Phillips shares: How to be a great family history storyteller Her favorite writing techniques that help create a compelling story What she learned about self-publishing (and […]
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• She Vanished Decades Ago. Her Children Just Learned She Had Been Killed.

  27-03-2021 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  William Heiser Jr. said his father had told him and his sister that their mother, Marie Heiser, had “just packed up her stuff and left.”
  
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• The Best Ways to Search for Photos with Google Images

  24-03-2021 15:44 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Google offers a lot of different ways to help you search for images. In fact there are so many different ways it can get a little confusing. In this episode I’m going to show you the best techniques for image searching. I will show you how to find images and photographs that apply to your […]
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• Best Ways to Search for Photos with Google Images

  24-03-2021 15:44 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Google offers a variety of ways to help you find and search for images. In fact, there are so many different ways it can get a little confusing. In this video and article I’m going to show you how to find images and photographs that apply to your family history. Who knows, we may even […]
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• Ohio Memory and Freedmen’s Bureau – 2 Record Groups for Genealogy

  23-03-2021 19:15 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Elevenses with Lisa Episode 48 Show Notes One of the great things about genealogy is that there are always new records. Well, not really new records, new OLD records. These records have been around sometimes hundreds of years, but they may have been languishing in the basement of an archive, library or even a private […]
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• Telling your Family Story in Column Inches - A One-hour Live Online Talk on 20 March

  17-03-2021 11:12 via sog.org.uk
  
  Come along and discover ways of writing your family stories in easy bites, without sending your disenchanted family to sleep! This talk is for you if you’re keen to write your family history. Suitable for absolutely all levels of family history experience. Diane Lindsay wants to inspire you to overcome your fears and put pen to paper.Worried that you don’t know where to start, or perhaps you have too much to say? Diane has solutions.Concerned that you don’t know enough to write
  
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• Problems with website

  16-03-2021 13:05 via sog.org.uk
  
  We are investigating some itermittent website problems with ordering books or applying for membership.
  
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• Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 251

  13-03-2021 00:35 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  
  Free Online Records at the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center If you’re looking for a wide array of free online genealogical records for your family history, look no further than then Allen County Public Library’s Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It’s the second largest genealogy library in the country. In addition to the […]
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• Oregon Man Is Charged With Two Murders Committed Two Decades Apart

  12-03-2021 05:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Genetic genealogy connected Christopher Lovrien to a 1999 homicide victim, according to the authorities, who said they found the remains of a 2020 homicide victim when they searched his property.
  
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• Christopher Lovrien Is Charged With Two Murders Committed Two Decades Apart

  12-03-2021 05:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Genetic genealogy connected Christopher Lovrien to a 1999 homicide victim, according to the authorities, who said they found the remains of a 2020 homicide victim when they searched his property.
  
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• Genealogy Crime Stories with Nathan Dylan Goodwin

  10-03-2021 16:42 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Get Nathan’s New Book Click here to order Nathan’s new book The Chester Creek Murders. This is an affiliate link and we will be compensated (at no cost to you) if you make a purchase. Thank you for supporting our free show! Watch the Live Show March 11 at 11 am CT Video Replay and […]
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• Woman’s Search for Her Birth Parents Leads to a Story of Murder

  09-03-2021 23:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Kathy Gillcrist said a DNA test she took in 2017 revealed that her father may have been William Bradford Bishop Jr., a fugitive suspected of killing his wife, mother and three sons in 1976.
  
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• Genealogy at the State Library of Pennsylvania

  09-03-2021 23:09 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  One thing that many genealogists have in common is a connection to Pennsylvania. Perhaps one of your family tree branches extends back to the early founding of the Pennsylvania colony. Or it may be that one of your ancestors was one of the hundreds of thousands who arrived through the port of Philadelphia. Even if you […]
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• Washday Blues: Charwomen and Washerwomen - A Live Online Talk on 11 March

  09-03-2021 11:47 via sog.org.uk
  
  The first thing women on the Mayflower did when they disembarked in America was the washing! Laundress and charwoman were the survival employments for any impoverished widow. Join Adele Emm for a social history of mangles, possers, dollies, washboards and flat irons.In this talk, she tells us about: the Soap Tax and soap making; soapwort, bleach and starch - before Sunlight soap; Proctor & Gamble soap and candles; and Reckitt’s blue bags. We will then be taken on a journey from th
  
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• Finding the Hidden Clues in First Names: A Starter Guide

  07-03-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As original as a child’s first name might seem, it often offers clues into a family’s near and, sometimes, very distant past. Given names link generations of family through repetition and can be a powerful tool to push our research to greater depths. To shed an even brighter light on this research opportunity we must understand the influences behind naming traditions.
  
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• Library catalogue under maintenance from 1am Sunday 7th March

  06-03-2021 00:23 via sog.org.uk
  
  The Society  of Genealogists Lilbrary is planning to carry out some essential maintenance work on the Library's Catalogue  OPAC  from 1am on Sunday, 7th March 
  
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• Celebrating our female ancestors in Women’s History Month

  05-03-2021 13:02 via sog.org.uk
  
  Now is the time to celebrate our female ancestors who are all too often under recorded or even missing from family trees.
  
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• Tracing a House History - A One-hour Live Online Talk on 6 March

  04-03-2021 23:42 via sog.org.uk
  
  Gill Blanchard, a leading UK house historian and author of ‘Tracing Your House History’ wants to help you trace your house’s history.Discover the main resources that can enable you to trace the history of your own home or a house where your ancestors lived. Gill explains which sources to use: to put a building in a time and a place; to uncover who has lived there; to find out what else the building has been used for; and to discover when it was built...
  
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• Lives of our Ancestors: Recent and Long-standing Local History Sources - A Live Online Talk 6 March

  02-03-2021 15:22 via sog.org.uk
  
  Dr Gill Draper explains the work of the British Association for Local History. It specialises in listing resources and indexes and in keeping them up-to-date.Many family historians want to explore local history to find out more about the lives of their forebears in such areas as: schooling; poverty and wealth; church and chapel; housing; or specific cities, towns and villages. Many resources with hundreds of personal names and details are now available in print and on free websites.In this talk,
  
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• What Does That Mean? 300+ Family History Abbreviations Explained

  28-02-2021 01:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Abbreviations are frequently found in genealogical research, but they can be incredibly confusing. This guide will help you make sense of them, with definitions for more than 300 commonly found selections.
  
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• Researching Family and Local History in Cheshire - A One-hour Live Online Talk on 4 March

  27-02-2021 13:27 via sog.org.uk
  
  Brett Langston introduces us to Cheshire Archives and Local Studies. We can't visit in person at the moment but Brett tells us about the records, documents and images it holds for family and local historians.We can access many of the resources in their collection online, including some really unusual and surprising items...
  
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• A Teenager Was Bullied. His Ancestors Saved Him.

  26-02-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Dennis Richmond Jr. was a middle-schooler who took refuge in his family history, some of it very surprising.
  
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• DNA Problem Solving – Using Genetic Genealogy to Find Answers

  25-02-2021 00:14 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
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• DAVID ZUCKER Interview! (AIRPLANE! Naked Gun) On Movies & Family History

  23-02-2021 21:41 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Elevenses with Lisa Episode 45 Show Notes In this episode Movie director / writer / producer David Zucker (of Airplane!, The Naked Gun starring Leslie Nielsen, Hot Shots starring Charlie Sheen and Lloyd Bridges, Kentucky Fried Movie) joins me for an hour of fun and family history! David Zucker’s new book Before the Invention of […]
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• Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 250

  19-02-2021 19:19 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  
  10 Surprising Things You Can Find at Google Books You will find the complete show notes for the topic discussed in this episode at the Elevenses with Lisa show notes page here.   Google Books is a free online catalog of over 25 million books, 10 million of which are digitized and searchable. While you would […]
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• DNA and Race: What Ancestry and 23andMe Reveal

  16-02-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Our country has struggled to reckon with the horrors of the past. Could DNA tests help?
  
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• 10 Awesome Genealogy Finds at the Internet Archive

  15-02-2021 22:16 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Do you like finding new stuff about your family history? Well, then you’re in the right place because today that’s exactly what we’re going to do. If you’re looking for new information about your family history, an important website to add to your research list is the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive is a free […]
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• Old Map Collections That Every Family Historian Should Know About

  12-02-2021 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ask any seasoned genealogist and they will tell you just how important old maps are to their research. In fact, almost no other resource paints a better picture of your ancestor’s world. Here's where to find them online.
  
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• Researching Displaced People - An Online Tutorial on 13 February

  09-02-2021 14:55 via sog.org.uk
  
  Globally there are 80 million displaced people – mind blowing. In this tutorial, Julie Goucher describes how displacement has occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries and how family historians might discover their displaced ancestors.Julie Goucher explores: what displacement means; its causes; and the historical context that might indicate that someone was displaced. She also covers what to focus on when you need to research those that were displaced: the organisations; the records, archive
  
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• New Quiz! Test Your Family History Knowledge

  08-02-2021 01:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We've just created a fun, quick quiz to help you test your family history knowledge in our newly updated Course Center! How many of the questions can you answer correctly?
  
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• The Society has a New Website for Booking Events

  06-02-2021 11:58 via sog.org.uk
  
  Perhaps you have you read our announcement, in the Newsletter: “We’re pleased to announce our new events website.”Actually, we’re so much more than pleased. We’re really excited and a little bit thrilled. Our events team worked extremely hard to make it all happen and we’d like to encourage you to visit the new website, see how much it offers, and let us know what you think.It’s not that we regularly throw away anything old. For heavens sake, we hav
  
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• Genetic Groups at MyHeritage – DNA and Genealogy

  05-02-2021 20:18 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Elevenses with Lisa Episode 42 Show Notes Welcome to Elevenses with Lisa, our weekly  little slice of heaven where friends get together for tea and talk about the thing that never fails to put a smile on our face: Genealogy! My special guest in this episode is Ran Snir, Director of Product Management for DNA at MyHeritage. If […]
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• How to Use Church Records for Genealogy

  01-02-2021 02:57 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Elevenses with Lisa Episode 41 Show Notes Welcome to Elevenses with Lisa, our weekly  little slice of heaven where friends get together for tea and talk about the thing that never fails to put a smile on our face: Genealogy! As you know, birth, marriage and death records are essential to genealogy. We call them vital […]
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• Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 249

  27-01-2021 19:21 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  
  10 Questions to Rate Your Readiness for Genealogy Research Success You will find the complete show notes for the topic discussed in this episode at the Elevenses with Lisa show notes page here.   Are you ready for a year of successful genealogy research? I’ve got 10 important questions you need to ask yourself to […]
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• How to Search the U.S. National Archives Online Catalog for Genealogy

  26-01-2021 03:11 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Elevenses with Lisa Episode 39 Show Notes Elevenses with Lisa is our little slice of heaven where friends get together for tea and talk about the thing that never fails to put a smile on our face: Genealogy! The National Archives is a wonderful resource of unique genealogical records. Though the archives are closed, the website is open, […]
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• SoG’s New Email System

  25-01-2021 23:17 via sog.org.uk
  
  The Society of Genealogists has recently implemented a new system for sending out news of our events and happenings.We are doing this to coincide with the launch of our new events booking system. Our new mailing software will make distribution faster, help us to keep our subscriber list up to date and enable us to present information about our events and happenings in more interesting and visually appealing ways.
  
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• 10 Questions to Rate Your Readiness for Genealogy Research Success

  18-01-2021 00:22 via lisalouisecooke.com
  
  Elevenses with Lisa Episode 39 Show Notes Elevenses with Lisa is our little slice of heaven where friends get together for tea and talk about the thing that never fails to put a smile on our face: Genealogy! Are you ready for a year of successful genealogy? Learn how to develop an effective research plan, […]
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• Every Family History Record Type You Should Search + Free Checklist

  13-01-2021 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This special checklist contains nearly every major record type that can help you discover more about ancestors, organized by category. Each group includes a bulleted list of specific records one might find, as well as information you may discover within each record.
  
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• Every Family History Record Type You Need to Know + Free Checklist

  13-01-2021 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This special checklist contains nearly every major record type that could hold detailed information about your ancestors. Use it as a reference to help you discover more about their lives and overcome stubborn brick walls.
  
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• Bryan Sykes, Who Saw the Ancient Past in Genes, Dies at 73

  06-01-2021 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  An Oxford scientist with a flair for the dramatic, he introduced millions of people to the secrets of their ancestry through his books and TV appearances.
  
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• The 15 Minute Plan for Achieving Your Genealogy Goals in 2021

  01-01-2021 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s every family historian’s dream to devote all of our waking hours to genealogy. Unfortunately, many of us don’t have the luxury of unlimited time - work, family, school, and other obligations often leave little room for hobbies. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't pursue our goals with gusto. Here's a plan to help.
  
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• January 2021 Events Launched with our 9 Jan talk, Sources for Medieval and Early Modern Genealogy

  30-12-2020 15:20 via sog.org.uk
  
  Our popular live online lectures will continue in 2021via the Zoom platform. Our first talk next year, 'Sources for Medieval and Early Modern Genealogy' will take place 9 January.In this talk, Dr. Nick Barratt looks at medieval and early family history sources, including practical information for research. He will introduce new sources to help you trace your relatives further back in time and covers: feudalism, landholding and social hierarchy, government and local administration,
  
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