Legacy Webinar: USE ALL CAPS FOR COUPON CODE
Thanks to everyone who attended today's Legacy Family Tree Webinar. Please note that you must enter the coupon code in with all caps: LEGACY5 Thanks and happy note taking! Lisa
3 Genetic Genealogy Experts Talk Shop in Free FTM Podcast
The newest episode of the Family Tree Magazine podcast is now online for your listening pleasure! Catch the latest news and a special spotlight on DNA with chats with THREE leading voices in genetic genealogy. The latest and greatest in genetic genealogy! It is so...
Genealogy Book Club: Facebook Chat and More Book Picks
Many of you are reading (or have already finished) our Genealogy Book Club featured book for the quarter, She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes. In the just-published November episode of the Genealogy Gems podcast, Lisa and I talk a little...
Inspiring Ideas in Genealogy Gems Podcast 173
"We all need a little inspiration now and then!" That's Lisa's theme for the recently-released FREE Genealogy Gems podcast episode 173 (click here for the podcast in iTunes, and here for how to our app). Here are the highlights: Lisa talks about creating family...
Savvy DNA Shopping Tip: Transfer Genealogy DNA Test Results to FTDNA for FREE
Savvy shopping can save you money and time. So what does savvy DNA shopping look like? Genetic genealogy tests--yDNA, autosomal and mDNA--do require a financial investment. They aren't cheap. But they can save you hours of traditional research and give you results...
MyHeritage Library Edition: Now at Family History Centers
MyHeritage has launched the MyHeritage Library Edition™ for libraries and other educational facilities around the world. Among the first to sign up for this service? The Family History Library. MyHeritage Library Edition™ is now available for free at every...
Premium Perks! Genealogy Technology Tools Video, Life Story Writing AND Scottish Research
Are you a Genealogy Gems Premium member--or have you thought about becoming one? If so, you'll want to know about the NEW content we recently published for Premium members only: Premium Video: 10 Genealogy Tech Tools You Can't Live Without Most of us want to use the...
Historical Photos You Don’t See Every Day: Civil War Soldiers and Settlers of the American West
Recently listener Stacy sent us links to two fabulous collections of historical photos. The stories they tell--and the back story of one of the photographers--are just stunning. Civil War Soldiers The first collection is a sobering visual record of wounded Civil War...
MORE German Genealogy Records at Ancestry.com
Nearly 12 million German genealogy records are newly searchable on Ancestry.com! You'll find these in more than 30 databases of civil registrations of birth, marriages, residences and deaths between 1874-1950. Here are some of the highlights: around a million each of...
Google Earth for Genealogy: Get My Personalized Help
I often wish I had the opportunity to work with each one of you on your individual Google Earth projects, because I firmly believe it's one of the most exciting ways to tell your family history stories, and to analyze your research data. So when Family Tree University...
HOW are We Related?? Use a Cousin Calculator
Recently, I heard from Shirley in Austin, Texas (U.S.) with a question about how her relatives are related to each other: "My GGM (Caroline 's) great grandfather (Franz Joseph) is the same as my GGF (Eduard 's) grandfather (Franz Joseph). How would they be related to...
Indiana Genealogy Records to be Digitized by Ancestry.com
A recent news article at Indianapublicmedia,org reports that more than 13 million Indiana genealogy records will be digitized and put online--and Ancestry.com is picking up the tab. Among the records doing online are early 20th-century birth and death certificates and...
1865 New York State Census Now on FamilySearch
Good news for those who had relatives in New York in the 1860s: the 1865 New York State Census is now searchable online at FamilySearch.org. Just five years earlier, the 1860 U.S. federal census counted nearly four million people in this its largest state. New York...
Read History As It Was Written via Chronicling America
If you research ancestors in the U.S., you've probably already used the Library of Congress' Chronicling America website for searching digitized newspapers. Now they've added a new feature: you can subscribe to receive "old news" on many of your favorite historical...
Win a Chance to Attend RootsTech 2015 for FREE!
RootsTech 2015 is shaping up to be a major production again! This three-day technology-oriented family history mega-conference offers over 200 classes for beginners-to-pros, hands-on computer labs and big-name evening entertainment options. The conference runs in...
What are the Politics of Your Family Tree?
Here's a fun online tool that points toward the political leanings of current U.S. residents with your surnames: What's in a Name? For example, when I enter my maternal grandfather's surname, Felix, I find that this surname overwhelming votes Democrat (77%). My...
RootsTech 2015 Entertainment: Donny Osmond and More
RootsTech 2015 is known for being all about genealogy and technology. however, in an effort to broaden its audience in 2015 it will feature some heavy-hitting entertainers from outside the industry: best-selling authors, singers, dancers and even the cast of a...
NERGC: New England Genealogy Conference Registration Now Open
Registration is now open for the New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC) in Providence, Rhode Island on April 15-18, 2015. Lisa will be there--will you? Lisa Louise Cooke will be a featured speaker for this conference along with The Legal Genealogist Judy...
