Free Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 188 Now Available

by Lisa Cooke | Feb 18, 2016 | 01 What's New, Genealogy Gems Podcast, Libraries, Listeners & Readers

Genealogy Gems Podcast episode 188 has published. It’s packed with news, tips and inspiration that can help your family history research now. Check it out!

The newest episode of the free Genealogy Gems Podcast is now available. Host Lisa Louise Cooke shares her signature variety of news, inspiration, innovative strategies and tips you can use now. Highlights from the Genealogy Gems podcast episode 188 include:

• RootsTech news and resources for everyone;
• New records online for Ireland and the United States;
• Two inspiring emails from listeners who unravel family mysteries with determination, skill and Google sleuthing;
• A Genealogy Gems Book Club update with more thoughts on the featured title Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Growby Tara Austen Weaver and book recommendations from RootsTech attendees;
• A critique of a recent NPR article on genetic genealogy by Your DNA Guide Diahan Southard; and
• A great conversation with Cindy Cochran and Sabrina Riley of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society Library at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Lisa Louise Cooke with Cindy Cochran and Sabrina Riley

My favorite part of this episode for me was Lisa’s conversation with Cindy and Sabrina. It was fun to meet two interesting women who help keep their corner of the genealogy research world running smoothly. I don’t even have Nebraska roots but I appreciated the inside “look” at their genealogy collection. It reminds me what gems–human and archival–may be tucked away on college campuses that love and welcome researchers.

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