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 1940 Census Success Stories | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:28:00

  Join us for another episode of GeneaBloggers Radio on Friday, April 13, 2012, starting at 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific with host Thomas MacEntee. This week our show is entitled 1940 US Census Success Stories with special co-host DearMYRTLE of the DearMYRTLE blog and website.  Our special guest will be Jim Ericson, of FamilySearch (one of the sponsors of the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project) will update us on the indexing of the 1940 US Census images. Plus, we’ll have a call-in part of the show where you can share your own 1940 Census success stories and tell us what the 1940 Census means to your family history research. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Ready, Set, 1940 US Census! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:25:00

Join us for another episode of GeneaBloggers Radio on Friday, March 30, 2012, starting at 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific with host Thomas MacEntee. This week our show is entitled Ready, Set, 1940 US Census!  Our special guests will include:  Steve Morse, architect of the Intel 8086 process which helped spark the PC revolution over 30 years ago, who has developed a set of online tools at his One Step Website to help you locate your family in the 1940 US Census. Joining him will be Joel Weintraub, retired biology professor at California State University, Fullerton who has been preparing for the release of the 1940 US Census since 2005. Also, Jim Ericson, of FamilySearch which is one of the sponsors of the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project. Jim will discuss how you can get involved with indexing the 1940 US Census images when they are released on April 2, 2012. As well as Amy Johnson Crow of Archives.com, another partner in the 1940 US Census Community Project who offer a behind the scenes look at the technology used to make the 1940 US Census images available to the public. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Tracing Your Irish Roots | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:30:00

Join us for another episode of GeneaBloggers Radio with host Thomas MacEntee. This week our show is entitled Tracing Your Irish Roots with co-host Jennifer Geraghty-Gorman of the 'On a flesh and bone foundation': An Irish History blog. Our special guests will include:  Donna Moughty, a professional genealogist who specializes in Irish research who will tell us about her upcoming research to Dublin, Ireland in October 2012; Mary Ellen Grogan, also a professional genealogist who hasbeen researching in Ireland since 1983 and is the proud holder of Reader’s Ticket No. 151 for the National Library of Ireland; and finally, Ed Zapletal, co-owner and publisher of Moorshead Magazines Ltd., and Editor of Internet Genealogy, Family Chronicle and History Magazine will be discussing the new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors (2012 Edition). And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Grandma, Is That You? Locating Your Female Ancestors | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:29:00

Join us for another episode of GeneaBloggers Radio on Friday, March 9, 2012 starting at 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific with host Thomas MacEntee. This week our show is entitled Grandma, Is That You? Locating Your Female Ancestors with this week’s co-host Lisa Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist. Our special guests will include:  internationally recognized photo identification and family history expert Maureen Taylor, who will discuss her new book Fashionable Folks: Bonnets and Hats, 1840-1900 as well as how to date photos of female ancestors based on the fashions they wore; and Beverly Rice, a professional genealogist specializing in locating female ancestors, will provide tips and strategies on finding those elusive women in your family tree;  and genealogist, blogger and author Gena Philibert Ortega of Food.Family.Ephemera. and who will talk with us about her forthcoming book The Family Table. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Telling The Story of Your Family History | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:29:00

This week our show is entitled Telling The Story of Your Family History with this week’s co-host Lisa Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist. Our special guests will include:  Carol Rice, founder of Cherish Bound and Executive Chair of the upcoming Story@Home conference in Salt Lake City, March 9-10, 2012. Carol will explain this exciting new event to our listeners and how you can get involved. Lynn Palermo of The Armchair Genealogist blog in Ontario, Canada will be with us to discuss the Family History Writing Challenge she recently developed. Finally, we’ll chat with Tami Koenig of Your Story Coach and author of the Creating Your Personal Timeline eBook and discuss the importance of writing your family history. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 African-American Genealogy Resources | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:29:00

Join us for another episode of GeneaBloggers Radio on Friday, February 24, 2012 starting at 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific with host Thomas MacEntee. This week our show is entitled African-American Genealogy Resources with co-host Robin Foster of Saving Stories. Our special guests will include: Tim Pinnick, Family Tree University instructor and a recognized specialist in Black newspaper research who’ll discuss where to find newspapers and how to use them for your research; Shelley Murphy of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Chapter of Central Virginia, whose current project is a book about the “free colored” families who homesteaded in Benzie and Manistee counties in Michigan; and Drusilla Pair, of the Find Your Folks blog, will update us on her recent “Sunday Crowns” presentation and the role of hats and churches in African-American genealogy. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor: 19th Century US Immigration | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:26:00

Join us for another episode of GeneaBloggers Radio on Friday, February 17, 2012 starting at 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific with special host Ol ‘Myrt of DearMYRTLE. This week our show is entitled Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor: 19th Century US Immigration. Our special guests will include: Marian Smith, Chief of the Historical Research Branch of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); Audrey Collins, Blogger and Family Historian at The National Archives (UK); and Angela Walton-Raji, genealogist and host of the African Roots Podcast. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Genealogy and Technology in a Post-RootsTech World | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:30:00

This week our show is entitled Genealogy and Technology In A Post RootsTech World with co-host Lisa Alzo, of The Accidental Genealogist blog. Our special guests will include:DearMYRTLE of DearMYRTLE.com who will give us a recap of last week’s RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City, Utah and fill us in on the latest and hottest genealogy technology news; George G. Morgan of Aha! Seminars, Inc. and The Genealogy Guys who will discuss his book How To Do Everything Genealogy, 3 Edition; and Brooke Schreier Ganz, genealogist, web developer and programmer and creator of LeafSeek, as well as a winner in the recent RootsTech Developer Challenge. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 GeneaBloggers Radio Birthday Show | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:00

Join us for another episode of GeneaBloggers Radio on Friday, February 3, 2012 starting at 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific with your host Thomas MacEntee and special co-host Ol’Myrt of DearMYRTLE. This week our show is entitled GeneaBloggers Radio Birthday Show andwe’ll be celebrating one year of GeneaBloggers Radio. Our broadcast will come to you LIVE from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City during the RootsTech conference. We’ll have a fun line up of genealogy vendors and other guests stopping by to wish us happy birthday. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Slave and Slaveholder Descendants Collaborating | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:26:00

  Join us for another episode of GeneaBloggers Radio on Friday, January 27, 2012 starting at 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific with special host Angela Walton-Raji of the African Roots Podcast. This week our show is entitled Walking Together on the Same Path:  Slave and Slaveholder Descendants, Collaborating. Our special guests will include Bernice Bennett, a South Carolina researcher and host of the "Research at the National Archives & Beyond" radio show here on Blog Talk Radio. Bernice will speak about finding and meeting a descendant of her ancestor's slave holder; then Betty McDade, genealogist and researcher of Edgefield, South Carolina who is a descendant of slave holders and works diligently to document the history of slaves held by her ancestors and throughout the community; and also Toni Carrier, host of the Lowcountry Africana website, who works to document descendants of slaves in the Low Country, and has worked with both slave holder descendants and slave descendants in Hilton Head, South Carolina. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Go Local: Local History and Genealogy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:30:00

This week our show is entitled Go Local: Local History and Genealogy with co-host Lisa Alzo, of The Accidental Genealogist blog. Our special guests will include: Marion Woodfork Simmons of The Discovering Yesterday blog and author of Memories of Union High: An Oasis in Caroline County, Virginia 1903-1969 – she’ll tell us how she has combined her love of local history and genealogy into her recent book. Steve Glauberman, CEO of Enlighten Ventures and creator of the startup site What Was There – a virtual time machine you have to see to believe. And finally, author Dan Burns, known as “the cop who could write more than tickets,” who has written four local history books about the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Information Overload: Finding the Genealogy Data You Need | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:30:00

This week our show is entitled Information Overload: Finding the Genealogy Data You Need. Co-host Sharon Sergeant, noted genealogist who specializes in investigative genealogy and research planning, will help frame our discussion and offer ideas on wading through all the available genealogy research resources. Our special guests will include: Dan Lynch, author of Google Your Family Tree who’ll have some tips and tricks and making Google searches work for you and your genealogy research! Also joining us will be Drew Smith of The Genealogy Guys Podcast who as a librarian will offer tips on how to navigate the resources at archives and repositories using finding aids and more! And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Genealogy New Year's Resolutions for 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:30:00

Our special guests will include:DearMYRTLE of DearMYRTLE.com who will have tips and handy information on how to keep your genealogy data and materials organized; Amy Coffin, of the We Tree genealogy blog will discuss setting genealogy goals and resolutions for 2012. And Jan Meisels Allen, Vice President of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) and a member of the Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC) with important information on how you can get involved with the preservation and access of vital records, especially the Social Security Death Index. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 The Festivus Show! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:26:00

This week our show is entitled The Festivus Show. Get your metal pole out from the crawl space and gather around the radio as we honor the traditions of Festivus! Listeners are encouraged to call in at (213) 286-6709 and join in the fun. Tell us what really “grinds your gears” about genealogy (airing of grievances) as well as show off your genealogy super-powers and accomplishments (feats of strength). And we’ll have a special discussion about giving back to the genealogy community (the Human Fund). This will truly be a Festivus for the rest of us! And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

 Do Books Still Matter in Genealogy? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:59:00

This week our show is entitled Do Books Still Matter In Genealogy?. Our special guests will include: Jim Ericson, Senior Product Marketing Manager for FamilySearch representing family history & technology conference RootsTech who will start off our discussion of books and their role in the genealogy industry; Leland Meitzler of Family Roots Publishing Co. in Salt Lake City, Utah who was recently one of several book vendors initially banned from the RootsTech exhibit hall; Curt B. Witcher, MA, FUGA, FIGS, Genealogy Center Manager at the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana who’ll help us understand trends in the book and library industry, especially in terms of technology and genealogy; and Biff and Nancy Barnes of Stories to Tell, another “banned” vendor and one that specializes in helping folks publish their own family history books. And, as usual, you never know what other aspects of genealogy and family history will be covered at GeneaBloggers Radio so tune in! GeneaBloggers Radio is about the most fun you can have with your genealogy on a Friday night!

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