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Specials at ProjectkinGenealogy Storytelling and Junk Journals with Taneya KoonceWhat an incredible treat today. My deepest thanks to our very special guest, Taneya Koonce and all of you attending live today from across the US, Canada, and Australia. Your active participation live transformed a formal presentation into a joyful celebration of personal moments in time as captured by the ephemera of our daily life. These are special ways for a community to come together to inspire, encourage, and support one another. Feel free to drop your questions in the comments below and share your support with a ❤️. Algorithms are listening.If Projectkin is new...
2026-02-061h 03
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Stories250 with Tad Callin of Mightier AcornsThank you to Linda Teather, Diane Burley, Hal Gill, Patrick Witter, Jane Chapman, Marci Keats Rudolph 🦫, Kristin Rapinac, Jennifer Jones, David Shaw, and many others for joining us for our Stories250 Livestream.Projectkin is free. We always welcome fellow travellers on the path of family history. Learn more Projectkin.org/about.What fun to welcome Tad Callin of Mightier Acorns to his first Livestream for Projectkin. Tad joined Substack well ahead of me and for a series of reasons he explains on his publication, has more recently moved to a WordPress installation accessible her...
2025-12-1433 min
The Family Histories PodcastS10EP03 - 'The Kindly' with DearMYRTLEIn today's 3rd episode of Season Ten, host Andrew Martin is joined by tech nerd, un-retiree, and YouTube and Facebook live-streaming genealogist, who is perhaps better known by her award-winning blogging nom-de-plume - it's the wonderful DearMYRTLE!THE LIFE STORY - MYRTLE ELIZA WEISERMyrt has chosen to tell the life story of her much beloved, and namesake, grandmother who was born Myrtle Eliza Weiser in May 1895, in Salt Lake City in Utah, USA.Grandmother Myrtle heads to a strict nursing school. She then gets a job for...
2025-11-2547 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: This week—“ABC” Ancestor Bios with Randy SeaverThank you so much for joining us today. So many of your names flew by faster than I could follow, but I know I saw you, Jennifer Jones from tomorrow morning in Australia, and Jane Chapman in New Zealand. Meanwhile, this afternoon across Canada and the US, we watched as Bill Moore, Lisa Maguire, Linda Teather, Kathy Stone Emily Gravelle, Kyla Bayang, Dan our Genealogy Assistant, and gosh Paula Collins, B Toni and so many more chimed in. 😊 Truly, it was lovely to see so many friendly, welcoming profiles. I love using these sessions to give you a p...
2025-06-0829 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: War and Healing with Jennifer Holik & Mission: Genealogy Q&AThank you so much for joining us from across the Americas, Bill Moore, Linda Teather, Kathy Stone, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, DearMYRTLE, Lori Olson White, and out into the Pacific, Jane Chapman, Jennifer Jones, and Diane the FH Bowerbird, and so many of you whose names flew by faster than I could thank. Truly, it was lovely seeing you join us. As we step into June, we’re doing so with an eye to remembrances. We had our Memorial Day in the US last week, and earlier in May came the WWII celebrations for VE Day eighty ye...
2025-06-0122 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: A L👀k Ahead with Special Announcement from Kathy Stone!Thank you Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Story Carrier, Jane Chapman, Jennifer Jones, DearMYRTLE, Iain Mackie, and so many others for tuning into our Projectkin live stream today.As we got started, we shared a little about the week ahead including tomorrow, Memorial Day here in the United States where we recognize the contributions of those who’ve given their lives in the service of this country. You’ll see more about that in posts in the coming week. Tomorrow, Monday is our next Mondays with DearMYRTLE. These fun programs bring the genealogy community together and occu...
2025-05-2530 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Looking at the Week Ahead with DearMYRTLEWelcome DearMYRTLE! It was a special treat today to welcome DearMYRTLE as my very special guest on our weekly Live update. She shared details about her next Mondays with Myrt episode coming tomorrow at 9 AM PT/noon ET/ 5 PM BST. This week, she has Michelle Tucker Chubenko joining as her guest to explore the map of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Though she usually follows the panelists of Mondays with Myrt with her bi-monthly book club, she’s skipping that this week in anticipation of a new publication to track. Hm… you know that if you...
2025-04-2731 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Looking at the Week Ahead with Jennifer JonesThank you Kathy Stone, Linda Teather, and really all of you for joining us in today. These sessions are always a fun way to stay connected as a community and look ahead to the coming week. As you probably know, you can now use the Substack app 👇 for mobile devices to view and record your own Live sessions. For our family history community, I’ve also posted a recording about Getting Started with Live in our January program MissionGenealogy.org/office-hours.I’ve discovered that by tracking the chat thread on my desktop browser while broadca...
2025-04-1336 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin LIVE Video Chat with Myrt from @DearMyrtleMany thanks to the score of you who could join us live from your mobile devices or now the web. Your warm greetings and joyous participation are what make these sessions such fun. Though the sessions are only available as they happen to Projectkin subscribers, I make the recordings available to everyone on our website. You can access the full archive of these programs at Projectkin.org/live.Since these recordings can be viewed and shared with anyone, I always try to include useful links so that others follow along with the resources we mentioned.
2025-02-1730 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinA Brief Chat in the Livestream with Lori Olson White @HometownwriterThank you Lori Olson White, Lynda Heines, Shell Norman, Tyler Loiselle, and so many others for tuning into my live video with Lori Olson White! Join me for my next live video in the app — OR now in your web browser. Though the sessions are only available as they happen to Projectkin subscribers, I make the recordings available to everyone on our website. You can access the full archive of these programs at Projectkin.org/live.Since these recordings can be viewed and shared with anyone, I always try to include useful links so that ot...
2025-02-1026 min
The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy ConnectionGenealogy Connection #077 - Pat Richley-Erickson aka DearMYRTLEDrew's guest is genealogy speaker and writer Pat Richley-Erickson, known to her many fans as DearMYRTLE. Learn more about Pat at blog.dearmyrtle.com
2021-08-1549 min
Ancestor's Footprints with Bernice Alexander BennettShort Subject Journaling with DearMYRTLE (Pat Richley-Erickson)Myrt has stress-free ideas for sharing family history discoveries one story at a time, using a single photo, document, heirloom or historical tidbit. It starts with a 15-minute brainstorming session. DearMYRTLE is the nom de plume of genealogy blogger Pat Richley-Erickson also known for hosting genealogy webinars and Zoom “how-to” sessions, with over 1,300 videos on her YouTube channel. She began online genealogy work in 1985 with Q-Link, progressed to PC-Link then America Online’s Genealogy Forum She serves as President of the Association of Professional Genealogists Second Life Chapter. You’ll find Myrt online at Blog.DearMYRTLE.com where she has lately b...
2021-04-1533 min
The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy ConnectionGenealogy Connection #055 - Russ Worthington, Technology EducatorRuss Worthington may be best known to genealogists as "Cousin Russ," an actual cousin of and friend to DearMyrtle. Russ blogs and speaks online and at conferences about genealogy database software and other technology topics. Russ and Drew talk about the use of online tools and video to educate genealogists, and why Russ doesn't have any brick walls (yet). Find out about where you can see and read more from Russ at this page: http://dearmyrtle.com/blog2/index.php/2017/10/03/who-is-cousin-russ/ Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please tell your genealogy friends or your local gen...
2019-05-2251 min
Extreme GenesEpisode 270 - The Legal Genealogist On What You Need To Know About Copyright / David Gets Library Naming HonorHost Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. Fisher begins the segment reviewing David’s recent honor… a genealogical library in Brockton, Massachusetts is naming their genealogical section the “David Allen Lambert Library.” (And David isn’t even dead yet!) Hear David’s reaction to the news. David then shares news from RootsTech and their Virtual Pass. Listen for how you can get a 10% Extreme Genes discount. Next, David reports disturbing news about cobblestone streets in Prague, when it seems that the stones are actually the remains...
2019-02-1148 minExtreme GenesEpisode 192 - Perfectly Preserved 19th Century Child Found in Back Yard, Identified and Reburied With Dignity Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. Fisher begins, revealing David’s growing fan club, from which one member deemed him the “Paul McCartney of genealogy!” Fisher then delves into the ransomware attacks that are currently sweeping the world and gives advice on how to protect your data. (One item: Get rid of XP!) Then Fisher and David talk about a historic Jewish synagogue in New York that was burned by a teenage arsonist this past week. But it wasn’t always a synagog...
2017-05-2248 min
Extreme GenesEpisode 192 - Perfectly Preserved 19th Century Child Found in Back Yard, Identified and Reburied With DignityHost Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. Fisher begins, revealing David’s growing fan club, from which one member deemed him the “Paul McCartney of genealogy!” Fisher then delves into the ransomware attacks that are currently sweeping the world and gives advice on how to protect your data. (One item: Get rid of XP!) Then Fisher and David talk about a historic Jewish synagogue in New York that was burned by a teenage arsonist this past week. But it wasn’t always a synagogue. Hear about Fis...
2017-05-2248 min
The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History ShowEpisode 200The Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 200 with Lisa Louise Cooke Listen below: It's finally here—the 200th episode of the free Genealogy Gems podcast, also celebrating its 10th year. In this special episode, Lisa invites Professor Mark Auslander to share his discoveries about a mother and young daughter separated by slavery. Learn how he pieced together their story from a poignant family heirloom found at a flea market. Throughout the episode, you will hear from several listeners, past podcast guests, Gems staffers and supporters in the genealogy industry with congratulations, memories, stories, and favorite Gems tips. Listen for the DNA success st...
2017-02-061h 29
The Genealogy Professional podcast with Host Marian Pierre-Louis – Interviews with Experienced GenealogistsTGP 35 – Pat Richley-Erickson aka Dear MyrtleFeatured Guest Pat Richley-Erickson aka Dear Myrtle DearMYRTLE is the nom de plume of Pat Richley-Erickson, author of the award-winning DearMYRTLE Genealogy Blog, consistently among the top 5 family history blogs internationally, where her focus is on beginning genealogy topics. A speaker at regional and national conferences including several livestreamed videocasts at RootsTech2011, 2012 and … Continue reading TGP 35 – Pat Richley-Erickson aka Dear Myrtle →
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Family Tree Magazine Podcast2014 Genealogy Year in Review: Episode 79
We’ll discuss major genealogy news to happen in 2014, the best family history websites of 2014, and tips from the best webinars to take place this year.
Ep. 79: December 2014
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In this episode:
News from the Blogosphere with Diane Haddad
Diane and Lisa review the top genealogy stories of 2014.
101 Best Websites: Genealogy News
Allison gives her favorite sites for keeping up on genealogy news:
Ancestry InsiderDearMYRTLELisa Louise Cooke’s Genealogy Gems BlogEastman’s Online Genealogy NewsletterRootswebGet the entire list here!
Family...
2014-12-1632 minThe Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History ShowEpisode 118 - Grandmas & Grandpas, Free Transcription Software, PERSI, and morePublished Sept 17, 2011 Everyone has a special name for grandparents in their family. In ours we have Nanna, Grandma, and even Pat-Pat. I look forward to the day my grandson Davy calls me Grandma. While I wait, tell me the unusual terms of endearment used in your family for grandparents. Email or leave a voice mail and be included on the show: (925) 272-4021 Listen to the episode: NEWS: FamilySearch has added millions of new records of both Confederate and Union soldiers who served in the American Civil War. Also now available for viewing are newly added notarial records from Canada, church...
2011-09-1846 minFamily Tree Magazine PodcastResources for African American Research: Episode 21
Tune into the February 2010 episode of our podcast, which features tips on African-American genealogy, newspaper preservation and tips for getting your genealogy in shape.
Ep. 21: February 2010
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In this episode:
The Editor’s Desk with Allison Stacy
Lisa chats with Allison about the educational opportunities at Family Tree Magazine.
News from the Blogosphere with Diane Haddad
In honor of Black History Month, Genealogy Insider Diane Haddad discusses genealogical resources for African-American research.
Top Tips: Shaping Up
In toda...
2010-02-0142 minThe Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History ShowEpisode 66: An Important Anniversary, Records and Websites UpdatesPublished June 7, 2009 GEM: 65th Anniversary of D-Day I've written a blog post about the D-Day anniversary that includes an article that appeared in the Yorkshire Post about how the memory of WWII is slipping through the cracks of time. In my own family my grandfather's brother Elzie Cecil Moore who we called Uncle Elzie participated in the invasion of Normandy and received the bronze star and a purple heart for a shot he took to his shoulder during the invasion. Shortly after that he received a second purple hear for a shot he received through his face. Growing up I...
2009-06-0732 minThe Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History ShowEpisode 55 - Census Records You've Probably Never Used But Should with Curt WitcherPublished Dec 1, 2008 Welcome all the NEW listeners who discovered the show at the Family History Expo in Mesa, AZ. We're so glad you"re on board! Watch this video to learn how to use the free iTunes software (you don't need an iPod to use it!), and subscribe to this podcast for free. Then watch this video to learn more about how to use the podcast website. Family History Expos TV Watching Family History Expo TV is like your own Video Conference! If you were lucky enough to go youâll get to see the folks you may have missed a...
2008-12-0137 minThe Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History ShowEpisode 40 - A little fun, my inheritance, & quilt care and displayPublished Jan 30, 2008 PODCAST SHOW NOTES The Genealogy Gems News Blog: "Why should Lou Dobbs Care?". And be sure and vote on the new poll question: How do you listen to the podcast? Thanks to the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre and DearMYRTLE for their recent acknowledgements of The Socks To America Video. Watch The Socks To America MAILBOX: (Left to right they are Guy M. Denton, Gladys V. Denton, Dorothy J. Denton and Guy V. Denton.) "Guy V. Denton 1895-1959 purchased this quilt from a lady from Arkansas who was traveling through Howard, KS. It's obvious that it was not...
2008-01-3056 minThe Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History ShowEpisode 32 - Listener Mailbox and Invite Your Ancestors to Christmas!Published Nov 4, 2007 Episode 32 Show Notes Listener Mailbox, and Invite Your Ancestors to Christmas! DearMYRTLE Website Episode 27 The Mailbox: Email From Dave Green: "Attached (is) a find on ebay. I hadn't thought to look there for family mementos. I typed in the tiny town of Fiat, IN and it came back with a matchbook from the store my grandparents had owned there! Thanks for the valuable gem." Email from Judy in Memphis: Hi, Lisa, a few weeks ago I contacted you and said I was going to do the Sweet Memories candy bars this Christmas. I thought you would enjoy seeing...
2007-11-0411 minThe Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History ShowEpisode 27 - Interview with DearMYRTLEPublished Sept 22, 2007 EPISODE 27 SHOW NOTES MAILBOX RE: WorldVitalRecords - is now part of MyHeritage.com RE: Judy's email Rootstelevision chose "The Socks to America" as their homepage video last weekend. Burning podcast episodes to CD: You can still do this, but why not just show folks at your genealogy society how to download the Genealogy Gems Podcast app so that they can enjoy it too? Thanks! Genealogy Societies are also welcome to use excerpts from my newsletter in their society newsletter when they include the following author credit "by Lisa L. Cooke, The Genealogy Gems Podcast at www.genealogygems.com"...
2007-09-2334 min