{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 187 ","description":"This New Year’s episode is packed with fresh energy and perspective! \r\nWe welcome the Legal Genealogist Judy Russell to the podcast. Judy takes on a Genealogy Gems listener’s fantastic question about the bounty land his War of 1812 ancestor never claimed.\r\nAlso:\r\n\r\nThe latest on life after Family Tree Maker software;\r\nA fresh look at why family history software is still relevant today;\r\nNew strategies for using Google to answer your genealogical research questions;\r\nThe new Genealogy Gems Book Club title;\r\nWhy I’m so excited about RootsTech 2016, which is coming right up;\r\nNew records online and up-to-the-moment emails with questions, tips and inspiring successes.\r\n\r\nNEWS: Family Tree Maker Software Discontinued\r\nHere’s the announcement and my initial comments that reached nearly 30,000 people on Facebook (at press time):\r\nWhat Ancestry’s Retirement of Family Tree Maker Software Means for You\r\n \r\nNEWS: New Records Online\r\nAUSTRALIA CIVIL REGISTRATIONS. A new browse-only collection of Tasmanian civil registrations (1839-1938) is now online at FamilySearch.org. It includes district registers, counterfoils of marriage certificates and some church records.\r\nENGLAND PARISH AND ELECTORAL. Significantly-updated indexes of Kent parish registers and registers of electors (both dating to the 1500s!) are now online at FamilySearch, as Lancashire parish records to 1538 and another collection of parish registers back to 1603 that include Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire.\r\nITALY CIVIL REGISTRATIONS: More indexed images continue to be added regularly to the free collection at FamilySearch.org! Click here for the current list.\r\nPHILIPPINES (MANILA) CIVIL REGISTRATIONS: More than 400,000 indexed records for the city of Manila have been added to an existing collection of Philippines civil registrations at FamilySearch.org.\r\nWALES ELECTORAL REGISTERS. Over 1.6 million indexed names from electoral registers for Glamorgan and West Glamorgan, Wales (1839-1935) are now searchable at FamilySearch.org.\r\nBONUS AUDIO ON THE APP:\r\nBRITISH IN INDIA. Findmypast has published new record collections relating to British overseas travelers, workers and expatriates. The first includes “British people who either lived, worked or travelled in India from as early as 1664 up to 1961 with an index of births, marriages, divorces and deaths compiled by the Society of Genealogists.” There are also new collections from the India Office: births and baptisms and wills and probates.\r\nDIGITAL BOOKS. A new FREE collection of 150,000 digitized books is searchable at MyHeritage.com. Among the titles are family, local and military histories; city and county directories; school and university yearbooks and church and congregational minutes.\r\n\r\n \r\nGEMS NEWS: RootsTech 2016: February 3-6 in Salt Lake City, Utah\r\nRootsTech 2016: What’s Happening!\r\nHere’s the schedule for my official RootsTech lectures and those of our regular Gems contributors:\r\nWednesday: 3:00 YDNA Testing for Every Surname in Your Pedigree, Diahan Southard\r\nThursday: 4:30 Proven Methodology for Using Google for Genealogy, Lisa Louise Cooke\r\nFriday:\r\n11:00 Soothe Your Tech Tummy Ache with These 10 Tools, Lisa Louise Cooke 1:30 Proven Methodology for Using Google for Genealogy, Lisa Louise Cooke\r\nSaturday: 11:00 Soothe Your Tech Tummy Ache with These 10 Tools, Lisa Louise Cooke 1:30 What’s Special About US Special Census Schedules? Sunny Morton\r\nIf you’ve been to my booth at a major conference in the past few years, you already know about the “Outside the Box” mini-sessions I’ve presented along with some of my partners in the past. These sessions have been SO popular that people end up lining the walkways around our booth, several deep, crowding the exhibit hall aisles in to listen and sign up for the free handouts.\r\nThis year, I’m planning an even richer class experience at the Genealogy Gems booth. There will be 20 sessions, some of them shorter and some longer, taught by myself and my dynamic partners at Genealogy Gems and Family Tree Magazine. I have quadrupled the size of our booth so we can invite many more of you to come in, have a seat and hear these sessions in comfort, without having to stand in the aisles.\r\nHere are the FREE classes we’re teaching at Genealogy Gems booth #1230 in the RootsTech exhibit hall:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nRemember, if you register for RootsTech before January 18, you’ll save a LOT on registration (you’ll pay $169 instead of $249 for the full 4-day event). Come by and say hello at our booth!\r\n \r\nGEMS NEWS: “Where I’m From”\r\nWinners: Everyone who entered will receive a year of Genealogy Gems Premium Website Membership! In this episode you’ll hear Beverly Field’s wonderful poem, and you’ll hear from more winners in coming episodes.\r\nMAILBOX: Where I’m From\r\nPicture books by George Ella Lyon recommended by Katharine:\r\n\r\nMama is a Miner\r\nCome a Tide\r\nCecil’s Story \r\n\r\n \r\nMAILBOX: Family Tree Maker\r\nSue’s email: she decided to use RootsMagic family history software and, following my suggestion, signed up for Backblaze cloud-based backup service.\r\n\r\nClick here to read a blog post that answers Charles’ question about why not to continue using Family Tree Maker after it “expires.”\r\nClick here to read about specials for Family Tree Maker users and what I do with my master family tree.\r\nClick here to access Moving your tree from Family Tree Maker to Reunion, for Reunion 11 (for Mac) software, as recommended by Bill\r\nClick here to read which family history software I recommend and why\r\nClick here for more Family Tree Maker questions and a couple of bonus questions about keeping Ancestry.com subscriptions or transferring to MyHeritage, which does offer free desktop family history software that syncs with its online trees.\r\n \r\nMAILBOX: GOOGLE SEARCHING CORONER’S RECORDS\r\nClick here to read a detailed answer to Lydia’s question on Google searching coroner’s records\r\nThe Genealogist’s Google Toolbox is available through the store on my website at www.genealogygems.com.\r\n \r\n \r\nINTERVIEW: Judy Russell\r\nRobert from Covington, LA wrote in with this excellent question! Here’s the full question and an accompanying image: “We have a copy of our great great grandfather's Warrant from the War of 1812. This has never been redeemed. I expect that the time for redeeming has long since expired but can't find confirmation of this anywhere.\r\nI have an affidavit from my grandmother dated 1911 stating the grant was lost or destroyed when she was a little girl being raised by her grandmother, the widow of one of the two brothers listed on the certificate. Her husband, one of those two, died before 1850 and therefore his will has no mention of the Land Grant.\r\nThe certificate I have is a copy of a re-issue by the Commissioner of Pensions dated 1917. From the wording on the note the Commissioner scribbled on the copy he sent, it appears he hand copied the information on file onto a blank certificate and certified the copy. \r\n\r\nI have attached a copy of the certificate we have (above) and a copy of what I have been able to fill in for what is not too legible (below). I have blanked out the family names and certificate number since it is not clear to me if it is or is not redeemable and I don’t have any control where this information may end up once committed to the internet.\r\nMy main interest now is whether or not the certificate could still be good or if these grants have all “timed out” and none could therefore still be redeemable. I spent about a half day researching on the internet but could not find any information indicating grants were still redeemable after all this time.”\r\nListen to the podcast to hear Judy’s advice about researching laws or statutes relating to our genealogy questions—and to hear how she answered this fantastic question.\r\nLibrary of Congress: A Century of Law Making for a New Nation\r\nPreserve the Pensions: War of 1812 Pension Digitization Project\r\n \r\nGenealogy Gems Book Club: A New Book!\r\n\r\nOrchard House by Tara Austin Weaver\r\nTara Austin Weaver's Tea & Cookies blog: www.teaandcookiesblog.com\r\nTara’s recipe for Orchard House is one part food, one part gardening and two parts family drama, liberally seasoned with humor and introspection. The “book jacket” summary of Orchard House, from the publishers:\r\n“Peeling paint, stained floors, vine-covered windows, a neglected and wild garden—Tara can’t get the Seattle real estate listing out of her head. Any sane person would see the abandoned property for what it was: a ramshackle half-acre filled with dead grass, blackberry vines, and trouble. But Tara sees potential and promise—not only for the edible bounty the garden could yield for her family, but for the personal renewal she and her mother might reap along the way.\r\nSo begins Orchard House, a story of rehabilitation and cultivation—of land and soul. Through bleak winters, springs that sputter with rain and cold, golden days of summer, and autumns full of apples, pears, and pumpkins, this evocative memoir recounts the Weavers’ trials and triumphs, what grew and what didn’t, the obstacles overcome and the lessons learned. Inexorably, as mother and daughter tend this wild patch and the fruits of their labor begin to flourish, green shoots of hope emerge from the darkness of their past.\r\nFor anyone who has ever planted something they wished would survive—or tried to mend something that seemed forever broken—Orchard House is a tale of healing and growth, set in the most unlikely place.”\r\nIn March, we’ll play an excerpt from an exclusive interview with Tara Austen Weaver in this podcast. Genealogy Gems Premium website members will be able to listen to the full interview in March’s Genealogy Gems Premium podcast.\r\nRootsTech Book Club Open House: Thurs, Feb 4, 10am-11am at the Genealogy Gems booth #1230 in the Exhibitor Hall. Stop by and chat about books or family history or both! Free bookmarks, display copies of featured titles a win chance to win a great Book Club prize just for suggesting a book.\r\n \r\nPROFILE AMERICA: Ellis Island Opens","author_name":"The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show","author_url":"http:\/\/genealogygemspodcast.libsyn.com","html":"