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Emperor Meiji of Japan’s reign began in 1867, and it marks a time of significant change in the country’s history. After the emperor and his consort died in the early 20th century, the Meiji Jingu shrine was built to memorialize them. Research: Atsushi, Kawai. “Prefectures, Power, and Centralization: Japan’s Abolition of the Feudal Domains.” Nippon.com. Aug. 27, 2021. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g01159/ Bernard, Rosemary. “Shinto and Ecology: Practice and Orientations to Nature.” Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. https://fore.yale.edu/World-Religions/Shinto/Overview-Essay Cali, Joseph and John Dougill. “Shinto Shrines: A Guide to the Sacred Sites of Japan's Ancient Religion: A Guide to the Sacred Sites of Japan’s Ancient Religion.” University of Hawaii Press. 2015. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Charter Oath". Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/event/Charter-Oath The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Meiji". Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Jan. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meiji The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Treaty of Shimonoseki". Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Apr. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Shimonoseki Furukawa, Hisao. “Meiji Japan'sEncounterwith Modernization” Southeast Asian Studies. Vol, 33, No. 3. December 1995. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tak/33/3/33_KJ00000131881/_pdf Huffman, James. “Land Tax Reform Law of 1873.” About Japan. https://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/land_tax_reform_law_of_1873#sthash.qp6fLxcO.dpbs Huffman, James. “The Meiji Restoration Era, 1868-1889.” Japan Society. June 11, 2021. https://japansociety.org/news/the-meiji-restoration-era-1868-1889/ Meiji Jingu site: https://www.meijijingu.or.jp/en/ “The Meiji Restoration and Modernization.” Asia for Educators. Columbia University Weatherhead East Asia Institute. https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1750_meiji.htm “Discover Meiji Jingu: A Shrine Dedicated to the Spirits of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken.” Google Arts and Culture. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/discover-meiji-jingu-a-shrine-dedicated-to-the-spirits-of-emperor-meiji-and-empress-shoken/OQVBs7hVH09QJw Meyer, Ulf. “The Spirit of the Trees.” World Architects. Feb. 3, 2021. https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/products/the-spirit-of-the-trees#:~:text=The%20Meiji%20Shrine%20is%20the%20most%20prominent,in%20Japan's%20capital%20for%20this%20hatsum%C5%8Dde%20worship.&text=The%20famous%20architect%20Ito%20Chuta%20designed%20the,Japan's%20shrine%20a%20touch%20of%20national%20identity. “Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910.” United States Department of State. Office of the Historian. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1910/d705 “Russo-Japanese War: Topics in Chronicling America.” Library of Congress. https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-russo-japanese-war Steele, Abbey, et al. “Constraining the Samurai: Rebellion and Taxation in Early Modern Japan.” International Studies Quarterly. 2017. 61, 352–370. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/pegroup/files/constraining_the_samurai_9.15.pdf “The United States and the Opening to Japan, 1853.” U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/opening-to-japan Wojtan, Linda S. “Rice: It's More Than Food In Japan.” Stanford Program on International and Cross-cultural Education. November 1993. https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/rice_its_more_than_food_in_japan#rice See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How can technology enhance students' engagement in classroom learning? When are technologies helpful, and when are they harmful? In this episode, I talk to Dr. Dan Krutka, associate professor of social studies education at the University of North Texas. Dan's research sits at the intersection of technology, education, and democracy. We discuss how teachers can decide which technologies would strengthen their teaching or whether technologies would even be helpful at all. We also discuss many specific online tools and how they can be useful for enhancing student engagement and learning. In our conversation, Dan touches on a variety of other issues, as well, such as how to teach effectively in online learning environments.This episode was originally released in 2021. Links Related to this Episode:Dan Krutka's HomepagePICRAT Model for Tech Integration in Teacher Ed (CITE Journal)Glenn Wiebe's Blog - Technology in Social Studies Ed Teacher Resources:Padlet Site (digital creation tool)DocsTeach Site (primary sources & activities)Chronicling America (historical newspapers)Smithsonian Learning Labs (documents, recordings, images, & more)The Redistricting Game (simulation about gerrymandering)ESD Podcast Resources:Education for Sustainable Democracy SiteBrett's Open Access Research ArticlesEducation for Sustainable Democracy Facebook Page (Please Like!)Support the show

How is St. Louis, MO even remotely connected to the Philippines? Carmina and Patch discover the answer in this episode. They discuss why St. Louis came to be known as the "Gateway to the West" and how it became home to approximately 1,200 Filipinos from April to December in 1904.  Learn about the haunting stories that echo across time in what is now known as the Philippine Village Historical site, championed by one individual whose singular efforts will ensure that none of the site's former residents 120 years ago are ever forgotten.Learn more: The Broken Heart of America, The New York Times: Revisiting a World's Fair, Report of the Philippine Exposition Board to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and official list of awards granted by the Philippine International Jury at the Philippine Government Exposition World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., Souvenir of the Philippine Exposition, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904 [microform], Janna Añonuevo Langholz, Philippine Village Historical Site, 1904 World's Fair Revised: One Artist Memorializes Filipino And Indigenous People, YouTube: Revealing the Smithsonian's ‘racial brain collection', The Washington Post: Revealing the Smithsonian's ‘racial brain collection', How the Post Reported Maura's Story, YouTube: Searching For Maura | An illustrated investigation, YouTube: At Home In the Philippine Village, Souvenir: Igorot Village, 1904 World's Fair Revised: One Artist Memorializes Filipino and Indigenous People, A Brief History of St. Louis, A Daring Escape from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and Library of Congress: St. Louis World's Fair: Topics in Chronicling America.To support FilTrip, go to the Patreon page here and PayPal page here.Visit https://filtrip.buzzsprout.com. Drop a note at thefiltrip@gmail.com.Thanks to FilTrip's sponsor SOLEPACK

If you go to a grocery store in the United States and pick up a box of cereal, you expect to find a white box on the back of the package with information in Helvetica Black about the food's macronutrients (things like fat and protein) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). The Nutrition Facts label is so ubiquitous that you may not even notice it. But how did it get there and why does it look the way it does? The history of that label is our story this week. Joining me to discuss the history of food labeling in the United States is Dr. Xaq Frohlich, Associate Professor of History of Technology in the Department of History at Auburn University, and author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is “Oh, you candy kid,” composed by John L. Golden, with lyrics by Bob Adams, and performed by Ada Jones in 1909; the audio is in the public domain and available via the Library of Congress's National Jukebox. The episode image is “FDA Label Man,” an ad produced by the FDA for the nutritional label; the image is in the public domain as a United States government work and is available via the FDA Flickr. Additional Sources: “Milestones in U.S. Food and Drug Law,” U.S. Food & Drug Administration. “Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906: Topics in Chronicling America,” Lobrary of Congress Research Guides. “The Pure Food and Drug Act,” History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives. “The American Chamber of Horrors [video],” U.S. Food & Drug Administration YouTube Channel, June 29, 2018. “The Accidental Poison That Founded the Modern FDA,” by Julian G. West, The Atlantic, January 16, 2018. “F. D. A. Proposes Sweeping Change in Food Labeling,” by Richard D. Lyons, The New York Times, January 18, 1973. “H.R.3562 - Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990,” Congress.gov. “How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label,” U.S. Food & Drug Administration. “The FDA wants to change what counts as ‘healthy' food. Big food makers say that's unfair.” by Irina Ivanova, CBS Moneywatch, February 27, 2023.  “FDA to test new package labels that could change how consumers make food choices,” by Madeline Holcombe, CNN Health, June 21, 2023. “The FDA is attempting to ban partially hydrogenated oils for good. But what in the world are they?” by Joy Saha, Salon.com, August 16, 2023. “Burkey Belser, designer of ubiquitous nutrition facts label, dies at 76,” by Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, September 25, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sterling is thrilled to share this interview with spooky librarian Courtney Block. Hope you enjoy hearing all about the resources you can access freely and openly, the importance of unearthing the stories of those who are often left out of written history, and why Courtney gets philosophical about ghosts. Mentioned in the show: Courtney's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/liminal.librarian/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D Courtney's books!!!! - https://rowman.com/Action/Search/_/Courtney%20block Chronicling America - https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ The Feminine Macabre - https://spookeats.com/femininemacabre/ If you have a question for Sterling about mediumship, divination, or magic that you'd like her to answer on her next episode, you can ask it here - https://ngl.link/sterlingmoontarot PS - Did you know that there's an A Magical World playlist on Spotify? All songs are chosen by the guests to represent their vibe and/or the spirit of our conversation. Check it out at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1MKr5m3AJhDckVOK52ULZb?si=2EahrQSrSzaH0uqKYHgXBA&nd=1

کانال پاناما، یک آبراهه دست ساز بشر به طول 80 کیلومتر و یکی از عجایب هفتگانه دنیای مدرن است. اپیزودهای 43 و 44 در مورد چالشها و نحوه ساخت این پروژه بزرگ است. در این اپیزود در مورد این موضوعات صحبت کردم:  بازدید تئودور روزولت از پاناما (اولین ماموریت خارجی رییس جمهور امریکا)، استعفای جان استیونس، چالشهای کاری جرج واشینگتن گاثلز سومین مدیر پروژه، جزیات فنی قفل کانال، پیشرفت اجرایی کار، خاتمه پروژه و افتتاح کانال پاناما. تصویرپوسترمتعلق به تئودور روزولت است. اسپانسر:  پلتفرم نویسش صدابردار و تدوین: ساسان موسوی کانال یوتیوب Doxperience مراجع: ·        Documentary: A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama (1987 PBS Nova) ·        Documentary: Building the Panama Canal Full Documentary ·        Documentary: Control The Choke Point: How The US Stole The Panama Canal ·        Book: THE PANAMA CANAL, Fredric J. Haskin, 1913 ·        Book: I Took Panama: The Story of Philippe Bunau-Varilla Paperback – October 14, 2012 ·        Book: Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal, Matthew Parker ·        Book: Make the Dirt Fly! Building the Panama Canal ·        Book: John Frank Stevens: Civil Engineer (Railroads Past and Present) ·        Buidling the Panama Canal, Linda Hall Library Exhibition ·        Panama Canal: Topics in Chronicling America in Library of Congress    

کانال پاناما، یک آبراهه دست ساز بشر به طول 80 کیلومتر و یکی از عجایب هفتگانه دنیای مدرن است.  اولین بار فرانسویها از سال 1880 به مدت هشت سال درگیر ساخت کانال پاناما بودند اما بخاطر مشکلات اجرایی فراوان کار را نیمه تمام رها کردند. عاقبت آمریکاییها در سال 1904 به پاناما رفتند و بعد از هشت سال این کانال عظیم را تکمیل نمودند. ساخته شدن این کانال یک اعلان رسمی به جهان بود که اینک ایالات متحده قدرت برتر سیاسی، علمی و تکنولوژیکی دنیاست. در این اپیزود در مورد این موضوعات صحبت کردم:  جنگ امریکا و اسپانیا، شرایط امریکا در اوایل قرن بیستم، نحوه به قدرت رسیدن تئودور روزولت و برنامه های او، دلایل شکست پروژه فرانسویها، فیلیپ بونو واریلا و نقش او در تاسیس کشور پاناما، مشکلات اجرایی و دلایل استعفای جان والاس اولین مدیر پروژه امریکایی، راهکارهای جان استیونز دومین مدیرپروژه امریکایی.  اسپانسر: پادکست کارگاه کانال یوتیوب Doxperience مراجع: ·        Documentary: A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama (1987 PBS Nova) ·        Documentary: Building the Panama Canal Full Documentary ·        Documentary: Control The Choke Point: How The US Stole The Panama Canal ·        Book: THE PANAMA CANAL, Fredric J. Haskin, 1913 ·        Book: I Took Panama: The Story of Philippe Bunau-Varilla Paperback – October 14, 2012 ·        Book: Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal, Matthew Parker ·        Book: Make the Dirt Fly! Building the Panama Canal ·        Book: John Frank Stevens: Civil Engineer (Railroads Past and Present) ·        Buidling the Panama Canal, Linda Hall Library Exhibition ·        Panama Canal: Topics in Chronicling America in Library of Congress    

Tina and Hillary cover the murder of Leo Frank. Hillary's Story In April 1913, a heinous murder happened at the National Pencil Company. BUT despite several leads to the contrary, Leo Frank is charged and later murdered for the crime. Sources Hillary's Story Library of Congress Trial and Lynching of Leo Frank: Topics in Chronicling America (https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-leo-frank) Museum of Jewish Heritage Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited (https://mjhnyc.org/exhibitions/seeking-justice-leo-frank-case-revisited/) The New York Times GEORGIA PARDONS VICTIM 70 YEARS AFTER LYNCHING (https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/12/us/georgia-pardons-victim-70-years-after-lynching.html) PBS Exploring Hate: Today In History: The Lynching of Leo Frank (https://www.pbs.org/wnet/exploring-hate/2021/08/17/today-in-history-the-infamous-trial-of-leo-frank/) PBS Learning Media The New South and Leo Frank | Georgia Stories (https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/813203f1-6a44-4b20-a7d3-0a6f0b768e4b/georgia-stories-the-new-south-and-leo-frank/) The Washington Post Leo Frank was lynched for a murder he didn't commit. Now neo-Nazis are trying to rewrite history (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/22/leo-frank-was-lynched-for-a-murder-he-didnt-commit-now-neo-nazis-are-trying-to-rewrite-history/)--by Jacob Bogage Wikipedia Leo Frank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank) Photos Leo Frank (https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/leo-frank-lynching-confederacy-confederates-charlottesville.jpg?quality=85&w=1534)--from Bettman Archive via Time Mary Phagen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Phagan.jpg)--from the Atlanta Georgian via Public Domain Trial with Frank and witness, Newt Lee (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Frank%27s_trial.jpg/1920px-Frank%27s_trial.jpg)--by Walter Frank Winn/Atlanta Journal via Public Domain Leo Frank Lynching Historical Marker (https://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=54551)--by David Seibert via Historical Marker Database

For more than half a century, Juan González has been eyewitness to countless major battles led by working people in the Americas. He talked about this in a recent speech at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

For more than half a century, Juan González has been eyewitness to countless major battles led by working people in the Americas. He talked about this in a recent speech at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

After the Civil War, the simultaneous shift in the labor economy of the Southern United States and the second industrial revolution led to a growing interest in labor organizing. Newly formed labor organizations led a combined 23,000 strikes between 1881 and 1900. Employers noticed, and fought back, sometimes literally, employing Pinkerton agents to break strikes, rounding up and imprisoning or deporting union employees, and using various forms of intimidation against workers.  Joining me to help us learn much more about the story of employers and elites resisting labor rights is Dr. Chad. Pearson, a lecturer at the University of North Texas and author of Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode audio is “Labor Day” by Dick Wright & The Wright Trio, in the Public domain and available via the Internet Archive. The episode image is: “The labor troubles at Homestead, Pa. - Attack of the strikers and their sympathizers on the surrendered Pinkerton men,” drawn by Miss G.A. Davis, from a sketch by C. Upham. Pennsylvania Homestead, 1892, available via the Library of Congress with no known restrictions on publication. Additional Sources: “Labor Movement,” History.com. “The Second Industrial Revolution, 1870-1914,” by Ryan Engelman, U.S. History Scene “Founding of the National Labor Union and the 1st National Call for a 8-Hour Work Day,” Library of Congress. “The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor (1869-1949),” by Michael Barga, Social Welfare History Project. “The Haymarket Affair,” Illinois Labor History Society. “Our Labor History Timeline,” AFL-CIO. “The Battle of Homestead Strike – July, 1892,” The Battle of Homestead Foundation. “Coeur d'Alene Mining Insurrection: Topics in Chronicling America,” Library of Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(This conversation originally aired on June 9, 2022) “Let me be very clear to all of you, and I've been very clear to the president. He bears responsibilities for his words and actions, no ifs, ands or buts. I asked him personally today, does he hold responsibility for what happened? Does he feel bad about what happened? He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened and he needs to acknowledge that.” — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, speaking with fellow Republicans about Donald Trump's culpability for the attack on the Capital on January 6th 2021. The House Select Committee investigating that attack and efforts to overturn the election held its first public hearing on the 9th of June, 2022. It was a prime-time event, viewed by 20 million people. Today, on this archive edition of Midday, we're going to listen to a conversation Tom had, on the afternoon of that first hearing, with New York Times national correspondent Alexander Burns. With his Times colleague, Jonathan Martin, Alex has written a compelling and comprehensive book about the last year of the Trump administration, including the months preceding the insurrection, through the first months of the Biden Administration. Burns and Martin make a strong case for the fragility of the basic architecture of American Democracy. They argue that government cannot function in a two-party system in which neither party is internally coherent and serious about governing. Their book is full of excellent reporting and trenchant insights. And given, what we have all since learned from testimony by many witnesses presented by the January 6th Select Committee, we thought it would be interesting to re-visit Tom's conversation with Alex, and think about all that led up to that terrible day, in which for the first time in our history, we did not experience a peaceful transfer of power between one administration and the next. The book is called This Will Not Pass:  Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future.  Alexander Burns joined us on the phone from Washington, DCSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Danny Strong - creator, showrunner, and executive producer of ‘Dopesick' - joins Brad and Mack to discuss his critically acclaimed series. ‘Dopesick' takes a deep look into America's opioid epidemic, following the rise of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, while also shedding light on the communities whose members have tragically be forced to deal with opioid addiction.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How can technology enhance students' engagement in classroom learning? When are technologies helpful, and when are they harmful? In this episode, I talk to Dr. Dan Krutka, associate professor of social studies education at the University of North Texas. Dan's research sits at the intersection of technology, education, and democracy. We discuss how teachers can decide which technologies would strengthen their teaching or whether technologies would even be helpful at all. We also discuss many specific online tools and how they can be useful for enhancing student engagement and learning. In our conversation, Dan touches on a variety of other issues, as well, such as how to teach effectively in online learning environments when students are home during COVID lockdowns. This month marks the first anniversary of Education for Sustainable Democracy. Thank you for your support over the past year!Links Related to this Episode:Dan Krutka's HomepagePICRAT Model for Tech Integration in Teacher Ed (CITE Journal)Glenn Wiebe's Blog - Technology in Social Studies Ed Teacher Resources:Padlet Site (digital creation tool)DocsTeach Site (primary sources & activities)Chronicling America (historical newspapers)Smithsonian Learning Labs (documents, recordings, images, & more)The Redistricting Game (simulation about gerrymandering)ESD Podcast Resources:Education for Sustainable Democracy SiteBrett's Open Access Research ArticlesEducation for Sustainable Democracy Facebook Page (Please Like!)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/esdpodcast)

NJ Digital Newspaper Project; A collaboration of Rutgers University Libraries, NJ State Archives & NJ State Library with Caryn Radick, Principal Investigator & Project Director & Tara Kelley, Co-Principal Investigator; A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF BRINGING THE PAST TO LIFE BLOGS: https://blogs.libraries.rutgers.edu/njdnp/ https://blogs.libraries.rutgers.edu/njdnp/contact-us/ Link to NJ newspapers in Chronicling America: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/new_jersey/ Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives Social Media: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RutgersSCUA/ Twitter: @Rutgers_SCUA Instagram: rutgers_scua #ChronAmParty for monthly posts from participating states on Twitter links to Newspaper stories. Shark Attack story https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85035720/1916-07-14/ed-2/seq-1/ Titanic story https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91064011/1912-04-15/ed-1/seq-1/ Ice Cream https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85035720/1924-01-08/ed-2/seq-13/ ** The New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project (NJDNP) is a collaboration of the Rutgers University Libraries, the New Jersey State Archives and the New Jersey State Library. It draws upon the strengths of these three institutions. Rutgers will manage the project and provide all technical support. The New Jersey State Archives houses nearly 600 newspaper titles in microfilm and provides microfilm masters and use copies for all papers to be digitized. The New Jersey State Library leads the documentation and outreach about the titles selected. At least 300,000 pages will be digitized and cataloged to specifications within the six-year project time frame. We hope you follow the project's progression with interest. Feel free to comment on our posts and provide feedback via the contact form on the tool bar. You can also subscribe to the blog at https://blogs.libraries.rutgers.edu/njdnp/ by entering your email in the “Subscribe to NJDNP!” section in the left sidebar. This project is funded by a grant for the National Digital Newspaper Program, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This week Wendy and Beth discuss the case of Jarvis Theodore Roosevelt Catoe, a serial killer who was active from 1935-1941, but possibly as early as 1929, in Washington DC and New York, NY.  We dive into the setting (12:59), the killer's early life (24:43) and the timeline (30:38). Then, we get into the investigation & arrest (50:09) followed by "Where are they now?" (59:13). We get into our takeaways and what we think made the perp snap (1:00:25).   As usual, we close out the show with some tips on how not to get murdered (1:05:41) and our shout outs (1:10:17 ).   Thanks for listening! This is a weekly podcast and new episodes drop every Thursday, so until next time... look alive guys, it's crazy out there! 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Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 252 with Lisa Louise Cooke April 2021 This episode is brought to you by . From Lisa: “I use MyHeritage for my own genealogy research. It makes all the difference!” In this episode: Newspaper Navigator is a new free online tool for finding images and photos in old newspapers at Chronicling America. It doesn't work the way the Library of Congress website works, so in this episode I show you how to navigate the Newspaper Navigator. It's a fun session that will have you finding new newspaper gems in no time! Video and Show NotesThis topic comes from my YouTube video series Elevenses with Lisa . You can find all the free Elevenses with Lisa videos and show notes at . Genealogy Gems Premium Members have exclusive access to the downloadable show notes "cheat sheet" handout. Premium Members also have access to all of the archived earlier episodes. To access the Elevenses with Lisa Premium Member , log in to your membership at  and under in the main menu under Premium go to Premium Videos and click on Elevenses with Lisa. Become a Genealogy Gems Premium eLearning MemberPremium Members have exclusive access to: Video classes and downloadable handouts The Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast Elevenses with Lisa downloadable show notes PDF Become a member . Stay Up to Date with the Genealogy Gems NewsletterThe Genealogy Gems email newsletter is the best way to stay informed about what's available with your Premium eLearning Membership.  to sign up today. Follow Lisa and Genealogy Gems on Social Media: #genealogy #oldnewspapers

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Anders Peter Glader och hans familj var tidiga emigranter. De åkte 1853 från södra Småland till Amerika. Men den fasansfulla resan tog två av barnens liv och deras mor återhämtade sig aldrig. Från mitten av 1800-talet fram till tiden för första världskriget emigrerade mer än en miljon svenskar till Amerika. Ju längre fram i tiden vi kommer desto mer organiserade och välfungerande blev resorna, men för de tidiga emigranterna gjordes resorna över haven ofta under vidriga förhållanden i fraktfartyg som inte alls var avsedda för passagerare. Så var det för Anders Peter Glader och hans hustru Elin som reste från södra Småland till en liten plats i Minnesota som hette Ki-Chi-Saga. Och det var just den plats där författaren Wilhelm Moberg lät sina romanfigurer, utvandrarna Karl Oskar och Kristina, bosätta sig. Bodil Stefansson i Torekov hade precis som så många andra svenskar läst Vilhelm Mobergs böcker och därför blev hon extra intresserad när hennes man Ingvar Malmberg berättade att det i hans småländska släkt fanns en emigrant som hette Anders Peter Glader och som hade bosatt sig just i Ki-Chi-Saga. När han berättade det för Bodil blev hon eld och lågor, och ville genast fara till USA. - Vad spännande, tyckte jag, det här måste vi ju undersöka! Och så började vi, med att ta kontakt med Ingvars släktingar i USA. Till slut sa de "Det är lika bra ni kommer hit, så att ni kan få svar på alla era frågor." Så vi blev inbjudna till Chisago county som det numer heter, och såg alla platser som Anders Petter varit på. - Och när vi kom hem igen så satte jag igång att försöka ta reda på allt om varför de for sin väg, vilket liv hade de levt här hemma, hur var överfarten och hur blev deras liv i Amerika, säger Bodil Stefansson. Anders Peter Glader från Furuby socken i södra Småland föddes i december 1806 som sjätte barnet i en torparfamilj. Hans start i livet var inte enkel, hans mor dog när han var bara fem år gammal. Han tjänade några år som dräng och när han blev vuxen fick han en bra tjänst som rättare på en gård. - Jag tror det var en man som levde livet. Han hade nog en stark sexualdrift om man ser till hur många barn han fick senare, säger Bodil Stefansson, och fortsätter: - Jag tror också att han var en ledargestalt som hade lätt att ta människor. Han var glad och positiv, och berättade gärna historier, därtill var han stark en människa både fysiskt och psykiskt. Men Anders framgångar fick sig en knäck när det plötsligt visade sig att han väntade barn med två kvinnor på samma gång. I april 1835 födde Elin, hans trolovade, deras första barn, och en månad senare födde pigan Maria som tidigare hade arbetat på gården en son som också Anders var far till. - Hon föder ett barn och Glader blir stämd inför tinget. Barnet dör dock efter tio månader så han får chansen att åstadkomma en förlikning. Han får betala skadestånd och uppnår förlikning med kvinnan. Om inte barnet dött så hade sannolikt blivit dömd till dryga böter. Visserligen var Anders känd som en man som hade framgång hos kvinnor, men detta var ändå mer än hans arbetsgivare, godsägaren Aschan, kunde tåla, berättar Bodil. - Anders fick kicken. Bara en månad tidigare hade han fått en lönebonus av Aschan för att han hade uppfört sig så bra, men nu ser man plötsligt i gårdens räkenskaper att Anders krävs på en avgift på 90 riksdaler för "skämd potatis". - Jag har tolkat det som ett slags bötesstraff för hans skamlösa beteende. Man skulle ju kunna tänka sig att de pengarna hade gått till Maria, men det tror inte Bodil på. - Ånej, säger hon och skrattar, det gjorde de säkert inte. Strax efter fick dock Anders Peter erbjudande om arbete på en annan gård som Aschan nyligen köpt. Anders jobbade sig upp och kunde till slut köpa en egen gård och titulera sig hemmansägare. Men i takt med att Elin och han fick allt fler barn, så växte Anders Peters oro för framtiden. - Familjen klarade sig ju, men problemet var ju de sju barnen som nu fanns i familjen. Hemmanet var bara stort nog för att ett av dem skulle kunna ta över det. Anders hade inte råd att låta sönerna studera eller hemgift åt flickorna. - Anders Peter Glader ville nånting med livet, han ville framåt - och så fick han höra talas om Amerika. Det var ju de driftigaste som åkte först, menar Bodil Stefansson, de som hade ett visst kapital, som var framgångsrika och ambitiösa, de såg att det fanns en chans att få ett bra liv för sig och sina efterkommande i det nya landet. Anders och Elin kom iväg på våren 1853, men hade de haft en aning om hur resan skulle bli så hade de kanske ändå valt att stanna hemma. Nu blev första anhalten på resan Göteborg. Där fick de kontakt med en före detta murarmästare som hette Jonsson, och som hade börjat befrakta folk. Han gav dem ett jättebra erbjudande. De skulle åka med en snabbgående postbåt från Liverpool. Det irländska fartyget skulle bara behöva fyra-fem veckor för resan, och mat skulle ingå i priset. Ett hundratal svenskar åkte ångbåt till en sydlig hamn i England, varifrån de fick åka tåg till Liverpool. Där lämnade Jonsson dem, men innan han gjorde det hade han köpt det mesta av den mat som svenskarna hade med sig till resan, den skulle inte behövas, menade han. Tillvaron på båten blev en mardröm. Svenskarna kunde inte engelska och de kunde inte göra sig förstådda. Den irländska besättningen både stal från passagerarna och misshandlade dem. Och värst av allt; matransonerna var så ynkliga av svenskarna snart började svälta. - Efter sex veckor till sjöss så är nästan allihop sängliggande för att de är så svaga, berättar Bodil Stefansson. Det fanns andra nationaliteter på båten, men deras befraktare har gett dem extra mat för de visste hur dåligt det brukade vara. Ovanpå alla dessa påfrestningar så råkade båten ut för en tyfon på havet. - Det blev rigghaveri, seglen skörade och det värsta av allt - de flesta vattentunnorna slogs sönder. Svenskarna var nu så försvagade att de inte förmådde slå sig fram till positioner där de kunde få vatten. Ammande mödrar sinade, och man ser i fartygsdokumenten att tretton eller fjorton småbarn dör, och de är alla svenskar. Ett av dessa barn är Anders Peters och Elins yngsta dotter Petronella, som sänks i havet. Väl framme i USA dör ännu ett av deras barn på tåget till Chicago. Han hette ju Jonsson, den där murarmästaren som organiserade resan som Anders och Elin gjorde, och bara ett år senare skrev en annan svensk-amerikan en artikel i en svensk tidning för att varna för Jonssons illa skötta resor. Redan första aftonen blev de flesta av dem bestulna på allt av värde, såsom pengar och klockor. Besättningen på såna här skepp består vanligen av tjuvar och skälmar, eftersom ingen bättre sjöman vill segla på dessa fartyg, om han inte blir tvungen därtill i brist på annan hyra. Alla besättningsmän var irländare och hjälpte naturligtvis sina landsmän och eftersom svenskarna inte kunde klaga sin nöd för kaptenen, så kunde de inte på något sätt få upprättelse. Ja, oförskämdheten gick så långt att fastän irländarna helt fritt och öppet visade de stulna sakerna vågade ingen kräva dessa tillbaka. ()  Men detta var inte det värsta. Förutom att svenskarna dagligen tilldelades hugg och slag av de råa och enväldiga maktfullkomliga sjömännen, så var den så rundligt utlovade kosten så snålt tilltagen att jag inte kan förstå hur någon människa kunde överleva på denna under överfarten. Mat utdelades endast en gång i veckan. Sammanlagt var detta inte mer än man hade kunnat äta vid en enda måltid, och ändå måste detta fördelas över en hel vecka. Det finns inget mänskligt språk för att uttrycka allt det elände som blev följden. För varje dag blev situationen allt värre. Det var hjärtslitande att se på hur de små utsvultna barnen vid utdelningen begärligt grep efter de hårda brödkanter som spreds på däcket och då hjärtlöst slogs på fingrarna av de råa matroserna. () Hur man än ser på saken ligger skulden på herr Jonsson -  och stackars honom om han en gång kommer att få genomlida alla de förbannelser som uttalades över honom av hans mördade landsmän ända in i dödsstunden. Anders Peter Glader, Elin och deras barn hade rest i nästan ett halvår när de till sist kom fram till sitt mål, Ki-Chi-Saga. Två barn hade de mist på vägen och Elin var mycket försvagad. Väl framme fick de hjälp att bygga sig en första liten stuga, och inte så långt senare byggde svenskarna upp en kyrka i det nya landet. Och den blir en viktig centralpunkt för dem. Vid det första konstituerande mötet för kyrkan så var Glader och barnen med, men Elin saknades. - Hon var för svag för att kunna ta sig till kyrkan och 1855 dog hon, berättar Bodil Stefansson. - Det är en total katastrof för Anders Peter. Hans två äldsta söner får nu klara sig själva, och den äldsta flickan har just konfirmerats och får ge sig ut att tjäna som piga. Men vid den här tiden behövdes en kvinna för att göra se sysslor som kvinnor gjorde, och tre år senare hämtade Anders Peter en från sin hemsocken Furuby i Småland. - Hon var 25 år yngre än Anders Peter, och när hon kom var hon höggravid. De gifter sig och Anders tar barnet som sitt eget. Anders Peter Glader startar alltså om och skaffar en ny, stor familj. Han och hans nya fru får sju barn tillsammans, och Anders blir snart en aktad person i Ki-Chi-Saga. De lever ett hårt, men ganska bra liv. Och så, när Anders just ska bli far igen, så är det är dags att rida in en unghäst. Men det bär sig inte bättre än att han blir avkastad. - Livet leker och Anders ska bli far igen vid 69 års ålder - och så blir han avkastad och dör strax efteråt, säger Bodil. Anders begravdes intill Elin på den lilla kyrkogården i Ki-Chi-Saga, en kyrkogård som det sägs att Vilhelm Moberg besökte. Han lär ha utbrustit: "Här ska jag begrava Karl-Oskar". Långt senare, på 2000-talet har den amerikanska och den svenska släktgrenen återknutit kontakten med varandra. Bodil Stefanssons berättar hur hennes man Ingvar tog med sig små träbitar från torpet där Anders Peter Gladers fötts, för att ge som presenter till de amerikanske släktingarna. -Vi gav en av träbitarna till en av Ingvars släktingar. Hon är rik och har allt man kan önska sig, men när hon fick träbiten som kom från hennes släkting Anders Peter Gladers hus hemma i Småland, då rann tårarna på henne, och så sa hon: "This is a thing money cant buy" - detta kan inte köpas för pengar. Nya sökmöjligheter i svensk amerikanska kyrkböcker och tidningar De svenskar som kom till Nordamerika gick ofta med i svenska församlingar där man fortsatte att föra kyrkböcker precis som de gjort hemma i Sverige. Inte för att de måste utan mer för att de bar med sig den traditionen. De svensk-amerikanska kyrkböckerna har precis digitaliserats och finns nu tillgängliga för emigrantforskare. Det är något som Ted Rosvall, rutinerad släktforskare och författare, välkomnar. - Det här är något revolutionerande för oss som håller på med emigrantforskning. Och nu har de äntligen blivit digitaliserade och är dessutom indexerade, vilket betyder att det finns ett personregister som man kan söka i.  Ted Rosvall berättar att en svårighet i forskningen kan vara emigranternas namnbyten. Kvinnor kanske gifte sig och bytte efternamn och män kanske bytte till ett lite mer engelskklingande namn. - Ett exempel jag hittat är en båtsman från Blekinge som hette Åke Bengtsson som tog namnet John Brown. Precis som i svenska kyrkböcker hittar man hela familjegrupper. Där syns bland annat när de är födda, döpta, gifta och var de bodde. Men i USA var det frivilligt att gå med i församlingen. Det kostade pengar och inte alla hade råd eller lust att vara med. Då skrev man oftast in "dropped" eller "utesluten ur församlingen" i anmärkningskolumnen i kyrkboken.  Det kan också finnas små berättelser om kyrkans historia i kyrkboken och där kan man hitta fakta om de som grundade kyrkan eller om kyrkvärdarna till exempel.  - Men egentligen är det nog inte kyrkoböckerna som man hittar så mycket kött på benen om enskilda människor. De hittar man snarare i de digitaliserade tidningarna. Och det är också en revolution, berättar Ted Rosvall. De digitaliserade tidningarna finns på nätet och finns delvis gratis. En sådan söksida är Chronicling America där man gå in och söka på namn och ort och begränsa i tid. Tidningssidorna är OCR tolkade vilket betyder att varje ord blir sökbart. (Se sökbar länk längre ned på sidan.) - I tidningarna får man verkligen "kött på benen". Det kan handla om små enkla händelser, trafikolyckor, bråk och rykten och mycket annat. Tidningarna och kyrkböckerna kompletterar varandra.    Minnenesota Stats tidning onsdagen den 30 oktober 1901 Allmänna nyheter. Staden Rockford, IIIinois, har på den senare tiden gjort sig sorgligt ryktbar genom de många skilsmessomålen. Under endast 2 dagar beviljades helt nyligen icke mindre än sjutton ansökningar om äktenskapsskillnad, och ytterligare femtio mål af samma slag komma inom kort att företagas till behandling inför domstolen. Bland dem, hvilkas äktenskap nu upplösts, äro Emma och Olof Månsson samt Johanna och Rufus Anderson. Dödsfall Mary Olson, dotter till Nils Olson, afled den 21 dennes i sitt hem i en ålder af 28 år. Den hädangångna var en mycket begåfvad ung dam och hade aflagt afgångsexamen vid såväl Lichfields högskola som vid statsuniversitetet. Begrafningen hölls i torsdags, då likpredikal hölls i den svenska lutheranska kyrkan. Olof Wallins dotter Eina fick också sluta denna sorgedals vandring efter några månaders sjukdom. Hon var vid sin död 13 år. Herren tröste sörjande föräldrar och syskon. John Fredrik i La Crosse hade härom dagen den ovanliga lyckan att finna en äkta perla i en portion ostronsoppa, som han höll på att förtära på Merchants restaurant derstädes. Pärlan har ett värde af $200. De här korta notiserna kom alla från Minnesota Stats tidning en svensk tidning som gavs ut under sex år, 1877-1882. Ted Rosvall berättar hur han gjorde en sökning på sitt familjenamn Sandgren i Philadelphia där hans morfars far och hans bror Ture bodde under en tid. Sökningen gav genast resultat. - Min morfarsfar och hans storebror bodde på 1850-talet i Philadelphia. Jag visste inte så mycket mer än att de kom tillbaka kring 1860 och gifte sig så småningom och fick familjer och därifrån härstammar jag. - Men så upptäckte jag för länge sedan att det fanns en Mrs Ulrica Sandgren i Philadelphia. Och mig veterligt så var varken min morfarsfar eller hans bror gifta, det blev de först när de kom hem igen. Ulrica hade en dotter som hette Fransisca Sandgren. - Jag tyckte det var jättekonstigt och jag funderade om någon av bröderna varit gifta en gång tidigare och har barn och tidigare familj. Ted Rosvall hittade inga vigselbevis eller andra dokument och började därför fundera om det dottern kanske hade gift sig.  - Så jag gick in i tidningsarkiven och sökte på "Sandgren", "Philadelphia" och tidsperioden "1870-1880". - BANG! så kom det en träff. Helt oförmodat! Ett bröllop 1872 mellan Mayor Wells och Miss Fransisca Thurena Sandgren.  - Det var det beviset jag behövde för min morfars storebror hette Thure Sandgren. Och naturligtvis har hans illegitima dotter i Philadelphia fått namn efter pappa Thure. - Så tack vare en ynka tidningsnotis så fick jag det bevis jag behövde, avslutar Ted Rosvall.  Programmet är gjort av Gunilla Nordlund och Elisabeth Renström Uppläsare: Patrik Paulsson och Tommy Engman slaktband@sverigeradio.se

Using the digitized newspapers available on Chronicling America and Montana Newspapers, MHS Digital Projects Librarian Natasha Hollenbach focuses on how newspapers can add context and personal stories to the often-told narrative of World War I. Jeannette Rankin’s vote against US entry is highlighted, although with liberty loans and the Selective Service Act.

Kära vänner! I dagens avsnitt pratar vi om könsöverskridande kvinnor i form av kvinnor som klätt ut sig till män för att komma åt manliga privilegier så som utbildning, rätten att inte gifta sig och korsa hav. Vi har också vår första gäst - Hanna Rönnlöf!  Litteraturlista:   ” The Legend of Nawojka, the First Polish Woman Student”, Nawojka hemsida, < http://webnews.textalk.com/nawojka/dobrzyn-upon-vistula> besökt 10/11-16. Jegellonian University,http://www.en.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/about-university/history THE VITA OF SAINT MARINA IN THE MARONITE TRADITION, Guita G. HOURANI, < http://www.academia.edu/2642602/The_Vita_of_Saint_Marina_in_the_Maronite_Tradition> Elsie, Robert, A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture, NYU Press, 2001. Julie Wheelwright, ”Thornton, Anne Jane”, Oxford Directionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press 2004-16), < http://www.oxforddnb.com.ezp.sub.su.se/view/article/49664> Larsdotter, Anna, Kvinnor i strid. Lund (2016): Historiska media. Webbarkivet vi snackade om: Chronicling America, Library of Congress, .   Rosanna vars teori om skarpa bryn vi tog upp hittar ni på @roc.brows på insta! 

The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke In this episode, I'm celebrating the 100th episode of another podcast I host: the Family Tree Magazine podcast. So I'll flashback to one of my favorite interviews from that show, an inspiring get-in-shape conversation for your research skills: how you can strengthen your research muscles and tone those technology skills to find and share your family history. More episode highlights: News on Chronicling America and Scotland's People; Comments from guest expert Lisa Alzo on millions of Czech records that have recently come online; A YouTube-for-genealogy success story from a woman I met at a conference; An excerpt from the Genealogy Gems Book Club interview with Chris Cleave, author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven; Diahan Southard shares a DNA gem: the free website GEDmatch, which you might be ready for if you've done some DNA testing. Listen now - click the player below: NEWS: Genealogy.coach NEWS: GENEALOGY WEBSITE UPDATES NEW RECORDS ONLINE: FREE CZECH RECORDS AT FAMILYSEARCH.ORG On browse-only records: Though not fully indexed, the new Czech browse-only records number over 4 million. learn how to use browse-only collections on FamilySearch.org. Lisa Alzo, Eastern European genealogy expert and author of the new book comments on the significance of these records coming online: “These records are a real boon for Czech researchers because at one time the only to get records such as these was to write to an archive and taking a chance on getting a response or spending a lot of money to hire someone to find the records or to travel there yourself to do research in the archives.   The church records contain Images and some indexes of baptisms/births, marriages, and deaths that occurred in the Roman Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, and Reformed Church parishes, as well as entries in those registers for Jews.  Land transactions containing significant genealogical detail for a time period that predates parish registers. The collection includes records from regional archives in Opava and Třeboň and from the district archive in Trutnov. School registers contain the full name for a child, birth date, place of birth, country, religion and father's full name, and place of residence. While researchers should keep in mind that not everything is yet online,and FamilySearch will likely add to its collection,  having these records from FS is an amazing resource for anyone whose ancestors may have come from these areas. And hopefully there are more records to come!” GENEALOGY GEMS NEWS Story of My Life by Sunny Morton, life story-writing journal available as a and as a Diahan Southard will be at the in Dublin, Ireland, October 21 to 23, 2016   Genealogy Gems app users:  For those of you who listen to this show through the Genealogy Gems app, your bonus handout is a PDF document with step-by-step instructions and helpful screenshots for Google image search on mobile devices. The and is only $2.99 for   Lisa Louise Cooke uses and recommends . From within RootsMagic, you can search historical records on FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com. And in the near future, RootsMagic will be fully integrated with Ancestry.com, too: you'll be able to sync your RootsMagic trees with your Ancestry.com trees and search records on the site.   Keep your family history research, photos, tree software files, videos and all other computer files safely backed up with Backblaze, the official cloud-based computer backup system for Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems. Learn more at . Review your search results—especially those that pop up in the Images category.   MAILBOX: Robin's YouTube Success Story YouTube video with Robyn's father: has an entire chapter on using YouTube to find family history in historical videos   MAILBOX: FEEDBACK ON THE PODCASTS Free, step-by-step podcast for beginners and a “refresher” course:   SHAPING UP WITH SUNNY MORTON celebrates 100th episode   Sunny Morton has get-in-shape advice for us—from strengthening research skills to toning tech muscles--from the article "Shaping Up" featured in the  More resources for genealogy education: GENEALOGY GEMS BOOK CLUB: , the best-selling novel by British author Chris Cleave. A love story set in World War II London and Malta. This story is intense, eye-opening and full of insights into the human experience of living and loving in a war zone—and afterward. is inspired by love letters exchanged between the author's grandparents during World War II. Video: for more Genealogy Gems Book Club titles is the place to make connections with relatives overseas, particularly with those who may still live in your ancestral homeland. : it's free to get started.     GEDMATCH WITH DIAHAN SOUTHARD, YOUR DNA GUIDEThe genetic genealogy community has a crush. A big one.  Everyone is talking about it. “It has such great features.” says one. “It has a chromosome browser!” exclaims another. “It's FREE!” they all shout. What are they talking about? GEDmatch is a mostly free online tool where anyone with autosomal DNA test results from 23andMe, FTDNA, and AncestryDNA can meet and share information. All you need to do is download your data from your testing company and upload it into your newly created GEDmatch account. GEDmatch is set up just like your testing company in that it provides two kinds of reports: ethnicity results, and a match list. Remember that ethnicity results, meaning those pie charts that report you are 15% Italian and 32% Irish, are based on two factors: a reference population and fancy math. GEDmatch has gathered data from multiple academic sources to provide you with several different iterations of ethnicity reports. This is like getting a second (and third and fourth, etc) opinion on a science that is still emerging. It is a fun exercise, but will likely not impact your genealogy research very much. The more important match list does allow you to see genetic cousins who have tested at other companies. Of course, only those who have downloaded their results and entered them into GEDmatch will show up on your list. This means GEDmatch has the potential to expand your pool of genetic cousins, increasing your chances of finding someone to help you track down that missing ancestor. Many also flock to GEDmatch because they were tested at AncestryDNA and thus do not have access to a chromosome browser. A chromosome browser allows you to visualize the physical locations that you share with someone else. Some find this to be a helpful tool when analyzing their DNA matches (though in my opinion it is not essential). GEDmatch also has some great genealogy features that let you analyze your pedigree against someone else's, as well as the ability to search all the pedigree charts in their system so you can look specifically for a descendant of a particular relative. However, even with all of these great features, GEDmatch is still yet another website you have to navigate, and with that will be a learning curve, and certainly some frustration. So, is it worth it? If you are fairly comfortable with the website where you were tested, and you are feeling both curious and patient, I say go for it. It's too much to try to tell you right this minute how to download your data from your testing site and upload it to GEDmatch. BUT you're in luck, I've put step-by-step instructions for getting started in a FREE tutorial on my website at . After you've done the upload, you may need a little bit more help to navigate the GEDmatch site because there are so many great tools on it. I recently published a , where I have condensed into four pages the most essential features of GEDmatch to get you started and help you make use of this tool for genetic genealogy. Using my guide is an inexpensive and easy way to get a lot more out of a free online resource. I will also be adding more GEDmatch tutorials to my online tutorial series later this fall, which Genealogy Gems fans get a nice discount on ( for that discount). By the way, have you tried GEDmatch? I would love to hear about your experiences. You can email me at .   DNA QUICK GUIDE BUNDLES: NEW AND ON SALE by Diahan Southard: GEDmatch: A Next Step for your Autosomal DNA Test Organizing Your DNA Matches: A Companion Guide Next Steps: Working with Your Autosomal DNA Matches   by Diahan Southard with ALL 10 Guides Getting Started: Genetics for the Genealogist Autosomal DNA for the Genealogist Mitochondrial DNA for the Genealogist Y Chromosome DNA for the Genealogist and Testing Companies: Understanding Ancestry: A Companion Guide to Autosomal DNA for the Genealogist Understanding Family Tree DNA: A Companion Guide to Autosomal DNA for the Genealogist Understanding 23 and Me: A Companion Guide to Autosomal DNA for the Genealogist and Advanced Tools Next Steps: Working With Your Autosomal DNA Matches Organzing Your DNA Matches GEDmatch: A Next Step for Your Autosomal DNA Test   Genealogy Gems Podcast turns 200: Tell me what you think?As we count down to the 200th episode of the free Genealogy Gems Podcast, what have been YOUR favorite things about the podcast? 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The news includes: MyHeritage announces a number of new things: PedigreeMap plots births, marriages, deaths, photos, and other data from your family tree to an interactive map. The “Chronicling America” newspaper collection from the Library of Congress has been added to the collections. Denmark Census Records have been added. MyHeritage Treehouse is announced. Findmypast announces new records for Yorkshire, Staffordshire, New South Wales 1891 Census, and new records for Scotland. The Association of Professional Genealogists has named Mary Penner as managing editor of the APGQ. The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society announces the publication of a new book, New York City Archives: An Authorized Guide for Family Historians. Listener email includes: Beverly comments on the recent Genealogy Connection podcast interview with Cyndi Ingle. Elizabeth Lapointe comments on Gigi's search for York County/Toronto and Vermont records discussed in GGP episode #311. Leslie comments on Drew's new book. Matt raises a DNA question about matches within a limited [endogamous] population. Lois asks Drew about his discussion of organizing folders in Dropbox, specifically about the use of numbers. Joanne used Drew's discussion of organizing Dropbox folders to get her folders in better shape. Mike discusses his organizing scheme for folders on his family using an Ahnentafel approach. The Guys give listeners a scoop about a new service called genealogyDOTcoach at http://genealogy.coach. It is a new way to get professional assistance without committing to longer term professional researchers' contracts and fees. In Beta mode at present, the service offers appointments with any of 25 experts in a variety of topics to provide professional advice to help advance your research. Private appointments are available in 15-minute increments for a reasonable fee. Look for a formal press release in the next few weeks. Help The Guys spread the word about our two podcasts: Tell your friends and genealogy society members about us. Leave a review at iTunes. Support us at Patreon.com (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2684555). Visit the Aha! Seminars, Inc., website at http://ahaseminars.com for Our Speaking Schedule and join us at conferences across the United States.

The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke Did you know you can use Google to help identify images, to find more images like them online, and even to track down images that have been moved to a different place online? Find these great Google tech tips in this episode, along with 10 tech-savvy tricks for finding an ancestor's school records. You will also hear how to create a family history photo decoupage plate: a perfect craft to give as a gift or create with children. This blast from the past episode comes from the digitally remastered Genealogy Gems Podcast episodes 11 and 12 (originally recorded in 2007). They are now interwoven with fresh narration; below you'll find all-new show notes. Google Image searches: Updated tips to watch a short new tutorial video on using Google Images to find images for your genealogy research. Conduct an initial search using the search terms you want. The Image category (along with other categories) will appear on the screen along with your search results. For images of people: enter name as search term in quotes: “Mark Twain.” If you have an unusual name or if you have extra time to scroll through results, enter the name without quotation marks. Other search terms to try: ancestral place names, tombstone, name of a building (school, church, etc.), the make and model of Grandpa's car, etc. Click on one of the image thumbnails to get to a highlight page (shown here) where you can visit the full webpage or view the image. If you click View images, you'll get the web address. To retrieve images that no longer appear at the expected URL: Click on View image to get the image URL. Copy the image's URL (Ctrl+C in Windows) and paste it (Ctrl+V) into your web browser to go to that image's page. When you click through, you're back in Web view. The first few search results should be from the website with the image you want. Click on a link that says “cache.” A cached version is an older version of the website (hopefully a version dated before the image was moved or removed). Browse that version of the site to find the image. NEW Tip: Use Google Chrome to identify an image and find additional images showing the same subject, such as a place, person or subject. From the Google home page, click Images. In the Google search box, you'll see a little camera icon. Click on it. If you have an image from a website, insert the URL for that image. If you have an image on your computer, click Upload an image. Choose the file you want. Google will identify the image as best it can, whether a location, person, or object, and it will show you image search results that seem comparable. to watch a free video tutorial on this topic.   GEM: Decoupage a Family Photo Plate Supply List: Clear glass plate with a smooth finish (available at kitchen outlet and craft stores) Sponge craft brush Decoupage glue Fine paper-cutting scissors (Cuticle scissors work well) Small bottle of acrylic craft paint in a color you would like for the back A flat paintbrush Painter's tape Brush-on clear acrylic varnish for a glossy finish on the back of the plate A selection of photos (including other images that complement the photos)  Assembling your plate: Lay out your design to fit the plate Add words if desired. You can draw directly on the copy or print it out and cut it to fit. Put an even coat of glue on the front of each photo. Don't worry about brush strokes, but be careful not to go over it too many times which could cause the ink to run.  Apply the photos to the back of the plate, working in reverse order (the first images placed on the plate will be in the foreground of the design). Glue the edges firmly. Turn the plate over to check the placement of images. Smooth using craft brush. Brush glue over the back of each photo. Turn the plate around so you can see the image from the front and work out the air bubbles. Continue to place the images until the entire plate is covered. Let it dry 24 hours. Use painters' tape to tape off the edges before you apply the acrylic paint to the back of the plate. Paint the back and let dry. Apply a second coat. Let dry. Apply an acrylic varnish for a glossy finish on the back. Let dry. Lisa Louise Cooke uses and recommends . From within RootsMagic, you can search historical records on FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com. And soon, RootsMagic will be fully integrated with Ancestry.com, too: you'll be able to sync your RootsMagic trees with your Ancestry.com trees and search records on the site. Keep your family history research, photos, tree software files, videos and all other computer files safely backed up with , the official cloud-based computer backup system for Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems.   GENEALOGY GEMS BOOK CLUB Our current book is by Chris Cleave. Follow the story of Mary North, a wealthy young Londoner who signs up for the war effort when the Great War reaches England. Originally assigned as a schoolteacher, she turns to other tasks after her students evacuate to the countryside, but not before beginning a relationship that leads to a love triangle and long-distance war-time romance. As her love interest dodges air raids on Malta, she dodges danger in London driving ambulances during air raids in the Blitz. This story is intense, eye-opening and full of insights into the human experience of living and loving in a war zone—and afterward. is inspired by love letters exchanged between the author's grandparents during World War II. Video: for more Genealogy Gems Book Club titles   GEM: Top 10 Tips for finding Graduation Gems in your family history Establish a timeline. Check your genealogy database to figure out when your ancestor would have attended high school or college. Consult family papers and books. Go through old family papers & books looking for senior calling cards, high school autograph books, journals and diaries, senior portraits, fraternity or sorority memorabilia and yearbooks. Search newspapers. Look for school announcements, honor rolls, sports coverage, end-of-year activities and related articles. Updated tips and online resources: Ancestry.com has moved the bulk of its historical newspaper collection to its sister subscription website, . Search your browser for the public library website in the town where your ancestor attended school. Check the online card catalogue, look for a local history or genealogy webpage, or contact them to see what newspapers they have, and whether any can be loaned (on microfilm) through interlibrary loan. Search the Library of Congress' newspaper website, Chronicling America, for digitized newspaper content relating your ancestor's school years. Also, search its for the names and library holdings of local newspapers. online catalog Contact local historical and genealogical societies for newspaper holdings. Consult the websites of U.S. state archives and libraries: to find a directory of state libraries State historical and genealogical societies. In addition to newspapers, state historical and genealogical societies might have old yearbooks or school photograph collections. For example, the has a large (and growing) collection of Ohio school yearbooks. Local historical and genealogical societies may also have school memorabilia collections. RootsWeb, now at . Check the message board for the county and state you're looking for. Post a message asking if anyone has access to yearbooks or other school info. TIP: Use Google site search operator to find mentions of yearbooks on the county page you're looking at. Add site: to the front of the Rootsweb page for the locale, then the word yearbook after it. For example: Search for online yearbooks at websites such as: Ancestry.com now has a large yearbook collection Yearbookgenealogy.com and the National Yearbook Project, mentioned in the show, no longer exist as such US GenWeb at . Search on the county website where the school was located. Is there anyone willing to do a lookup? Is there a place to post which yearbooks you're looking for? Call the school, if it's still open. If they don't have old yearbooks, they may be able to put you in touch with a local librarian or historian who does. TIP: Go to and type the school name in “Business Name.” Call around 4:00 pm local time, when the kids are gone but the school office is still open.  : Do a search on the school or town you're looking for to see if anyone out there is selling a yearbook that you need. Also search for old photographs or postcards of the school. Here's my extra trick: From the results page, check the box to include completed listings and email potential sellers to inquire about the books you are looking for. TIP: Don't be afraid to ask – ebay sellers want to sell!  And if all else fails, set up an ebay Favorite Search to keep a look out for you. Go to and check out Episode #3 for instructions on how to do this. MyHeritage.com is the place to make connections with relatives overseas, particularly with those who may still live in your ancestral homeland. Click here to see what MyHeritage can do for you: it's free to get started.   FREE NEWSLETTER: Enter your email & get my Google Research e-bookas a thank you gift! to receive a free weekly e-mail newsletter, with tips, inspiration and money-saving deals.  

The news includes: Congratulations to Drew Smith on his receipt of the 2016 Filby Award for Genealogical Librarianship! He received the prestigious award on 3 May 2016 at Librarians Day at the National Genealogical Society's 2016 Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Evidentia has just hired Elizabeth Swanay-O'Neal as its new Director of Marketing and Social Media. MyHeritage has just launched its new MyHeritage Community section, a new online Q&A hub that fosters family history research collaboration. RootsMagic has added support and hints from Findmypast.com to Version 7 of its software, joining hints from FamilySearch and MyHeritage. The addition of Ancestry hints is under development and there are plans for implementation later this year. Findmypast has added 5.4 million Yorkshire records and over 10 million new U.S. marriage records to its collections. The Federation of Genealogical Societies has opened registration for its 2016 conference, "Time Travel: Centuries of Memories", to be held in Springfield, Illinois, on 31 August to 3 September 2016. An early bird discount is available. Visit http://www.FGSConference.org. Michael J. LeClerc, CG, has announced that Genealogy Professor has launched an exciting new educational opportunity for genealogists. Their offerings include self-paced courses and genealogy master classes. More information is available at http://www.genprof.net. Bill Nelson of RevGenea Software, LLC, has announced the availability of a new, free Android app named OldNews USA that makes it easy to perform quality research using the Chronicling America collection of historic newspapers at the Library of Congress. Learn more about features and see screenshots at http://revgenea.com. The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg Emigrants database just passed the 100.000 person mark. Learn more at the blog at http://www.familienkunde-oldenburg.de/auswanderer-datenbank-enthaelt-jetzt-100-000-personen/ , and access the database at http://www.auswanderer-oldenburg.de. (Access the database using Google Chrome and translate the page from German to your preferred language.) Drew discusses the newest releases from FamilySearch. Listener email includes: In episode #305, Tom asked for suggestions about obtaining passport applications. George suggested contacting the USCIS. They referred Tom to NARA where he filled out a Freedom of Information Act request for the passport applications. He will keep us apprised of his progress. Alan poses a question concerning nieces and nephews who appear on census records in a family. Peter asks for advice about how to present genealogical information at a family gathering. Tim will be taking his older brother on a road trip to where his ancestors lived and are buried. He asked for suggestions about things to listen to as to why genealogy matters or why it is fun and rewarding. George urges listeners to visit their local libraries, and to support them by volunteering to work on genealogical and historical projects. Visit the Aha! Seminars, Inc., website at http://ahaseminars.com for Our Speaking Schedule and join us at conferences across the United States.

Oct. 28, 2015. Join the Library of Congress education and newspaper experts to learn about the digitized historic newspapers available through the Chronicling America program. Explore teaching strategies for using the materials with students. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7217

Oct. 28, 2015. Watch Library of Congress education and newspaper experts and learn about the digitized historic newspapers available through the Chronicling America program. Explore teaching strategies for using the materials with students. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7213

Visit with Tonijala Penn and hear about historical newspapers and the Chronicling America digital archives project available through the Library of Congress website. Speaker Biography: Tonijala Penn is a digital conversion specialist in the Serial And Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6794

Today, we're turning back the clock to talk about two of my favorite eras, the 1950s and—well, the second one is a surprise. I'll tell you later in the show when I introduce the NEW Genealogy Gems Book Club featured title! But first, we'll talk a little news—from a new Google innovation to two new record collections online that fill in a hole in American documentary history. I'll read some mail from YOU about the new Ancestry site and family history blogging. NEWS Wouldn't it be great if your smartphone alerted if you left your keys or eyeglasses behind when leaving the house? Google is working on it, based on a recent  it filed. The patent describes a device that uses short-range wireless technology to link your smartphone with other must-have items like your wallet, keys or glasses. The idea is that if you leave a location with one item, but leave other items behind, an alarm will go off. A commentary website explains that “the user can control the amount of distance between the mobile device and the paired object that must exist before an alarm goes off. They can also control the type of alarm, as well as how often the device checks to see if all paired objects remain nearby.” Here's a drawing from the patent. In one way, it makes me think that Google is taking its Alerts out of cyberspace and right into our daily lives to help them run more smoothly. Do you use Google Alerts? Setting them up lets me find out about new content online as it becomes available—24/7—relating to my favorite keyword searches. I use Google Alerts to automate my online genealogy searches and follow other favorite topics. You can learn more about Google Alerts AND how to search for patents like the one I was just talking about—for household items and inventions that shaped our relatives' lives—in my book, * In last month's podcast, I mentioned the Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Database in response to a question from a listener who was looking for a good resource for Civil War sailors. Unfortunately, as I stressed in the , the percentage of sailors included is still fairly low in that database. So I was pleased to see a new collection on recently: U.S. NAVY SURVIVORS.  to a post about it. Nearly 2 million records in this collection come from case files of approved pension applications between 1861 and 1910, so they include Civil War survivors and later Navy veterans until just before World War I. I love seeing all these new record collections that appear online that, ever so gradually, fill in the gaps to help us find our ancestors! At Genealogy Gems we blog about new record collections online every Friday—watch for those on our ! * Finally, there's another record set coming online that will just be HUGE for those researching African-American ancestors. Freedmen's Bureau records are finally being fully indexed! Anyone with African-American roots or who has ANY Southern ancestors should know about these. The Freedmen's Bureau was organized after the Civil War to aid newly-freed slaves in 15 states and Washington, DC. Destitute whites were also helped. For several years the Freedmen's Bureau created marriage records, labor contracts, and other records of families and their military service, poverty, property, health and education. The richest documents are the field office records of each state. (Here's a  to a great article from the National Archives about these records.) A few field office records are already transcribed or indexed; you can find links at the . Now FamilySearch and other national partners have issued a call to action for the genealogy community to help finish indexing them all—an estimated 1.5 million records—within the coming year. A press release says the “records, histories and stories will be available on . Additionally, the records will be showcased in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is currently under construction on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and expected to open in late 2016.”   MAILBOX Recently I heard from Patty, who says, “Not long ago I listened to the podcast in which you encouraged people to send the links to their genealogy blogs, and after seeing this week's newsletter, I thought I finally would.” “I started a blog last summer to share my research with my family, which is fairly spread out throughout the country.  I also wanted to document a trip to Italy that my husband and I took last October, which included genealogy research as well as the chance to meet newly discovered relatives there. My website is Thanks for all the great info you provide!” You're welcome, Patty, and I have to say, I hear from SO many people about the power of blogging your family history. Most people start because they're just bursting to share their family history finds, and they want to do it in the small bite-size pieces that work so well on a blog. Many of them also hope to connect with other descendants who may stumble across their blogs and contact them. And you know, it really does happen! If you're ready to start blogging your family history—or to get re-inspired and get BACK to it—I recommend you listen to my how-to series on the FREE or * Finally, we continue to hear feedback on the new Ancestry site. On the Genealogy Gems Facebook page, Cynthia told us, “I absolutely love it! At first I was confused, but took the time to figure out how to find what I wanted, add new facts, photos, etc. It was a challenge and now I will never go back to the old way.” Also on Facebook, Paris told us she misses the “show how we're related” feature with its icon, and Ken misses now having the family group view. Nora also wrote in with more detailed comments on her three favorite features. In short they are: That when you are given the option to accept hints, you now have yes, no AND MAYBE options. (And I agree—that's so much more practical to have a MAYBE option.) She loves the Lifestory view, especially since it gives the option of removing historical events you don't want to include from an ancestor's timeline. She finds it easier to merge facts about the same life event when reported by multiple sources. Nora even shares step-by-step tips for how she merges facts on the new site. Here's a to her full comments, along with helpful screen shots. * A third piece of mail comes from Carol in St. Louis, Missouri. She was frustrated that she couldn't read my entire email newsletter. “Would love to know what you are saying,” she says. But my newsletter email doesn't fit in her email window. She says, “I don't want to toggle to the right to see the end of each line and then have to toggle back.” I don't blame her! That's annoying. The good news is that anyone who has trouble with my emails not fitting in their viewers can fix it pretty easily. Email sizing is related to your computer's screen resolution setting and a variety of other variables. It's different for everyone. In cases where it doesn't come through to your email account right, we provide a link at the top of the email that you can simply click to view the email on a new web browser tab fitted to the page. To get the free Genealogy Gems email newsletter, just sign up in the box in the upper right-hand corner . We don't share your email address with anyone else and you get a free e-book of Google tips for genealogy just for signing up.   Sunny and I discuss her digital backup plan (or lack thereof!) My solution for her:                GEM: Find Your Family History in the 1950s What comes to mind when I say these words? Sock hops. Drive-ins. Juke boxes. Fuzzy dice. Letterman jackets. Poodle skirts, bobby socks and saddle shoes. 3D movies. Hula hoops. Of course, the 1950s. Do you remember any of these fads, or have you seen any family pictures that show them? Of course, the fifties weren't all fun and games. Think the Korean War, McCarthyism, the Iron Curtain. The 1950s was also a time of complex social problems and conflict throughout the world. What about finding records about your fabulous family in the 1950s? You know, we're always told to start researching the most recent generations. But national censuses and many vital records have privacy blackouts. So I want to mention four major resources for finding family in the ‘fifties: Oral history interviews. In many families, there's at least one person around who remembers the 1950s personally. If there's not, then look to the memories of the next living generation, who often know at least some important things about the past. Interviewing a relative is one of the most fun and meaningful ways to learn your family history. After all, you're learning about the past first-hand (or second-hand, if you're asking about someone's parents). You can ask specific and personal questions of the kind that don't appear on a census record. You can deepen your relationships with those you interview and gain a better understanding of the lives that led to you. Older people often love to have someone take a sincere interest in them. The Family History Made Easy podcast has a . Here are some tips about interviewing your family: Reach out with sincere interest in that person, not just their memories of others who have gone. Be patient and respectful when you ask questions. It can take a while to establish a rapport and discover the kinds of memories that person most wants to share. The best skill you can have is that of a good listener. Don't interrupt. Don't judge. And listen so intently that you can ask great follow-up questions. Newspapers are my second resource. Turn to these for more recent relatives' obituaries and other articles that mention them. Use hometown papers to discover more about a relative's daily life, current events that would affect them, popular opinions of the time, prices for everyday items and more. Thanks to the internet, it's getting easier than ever to find family members in newspapers. Some newspapers have been digitized, though this isn't as common with more recent papers that may still be under copyright protection. Still, you can use online resources to discover what newspapers served your family's neighborhood, or even whether an ethnic, labor or religious press would have mentioned them. Each country and region has its own online newspaper resources. In the US, I always start with the US Newspaper Directory at Chronicling America. (In this case, DON'T start with searching digitized papers, which only go up to 1922.) From the , click on , and you'll get a fantastic search interface to locate ALL newspapers published in a particular place and time, as well as the names of libraries or archives that have copies of these papers. Links for newspapers outside the United States include: , the and the . Remember, historical societies and even local public libraries are also wonderful places to look for newspaper holdings. My book, , gives you all kinds of tips for what to look for in papers and how to locate them, both online and offline, and in free and subscription resources. City directories are the third place I look for recent relatives. By the 1950s, most towns and cities published directories of residents, mostly with telephone numbers. I use annual directory listings to track families from year to year. These might give you your first clue that someone moved, married, separated, divorced or died. I can often find their exact street address (which is great for mapping them out!), who lived at the house and sometimes additional information like where they worked, what their job was or who they worked for. Ancestry has , clear up to 1989. But most other online city directory collections aren't so recent, probably for copyright reasons. Look for city directories first in hometown public libraries. I would call the library and see if there is a local history or genealogy room where they handle research requests. Also check with larger regional or state libraries and major genealogical libraries. These are pretty straightforward research lookups and may not be that expensive to request copies of your relatives' listings in each year for a certain time period. The fourth and most fun place to look for relatives, I think, is in historical video footage! YouTube isn't just for viral cat videos and footage of your favorite band. You can look for old newsreels, people's home movies and other old footage that's been converted to digital format. It's not unusual to find videos showing the old family neighborhood, a school or community function, or other footage that's relevant to your relatives. Use the YouTube search box like you would the regular Google search box, because it's powered by Google. Enter terms like “history,” “old,” “footage,” or “film” along with the names, places or events you hope to find. For example, the name of a parade your relative marched in, a team he played on, a company she worked for, a street he lived on and the like. It's hit and miss, for sure, but sometimes you can find something very special. My Contributing Editor Sunny Morton didn't really believe me that YouTube could be a great source for family history finds. She set out to prove me wrong—and I'm glad she did! Almost immediately, with a search on the name of her husband's ancestral hometown and the word “history,” she found a 1937 newsreel with her husband's great-grandfather driving his fire truck with his dog! She recognized him from old photos and had read about his dog in the newspapers. What a find! Her father-in-law was stunned, because he never met his own grandfather, who died in 1950. You can learn more in my all-new second edition of , which has an entire, newly-updated chapter on YouTube. So that's four places to look for 1950s relatives: in family memories, newspapers, city directories and YouTube footage. So what ABOUT those 1950 and 1951 censuses around the world? Spotlight on the 1950 US Census: The 1950 US Federal census won't be released to the public until April 2022. If you REALLY need an entry on yourself or immediate relatives, you can apply to receive copies of individual census entries from 1950-2010. It's not cheap—it's $65 per person, per census year. But if you're having research trouble you think would be answered by a census entry, it might be worth it. to the page at Census.gov that tells you how to do this (it's called the “age search service”). Ancestry does have a . It's a little gimmicky, because it appears to be just a slice of their city directory collection from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. But this is still a good starting point to target US relatives during this time period. I have some interesting factoids on the 1951 censuses for England, Canada and Australia, which aren't available yet to the public. At , you can at least download a blank form for the 1951 census in England. That site says: “There was no census in 1941 and only limited population information from the 1939 National Register, making the 1951 census highly significant in tracking changes in society over 20 years. The 1951 Census revealed that the population of Britain had exceeded 50 million. It was the first census to ask about household amenities (outside loos) as Britain began to clear slums and rebuild housing after World War II. Questions about fertility and duration of marriage were reinstated. The Registrar General for England and Wales, Sir George North, asked women to be more honest about their age. Many women of the time felt that questions relating to age were of a too personal nature. Information from previous censuses suggested that women had adjusted their age upwards if they married young and down if they married later. Problem pages in newspapers and magazines were flooded with queries from distraught women, fearful that their true age would become public knowledge.” That's so funny to me now, as our age is a basic piece of all our identifying records! So a good substitute for the 1951 census may be England's electoral registers, at least for those who were qualified to vote. An Ancestry description of states that these “registers typically provide a name and place of abode, and older registers may include a description of property and qualifications to vote. Registers were compiled at a local level.” That webpage has helpful tips on searching registers by location through 1954. What about Canada? They do censuses every 10 years on the years ending in “1” also, and a population and agriculture census in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta every 10 years in the years ending in “6,” according to the . By law, you can't get personal information yet from post-1921 census returns except about yourselves or for pension or other legal purposes. The site does say that “Third parties cannot obtain information about another individual without the individual's written consent,” which leads me to wonder you COULD get them if you did have consent, but that might not be easy or possible to get from the relatives you're researching. You'll hit up against the same privacy issues in Australia for 1951, but what is online is the entire , with free downloadable chapters on topics like land, transportation, communication, education, welfare, labor, wages, prices, the population, vital statistics, and several different types of industrial reports. You won't likely find ANY ancestors mentioned by name, but you can read generally how the country was doing at the time.                 GENEALOGY GEMS BOOK CLUB:   The new Genealogy Gems Book Club featured title is , edited by Pamela Smith Hill. This autobiography was written by Laura in the 1930s, and is the basis of her popular Little House children's series. But her actual autobiography was never published, and it's the “grown-up” version—more detailed, more explicit—of all those stories and her recollections of family, and neighbors, wagon trains and homesteads: pioneering in an American West that was fading away. Across the cover of the first tablet she scrawled “Pioneer Girl.” These real stories behind the Little House stories will intrigue--and sometimes stun--any Laura Ingalls Wilder fan. What makes this book a standout and a prime candidate for genealogists? The immaculate research that went into it. The stunning example it sets for source citations, which consume large portions of most of the pages. And the often never seen before photos sprinkled throughout that bring the people and times to life visually for the reader.  

This episode focuses on Newspaper Research. · Google Newspaper Archive – free, 1700s-2009, worldwide coverage, OCR. https://news.google.com/newspapers · Fulton History – free, 1795-2007, but almost exclusively New York State, OCR. http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html · Elephind – free, 1803-present, OCR. Over 2700 titles, of which over 1000 are from Chronicling America. Includes Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. https://www.elephind.com · GenealogyBank (personal subscription, $20/month, $70/annual, over 7000 titles, 1690-present) and America's GenealogyBank (library subscription, over 4200 titles, 1690-1922) – product of NewsBank, OCR. http://www.genealogybank.com · ProQuest Historical Newspapers (library subscription only) – major U.S. cities, international newspapers, African-American newspapers, Jewish newspapers. OCR. · Newspapers.com (personal subscription, $8/month, $80/annual, over 3400 titles, 1700s-2000s) – OCR. http://www.newspapers.com · NewspaperARCHIVE.com (personal subscription, $100/6 months, over 6200 titles, 1607-present) – OCR. http://newspaperarchive.com · Access World News (library subscription, over 2400 titles) – 1977-present, product of NewsBank, born digital. For additional reading, we recommend: Breland, Claudia C. Searching for Your Ancestors in Historic Newspapers. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 2014.

Full show notes: https://wwionline.org/projects/mail-call/mail-call-episode-2-november-1914-february-1915/ — Historical documents for this episode were accessed through the Digital Library@Villanova University and the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America project. The theme music is from “Til We Meet Again” as performed by Nicholas Orlando’s Orchestra. The Mail Call podcast is a project of Home Before the Leaves Fall: a Great War Centennial Exposition. […]

Published August 6, 2011 In this episode you're going to learn the details that go into planning a trip to your ancestor's homeland. NEWS: called Monday Midwest Family history Expo posted on 8/1/11.  GEM: More Online Newspapers This week the Library of Congress updated Chronicling America to include newspapers from 3 new states added to the program in 2010 and additional coverage for 1836-1859. New Mexico, Tennessee and Vermont are now included with 22 other states and the District of Columbia in Chronicling America's almost 4 million pages of historic newspaper pages, published between 1836 and 1922.  So you can start searching at   Swedish Genealogical Society of Colorado is going to host the SwedGenTour 2011 September 17, 2011 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Aurora, Colorado.  You can register at the       Genealogy Gems Podcast App Users are getting a special bonus with this episode.  Swedish Researcher  Yvonne Hendrickson has graciously provided a a terrific pdf file called How to Find Your Swedish Roots.  GEM: Railway Records has partnered with the UK's National Archives to launch the Railway Employment Records, 1833 – 1963, an online collection containing the employment-related records of British railway workers dating back to the invention of the locomotive in the early 19th century. The records date from 1833 and by the middle of the 20th century. FamilySearch recently announced that they have digitized historic records from eight countries and added them to FamilySearch.org.  In addition to 1.8 million new U.S. records, collections from seven other countries were added including Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Mexico, Philippines, and Poland. Newspapers The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced on July 27, 2011 awards totaling $3.8 million to 13 institutions representing their states in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). These means there will be new digitized historic  newspapers coming to the free section of the Library of Congress website in mid-2012.     Your chance to help bring the 1812 records Indiana Genealogical Society - You can find out more about the .Thanks for a wonderful podcast and all your genealogy gems!  Visit Tina's Blog: New Video Cast on YouTube on UK News at YouTube packed with over 50 family history related videos.  Nick Barratt and Laura Berry of Your Family History magazine out of the UK at . They have created a new YouTube video channel called appopriately enough . MAILBOX: RootsMagic questions so  I went right to the source Bruce Buzbee, founder of RootsMagic and he's got the answers.  “Would I create a "land" fact in the entry for my great-grandfather, and just describe the land in it?  Thanks again for your terrific podcasts. I just started listening to the Family Tree podcasts, and am excited to start using the tips shared in those episodes as well.” Bruce recommends adding a "Property" fact type (which is one of the fact types built into RM and which is officially supported in GEDCOM).  You can use the date field to show the time period the land was owned, and can use the note to enter any description of the land. Then he recommends using the various documents as sources for that fact type. When you are adding a new source to RM, you can type "land" into the "Search for source type" field on the "Select Source Type" screen to filter the list of source types down to ones relating to land records. Kai has a question about image and source citations. "I've always attached source media to events/facts and now I'm wondering whether  there's any point in going through and removing every media item from the individual events/facts and instead attaching it to the relevant source. Since sharing events between people is so easy, I haven't seen much point in doing it before now.”  Bruce says there probably isn't a compelling reason right now to move existing images from events to sources or citations.  There may be in the future, but we would also work to make it easier to do that at that time.  Kai's second question is “I'm wondering whether you record your negative research (i.e. searched particular resource, nothing found) within RM."  Bruce says "RootsMagic allows you to add facts (of any type... birth, marriage, death, etc) and set the "Proof" for that fact to "Disputed" or "Proven false".  It then draw that fact on screen with a redline through it. Second, when entering a source citation, you can enter the "Quality", which follows the BCG standard and allows you to set the "Evidence" to negative.  However, that doesn't mean the source is wrong.  It means that the source didn't contain the information you expected to find in it.” And finally Kate wrote in asking for help with migrating from Family Tree Maker to RootsMagic and found a right on the RootsMagic web site.  .  GEM: Preparing for a visit to the National Archives Here are Lisa's tips for preparing for a research visit: 1.  National Archives in the UK video series called 2. Do a Google search by file type SEARCH:  National Archives Genealogy Research .ppt at the National Archives powerpoint presentation  3. Check out Lisa's interviews with Margery Bell of the Family History Centers which are full of great ideas for preparing for a research trip, regardless of whether it is to the National Archives or the Family History Library.  episodes 17, 18 & 19  Genealogy has no borders! Keith in the UK sent me one of those recently through Google+.  He writes: “I've only just started listening to your podcasts, and think they're brilliant! I like the fact that you cover off places outside of the US as well, as its hard to find a good UK podcast. Keep up the great work” British Home children Follow up Bill wrote in recently to share his connection to a recent episode:  “I love your podcasts! Episode 111 featuring a gem on British Home Children touched my heart especially. My mother's father was one of the Britsh Home Children.”  During my stay with them in England, Mom's cousin said that she thought that my grandfather Richard Ing had come to Canada as one of the Barnardo Home children, mentioning that she and her husband knew some of the Bernardo family personally. I said that I had never heard of him coming out with Barnardo Homes. Much later, I discovered that she was right about him being one of the British Home Children!  You can read more from Bill about his Ing family at his genealogy blog at blog: GEM: How to Travel to Your Ancestor's Homeland Kathy Wurth About Family Tree Tours: Family Tree Tours provides research assistance to genealogy enthusiasts and ancestry trips to German-speaking countries. Whether a group heritage tour, private genealogy tour, or independent heritage trip, owner Kathy Wurth and on-the-ground German expert Matthias Uthoff provide you the opportunity to learn more about your family roots, to connect with family, and to learn about your ancestors before they made their emigration journey. With a passion for both genealogical research and travel, Kathy and Matthias work closely with you to ensure your family research trip is a success. “No family tree research is complete until you experience the place your family came from,” says Kathy Wurth, owner of Family Tree Tours. “There's no feeling more exhilarating than walking the streets your ancestors walked. Even if you don't know your hometown, our European Heritage professionals help you paint the picture of your ancestors' lives. Our new website helps us make your research come alive.”

We apologize for the few cut-outs of stereo in this week's episode. We have replaced a damaged cable and should be fine in the future.This week's news includes: Edna Parker, world's oldest woman, died in Shelbyville, Indiana, this week at age 115 years, 220 days; social networking site Genoom.com (http://www.genoom.com) announces the expansion of its international support for 17 languages; social networking site itsourtree.com has been renamed to dynastree (http://www.dynastree.com/); FamilySearch.org is seeking assistance with indexing projects, and you can learn more at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/indexing/frameset_indexing.asp - particularly Canadian and Norwegian censuses; Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com) has recently added more than 1100 U.S. city directories with more than 50M names; Calico Pie Limited, maker of the U.K.'s leading family history program, announces the forthcoming release of version 4 of its Family Historian program at http://family-historian.co.uk/; Library and Archives Canada (LAC) announces the launch of a new online database, Immigrants to Canada, accessible by clicking here; and FamilySearch.org has released more online courses.George reviewed a book last week, and inadvertently misspelled the author's name. The book is Finding Your Chicago Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide to Family History in the City and Cook County, by Grace DuMelle, and published by Lake Claremont Press. My sincere apologies!This week's listener email includes: John's confusing ancestral marriages for the Muson family; Sharon had questions about sources, and about resources for Tory ancestors [Listeners can weigh in on the topic]; Kathy asked about content in the Ancestry Publishing surname books, and she offers information about TinyUrl.com (http://tinyurl.com/); Deborah makes suggestions for your 2009 genealogy project; Peter tells us that a Palm OS handheld application for genealogy, MobileGenealogy, has been newly updated and is available at http://www.mobilegenealogy.com/ [Correction: MobileGenealogy is not a Palm OS application, but instead a website that discusses handheld genealogy applications.];Claire discusses the Shrubs app for iPhone, and she shares another excellent online newspaper application at the Library of Congress at Chronicling America (http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/); Beth shares an excellent and simple database program for Macintosh called Bento from FileMaker (http://filemaker.com/); Victoria asked for clarification of how George has been able to run RootsMagic, a Windows program, on his Mac; and Russ asked about how to handle the sourcing of a burial in his database.

News includes the disastrous fire at the Georgetown (DC) Public Library and the new US/Mexican border crossing records collection at Ancestry.com.  Mailbag includes lessons learned from crashed external hard drives, access to a newspaper project ("Chronicling America") at www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica, and a lot of listener feedback to the past podcast discussion of FindAGrave.  Other topics include ways to get the most out of Google, and more tips for genealogical spring cleaning.