Podcasts about registrar general

Since 1889 the Sons of the American Revolution have been working to preserve the memories of those who fought and supported the American Revolution.  While the national headquarters is in Louisville, Kentucky, there are over 550 chapters world-wide, dedicated to commemorating the service and sacrifice of the men and women who fought to establish an independent United States of America.  Join Revolution 250 Executive Director in conversation with T. Brooks Lyle, current Registrar General and former Historian General of the SAR on the work of the Sons of the American Revolution and their plans for a new museum and educational center at the national headquarters.Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

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Episode NotesDecember 2023 -  DAR Today PodcastNational Society Daughters of the American RevolutionPresident General Pamela Edwards Rouse WrightBrooke Bullmaster Stewart, National Chair DAR Today Podcast Click for more information about the Daughters of the American Revolution! CLICK HERE to visit our YouTube (video) version of this podcastTo support the goals and mission of the DAR, please visit our web site at DAR.org/GivingIn This Episode:Our American Spirit Magazine! An interview with National Chair Lisa Melland"What's your favorite thing in our DAR American Spirit magazine?" Special thanks to participants Allison Holland, True Lewis, Laura Renfro, Becky Malmo and Janet WestbrookExecutive Interview Series: An interview with Cynthia Moody Parnell, our Registrar General, edited by Allison ManellaWonderful new DAR Insignia & Pins. Segment written by True Lewis and Chris Hurst-LoefflerLaying a Wreath in honor of Philippe Mazzei (Pisa, Italy), segment written with reference to the DAR Blog of Nov. 10, 2023 written by DAR Tour Member Mary TedescoAmerican History segment: The Story of the song “White Christmas“ by Irving Berlin. Special thanks go to Tom and Cole Stewart for their vocal assistance! All music is copyright free and provided by Epidemic Sound

Brandy is joined by the Registrar General of URSB- Mercy Kainobwisho to talk about business growth, the role of registration in the Ugandan Economy, Digitalization in the field, what she loves about being Ugandan and so much more. Mercy Kyomugasho Kainobwisho, is a Ugandan lawyer, business administrator and corporate executive, who serves as the Registrar General and Executive Director of the Uganda Registration Services Bureau, effective December 2020. Prior to her current position, she served as the Director of Intellectual Property at URSB. The Ugandan podcast is an audio-visual production on informing, understanding and sharing on government programs so as to enhance citizen engagement in achieving the National Development Goals. We share facts, ideas and progress through dialogue and poetry so as to create positive impact. This podcast looks enhance a productive knowledgeable society and initiate conversation leading to mindset change and digital transformation. Connect with Ministry of ICT & National Guidance TW: www.twitter.com/MoICT_Ug FB: www.facebook.com/mictuganda IG: www.instagram.com/moict_ug YT: www.youtube.com/channel/UCnp5ryL6CT5QvB_IvItE8SA Website: https://ict.go.ug/

In her In the Telling conversation, LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson talks about the mystical aspect of doing genealogy: how the ancestors seem to guide you in uncovering their stories. LaBrenda is a trustee and President of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. She also serves as the Registrar General of the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage, a lineage society that honors ancestors who were enslaved in the United States. LaBrenda earned a BA from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and both a Law degree and a Master of Laws degree from the New York University School of Law. After working as a corporate tax attorney for thirty-five years, she retired in 2013 and turned her attention to her longtime avocation of Genealogy. She is now a full-time genealogist focused on writing and teaching at National institutes and conferences. Her 2016 guide to researching in her SC home county was hailed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a model for research in SC and other states. Suggested links: LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson's website Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage The Source of Our Pride by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson A Guide to Researching African American Ancestors in Laurens County, South Carolina and Selected Finding Aids Genealogy: Ethnic Heritage Links - National Archives Original music by Sean Bempong.

The Registrar-General's Department (RGD) has delisted 2,788 companies from its companies register for failing to file their annual returns with the Department. In a statement, “it said these defaulted companies failed to comply with the directive issued by the Department to file their annual returns or risk being delisted from the companies register.”

The Registrar General's Department has confirmed that investors of some Liquidated Fund Management Firms are expected to get a fraction of their funds placed in bonds from this month. This will represent a second tranche of payment for those who were not allowed to withdraw all their funds. According to the Registrar General, Jemima Oware, those investors whose funds were placed in bonds are those that will get 20% of their funds in November, 2021.

Imagine you are accused in a murder case. And the courts acquit you. But now for the rest of your life, every time someone Googles your name, they see that there is a chance you murdered someone. Or maybe you are a celebrity who drove while drunk and you paid your fine and did your time. But now every time you do a new project, entertainment news sites remind everyone about that time you drove drunk. Or maybe you are a victim of sexual abuse whose nude photos were uploaded online. Can it be scrubbed clean? Here comes the Right To Be Forgotten. On this episode of the Suno India Show, reporter Suryatapa Mukherjee explores the Right To Be Forgotten, what it means and what are the cases in which it might be justified. She speaks with legal researcher and activist Dr Usha Ramanathan and celebrity Ashutosh Kaushik's lawyer Ishanee Sharma. Additional reading: Brut India: Ashutosh Kaushik Wants His Past To Be Erased The Nerdwriter explains original European case The Daily Guardian: History of Right to be Forgotten in India  {Name Redacted} vs The Registrar General on 23 January, 2017  RTBF case of actress whose nude audition tapes were uploaded online See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Today I review the other two Letters included with the Cestui Que Vie, the original Notice to Canada's Registrar General for Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates, and My statement of defense against to the unlawful arrest perpetrated by the Toronto Police in 2010. I also discuss why I am as King for monetary compensation when I have no real interest in claiming it. Documents reviewed on the Show can be found at the following links if You Wish to read along or view the original Blog Post. Letter to the Attorney General - Statement of Defense Letter to Registrar General

This one is longer than I anticipate the average show Will be. I am hoping to Keep episodes from 30 minutes to an hour depending on subject Matter of the Story. Today I was just really excited to get this going and start tall King about all the crazy things I'm war King on in My microcosm!!! Features of today's Show: What's happening now? What am I war King on now? Where are We at in the Story, and how does it begin? Tall King about Notices of Criminal Liability Served upon offices and representatives of the Canadian government (Ontario Works et al., and potentially Canada's acting Registrar General, Francois-Philippe Champagne in the very near future!!!). Begin war King our Way through My Story and the original Cestui Que Vie Trust document filed with Canada's Attorney General on Jan. 19, 2017... We Will pick up where We left off here in the next episode. Other crazy things going on in My microcosm and discussed briefly on this episode: A couple of corporate 'teasers' I am tall King about are My new lawsuit against Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation, finalizing details with My Father's Estate, and enforcing the outstanding default Judgments already awarded against Merovitz Potechin LLP and his criminal cabal client, National Bank of Canada. Friends I Trust with awesome, informative podcasts of their own: https://www.talkshoe.com/show/tactical-sovereignty-community-call Documents reviewed on the call: My Story

Well, after a rather abrupt end to relay-Sean's with minister Edward, I had to consider a new direct-Sean for this Bod's Pod Casting of Magic. The Good News is, the Letter from Canada's Registrar General confirms that it does not register or hold authority of People. One of the reasons for the War of Words with Edward is his belief that the state presumes to hold a claim of right over the Value of One's Life by Way of the Live Birth Record's registration - despite the fact he is reading a letter from the Registrar General's Office directly stating it does not. That has always been My belief because if it were, it would be a contract of bondage and slavery which could never be legally binding anyway, never Mind the fact that the individual is not even consciously aware enough at the time of its creation to have any legal capacity to contract. The 'War of Words' with minister Edward was beneficial for Me in other Ways because prior to the Letter from the Registrar, I may have enjoyed debating Edward on the Matter. But I am not going to waste time disputing a point that has already been clearly established by the office responsible for those records. So now I can speak to People from a perspective of knowledge, not belief. At the very least in Canada, the state "does not register or presume to hold authority of People". The commercial system works the same Way in every country, so My presumption is that the same is True everywhere. Our voluntary participation is required. This podcast introduces some of the things I Will be tall King about in what Will now be the beginning of Season 2. I Will also be including a new series called "Letters out Loud", which Will be a collection of the Letters I have sent to Canada's government read by Me, along with the response (if any) and an explanation of the Letter, why I Write the Way I do, and other additional insights. The compilation Will eventually comprise an audio record of My Common Law efforts to dissolve My public Trust in government, re-Telling My Story in audio format. I may also read some of My Blog Posts in Part or in whole to revisit some of those Ideas in more detail. www.vondehnvisuals.com has over 1,100 Blog Posts Writ and an International Record of all My Letters to Canada's elected representatives and service agents. I'm very excited about this relaunch, I believe You Will find much of Value here, and I hope You do. Thank 'King You' for being here. Blessings,

What's in a name? What about a surname? The most common family names for babies born in New Zealand last year have been revealed, and they might surprise you. More babies were born with the surname Singh than any other last name - that's 398 baby Singhs. The next most common surnames were Smith, Kaur, Patel and Williams. Jeff Montgomery is the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

What's in a name? Well for some parents it's the opportunity to prove just how special their child is by giving them a royal title. The Department of Internal affairs had to decline 44 name requests last year - among them were Roya Ltee, Royell, Prince and Princess. Jeff Montgomery is the Registrar-General for Births, Deaths and Marriages.

On Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the launch of the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) under which “every Indian will get a Health ID card.” He said: “Every time you visit a doctor or a pharmacy, everything will be logged in this card.” The NDMH seeks to create an ecosystem under which health records will be digitised. The government has clarified that this would be voluntary, data will be stored locally, and only anonymised data will be shared upwards. We discuss whether real-time capturing of demographic data and broad health indicators will lead to benefits that outweigh the perceived and real risks of erosion of privacy. Guests: A.R. Nanda, a demographer who served as Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India as well as Health Secretary. Venkat Srinivasan, a Boston-based technology entrepreneur, who deploys AI in finance, accounting, health and education. Host: Varghese K. George, Associate Editor, The Hindu You can now find The Hindu's podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Search for Parley by The Hindu. Write to us with comments and feedback at socmed4@thehindu.co.in

Celebrants might soon be required to do a practice wedding, before they are allowed to conduct real ceremonies. They're among several changes being considered, following a review looking at the number of independent celebrants and the quality of their ceremonies. The review found the current system was generally working well and the country's 3000 independent celebrants was sufficient to meet current demand. The Registrar General of Births Deaths and Marriages Jeff Montgomery spoke to RNZ reporter Catherine Hutton and about introducing a road test for new celebrants as part of their interview.

The Nigerian body responsible for regulating the formation of companies says it generated 36 billion naira between 2017 and 2019. The Registrar-General of the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission, Garba Abubakar, stated this on Monday, while denying reports that the Commission realised 56 billion naira in two years. Garba said the financial statement for 2018 showed there was nothing to pay as there were expectations from service-oriented agencies. He also said the commission needed money, infrastructure and staff to work. Abubakar noted that the Commission had done reconciliation with the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation for 2014-2017 and that at the end of it, 485 million naira was accessed as outstanding from the Commission. --- This episode is sponsored by · Afrolit Podcast: Hosted by Ekua PM, Afrolit shares the stories of multi-faceted Africans one episode at a time. https://open.spotify.com/show/2nJxiiYRyfMQlDEXXpzlZS?si=mmgODX3NQ-yfQvR0JRH-WA Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/newscast-africa/support

Have you considered the role DNA might play in corroborating the oral history of your family? LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG®, CGL(SM), is a trustee and President of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. She earned a BA from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and both a Law degree and a Master of Laws degree from the New York University School of Law. After working as a corporate tax attorney for thirty-five years, she retired from a partner-level position at Ernst & Young in 2013 and turned her attention to her longtime avocation of Genealogy. She is now a full-time genealogist focused on writing and teaching, and currently serves as the Registrar General of the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage, a national lineage society that honors ancestors who were enslaved in the United States before 1870.  LaBrenda published A Guide to Researching African American Ancestors in Laurens County, South Carolina and Selected Finding Aids(2016), an award-winning book that was hailed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s long-running genealogy column as a model for researching African Americans in South Carolina and other states. 

The National Population Register was designed to be maintained by Registrar General of India and was subsequently linked to Census 2011 and carried out along with it by the Register General of India. The register was further updated in 2015, when more data was collected. The National Population Register data was used for other activities like Socio-Economic Caste Census, Aadhaar Voter id linking in the past until the Aadhaar Act of 2016 was framed. The current version of National Population Register along with census 2021 will be carried using a mobile application. National Population Register is the mother database of National Register of Citizens (NRC). To talk about these registers, Suno India editor Padma Priya talks to Cyber Democracy host Srinivas Kodali. For more stories like this, you can listen to www.sunoindia.in. Also follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

The National Population Register was designed to be maintained by Registrar General of India and was subsequently linked to Census 2011 and carried out along with it by the Register General of India. The register was further updated in 2015, when more data was collected. The National Population Register data was used for other activities like Socio-Economic Caste Census, Aadhaar Voter id linking in the past until the Aadhaar Act of 2016 was framed. The current version of National Population Register along with census 2021 will be carried using a mobile application. National Population Register is the mother database of National Register of Citizens (NRC). To talk about these registers, Suno India editor Padma Priya talks to Cyber Democracy host Srinivas Kodali.

1) How is the National Population Register compiled? 2) How is it related to citizenship and the decennial census? 3) And, can States refuse cooperation with the NPR process? The story so far: As protests spread all across the country against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 and the proposed National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC), West Bengal and Kerala suspended work related to the preparation and update of the National Population Register in their respective States. The NPR, a register of residents of the country with demographic and biometric details, was supposed to be prepared between April 2020 and September 2020 ahead of the Census slated for 2021. Preliminary work on the NPR has begun in several States. In Bengal, civil rights activists had been protesting against the compilation of the NPR alleging that it had nothing to with the Census, but the “first step to initiate the National Register of Citizens” in the State. According to Section 14A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 (which was inserted in 2004), the Central Government may compulsorily register every citizen of India and issue a national identity card to him; and it may maintain a National Register of Indian Citizens. What is the National Population Register (#NPR)? The NPR is a database containing a list of all usual residents of the country. Its objective is to have a comprehensive identity database of people residing in the country. It is generated through house-to-house enumeration during the “house-listing” phase of the census, which is held once in 10 years. The last census was in 2011, and the next will be done in 2021 (and will be conducted through a mobile phone application, according to the Home Minister, Amit Shah). A usual resident for the purposes of NPR is a person who has resided in a place for six months or more, and intends to reside there for another six months or more The census involves a detailed questionnaire — there were 29 items to be filled up in the 2011 census — aimed at eliciting the particulars of every person, including age, sex, marital status, children, occupation, birthplace, mother tongue, religion, disability and whether they belonged to any Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe. On the other hand, the NPR collects basic demographic data and biometric particulars. Once the basic details of the head of the family are taken by the enumerator, an acknowledgement slip will be issued. This slip may be required for enrolment in NPR, whenever that process begins. And, once the details are recorded in every local (village or ward), sub-district (tehsil or taluk), district and State level, there will be a population register at each of these levels. Together, they constitute the National Population Register. What is the legal basis for the NPR? While the census is legally backed by the Census Act, 1948, the NPR is a mechanism outlined in a set of rules framed under the Citizenship Act, 1955. Section 14A was inserted in the Citizenship Act, 1955, in 2004, providing for the compulsory registration of every citizen of India and the issue of a “national identity card” to him or her. It also said the Central government may maintain a “National Register of Indian Citizens”. The Registrar General India shall act as the “National Registration Authority” (and will function as the Registrar General of Citizen Registration). Incidentally, the Registrar General is also the country’s Census Commissioner. The NPR is the first step towards establishing the NRIC. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prostudyzone/message

Host Bernice Bennett welcomes Dr. Evelyn McDowell, LaBrenda Garrett Nelson, and Muriel D. Roberts for a discussion on a new lineage society - the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage. The discussion will focus on the organization (creation & purpose); why join a lineage society and the process to join this society. Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP) is a lineage society that is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the memory, education, and historic preservation of the artifacts and landmarks of slavery in the United States and its economic, psychological, and cultural impact on today's society. Evelyn Aniton McDowell, Ph.D., CPA, CGMA is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.  She currently serves as founder and President of Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP), a heritage society for descendants of Africans who were enslaved in colonial America and in the United States of America. Through genealogical research, she has found over 35 enslaved ancestors. LaBrenda Garrett- Nelson, CG(sm) is the Registrar General of SDUSMP, responsible for reviewing the sufficiency of applications. Board-certified since 2015, she is also a trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists and a frequent speaker at national and local venues.  In 2016 she published a guide for researching African Americans in her home county of Laurens, South Carolina, a book that was hailed as an important model for other SC counties.  Muriel D. Roberts is serving her 3rd year as Secretary and 9th year as Membership Chairperson for the New Jersey Chapter of the Afro–American Historical and Genealogical Society. She is a charter member of SDUSMP, honoring ancestor Melendia Dixon.         

[Updated] A gay couple have filed an official notice with the Registrar General that they want to get married in Bermuda, saying that “it would set a precedent, and we would be equal in the eyes of the law.” Bermudian Ijumo Hayward, 46, and American Clarence Williams III, 40, have filed a Notice of Intended […](Click to read the full article)

In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, the British government introduced an Act that would allow them to gather vital information about the country's population. This information would inform their decisions on identity cards, rationing and conscription.The night of 29 September 1939 was National Registration Night, and that evening, at 6:30pm, the Registrar General broadcast this message to the nation.In our collection we have the script (catalogue reference RG 28/164) of the Registrar General's broadcast, read here by Gary Thorpe.

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.