Podcast appearances and mentions of tara austen weaver

In our second episode, we talk with Kirsten Collins, co-founder of our in-person Cookbook Club, about helpful tips to start your own club. Trust us, it'll be your favorite meal of the month. Resources shared in this episode: Why Cookbook Clubs Should Be the New Way We Entertain, by Tara Austen Weaver in Serious Eats The Buy Nothing project Marco Polo Kirsten's 5 steps to start a Cookbook Club: Figure out what's important to you Decide who's in it Apply some structure Decide how to stay in touch Let it evolve About our guest Kirsten Collins is the co-founder of our real-life Cookbook Club. She is the executive director of The Circus Project in Portland, OR. Join our Cookbook Club! Our Instagram, @cookbookclubshow E-mail us: cookbookclubshow@gmail.com Find Renee and Sara on Instagram: @hipchickdigs and @realtor_saragray Cook along with us! Next cookbook episode (releasing 9/8/2021): Six Seasons, by Joshua McFadden

This week's podcast guest is Tara Austen Weaver, freelance writer and author of Growing Berries and Fruit Trees in the Pacific Northwest. Tara shares her passion for home-grown fruit and berries, and tips for a successful harvest from your back yard. Continue reading → The post Podcast: Fruits and Berries with Tara Austen Weaver appeared first on Gardenerd.

In this first episode of the 2019 season, Hilary and Tara Austen Weaver discuss planning for, planting and growing fruit trees!  Find photos, links to Tara's work, and more in this episode's show notes: http://www.seattleurbanfarmco.com/blog/

  Today, I’m excited to introduce my guest from Tara Austen Weaver who’s written a book about growing (https://amzn.to/2TPs9uL)   Growing Berries and Fruit Trees in the Pacific Northwest: How to Grow Abundant, Organic Fruit in Your Backyard (https://amzn.to/2TPs9uL) I know that you are going to love this because it’s got lots of great tips for anyone living anywhere not just in the Northwest and I’m super excited because last summer I was visiting Nola’s yard last summer because her blueberries were amazing and I am bound and determined to grow some this year! And there’s just so much to learn so welcome to the show! Tell us a little about yourself. My mom had a giant organic garden! I guess I’m sort of a second generation gardener I actually grew up not really liking to garden I liked playing and running around but weeding seemed like drudgery to me! I have all these very visceral memories of just being out in the garden and sunshine, my mom would pop cherry tomatoes into our mouths when we were kids, because we just picked it in the sunshine! fruit that was warm from a tree So I have all these really positive memories of being in a garden but not doing any work! I was living in San Francisco in my late 20s, early 30s I started coming back around to the idea of gardening I remember one year for my birthday I got the idea to build these window boxes ~ I had gotten into cooking. I wanted to grow herbs. It is so irritating to buy a whole bunch of parsley when you just need a sprig. I lugged these boxes home and I’m dangling out this window and holding this heavy drill and I got them put up and filled them with soil and nestled my tiny little herbs and was so so pleased!  Then within a week or two, I noticed the sage leaves had this kind of white stuff on it. I was concerned and I lived on the foggy side of the city and thought oh my is this is fungus or blight on my herbs and when I went to investigate I discovered it was pigeon poop and I realized I wasn’t gonna be a gardener in the city.  It wasn’t till I moved to Seattle about 10 years ago that everything fell into place, Seattle has such a giant gardening community!  Everyone here it seems even if they just grow beautiful yards edible ones and everyone is out working and tending vegetables I got bitten by the gardening bug quickly used up all of the area didn’t have much of a yard I got a community garden plot started studying permaculture Eventually my mother moved up to Seattle and bought a house on half an acre! For the last 9 years we have been collaborating The Neglected Orchard there were 9 fruit trees on the property but they were engulfed in blackberries adding to it ever since We have 20 fruit trees now 12 different types of blueberries raspberries strawberries lots of annual vegetable gardens I’ve recently got more into flowers I’m obsessed with my dahlia patch and also interested in flowers to support pollinators.  (http://amzn.to/2lc0odq) So, are you following (https://www.floretflowers.com/) ? She’s really big into dahlias. I tried to grow some last year but I must have buried them too deep because they never grew. I’m gonna have to try that again next summer.  I’ve enjoyed your story here. I’ve been painting pictures of Paris, and there are so many window boxes in Paris it’s interesting to think about growing in the city. Plus I’ve been reading this very strange children’s book about pigeons, there’s like a place in Pennsylvania where they have a live pigeon shoot. Anyway… I think my situation in San Fransisco, my neighbor fed the pigeons lots of ones going back and forth and they would nestle down so that seems like a nonstarter.  With a half acre, I do have a few things in... Support this podcast

Today, I’m excited to introduce my guest from Tara Austen Weaver who’s written a book about growing (https://amzn.to/2TPs9uL)   Growing Berries and Fruit Trees in the Pacific Northwest: How to Grow Abundant, Organic Fruit in Your Backyard (https://amzn.to/2TPs9uL) I know that you are going to love this because it’s got lots of great tips for anyone living anywhere not just in the Northwest and I’m super excited because last summer I was visiting Nola’s yard last summer because her blueberries were amazing and I am bound and determined to grow some this year! And there’s just so much to learn so welcome to the show! (https://mikesgreengarden.com/organic-gardener-podcast/255-growing-berries-and-fruit-trees-in-the-pacific-northwest-how-to-grow-abundant-organic-fruit-in-your-backyard-tara-austen-weaver-seattle-wa/) Tell us a little about yourself. My mom had a giant organic garden! It wasn’t till I moved to Seattle about 10 years ago that everything fell into place, Seattle has such a giant gardening community!  Everyone here it seems even if they just grow beautiful yards edible ones and everyone is out working and tending vegetables I got bitten by the gardening bug quickly used up all of the area didn’t have much of a yard I got a community garden plot started studying permaculture Eventually my mother moved up to Seattle and bought a house on half an acre! Tell us about something that grew well this year. I’m coming off not a fantastic garden year, because I moved this spring! I wasn’t thinking it through thinking I could move and garden and that didn’t really happen! Perennial gardening is growing obsession I have a busy life and in the summer I also like to go hiking. I am really really interested in those things that don’t need as much help and tending as lettuce and peas do those twelve blueberry bushes were fine and asked nothing of me!  master recipes I have developed over the years this jam crisp you can make with any fruit the other thing people don’t realize commercial growers grow certain varieties because they stand up to transport that will stand up on the shelf. There are a lot of amazing varieties that don’t get grown commercially because they are just too fragile. My favorite strawberry variety is called Shushkan not grown commercially They really need to be processed within 24 hours They have the most amazing flavor Is there something you would do different next year or want to try/new? well I feel like I actually had a slower gardening season next year so I have a jump on this year and I have my fava beans in already! I had a really good tomato season about 2 years ago growing tomatoes from seed I want to really be on my tomato game next year Once you start doing things from seeds and have access to all these interesting varieties you want more and more sort of like collecting baseball cards and you want all of them! I am interested in doing more of that I have really also gotten into chicories and radiccio and bitter lettuces! I have some that are actually growing on 2-3 year now, like the same plants, I just cut the seed stalk do it sort of as a cut and come crop cut all their leaves as they are growing in the summer and it just resprouts from the root stem!  3 year old chicory I let some develop seed stems and the seeds drop reseeding themselves very attracted by perennial gardening! I love being in the garden but summer’s short in the US and in NW and I have  lots of things to do half an acre a lot to look after shortcuts easier permaculture approach if you can have a cycle that replenishes itself is fantastic chicories (http://amzn.to/1WHyebf) Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live... Support this podcast

First of all, I want to send lots of love and prayers to all of my listeners in California who are suffering from fires and smoke. You have no idea how much you have been in my prayers. (https://amzn.to/2TPs9uL) (https://amzn.to/2TPs9uL) I’m excited to do an interview today with Tara Austen Weaver (http://taraweaver.com/) who has written all of these cool books! She even sent me a copy of her newest book that is going to be released this spring     Compost Infographic from the Organic Gardener Podcast and (https://mailchi.mp/5611bc3d7dfd/free-garden-course) I created this simple little infographic to go with the (https://mailchi.mp/5611bc3d7dfd/free-garden-course) to be released ASAP! It’s about 120 pages full of golden seeds from my guests and what we’ve done and I know you’re gonna love it! What do you think of our first infographic? I have been amazed at the progress I have finally made this week on the  ! (https://mailchi.mp/5611bc3d7dfd/free-garden-course)  It’s funny how it’s all finally coming together, we’re in the homestretch and I can feel the light at the end of this very long yearlong journey to create the course from idea to completion! I know it’s taken me a while but I think you are going to find thanks to    (https://www.amyporterfield.com/) amazing guidance the finished product is going to far superior to the current website. Thanks so much to all of you who have shared your stories with me this last year, I feel like I know you all so much better. I also made this cute little listener/guest avatar page to think about whenever I am working on it! Thanks so much for sharing your journeys all you amazing guests and gardeners! I think you are also going to love the addition of the hardcopy workbook I finally got a basic outline uploaded to create space that will tie it altogether get ready to make 2019 your best garden year ever!  Also if you know anyone from any of these states I am always looking for guests! Alabama Alaska Arkansas Connecticut Delaware Iowa Kansas Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Rhode Island South Carolina  West Virginia To learn more please visit our website at the  organicgardenerpodcast.com (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/?p=3287) (http://organicgardenerpodcast.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e3e16d6ddb7c0acd9e17348ed&id=b6a8f6bd31&e=e16e7400c4) We’d love if you’d join   Organic Gardener Podcast Facebook Community! (http://organicgardenerpodcast.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e3e16d6ddb7c0acd9e17348ed&id=b6a8f6bd31&e=e16e7400c4) The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the  (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/organic-gardener-podcast/id962887645) . and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our new  Free Garden Course.com (https://mailchi.mp/5611bc3d7dfd/free-garden-course) (https://mailchi.mp/5611bc3d7dfd/free-garden-course) (https://mailchi.mp/5611bc3d7dfd/free-garden-course) Remember you can get the  (https://amzn.to/2P8bRKo) You can   download the first 30 days here  (https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/2018calendarjanuary.pdf)   while you’re waiting for it to come in the mail.  (http://organicgardenerpodcast.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e3e16d6ddb7c0acd9e17348ed&id=b6a8f6bd31&e=e16e7400c4) and... Support this podcast

Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 189 NEWS: Relative Race BYUtv's new reality series Relative Race () premiered on February 28, 2016. The show “features four married couples as they travel across the US in search of long lost relatives, armed with only paper maps, a rental car, a $25 per diem and a flip phone.” (Interview with two contestants later in the show.)   Databases of Runaway Slave Notices on new websites that will launch databases of runaway slave notices: Irish Collections and Tips from Findmypast for 1670-1900 at Findmypast.com (FREE FOREVER to search), with links to free     , head of Irish Data and Development at Findmypast on getting started in Irish research   MyHeritage Updates Its Search Technologies from the MyHeritage blog.   MAILBOX: Marquise' new blog:   Kim recommends my for beginners and those who want a “genealogy do-over.” She particularly mentions a three-part series on immigration and naturalization records in Episode 29, Episode 30 and . Matt's suggestion for : leave virtual flowers on the “tombstones” of deceased relatives so other relatives can find you: Create a free individual log-in from the home page of the website After logging in, go into an individual record, where it shows your ancestor's tombstone information. Click on the button that says, “Leave flowers and a note.” Select among several different images of flowers. Choose whether to leave a note and your name. Others who view this tombstone profile can click on your screen name and contact you through the site.                     INTERVIEW: Janice and Patrick Wright from Relative Race host Dan J. Debenham described how BYUtv's original competition reality show came into being: “What could we create that would be very different from what's currently out there and that would show people discovering family all across the country?" Four teams race from San Francisco to New York in 10 days. Their goal?  Find unknown relatives, complete challenges, and don't get eliminated. In this episode you will hear from Team Black: Patrick Wright is an executive at Alpha Media, a growing radio broadcast media company based in Portland, OR; Janice is a freelance Media Consultant. They joined the Relative Race show because they love travel and adventure.    BOOK CLUB: Interview excerpt with Tara Austen Weaver on Orchard House Author Tara Austen Weaver talks about gardening and family, and how tending a garden isn't so different from nourishing family relationships.   DNA GEM: 3 Reasons to Test with Diahan Southard My youngest child, Eleanor, is nearly 8, so it was fun to have a 2 year old over the other day. She loved following Eleanor around, and Eleanor was equally thrilled to have someone to mentor in the ways of big girl play. I took special delight in listening to my daughter's patient and surprisingly complete answers to our guest's constant inquiries of “Why?” It got me thinking about the Whys of genealogy, and especially of genetic genealogy. I decided that there are three main reasons to have your DNA tested for genealogical purposes. It is primary information. In genealogy, primary information is given by a source with firsthand knowledge of an event, with the best primary information being created at or around the time of the event. I think we can safely say that DNA falls into that category on both counts. Therefore, it is an excellent source of genealogical information and should be obtained as part of a thorough genealogical search. It is a unique record. DNA possesses several qualities that make this record type stand out from the rest. First and foremost, it cannot be falsified in any way. No name change, no deception, no miscommunication or misspelling can tarnish this record. Even if it is not a complete record of our family history, the story that it does tell is accurate. It is a physical link to our past. So much of genealogy work, especially in today's digital world, is intangible. We add ancestors to our pedigree charts with a click of our mouse, having no idea of their physical characteristics, never once setting foot in the same places that they did, or if they preferred bread and butter or toast and jam. But with the advent of DNA testing, I am able to see a physical connection between me and my ancestor. The first time I saw it seems unremarkable. It was just a blue line on top of a grey line, representing the location in the DNA where I had the same information as my cousin. But that line meant that we had both inherited a physical piece of DNA from our common ancestor, Lucy J. Claunch. That realization didn't add names or dates to my pedigree chart- Lucy had been on my chart since the beginning. But it did add a sense of purpose and reality to my genealogical work. In short, it inspired me to know more about Lucy and to tell her story because I felt inextricably tied to it. Perhaps many of you don't need a DNA test to feel similarly motivated, you already understand what I learned: Her story is my story. But because I have her DNA in me, I am able to take that idea one step further. Because she lives on in me, my story is her story. So I better make it a good one. Has your DNA motivated you to find out more about your story? Genealogy Gems readers and listeners get a special price on Diahan Southard's DNA Video Training    PROFILE AMERICA:  

Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 188 Highlights from this episode include: RootsTech news and resources for everyone; New records online for Ireland and the United States; Two inspiring emails from listeners who unravel family mysteries with determination, skill and Google sleuthing; Motivating thoughts on organizing your family history research; A  update with more thoughts on the featured title  by Tara Austen Weaver and book recommendations from RootsTech attendees; A critique of a recent NPR article on genetic genealogy by Your DNA Guide Diahan Southard; and A great conversation with Cindy Cochran and Sabrina Riley of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society Library at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. NEWS: Findmypast creates new partnerships During RootsTech, .com announced new partnerships with RootsMagic, Legacy Family Tree, FamilySearch, Family-Historian, Puzzilla, Billion Graves and RootsCity. A press release stated that “Findmypast will make its vast record collection of more than 8 billion records available to customers via these partners. The rollout of these partnerships will begin in 2016, with exact dates to be detailed later….Customers using these various family history products will benefit from having Findmypast's record collection embedded within the actual product in ways that each partner determines will benefit their customers most.” NEWS: More on the Family Tree Maker Roller Coaster On February 2, Ancestry.com announced an agreement with RootsMagic to connect their family history software with Ancestry.com by the end of 2016. Hooray for being able to continue to sync your online tree with your master tree at home in your own control, your own software, where Ancestry says you'll also have access to Ancestry hints and searches. On the same day, Ancestry also announced the acquisition of Family Tree Maker software for both Mac and Windows by a company called Software MacKiev. According to Ancestry, “This new agreement means you will receive software updates and new versions from Software MacKiev, and have the ability to purchase new versions of Family Tree Maker from Software MacKiev as they are released.“ Ancestry hopes to have both these solutions fully functional by the time Family Tree Maker software stops being supported at the end of this year. NEWS: New Genealogy Records Online IRELAND CENSUS RECORDS. MyHeritage.com has added to its site “over  from the 1901 and 1911 censuses [which record every household member]. Both collections are completely free and contain images.”   IRELAND PARISH RECORDS. Findmypast.com subscribers now have access to an  to the National Library of Ireland's free online collection of  from 1000 parishes, with over 10 million baptisms and marriages.    (US) DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH RECORDS. Ancestry.com has added a new collection of  from 14 states and has updated a separate but similar collection of  (1639-1989).   US MARRIAGES. Findmypast has just released an enormous collection of . “Containing over 450 million names from 1650 to 2010…the US Marriages collection will, when complete, include over 100 million records, 60% of which have never been published online before.” A third of the data are already online. NEWS: MyHeritage Audio Recordings : Use to interview relatives right from their profile in your family tree, where you'll now find an audio icon that looks like earphones. Tap it to create a new recording or to access recordings you've previously saved. Listen to the recording anytime, download it to your own computer (which you should definitely do to store as your master file) and share it with anyone who is a member of your family website on MyHeritage.com.   Audio Recordings is free and available on the latest version of the MyHeritage mobile app on the  and .   NEWS: RootsTech Follow-Up Live-streamed RootsTech 2016 sessions by Lisa Louise Cooke: , with top tips and strategies taken from her book The Genealogist's Google Toolbox. The lectures below were streamed live from the Genealogy Gems theater in the RootsTech Exhibitor Hall. Click to watch them: give the video a few seconds to adjust to the proper orientation. by Lisa Louise Cooke, a followup lecture to the one above : this 30-minute lecture was streamed live by Lisa from the Exhibitor Hall. for that lecture.   MAILBOX: Here's the news article Cathy sent in along with her email about learning more about her grandfather's death. Inspired by the Genealogy Gems about Googling for coroner's records to solve mysterious deaths, she went looking for coroner's records online, too. “Well, I still haven't found the Coroners' Records but I did find a couple of newspaper articles - & apparently the body was indeed found on 21st December - but he had been missing since June!” MAIL: Trisha finds Railroad Retirement Board Records (redirects inquiries to The National Archives, which has an entire  dedicated to its Railroad Retirement Board records. Additional railroad history and genealogy suggestions: (see individual chapters)   BACKBLAZE NEWS  article on cloud-based computer backup service: “When it comes to backing up your precious data, investing in an online backup service is one of the smartest things you can do.” However, if you ever DO need to restore your hard drive, it's not so easy to download the massive amounts of files you probably have. The solution has generally been to ship an entire hard drive to a customer, but that can cost $100 or more on top of regular backup service fees. The article gave  two thumbs-up for its new solution: the . It refunds the cost of those hard drives they send you when you return them within 30 days after restoring your data. It's a $99 refund for USB flash drives and $189 for USB hard drives, so it essentially makes this a free service. Other leading cloud-based computer backup services either won't ship hard drives at all or continue to charge large fees for it. Other online magazines-- and —gave similar reports.                     INTERVIEW: Lisa talks to Cindy and Sabrina at Union College Cindy Cochran of and Sabrina Riley of Union College on the What's in their collection? Originals and copies of some government records; some of these exist on microfilm but are not online Local and regional historical materials that meet their own research priorities—they can refer you to other repositories as needed Reference materials and plenty of local expertise!   BOOK CLUB: Update from Book Club Guru Sunny Morton We hope you've gotten to savor by Tara Austen Weaver, the current featured book of the Genealogy Gems Book Club. You'll love her mouthwatering descriptions of food; fascinating insights into gardening; and touching descriptions of how we nurture and harvest our family relationships in ways not so different from gardening. In the next episode of the free Genealogy Gems podcast, you'll hear a snippet of our interview with Tara Weaver in the free Genealogy Gems podcast. Next month, will be able to hear the entire interview with Tara on the Premium podcast. Additional books that were recently recommended at the Genealogy Gems Book Club Open House at RootsTech 2016: by Julienne Osborne-McKnight , a memoir by Paula Williams Madison about the author's journey into her family history, which resulted in a documentary by the same name , a novel by the international best-selling author Kate Morton about a woman who learns a shocking secret about her own past and has to comes to terms with it—a story inspired by Kate's own family history by Sandra Dallas, the story of a midwife in 19th-century Denver, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain frontier   DNA GEM: Diahan Southard Comments on NPR article Recently NPR published an article entitled “DNA, Genealogy, and the Search For Who We Are.” This sounds like exactly the kind of article that I would want to read, considering that I am, after all, Your DNA Guide. However, after only the first two sentences of this article, I stopped reading. I could already tell this was one of those articles, you know, the kind meant to sensationalize and not to communicate accurate information. I closed the browser page. I just don't have time to read information that is meant to incite, and not to inform. But then I read some comments from some friends that had read it, and then Lisa asked me to review it for you, so I read it in its entirety. It was difficult to get through, even though it wasn't very long. There are just so many things that are wrong with the presentation of this material. Let's take three big ones. First of all, the “facts” are taken out of context. Yes, it is true, your genetic pedigree is not the same as your genealogical pedigree. Your genetic pedigree can only contain a finite amount of information while your paper pedigree can contain limitless amounts. In general, our personal set of genetics will only connect us to half of our fourth cousins, and it is true that if we go back far enough we will have zero DNA from some of our ancestors. The author implies that this kind of incomplete information is unacceptable and should be discarded. What he is missing is that by genetically connecting me to my fourth cousin, that fourth cousin is genetically connected to another fourth cousin, who I might not share DNA with, but through the testing and the genealogical research, I can confidently identify as kin. One of the powers of DNA is that it allows you to create networks with living people who can work together to verify and expand our knowledge of our ancestors.  Secondly, this author claims that DNA testing and traditional research are mutually exclusive. He claims, “…family and family history are one thing, and DNA-based ancestry is another.” I don't think I even need to comment on that. That is just wrong. Genetic genealogy is just one more tool in our toolbox to help us answer family history questions. Before I go on, I think we do need a little perspective about where this author is coming from. As US citizens, many of us have enjoyed the rapid growth and general acceptance of the genetic genealogy industry. The author of this article gained much of his content from sources in the UK. Unfortunately, the UK has seen a stream of less-than-reputable companies hawking genetic genealogy-like products that are frankly a scam. So, from that perspective, caution when entering a genetic genealogy experience should be exercised.   That background knowledge, provided by my colleague Debbie Kennett in the UK made me feel a little sheepish about my initial hostile reaction to the article. But then I read again where the author states, “It is family that matters — and family is relationship, not DNA,” and I am back on my soapbox. Perhaps this author did not pay attention in 7th grade biology. DNA is family. That's how this works. I have heard so many stories from so many of you reporting how it was this very DNA stuff that led you to a discovery about your family. Just yesterday I received an email from a woman who recently reconnected with a relative she found through DNA testing. She said, “Spent a week with Carolyn and her husband out in Colorado this Fall and the time spent together is beyond words.  It is as if we had known each other our whole lives.  But then again on a different level, I am sure we have known each other.” To me, that is a story worth telling, a story that is every bit as real as one that is discovered using only paper research methods. DNA deserves a spot in your family history research. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.   PROFILE AMERICA:  

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

Bill welcome blogger, foodie, and memoirist Tara Austen Weaver to the show. Tara is author of numerous books, including The Butcher and the Vegetarian, which was mentioned  in Newsweek, on New York Magazine’s Grub Street, in Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Redbook, and Women’s Wear Daily. She writes the incredible popular blog Tea and Cookies, which has been recommended by the Food Network and selected by the Times of London as one of the top 50 food blogs in the world, and by The Independent (UK) as one of the 50 best food sites in the world. We'll be talking about all these things, as well as her new memoir Orchard House. Don't miss it.

In Part Two of our Mother's Day Series, we visit the pages of a beautiful new memoir, Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow, and speak with the author about what happens when, on a common ground, differences become cherished strengths.Guest(s):Tara Austen Weaver, Author, Orchard House, Seattle, WA

Tea and Cookies A life-long traveler and adventurer, Tara is trained as a master gardener and permaculture designer. Editor of Edible Seattle and writer of the award winning blog Tea & Cookies. I am so excited to have Tara Austen Weaver, author of the new book Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family […] The post 027: Tara Austen Weaver: How to Get Started on a Garden first appeared on The Dinner Special podcast.