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Premium Episode 32 – Interview with Jean Wilcox Hibben

Premium Episode 32 – Interview with Jean Wilcox Hibben

Date Published: Sept. 30, 2009

Click here to download the Show Notes pdf

NEWS:

About Google Books:
Recommended Article:  Judge Delays Google Books Hearing 

Gem: How to Do Site Searches Beyond Google 
Google Site search was the very first gem I ever shared on the podcast. 

In this gem I’ve got the scoop on how you can do site searches with Bing, Yahoo and a few other creative options.  So no matter where you like to search you can zero in a specific web site.

www.Yahoo.com 
How to Use the Advanced Search Page:

  1. Go to Yahoo’s advanced search at  search.yahoo.com/web/advanced 
  2. In the Show Results section, enter the keywords you want to search for.
  3. Under the next heading called Site / Doman click the button for “only search in this domain/site:”
  4. Enter the address for the web site you want to search in the box.
  5. Click the Yahoo Search button.

www.Bing.com
Bing is Microsoft’s new challenger to Google and Yahoo.
How to Do A Site Search with Bing:

  1. Do a regular search on the terms you want to find on the web site you want to search
  2. At the results page, click the link under the right hand corner of the search box that says “advanced.”
  3. There are four tabs across the top of the search box – click “site / domain”
  4. Enter the URL address for the web site you want to search
  5. Click the Add to Search button – Bing will search for those same Keywords only on that site.

How to Do A Quick Site Search on Bing
1.  Go to www.Bing.com
2.  Type the query you want to search in the search box
3.  Press the space bar to create a space
4.  Type site:and the website address.
Example Site Search Query:  immigration site:genealogygems.tv

You can use this same site: technique with Yahoo.com as well.

Here’s a quick way to do a site search without having to remember how to construct the search using site: feature.

How to Use NewTechUSA

  1. Go to http://www.newtechusa.com/searchany.asp
  2. In the first box type the URL address for the website you want to search
  3. Click the SUBMIT button
  4. In the second box type in your key words
  5. Click the Google Search button

GEM: Interview with Jean Wilcox Hibben
Jean Wilcox Hibben is a Board-Certified Genealogist, family historian, national speaker, folklorist, and troubadour.  Sit back and enjoy my conversation with the Happy Wanderer and Songstress.

Visit Jean’s Web site

Attend one of Lisa’s upcoming classes:

California Family History Expo
Fri. & Sat. October 16 & 17, 2009
Redding Convention Center
747 Auditorium Drive, Redding, California 96001
Friday October 16th, 2009. 8 AM to 6 PM
Saturday October 17th, 2009. 8 AM to 6 PM

Lisa will be presenting:
Google: A Goldmine of Genealogy Gems Parts 1
Google: A Goldmine of Genealogy Gems Parts 2
Sharing the Joy: Projects that Will Captivate the Non-Genealogists in Your Life
Unleash Your Inner Private Eye: Eight Key Strategies for Finding Living Relatives

For more information & registration:  http://www.fhexpos.com/events/upcoming.php?event_id=52 

The Hemet–San Jacinto Genealogical Society One Day Seminar
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Hemet Public Library, Upper Floor, 300 E. Latham Ave.  Hemet, California 92543
Time: 8:45am – 3:30pm

Lisa will be presenting Google: A Goldmine of Genealogy Gems Parts 1 & 2 and Suzanne Russo Adams will present several exciting and informative lectures about the Ancestry site.
Cost is $10.00 before October 15th and $15.00 after.   Free giveaways and door prizes.

For more information & registration: http://www.hsjgs.org/October_Seminar.htm?sssdmh=dm13.218115

Below: Lisa’s Guest, Jean Wilcox Hibben    

Premium Episode 33 – Homestead Records with Billie Edgington

Date Published: Oct. 26, 2009

Click here to download the Show Notes pdf

MAILBOX: 
Graham Wilkie, from Australia asks where the Google Earth files containing place names are stored on your computer.

Graham follows up with his own answer:  “I have now found where the My places file is stored on the hard drive and have now included in my backups. It is stored in “C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application data\Google\Google Earth\myplaces.kml”.

Anne-Marie Eischen writes Lisa about the Google Earth Video Series videos you can create in Google Earth.

From Maria Romano: “Hi Lisa. I continue to love your podcasts!”  Maria asks how she might be able to improve the qualtiy of very light or very dark census records downloaded from Ancestry.com.

Lisa has two strategies for dealing with hard to read census images:

1)     Download the image to your computer and manipulate it in a basic photo editor software program.

a.      Listen to The Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 18 and the segment on “Vehicular Forensics.”

b.      Picasa is a free photo editor available from Google.

c.      Watch Lisa’s video Grave Transformations for Family Tree Magazine at http://www.youtube.com/user/familytreemagazine#p/a/u/1/TJOzkd2Sc2U to learn how to manipulate hard to see images.

2)     Check other websites with the same docs.

a.      Listen to the October 2009 episode of The Family Tree Magazine Podcast for Lisa’s interview with the folks at HeritageQuestOnline.com where you can access free census records.

ISUmom24 posted a note in the Genealogy Gems Message Forum at www.genealogygemspremium.com  recently called “Have a Cemetery Record; Can’t Locate Death Certificate!”

Sign in to your Premium Member account on the website and check out her genealogy dilmema under the Getting Started in Genealogy message board.  You’ll need to register to participate in the Message Forum but it’s just a matter or re-entering you email address and a password.

GEM:  Homestead Records with Billie Edgington

Billie has a BA in History from University of California Irvine, and over 40 years experience in historical and genealogical research. She is the co-author of “Vital Information from the Guion Miller Roll” and author of “African-Cherokee Connections,” and a past contributor to the “Genealogical Helper.”

Tips from Billie:

National Archives Web  Site:  http://www.archives.gov

Use form 84 to request records:  http://www.archives.gov/forms/pdf/natf-84.pdf

Bureau of Land Management Web Site:  http://www.blm.gov

Lisa’s Tip:  Learn more about the Homestead Act of 1862 at http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=31

Read a transcription of the Homestead Act at http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=31&page=transcript

Thanks so much to Billie Edgington for being on the show, and if you have an ancestor who homesteaded land, I’m going to be sharing some amazing things that you can do with Google Earth and homestead records in upcoming videos in that Google Earth series, so keep an eye out for that!

Down on the Farm in Harvest Time Sung by Byron Harlan in 1913

Coming soon:  The Genealogy Gems Podcast app for iPhone and iTouch

Premium Episode 34 – Research Hypothesis Theory with Jeanette Daniels

Date Published: Nov. 18, 2009

Click here to download the Show Notes pdf

NEWS:

Footnote.com made an announcement this last week about their Holocaust Collection. These records, however, will remain free to access through any of the National Archives physical locations.   To view the records go to http://go.footnote.com/holocaust_records/

Also in the news is the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is publishing a new scholarly journal called American Ancestors Journal.  It will be included as a supplement in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register and will contain articles with a national scope, emphasizing New York State and out-migrations from New England.  Read the free first edition.

You can now Search three Georgia newspaper archives free at the Digital Library of Georgia.  

GenealogyBank http://www.genealogybank.comhas announced millions of family history records from 41 newspapers and  23 states were recently added.

MAILBOX:
Premium Member Website Review:

– Sign in with your membership user name and password
– You will be taken to the Premium area homepage|
– In the middle of the screen is a large purple button for Podcasts and a green button for Videos.
– Click on the large green Videos button you will come to a page with a complete listing of all of the available Premium Videos with links to you can go to their individual pages and watch them.

Factors affecting video viewing online:

  • Your Internet service
  • The speed of your computer
  • Congestion on the Internet

It might take a video a few moments to get started – and if on a rare occasion it just won’t load up for you, the best thing to do is to come back a while later, refresh your Internet browser and try it again.

Newest feature of Premium membership:
Now you can listen to Premium episodes right from the show notes page using the new media player.

 

GEM: My Google Book Search Library Gadget

Google Books

If you aren’t an iGoogle user, watch Video #1 in the Google: A Goldine of Genealogy Gems video series which is called Getting Started with iGoogle.

 

Profile America:  Freedom of the Press

John Peter Zenger, A German immigrant who published the New York Weekly Journal, was arrested on Nov. 17, 1734 for libel against the colonial governor.

Read his libelous article.

 

GEM:  Jeanette Daniels Interview

Jeanette teaches classes on The Genealogy Process, Creating a research hypothesis theory, Cryptic Sources, and Streamlining the Research Process.

Jeanette’s Tip:
Tap into the wealth of free information available from the Family History Library consultants,  and reference librarians.  “Don’t bypass the counter help!”

The Process:
Creating a research hypothesis / theory
Identify known factsMake Goals – wish list of what you want to find.
Make realistic objectives – the tasks you need to do to make your wish list come true.
Pre-plan your research – use the online catalogue to identify the sources you want to look up.  “It saves a lot of time.” A research plan helps you be able to easily put down and pick back up your research seamlessly.

Heritage Genealogical College

Profile America:  1840 Census

To learn more visit the U.S. Census Bureau’s Pop Culture: 1840 page

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