From Paper To People
The #1 job of family history research is to take ancestors from names on paper to multidimensional people who lived, breathed, loved, lost, and helped us to be who we are. In this work, I am all about best evidence and best practices. This podcast is an extension of my classroom, a hybrid teaching and chat session where you'll find the best ways to get the most out of online genealogy tools. I'll give you tips, tricks, and stories from my 37 years of research about mistakes and triumphs in genealogy, folklore, and family history work. I'll discuss using Ancestry, FamilySearch, Newspapers.com, Find-a-Grave and more. I'll also have special tips and tricks for Mormon genealogists, and features on aspects of African-American and recent-immigrant genealogy. My anecdotes come from interesting searches and finds in my own tree and my clients' trees. If you have a question that you'd like answered, let me know - I'll do my best to address it!Podcasts
The Family Cookbook: Deep Fried Biscuits and Homemade Apple Butter
Published: April 6, 2022, 10:14 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 4 seconds
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BioADay2022 - Wiley Franklin Odom
Published: Feb. 1, 2022, 6:42 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 6 seconds
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News Bulletin! 4 Free African American Genealogy Seminars in February!
Published: Jan. 21, 2022, 8:35 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds
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BioADay2022 - Calvin Walker
Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 9:31 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 52 seconds
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Family Cookbook - Cheesecake Past, Cheesecake Present, Cheesecake Future
Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 6:07 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 12 seconds
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Get Lost, 2021 - Hello, #BioADay2022!
Published: Dec. 29, 2021, 3:24 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
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Skelly Rellies 2021: Bad to the Bone
Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 3:02 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 27 seconds
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Skelly Rellies, Jeffreys and Consecration, Oh My!
Published: Sept. 20, 2021, 7 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds
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A Zoom Class, Simulcast on Clubhouse!
Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 1:25 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds
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My DAR Patriots, July 4th and Me
Published: July 5, 2021, 12:06 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds
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All About Blogs with Lisa Lisson
Published: June 6, 2021, 10:29 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 48 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - Things That Go On, With, Or Next To Things
Published: May 28, 2021, 4 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds
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Patreon Updates Announcement
Published: May 25, 2021, 4 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 6 seconds
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An Interview with Michael W Twitty, part 2
Published: May 22, 2021, 1:46 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 21 seconds
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An Interview with Michael W Twitty, part 1
Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 8:14 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds
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Promo - An Interview with Michael W Twitty
Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 4:52 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 39 seconds
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Your Family and the WWII Homefront - Audience Participation Time!
Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 4 seconds
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Announcement - Record Family Holidays on Zoom!
Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 10:37 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 39 seconds
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Skelly Rellies 2020! trying again...
Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 5:45 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 38 seconds
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Skelly Rellies is Coming - SEND ME YOUR RECIPES!
Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 3:55 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 7 seconds
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Interview with Brian Sheffey about AncestryDNA
Published: July 25, 2020, 3:31 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 33 seconds
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The Conversation in Specifics - Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, Too
Published: July 4, 2020, 2:03 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 13 seconds
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Hygienealogy and Scaffolding in the Time of COVID
Published: April 16, 2020, 1:47 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 25 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - Keep it Sweet for COVID
Published: March 26, 2020, noonDuration: 13 minutes 50 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - Comfort Foods for COVID
Published: March 21, 2020, 9:28 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 49 seconds
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George P Penn - A Little Weekend Hygienealogy
Published: March 6, 2020, 10:54 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds
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Folklore with My Father
Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 9:13 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 44 seconds
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New Year's News Update
Published: Feb. 2, 2020, 1:36 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds
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Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020!
Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 3:54 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds
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Reparational Genealogy for the Individual in 2020
Published: Dec. 15, 2019, 1:33 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 9 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - The USCIS Rule and the Post-Thanksgiving Recipes
Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 4:46 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 34 seconds
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My Interview on Genealogy Adventures
Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 37 seconds
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October Announcements
Published: Oct. 12, 2019, 12:25 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds
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Naming Babies from Your Tree, aka Don't Make Your Baby Hate You
Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 51 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - My Saucy Grandma
Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 2:09 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds
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Share Your Skelly Rellies!
Published: Sept. 15, 2019, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds
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What If Ancestry Takes Out a Loan - Being Prepared
Published: Aug. 16, 2019, 9:15 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 2 seconds
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What's Going On...
Published: Aug. 2, 2019, 11:58 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - Cakes and More Cakes
Published: June 21, 2019, 4:31 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 14 seconds
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Get Out of Your Head!
Published: May 19, 2019, 12:42 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 6 seconds
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An Interview with Melanie McComb
Published: April 25, 2019, 7:57 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 29 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - Peanut Butter Muffins from U of Hawaii
Published: March 18, 2019, 1:57 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds
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An Interview with Kenyatta Berry
Published: Jan. 29, 2019, 3:54 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 31 seconds
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A Family Horror Story
Published: Jan. 15, 2019, 11:58 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds
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Using Genie Twitter to Build Community
Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 16 seconds
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Cookies of Christmas Past
Published: Dec. 23, 2018, 2:47 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds
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The Genie News - Podcast Edition
Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 12:50 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds
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A Yankee Thanksgiving, 1895
Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 1:42 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 48 seconds
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Group Folklore for the Holidays
Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 12:19 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 32 seconds
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Diwali Lakshmi (the Hindu Festival of Lights), 2005-2006
Published: Nov. 11, 2018, 3:09 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 53 seconds
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Depression-Era Halloween in Miami with Colonel Goodbody, 1932
Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 7:29 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 14 seconds
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Halloween Candy, Cookies and a DRAGON, 1904
Published: Oct. 12, 2018, 3:54 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes
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Come, Come, Ye Saints - Cross Over From Ancestry To FamilySearch!
Published: Oct. 7, 2018, 12:03 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 27 seconds
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Homemade Halloween Candy, 1913
Published: Oct. 3, 2018, 3:13 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - Gingerbread Waffles
Published: Sept. 26, 2018, 5:42 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 51 seconds
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Interview with Amy Johnson Crow - Indexing and Arbitration
Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 12:27 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 34 seconds
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Ancestry: What I Hate About New
Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 2:11 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - Emily's Casserole
Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 6:05 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 49 seconds
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Interview with Joseph McGill, The Slave Dwelling Project
Published: Aug. 6, 2018, 10:50 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 47 seconds
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Using Public Records Databases to Find the Living and Recently-Deceased
Published: July 30, 2018, 10:54 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 59 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - Johnny Mazetti, or is it Marzetti?
Published: July 16, 2018, 8:08 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 59 seconds
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How To Build a Life - John Joseph Dalain
Published: July 11, 2018, 12:38 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds
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The Family Cookbook - The Hinzie Family Cornbread
Published: July 2, 2018, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 9 seconds
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Interview with Brooke Schreier Ganz of Reclaim the Records
Published: June 26, 2018, 3:22 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 15 seconds
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Juneteenth!
Published: June 18, 2018, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 53 seconds
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Mail Bag for June 2018
Published: June 2, 2018, 2:34 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 26 seconds
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Interview with Christopher Harris
Published: May 20, 2018, 11:13 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 27 seconds
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Hygienealogy 2: The Federal Census
Published: May 12, 2018, 8:29 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 51 seconds
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Shrubbing, Gedmatch, and the Golden State Killer
Published: May 3, 2018, 7:54 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes
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Why is AncestryDNA Favoring Americans?
Published: April 27, 2018, 2:29 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 52 seconds
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Why Am I Here?
Published: April 18, 2018, 12:01 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 5 seconds
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Keeping It Orderly, Or Hygienealogy
Published: March 22, 2018, 1:05 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 19 seconds
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Findagrave & Find a Friend
Published: March 14, 2018, 4:07 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 54 seconds
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Genealogy As Service Work: Lookups, Reparations & Social Justice
Published: March 8, 2018, 1:53 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 15 seconds
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Keep It Simple, Researcher: One Life, One Tree
Published: Feb. 28, 2018, 6:41 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds
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Tell Me the Truth: Genealogy for Biographers
Published: Feb. 20, 2018, 7:41 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 50 seconds
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I Wish You Were Dead
Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 1:46 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds
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Don't Be a Genealogy Jeffrey
Published: Feb. 7, 2018, 1:07 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 2 seconds
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Cage Match! Ancestry vs FamilySearch
Published: Jan. 30, 2018, 9:45 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds
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The Glory of the Story
Published: Jan. 24, 2018, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 33 seconds
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Folklore, or Just the Facts, Ma'am
Published: Jan. 16, 2018, 8:58 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 24 seconds
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Consecration, Recy Thomas and African-American Genealogy, or Reparational Genealogy
Published: Jan. 9, 2018, 11:21 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes
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Expect Surprises
Published: Jan. 2, 2018, 9:15 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 37 seconds
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