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b'Published Sept 6, 2011 Are you having a Picnic?\\xa0\\xa0Problem In Chair Not In Computer! r - says Google\\xa0 They had a recent failure but Google says it wasn\\u2019t the car it was a PICNIC! See the photos at Kiera posted on my Facebook wall after the webinar saying\\xa0 \\u201cI listened to your Webinar on Google Tools today. I wanted to hit myself over the head for not having those tips sooner. I\'ve put them to use today, and already, they\'re helping me immensely! A million thanks!!!!!!!!\\u201d \\xa0 Book Lisa to Speak If your genealogy society doesn\\u2019t have the budget to fly out speakers in person, webinars are a fantastic alternative.\\xa0 Find out more about . \\xa0 NEWS: AppList for Hobbies has finally been released! We also had some exciting news around here recently.\\xa0 Appadvice.com published their and named the Genealogy Gems Podcast app as a must have for family history. In other genealogy news, Ancestry made an interesting move recently.\\xa0 They decided to put out a press release about the fact that the images and indexes to the 1940 U.S. Federal Census will be made free to search in the United States when it becomes available in mid-April 2012. Interestingly it was just before Archives.com made their big announcement that they are going to be addint the entire US Federal Census to their website.\\xa0 I blogged about this at length in an article on my website called \\xa0 It really is going to be interesting to see Archives approach to challenging the Big Fish, and Ancestry\\u2019s response to being challenged. Footnote.com has decided to focus primarily on military records, and they have a new name for it that reflects that.\\xa0 Footenote.com will now be known as Fold3 which comes from the third fold in a traditional military flag folding ceremony.\\xa0 Ancestry has also explanded their U.S. School Yearbook Collection\\xa0 \\xa0 MAILBOX: I caught by surprise the other day when Ruth replied back to that email and she said: \\u201cI owe you a Thank You!\\xa0 I have learned so much about Google in just the first 50 pages! Wow! Do to time constraints, most of my genealogical research is conducted online and Google is certainly my favorite search engine. You book is a fantastic guide to the Google universe!\\xa0 P. S. I\'ve been listening to The Genealogy Gems Podcast for a long time. Also a great help to my research!\\u201d Aisha wrote: \\u201cI grew up away from my extended family and my grandparents died before I got to know them. So, genealogy is helping me to connect and learn about my relatives. Thanks for the tips and gems.\\u201d To learn more about vital records check out my Family History: Genealogy Made Easy Podcast series. focuses on the search process and specifically death records.\\xa0 Maria asked \\u201cWhat should my next research step be? I\'ve been googling his name, as well as searching on Ancestry.com. My MIL may have half-siblings, and a biological father who could still be alive somewhere! I would love to further my research...Any suggestions would be appreciated! I love your podcast!\\u201d In addition to standard genealogical searching methods, focus on unique identifiers about the man.\\xa0 A name of one of the boyfriends siblings? His father\'s occupation? One of their neighbors? How far he lived from her? Something that can be used to narrow down the right man in the census. When things look the same on the surface, we need to find what is unique about them and follow that lead. Good luck Maria! Randy in Nebraska wrote in with a question just about everyone faces at some point. He says: "My questiion is: how do you cite information from someone else\'s work while they have great citations themselves?\\xa0 How much should a person retrace sources when the information is \'published\' on the internet or in family histories?\\u201d Published family histories are wonderful finds, and yet they can have errors or omissions. First I would spot check a number of the sources to see if they are verifiable and accurately recorded.\\xa0 Ideally you would verify all of them, but realistically that is difficult to do with lengthy published works.\\xa0 Also published and properly cited family histories are in a different category than a family tree published online, which can be notoriously inaccurate and not properly sourced.\\xa0 It\'s very easy for errors to get picked up and added to an online family tree. I would recommend that you read the article Using Published Family Histories from the Mar-Apr 2002 issue of Ancestry magazine, And as for proper citations, the go-to book is Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Ericson in California wrote to tell me that he\\u2019s been bit \\u2013 hard!\\xa0He writes:\\xa0\\u201cThank you for all the guidance and inspiration you have given me. In a matter of six months, I\'ve caught-up listening to your Family History podcast, Family Tree Magazine podcast and the Genealogy Gems premium podcast. To date, I have cataloged 265 individual relatives. My parents think I\'ve gone off the deep-end with this bug! Is there an easier way to understand and remember the degree/removal terminology, such as "first cousin twice removed"? When I reach-out and introduce myself to new relatives, they give me a blank look when I say these terminologies. It\'s gotten to the point where I would just say "distant relative" or "cousin", which seems overly simplified.\\u201d Check out the But in reality "distant cousin" makes the point and can be less aggravating for all concerned! \\xa0 GEM: Should Your Genealogy Research Flourish?My good friend Dear MYRTLE joins me in this episode to discuss a listener\'s question about the abbreviation "fl" which stands for "flourish."\\xa0 Check out with all the details on the history of the term and genealogy experts opinions on it\'s use in our research. Myrt also gives us the scoop on the\\xa0Genea-Quilters 1812 Preserve the Pensions Quilt. "Our Genea-Quilters Group on FB has just agreed to support the Federation of Genealogical Society\'s 1812 Preserve the Pensions by doing a quilt. We\'re very excited about this project, and find it a wonderful way to support this wonderful digitization project. The records will always be free. \\xa0 \\xa0 The'