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b"This New Year\\u2019s episode is packed with fresh energy and perspective!\\xa0\\nWe welcome the\\xa0\\xa0to the podcast. Judy takes on a Genealogy Gems listener\\u2019s fantastic question about the bounty land his War of 1812 ancestor never claimed.\\nAlso:\\n\\nThe latest on life after Family Tree Maker software;\\nA fresh look at why family history software is still relevant today;\\nNew strategies for using Google to answer your genealogical research questions;\\nThe new Genealogy Gems Book Club title;\\nWhy I\\u2019m so excited about RootsTech 2016, which is coming right up;\\nNew records online and up-to-the-moment emails with questions, tips and inspiring successes.\\n\\nNEWS: Family Tree Maker Software Discontinued\\nHere\\u2019s the announcement and my initial comments that reached nearly 30,000 people on Facebook (at press time):\\n\\n\\xa0\\nNEWS: New Records Online\\nAUSTRALIA CIVIL REGISTRATIONS.\\xa0A new browse-only collection of\\xa0\\xa0(1839-1938) is now online at FamilySearch.org. It includes district registers, counterfoils of marriage certificates and some church records.\\nENGLAND PARISH AND ELECTORAL.\\xa0Significantly-updated indexes of Kent\\xa0\\xa0and\\xa0\\xa0(both dating to the 1500s!) are now online at FamilySearch, as Lancashire\\xa0\\xa0to 1538 and another collection of\\xa0\\xa0back to 1603 that include Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire.\\nITALY CIVIL REGISTRATIONS: More indexed images continue to be added regularly to the free collection at FamilySearch.org! for the current list.\\nPHILIPPINES (MANILA) CIVIL REGISTRATIONS: More than have been added to an existing collection of Philippines civil registrations at FamilySearch.org.\\nWALES ELECTORAL REGISTERS. Over 1.6 million indexed names from\\xa0\\xa0for Glamorgan and West Glamorgan, Wales (1839-1935) are now searchable at FamilySearch.org.\\nBONUS AUDIO ON THE APP:\\nBRITISH IN INDIA.\\xa0Findmypast has published new record collections relating to British overseas travelers, workers and expatriates. The\\xa0\\xa0includes \\u201cBritish 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.\\u201d There are also new collections from the India Office:\\xa0\\xa0and\\xa0.\\nDIGITAL BOOKS.\\xa0A new FREE collection of 150,000 digitized books is searchable at\\xa0. Among the titles are\\xa0family, local and military histories; city and county directories; school and university yearbooks and church and congregational minutes.\\n\\n\\xa0\\nGEMS NEWS: RootsTech 2016: February 3-6 in Salt Lake City, Utah\\n\\nHere\\u2019s the schedule for my official RootsTech lectures and those of our regular Gems contributors:\\nWednesday: 3:00 YDNA Testing for Every Surname in Your Pedigree, Diahan Southard\\nThursday: 4:30 Proven Methodology for Using Google for Genealogy, Lisa Louise Cooke\\nFriday:\\n11:00 Soothe Your Tech Tummy Ache with These 10 Tools, Lisa Louise Cooke 1:30 Proven Methodology for Using Google for Genealogy, Lisa Louise Cooke\\nSaturday: 11:00 Soothe Your Tech Tummy Ache with These 10 Tools, Lisa Louise Cooke 1:30 What\\u2019s Special About US Special Census Schedules? Sunny Morton\\nIf you\\u2019ve been to my booth at a major conference in the past few years, you already know about the \\u201cOutside the Box\\u201d mini-sessions I\\u2019ve 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.\\nThis year, I\\u2019m 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.\\nHere are the FREE classes we\\u2019re teaching at Genealogy Gems booth #1230 in the RootsTech exhibit hall:\\n\\n\\n\\nRemember, if you , you\\u2019ll save a LOT\\xa0on registration (you\\u2019ll pay $169 instead of $249 for the full 4-day event). Come by and say hello at our booth!\\n\\xa0\\nGEMS NEWS: \\u201cWhere I\\u2019m From\\u201d\\nWinners: Everyone who entered will receive a year of Genealogy Gems Premium Website Membership! In this episode you\\u2019ll hear Beverly Field\\u2019s wonderful poem, and you\\u2019ll hear from more winners in coming episodes.\\nMAILBOX: Where I\\u2019m From\\nPicture books by George Ella Lyon recommended by Katharine:\\n\\nMama is a Miner\\nCome a Tide\\nCecil\\u2019s Story\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\nMAILBOX: Family Tree Maker\\nSue\\u2019s email: she decided to use family history software and, following my suggestion, signed up for .\\n\\n to read a blog post that answers Charles\\u2019 question about why not to continue using Family Tree Maker after it \\u201cexpires.\\u201d\\n to read about specials for Family Tree Maker users and what I do with my master family tree.\\n to access Moving your tree from Family Tree Maker to Reunion, for Reunion 11 (for Mac) software, as recommended by Bill\\n to read which family history software I recommend and why\\n 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.\\n\\xa0\\nMAILBOX: GOOGLE SEARCHING CORONER\\u2019S RECORDS\\n to read a detailed answer to Lydia\\u2019s question on Google searching coroner\\u2019s records\\n is available through the store on my website at www.genealogygems.com.\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nINTERVIEW: Judy Russell\\nRobert from Covington, LA wrote in with this excellent question! Here\\u2019s the full question and an accompanying image: \\u201cWe 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.\\nI 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.\\nThe 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.\\xa0\\n\\nI 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\\u2019t have any control where this information may end up once committed to the internet.\\nMy main interest now is whether or not the certificate could still be good or if these grants have all \\u201ctimed out\\u201d 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.\\u201d\\nListen to the podcast to hear Judy\\u2019s advice about researching laws or statutes relating to our genealogy questions\\u2014and to hear how she answered this fantastic question.\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\nGenealogy Gems Book Club: A New Book!\\n\\n by Tara Austin Weaver\\nTara Austin Weaver's Tea & Cookies blog: \\nTara\\u2019s recipe for Orchard House is one part food, one part gardening and two parts family drama, liberally seasoned with humor and introspection. The \\u201cbook jacket\\u201d summary of Orchard House, from the publishers:\\n\\u201cPeeling paint, stained floors, vine-covered windows, a neglected and wild garden\\u2014Tara can\\u2019t 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\\u2014not 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.\\nSo begins\\xa0Orchard House, a story of rehabilitation and cultivation\\u2014of 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\\u2019 trials and triumphs, what grew and what didn\\u2019t, 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.\\nFor anyone who has ever planted something they wished would survive\\u2014or tried to mend something that seemed forever broken\\u2014Orchard House\\xa0is a tale of healing and growth, set in the most unlikely place.\\u201d\\nIn March, we\\u2019ll 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\\u2019s Genealogy Gems Premium podcast.\\nRootsTech 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.\\n\\xa0\\nPROFILE AMERICA:"