NEWS: For the month of August 2009 Footnote.com is providing free access to the 1930 census images.\xa0 To get the free access just go to\xa0 \xa0and register with your email address.\xa0 by Diane Haddad at Family Tree Magazine.\xa0 National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections\xa0 (NUCMUC) is celebrating it's 50th year. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections is a free Library of Congress program.\xa0 Information about the manuscript collections of participating US libraries is being entered into the catalog search engine. Family History: Genealogy Made Easy - Features the Footnote Maven on the Genea-musings blog about the episode of the Family History podcast features the very gifted writer Denise Levenick who write the blog, and also has an alter ego\xa0known as Penny Dreadful who writes occasionally for the Footnote Maven's blog. And you get\xa0two bloggers in this episode because it also features my interview with Schelly Talalay Dardashti who writes the blog on Jewish genealogy.\xa0 Both these ladies are very experienced bloggers and will give you great tips on blogging, including dispelling the myth that you have to be technically inclined to blog!\xa0\xa0 Google Books: on the subject\xa0 \xa0 So what do you think about this?\xa0 Have you published your family history?\xa0 Does it matter to you who owns the digital rights to your work?\xa0 I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.\xa0 or call the voice mail line at 925 272-4021 to have your thoughts included on the show. GEM:\xa0 Profile AmericaAugust 1 - First US Census GEM: Tony Burroughs is an internationally known genealogist,\xa0author, and former adjunct genealogy professor at Chicago State University. He lectures throughout the United States and Canada on all aspects of genealogy.\xa0\xa0 He is the author of the book Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree published by the Fireside Division of Simon & Schuster and I recently had a chance to sit down and talk with Tony about his work and his approach to the research process. \xa0 Tony was so much fun to talk to\xa0 and has so much knowledge about such a variety of subjects.\xa0\xa0 If you'd like to see my interview with Tony that was filmed at the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree you can view it in it's entirety at the . GEM: My Mother Was A Quilter by Lee Drew his\xa0\xa0 and his blog GEM:\xa0 Profile AmericaAugust 2 - The First News Reel for the free Genealogy Gems e-Newsletter:\xa0 To stay up on everything going on at Genealogy Gems be sure and sign up for the free e-newsletter. Just go to the website and click the Sign up button in the column on the left and when you do that you\xe2ll get\xa0the 20 page e-book on Google Research strategies as a thank you gift.\xa0 See Lisa in person: Family History Expo Sandy, Utah just outside Salt Lake City August 28 & 29, 2009 with your questions and comments