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b"with Lisa Louise CookeOctober 2019 NEWS: New and Returning genealogy-themed television Shows: A New Leaf on NBC A New Leaf will be included in the Saturday NBC morning programming block called\\xa0The More You Know beginning October 5, 2019.\\xa0 From the Ancestry Blog:\\xa0 \\u201cEach week \\u2018A New Leaf\\u2019 will follow people on the cusp of key life inflection points, who using family history, genealogy, and sometimes AncestryDNA\\xae analysis will go on a journey of self-discovery and learn from the past while looking to the future. In partnership with Ancestry, Fuentes will join families as they learn the importance of appreciating and understanding their family history and ancestors in order to make important life decisions. \\u201d Website: Finding Your Roots on PBS Henry Louis Gates Jr.\\u2019s sixth season of Finding Your Roots on PBS will have two new episodes this fall and eight more in January 2020. The new people featured include Melissa McCarthy, Jordan Peele, Isabella Rossellini, Gayle King, Terry Gross, Queen Latifah and many more. Check your television schedule and cable provider. Website: The DNA of Murder with Paul Holes on Oxygen Another new show that taps into genetic genealogy is The DNA of Murder with Paul Holes. It premieres October 12 at 8 p.m. on the Oxygen channel. Website: New Services for Genealogists: Legacy Tree Genealogists Offers a New Consulting Service Visit:\\xa0 From the press release: \\u201cGenealogist-on-Demand: Legacy Tree Genealogists Launches Virtual\\xa0Consultation\\xa0Service Offering Access to Family History Experts, Any Time, Any Where. Legacy Tree Genealogists announced today the launch of a new service\\u201445-minute, virtual one-on-one\\xa0consultations\\xa0with a professional genealogist. At only 100 USD, these\\xa0consultations\\xa0provide users with a cost-effective resource to have their research questions answered in real-time by a professional genealogist, from the comfort of their own home.\\xa0 \\xa0 Larsen Digital Now Digitizes Your Old Negatives In the past I\\u2019ve told you about the incredible work that Larsen Digital did for me getting some of my old home movies digitized. Well, they\\u2019ve just launched a new service where you can send them your old negatives and they will convert them into beautiful high-resolution digital images that you can use. We\\u2019re talking 4000 dpi images! The service is called Value because it\\u2019s less expensive than the Pro which includes restoration. It\\u2019s a great way to get all your old negatives digitized. Then you can decide if there\\u2019s further restoration you want done on select images. Negatives can deteriorate over time just like photos. The sooner you get them digitized the better condition images you will have. Larsen Digital is offering Genealogy Gems listeners a great discount on both the new value service and the Pro negative digitization service, as well as 35mm negatives & 35mm Slides.\\xa0 Visit the Genealogy Gems page at . \\xa0Use coupon code GENGEM.\\xa0 \\xa0 Findmypast Now Supports Tree to Tree Hints Long gone are the days of having to search for genealogical records all alone.\\xa0When you have any part of your family tree online on any of the \\u201c\\u201d websites (Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch) they do a lot of the hunting for you. They deliver hints that have a good chance of matching up with your ancestors. Your job is to carefully review them and determine if they are your ancestor\\u2019s records.\\xa0 (Genealogy Gems Premium Members:\\xa0Listen to Premium Podcast\\xa0\\xa0devoted to hints at Ancestry that includes a\\xa0bonus download guide\\xa0on\\xa0Genealogy Hints at a Glance.) Up until now,\\xa0\\xa0offered hints on birth, marriage and death records. Now they are joining the other\\xa0Genealogy Giants\\xa0in offering hints based on other user\\u2019s family tree on their website.\\xa0 \\xa0 The free podcast is sponsored by: \\xa0 GEM: Downsizing with Family History in Mind with Devon Noel Lee Get your copy of Downsizing with Family History in Mind .\\xa0 (We hope you enjoyed the interview, and thank you for using our link.) At some point we all face downsizing. Whether we are helping our parents downsize to a smaller house, or we need to downsize our own belongings to carve out a spare bedroom or just make room in a closet. it\\u2019s never really an easy task. And I think it\\u2019s safe to say it\\u2019s even more difficult for the family historian, because we collect a lot of paper, photos and other things that are often near and dear to our hearts. Devon Noel Lee and her husband Andrew Lee of the Family History Fanatics YouTube channel have taken on this challenge themselves and they\\u2019ve written a new book called Downsizing with Family History in Mind. Here to help you make the tough choices and clear the clutter is Devon Noel Lee. There are many reasons for downsizing: To move to a smaller place Absorbing inherited genealogy Divorce To free up space in your own home Downsizing the sentimental items is the hardest part of downsizing. Question: A lot of us just think, well it\\u2019s a Saturday morning, I think I\\u2019ll just do some decluttering. But you say in the book that decluttering doesn\\u2019t work. Why is that? Devon\\u2019s Answer: \\u201cThere are three things that experts teach us that are absolutely wrong:\\u201d We don\\u2019t give ourselves enough time for nostalgia. We\\u2019re really bad at evaluating what\\u2019s going to last for the long term We use the wrong boxes when decluttering \\u2013 all the experts say to use Keep, Sell and Donate. Devon recommends the following boxes: Keep Giveaway (combining sell and donate) \\u2013 to family, societies, archive, university special collections, libraries, etc. Trash (or recycle) Process How to \\u201cprocess\\u201d: Digitize Process the information in your binders and get rid of the binders if no one wants them. Use it: Sad to say, most people don\\u2019t want your family china. Give yourself permission to use it and enjoy it now. Make memories with it! Let your children play with things. Four Basic Downsizing Principles in the book: Reduce:\\xa0 Divide things into the boxes. Preserve: This is when you\\u2019re going to digitize the things in your process box. Photograph objects. Transfer your genealogy into software and online trees. Reclaim: Take everything out of the process box after processing, and divide into Giveaway, Trash and Keep. Don\\u2019t put things into storage! Showcase: Put on display what you found worth keeping so it can be enjoyed. Transform what you have into something that is easier to pass on like videos, podcasts, scrapbooks. Focus on story-based items. From Lisa: It puts us back in control as to what happens to it. Making sure the right people get it. I\\u2019m a big fan of displays. If we haven\\u2019t taken a moment to get something on the wall - to put a display together - how can we expect our family to appreciate it and embrace our family history values? \\xa0 Question: Many downsizing projects are much more than a single day. When you\\u2019re faced with a really big job, where do you recommend that people start, and where should they put their primary focus? The book includes action plans for folks who have: just an hour Weekend 3-6 months 6-12 months Capture what is right now: Photograph the outside of the home. Photograph what\\u2019s inside. Then focus on photographing the collections in their context. Mentioned by Lisa: Genealogy Gems Podcast includes a Gem called Thanks for the Memories. In it, I share an example of mentally walking through my Grandma\\u2019s house and capturing all of my memories on paper. Get a piece of paper or pull up a word document.\\xa0\\xa0Close your eyes for a moment and visualize a favorite memory from your childhood.\\xa0 In my case I started with a favorite place, my maternal grandma's house.\\xa0 But perhaps yours is the back alley where you and your friends played baseball, or your great uncle's garage where\\xa0he showed you how to work on cars.\\xa0 Whatever is meaningful to you. Now, open your eyes, and write your thoughts one at a time.\\xa0 Just free flow it. They don't have to be complete sentences.\\xa0 Later you can try your hand at writing more of your actual experiences or memories of a person.\\xa0 Again, it doesn't have to be a novel or sound really professional.\\xa0 It's just the memories from you heart. \\xa0 Family Photos: Question: If we have piles and piles of family photos, particularly ones we\\u2019ve inherited, how to do we decide which to keep and which to toss? Or do you ever toss? Devon\\u2019s answer: Get rid of the duplicates! Keep 1 of the biggest and best and throw the rest away. Don\\u2019t bog yourself down with hours spent trying to track down someone else to give them to. Get rid of blurry, overexposed, underexposed, and meaningless photos. Unlabeled photos: There will be some circumstances where you will not be able to keep them. You can\\u2019t go into debt for unlabeled photos. You want to separate them from the labeled so that other family members don\\u2019t throw them all out together. If you have time, try to identify them by asking relatives, and posting them to DeadFred.com. If you can, donate the remaining unlabeled photos to orphaned photo collectors, or toss. You did the best you can. Don\\u2019t feel guilty because your ancestors didn\\u2019t label their photos. Question: What advice do you give your readers who are faced with what to do with their genealogy when they don\\u2019t have descendants or when no one in the family wants it? What encouragement can you offer when there is no one who descends from you, or there is no one who wants them. Devon\\u2019s answer: If you think you don\\u2019t have anyone in your family who is interested, you\\u2019re wrong. Downsizing and organizing will increase the chances of someone willing to take it later. If you don\\u2019t have anyone in your immediate family who wants your stuff, start looking for distant cousins actively working on a surname. They won\\u2019t want everything. You will have to divide the material. They want it organized. Do it while you\\u2019re living \\u2013 don\\u2019t leave it to someone else. Digitize it and get it online where it can be shared. From Lisa: Getting your stuff in good condition makes it more desirable. Our collection, broken up, may have much more value to other people. Get your copy of Downsizing with Family History in Mind .\\xa0(We hope you enjoyed the interview, and thank you for using our link.) The free podcast is sponsored by: GEM: Profile America \\u2013 The 1830 U.S. Federal Census Saturday, October 5th. The national census to be taken April 1 next year will be the 24th time this once-a-decade count has been conducted since 1790. The fifth census in 1830 profiled a quickly expanding nation, counting nearly 13 million residents \\u2014 an increase of more than one-third in just 10 years. New York remained the largest city, while second and third places were a near tie between Baltimore and Philadelphia. Also, among the 10 biggest cities were Charleston, South Carolina, and Albany, New York. In the decade to follow, Cyrus McCormick invented the grain reaper, opening huge sections of the Great Plains to agriculture, and Texas declared its independence from Mexico. 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