Oct 24, 2017

The Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode #210
with Lisa Louise Cooke

In this episode:

You’ve heard of “burned counties,” a phrase used to describe places where courthouse fires or other disasters have destroyed key genealogy records? In this episode, a listener presents the problem of her burned city—Chicago.

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Oct 10, 2017

The Genealogy Gems Podcast
Episode 209
with Lisa Louise Cooke

In today’s episode:

• David Ouimette of FamilySearch is known to his colleagues as “the Indiana Jones of genealogy” because of his globe-trotting adventures in curating record treasures. He joins us to talk about the millions of records being digitized...