Episode 42 SHOW NOTES

Dear MYRTLE's interview with Lisa Louise Cooke of Genealogy Gems on her Feb. 12, 2008 episode.  And Dear old Myrt also listed Episode 15 of the Genealogy Gems podcast in her weekly Best of the Internet blog column under Podcast. 

Venice Upcoming Live Shows:
Saturday, March 8, 2008: Acoustic Music San Diego - an acoustic Venice show.  (619) 303-8176 

Friday, April 4, 2008: Pine Mountain Logs show at the SohO Restaurant and Music Club (805) 962-7776  The Logs are Venice's alter ego - they perform only cover tunes!

Saturday, April 5, 2008: Pine Mountain Logs show at The Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA (858)481-8140 

Visit Venice at http://www.venicecentral.com/

MAILBOX: Gary Falsken recommends the history podcast "Napoleon 101â? hosted by The Podcast Network.

GEM: Interview with Allison Stacy, editor of Family Tree Magazine
The Genealogy Insider Blog featuring the Family History Expo

GEN: Interview with Kathy Mead of Genline.com

You know this episode is very special to me because it fall on the first birthday of the Genealogy Gems Podcast.  There are several exciting things in the works for Genealogy Gems this coming year.   Genealogy Gems Newsletter Sign Up.

What was your favorite gem this last year? Email Lisa

Thank you for listening.  You guys are awesome!  We have no intentions of having Genealogy Gems podfade, and it"s because of you that weâre still here!  Venice song:   Weâre Still Here

Episode 41  SHOW NOTES 

A table full of listeners joined me at the Friday night banquet.  Jack Duffy and his daughter Anna Marie, Mark Baldwin, and Sue  and Albert Sevy all joined my husband and I and we had a grand time. 

- Day of the week at the Search for ancestors website
- Thanks to George Morgan of the Genealogy Guys Podcast for talking about the Genealogy Gems Podcast on their Jan 16, 2008 podcast. 

MAILBOX
From Betty:  Abbott & Costello Christmas DVD features several spots for Christmas Seals featuring celebrities such as Rosemary Clooney.
From Melissa: a silhouette done 30 years ago in Paris by a street vendor.  Listeners page   
Jim Mowatt of HistoryZine Podcast in Britain    

GEM:  Lulu.com
My book Genealogy Gems: Ultimate Research Strategies from Season One of the Genealogy Gems Podcast   At Lulu you'll find genealogy digital CDs, Videos, Calendars, Music and artwork.  A quick search of your surname or county where your ancestors lived could result in some real gems.  Save on the combined shipping.   

GEM: Valentines Special
Sit back and enjoy these yesteryear stories of loveâand perhaps they will inspire you to ask around your family for the origins of the ties that bind in your tree.  First, a Depression era story of love between Pauline Herring &JB Moore  

Nov. 2, 1934  Remember me and donât forget,  the blue eyed Girl is my pick yet.   (Below: Valentine JB sent to Pauline)

Next, is the story of Raymond Cooke and Isabelle Osborne.  Raymond was born in Tunbridge Wells, England in 1894.  He immigrated from England to Saskatchewan Canada in 1912, and in his autobiography he tells the story of how his love of music led to his finding the love of his lifeâ 

âTake your girlie to the moviesâ was performed by Irving Kaufman on May 19, 1919.  Story read by Jim Mowatt of the Historyzine Podcast.Ragtime music by Frederick Hodges  available on CD.

Raymond Cooke and Isabelle Osborne 50^th wedding anniversary 

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Happy Valentines Day!   

Take Your Girlie to the Movies   
When the show is over And its time to leave
Donât forget to brush the powder From your sleeve...
Take your girlie to the movies if you canât make love at home 
(Original sheet music at the Indiana University Sheet Music Collections website!  Take Your Girlie to the Movies Sheet Music)