The Genealogy Tech Podcast

The Today show had a great story about how genealogy help a mother and son who found each other after more than 40 years apart. You can view the story online at:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/21337330#31237330

There was an interesting piece on NBC’s The Today Show this morning about descendants of George Washington, and who would be King if Washington had accepted the proposal.

You can find the article and a link to the video at http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/28696126/

For those researchers who don’t want to waste the time they are in the air when traveling, Delta Air Lines will be offering Wi-Fi Internet service on selected flights.

Delta’s Gogo Inflight Internet service will cost $9.95 on flights that are three hours or less and $12.95 on flights longer than three hours. The service will be available starting in 2009 on nearly 300 of Delta’s aircraft. Aircraft that are equipped to provide the service will have a Wi-FI logo at the aircraft door.

While you are waiting for the next episode of the GTP, you might want to check out Mike O’Laughlin’s Iris Roots Podcasts. Mike has two new weekly podcasts:

Irish Families enhanced podcast, with photos and live links to the web:
Subscribe: http://www.irishroots.com/podcasten/rss.xml
(Quicktime required – you can click on live genealogy links while listening ! )

Irish Roots Cafe Video podcasts ( genealogy, genealogy books, history, song)
Subscribe: http://www.irishroots.com/irishvideo/rss.xml

Hello Everyone!

Just a quick note to let you know that there are some new episodes of the GTP on the way.

Look for the new shows after the holidays. I have some great ideas to help you use the latest technology in your family history research.

I look forward to publishing a lot of new material in 2009! I hope you will join me as we continue the series.

BP

In case you’re looking for additional material to ease your genealogy podcast cravings, my good friend Lisa Louise Cooke now hosts the newFamily History: Genealogy Made Easy podcast.

As many of you know, Lisa is the creator and host of The Genealogy Gems Podcast and also hosts the Family Tree Magazine’s podcast.

Now that we’re well into the holiday season, and many of us will be spending time with our families, why not check out Lisa’s podcast to see how you can take advantage of this time in your research.

On a more personal note, I am down to my last semester for school and should be returning to a more normal production schedule for The Genealogy Tech Podcast next year.

It’s great to be back with you for another episode of the GTP. This week we’ll talk a little bit about online backup services.

The following Web sites are mentioned in this episode:

Discovering Family History Magazine: http://discoveringfamilyhistory.com
Genealogy Gems Podcast: http://genealogygems.tv
Evernote: http://evernote.com
Mozy: http://mozy.com
Carbonite: http://carbonite.com
Box.Net: http://box.net
4Shared: http://4shared.com

Click the play button below to listen, or Right-click the link to save this episode to your computer: GTP011.mp3

Hello Everyone!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and to let you know that a brand new episode of the GTP is on the way.

I know it has been a very long time since the last edition of the show, and I apologize for the delay. As you may know I work full time and go to college so free time is very limited. However, I am on a break between semesters and will get at least one episode together before the Spring semester starts.

Hope this finds you all doing well and successful in your research. Talk to you soon!

You may recall on one of the episodes of the GTP I mentioned Google’s Picasa photo album software. For those of you who take a lot of digital photos, Picasa is a free application that helps you organize all those pictures that are currently sitting in odd folders all over your hard drive. While Picasa has some basic photo editing capabilities, it’s primary strength is organization; if you’re looking for a photo editor you need to look at other options.

There is a nice little introduction to Picasa available on the Lifehacker blog: http://lifehacker.com/software/technophilia/organize-your-digital-photos-with-picasa-267024.php

Picasa is only available for Windows and Linux (although there is a Mac Web Album plugin available – not a full version), but most Mac users probably already have iPhoto which is very similar.

Just wanted to let everyone know that the fine folks at Internet Genealogy magazine have included an article I wrote on Google Alerts in the latest issue.

Enjoy!