The Genealogy Tech Podcast

The Indiana Historical Society has put together a book titled Finding Indiana Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Research ($29.99 US). According to information on the society’s press site, this project started back in the year 2000 as a series of essays for their family history journal.

The essays were created by “contracting archivists, librarians, journalists, genealogists, and historians in the state’s major historical and genealogical organizations to write about their areas of expertise.”

Copies of the book may be ordered online or you can call 800-447-1830 for additional information.

I am pleased to announce that there is a new genealogy-related podcast available called The Genealogy Gems Podcast. The GGP is produced by Lisa Louise Cooke who’s goal it is “…to provide you with inspiration and innovation to help you get the most out of your research time.”

Lisa has a great presentation style and provides some great information on researching more efficiently. Please check out Lisa’s Genealogy Gems Podcast, it is well worth the time.

For those of you who still aren’t convinced on how easy it is to publish information on the Web, there’s a Web site you might want to check out.

The Scribd Web describes itself as a “…big online library where anyone can upload” or, more or less, “a writing repository.” As Rick Broida of LifeHacker writes, it’s a “kind of a YouTube for eBooks”, or other types of documents including PowerPoint presentations, plain text files, PDF docs and more.

Once you upload a document the site generates a URL link that you can e-mail or post on a Web page. One of the features I like is that the site provides a text-to-speech .mp3 download of a document, this is a great accessibility option. Once you upload your document, it becomes on-line readable in their custom Flash player.

I still think think that wikis and blogs are the best way to share your research, but if you just aren’t comfortable with technology, Scribd is simply uploading a document you have already typed in your word processor.