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NEWS:
Lisa covers digitized newspaper records recently posted at the Library of America's Chronicling America web site
As well as news from Ancestry.com including new records, the new social networking with records feature, and updated to their Member Connect Feature.
Watch Lisa's 2 part video series on Member Connect with David Graham of Ancestry. Go to the Genealogy Gems TV Channel at YouTube and Click on the Videos section.
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Then Lisa shares some advice from German Genealogist Baerbel Johnson of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City on German research in response to listener Teri Chaffinâs question about her Matzdorff family.
Danny from Baltimore wrote in to comment on Genealogy Gems Podcast episode 69 and the story about the man who found his family history book digitized on Google Books .
"Copyright infringement and plagiarism is always a topic near and dear to every genealogist. A discussion on âfair useâ typically results in a heated debate but to assume that since a library has a copy of a book and that an arrangement between the library, a company (Google) and various literary organizations permitting the digitalization of the libraryâs collection automatically implies the granting of digital rights to that collection is flabbergasting.â Danny from Baltimore
Web sites mentioned:Authors Guild
Original article (9/3/09) about Google books from the BBC
Tina Kelly writes to say how excited she was to be able to get some of the archived Premium Episodes from the Genealogy Gems store at Lulu
Premium Episodes 2 through 7 And more episodes are coming soon! Limited Time Savings: Save 14.92% on your order (up to $25) with coupon code PINTA Sale Ends Oct. 12, 2009.
And Russ Karr writes to share the highs and lows of his research, and his curiousity about an ancestor that died in an Insane Asylum in San Jose in 1920.
Resources mentioned by Lisa:The Suitcase Exhibit Online
Diane Haddadâs post on The Genealogy Insider Blog
Attend Lisaâs classes:Family History Expo Redding, California
Listener and Premium member Pat Dalpiaz shares how she proudly wears her new Genealogy Gem Rhinestone Pin whenever she has a new discovery, and shares two of her most recent discoveries generated by working on her family history blog.
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