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Genealogy Podcast Roundup – Week of April 9, 2012

mp3 player Ready for more episodes of genealogy podcasts? Once a week, the Genealogy Podcast Roundup brings you the newest episodes of your favorite genealogy podcasts. It can also include episodes of podcasts that are not always about genealogy, but have focused on it for a random episode.

Family Tree Magazine released their March episode on April 2, 2012. This episode is hosted by Lisa Louise Cooke. She talks about her new book. Diane Haddad brings you up to date with news about NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” show. Thomas MacEntee gives tips from his toolkit article called “Tools to Locate Living Relatives”. Allison Dolan brings you a behind the scenes view of Family Tree Magazine with information about the Women’s History Month Value Pack, and the Farmer’s Wife Sample Quilt.

African Roots Podcast released an episode number 157 on April 6, 2012. In this episode, host Angela Walton-Raji talks about her experiences with the 1940 Census. She also points out some genealogy events such as the Indiana Freedom Trains Quarterly meeting, a workshop in North Carolina on Researching African American Family History, the Washington DC 8 t h Annual Genealogy Fair at the National Archives, and more!

High-Definition Genealogy released an episode on April 5, 2012. This episode is called “Navigating the 1940 Census Pratt Library Podcast Now Available”. This podcast is a recorded presentation of host Thomas MacEntee’s “Navigating the 1940 Census”, which was given at the Pratt Library in Baltimore, Maryland, on Saturday 31, 2012. You can download it for free.

RootsMagic did something special! They created an entire week long webinar dedicated to the 1940 US Census. It was hosted by DearMYRTLE. The series includes:

1940 Census Images and Indexing Updates – recorded on April 2, 2012 – 88 minutes
1940 Census Images and Indexing Updates – recorded on April 3, 2012 – 93 minutes
1940 Census Images and Indexing Updates – recorded on April 4, 2012 – 86 minutes
1940 Census Images and Indexing Updates – recorded on April 5, 2012 – 93 minutes
1940 Census Images and Indexing Updates – recorded on April 6, 2012 – 89 minutes

You can download all of them to your computer, if you like. They are viewable on Windows Media Play and through iTunes. All are in .mp4 format. The website has a link where you can download a free program that will play the downloaded webinars for you, (if you don’t already have something that will do that for you).

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