TGP 35 – Pat Richley-Erickson aka Dear Myrtle
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TGP 35 – Pat Richley-Erickson aka Dear Myrtle

Featured Guest Pat Richley-Erickson aka Dear Myrtle DearMYRTLE is the nom de plume of Pat Richley-Erickson, author of the award-winning DearMYRTLE Genealogy Blog, consistently among the top 5 family history blogs internationally, where her focus is on beginning genealogy topics. A speaker at regional and national conferences including several livestreamed videocasts at RootsTech2011, 2012 and…

TGP 33 – Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List
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TGP 33 – Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List

Featured Guest Cyndi Ingle Cyndi is the creator, owner and “webmaster” of the award-winning web site Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet, www.CyndisList.com, a categorized index to more than 330,000 online resources. In its first three years, Cyndi’s List was three times voted the best genealogy site on the World Wide Web. It…

TGP 31 Alvie Davidson – Private Investigator
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TGP 31 Alvie Davidson – Private Investigator

Featured Guest Alvie Davidson, CG Alvie L. Davidson retired from Naval Intelligence in the U.S. Naval Reserve after 22 years of service. Since then he has been a Florida state licensed private investigator, specializing in missing persons and genealogical applications of investigations. He is the past District Director of the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators…

TGP 29 Lisa Louise Cooke – Genealogy Gems
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TGP 29 Lisa Louise Cooke – Genealogy Gems

Featured Guest Lisa Louise Cooke Lisa Louise Cooke is the owner of Genealogy Gems, a genealogy and family history multi-media company. She is producer and host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, the popular online genealogy audio show (downloaded over 1.5 million times!), as well as the Family History: Genealogy Made Easy podcast. Both podcasts are…

TGP 28 Ron Arons – Black Sheep Genealogy
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TGP 28 Ron Arons – Black Sheep Genealogy

Featured Guest Ron Arons Born in New York, Ron Arons was reared a goodie-two-shoes. Aside from four moving violations (including a “California” roll through a stop sign, doing 40 MPH in a 30 MPH zone, and driving with his brights on), Arons has never been afoul of the law. Ron worked for many years as…

TGP 26 Thomas MacEntee – The Genealogy Ninja
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TGP 26 Thomas MacEntee – The Genealogy Ninja

Featured Guest Thomas MacEntee What happens when a “tech guy” with a love for history gets laid off during The Great Recession of 2008? You get, Thomas MacEntee, a genealogy professional who’s also a blogger, educator, author, social media connector, marketer, network builder and more.Thomas was laid off after a 25-year career in the information…

TGP 23 Kathleen Brandt – Military Research
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TGP 23 Kathleen Brandt – Military Research

Featured Guest Kathleen Brandt Kathleen Brandt is a Professional International Genealogist and Consultant and is a published freelance writer for genealogy magazines and columns. She is the author of the a3Genealogy educational and skill building blog that explores various cultural and ethnic folk life, traditions, history, and genealogy research tips. Utilizing twenty years of experience…

TGP 21 Jane Wilcox – New York Research
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TGP 21 Jane Wilcox – New York Research

Featured Guest Jane E. Wilcox Jane E. Wilcox is a genealogical researcher, writer, editor, lecturer, and radio show host, with more than forty years of genealogy experience. She owns Forget-Me-Not Ancestry in Kingston, N.Y. and is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B) Education Committee.Jane…

TGP 20 Catherine Desmarais – Vermont Research
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TGP 20 Catherine Desmarais – Vermont Research

Featured Guest Catherine Becker Wiest Desmarais, CG Cathi is a full-time professional genealogist and owner of Stone House Historical Research, established in 2008. In addition to family history research, Cathi works on U.S. Army military repatriation cases, finding next-of-kin and family DNA donors for unrecovered soldiers from past wars. She also locates missing or unknown…

TGP 17 Luana Darby – Serving Professionals
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TGP 17 Luana Darby – Serving Professionals

Featured Guest Luana Darby Luana Darby grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about growing up in Kansas in the early 1900s. This piqued her interest and developed into a passion to learn more about her roots, which turned into a successful business helping others find and tell their story. Luana received a bachelor’s degree…

TGP 15 Rebecca Whitman Koford – Maryland Research
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TGP 15 Rebecca Whitman Koford – Maryland Research

Featured Guest Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG is a professional genealogist in American research with special emphasis in Maryland. She has been interested in genealogy ever since the age of five, when she could read her parents’ collection of old handwritten family group sheets. Rebecca has been taking clients and lecturing since…

TGP 13 Leslie Brinkley Lawson – Forensic Genealogist
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TGP 13 Leslie Brinkley Lawson – Forensic Genealogist

Featured Guest Leslie Brinkley Lawson Leslie Brinkley Lawson, full-time professional genealogist, specializes in forensic genealogy (missing & unknown heirs, probate research), providing due diligence and kinship determinations. Clients include attorneys, executors, guardians, banks, probate firms, private clients. She is a regional and national speaker. As a forensic genealogist Leslie Lawson has completed genealogy research for…