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 30 Melanie Backe-Hansen – UK House Historian
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TGP 30 Melanie Backe-Hansen – UK House Historian

Featured Guest Melanie Backe-Hansen Melanie is an historian, speaker, and writer, who specialises in researching the history of houses, streets, and areas throughout the United Kingdom.  For close to six years Melanie was the first and only historian to be employed by a UK estate agent to research the history of houses and streets. Since…

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 25 Yvette Hoitink – Dutch Genealogy
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TGP 25 Yvette Hoitink – Dutch Genealogy

Featured Guest Yvette Hoitink Yvette Hoitink is a professional genealogist in the Netherlands. Her company, Dutch Genealogy Services, specializes in helping people from all over the world find their ancestors in the Netherlands. Most of her clients are descendants of emigrants who left the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th century but she also helps…

TGP 24 Helen Smith – Medical Research & Genealogy
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TGP 24 Helen Smith – Medical Research & Genealogy

Featured Guest Helen V. Smith Helen has been researching her family since 1986 when her mother lamented the fact she had never known her grandfather, George Howard Busby. Helen found some information and a newspaper photo of him, was hooked and has been addicted ever since with research in Australia, England, Wales and Ireland. She…

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 22 The ProGen Study Group with Angela McGhie
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TGP 22 The ProGen Study Group with Angela McGhie

Featured Guest Angela Packer McGhie – A Discussion of the ProGen Study Group This week instead of speaking with an individual genealogy professional we are focusing on the ProGen Study Group in order to provide our listeners with more information about the program. Here is a brief description of the program taken from the ProGen…

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 19 Eileen O’Duill – Probate Research
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TGP 19 Eileen O’Duill – Probate Research

Featured Guest Eileen Ó Dúill Eileen Ó Dúill, has been a professional Irish genealogist since 1990, specializing in legal and probate genealogical research. She is currently the only Certified Genealogist in Ireland. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and served on the board of the as the International Trustee for Britain…