Leland Meitzler is well known within the genealogy community as a magazine editor, author, and lecturer on a wide variety of topics. Nowadays he is the Editor of Everton's Genealogical Helper. He and I recently discussed the features of the magazine and the online edition, as well as his blog, GenealogyBlog.com, that provides news from the world of genealogy.

Roots Television kindly videotaped our conversation and has now made it available to everyone. You can listen to what Leland has...

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The following announcement was written by FamilySearch: 3 October 2008 Over 29 million new names were posted this past week on the FamilySearch Record Search pilot. Kudos to the FamilySearch volunteer indexers for their monumental contributions! The chart below lists the current indexing projects and their completion status. Volunteers can help any time by registering or downloading a current project at www.familysearch.org (click on Index Records>Volunteer or Start Indexing) or...

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I recently had a chance to sit and talk with an old friend: David Lambert, the Online Genealogist at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. We talked about the assistance he provides to genealogists, as well as the exploration he has done in the areas of military research, American Indian research and as a baseball historian. Roots Television videotaped our conversation and has now made the video available to everyone. You may be interested in learning more about the services that David...

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