The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show

Published August 12, 2007 THE MAILBOX "I also wanted to share a couple of photographs with you, she says.  During your third episode, you talked about creative ways to display your family history treasures, and I wanted to share with you something absolutely wonderful my aunt did for me. When my grandmother had to downsize and move into an assisted living facility, my aunt stumbled upon a beautiful silk baby dress and a pair of leather button-up baby shoes that had belonged to my grandmother.  She had these framed for me along with a photograph of my grandmother on her 1st birthday wearing them!  She gave the finished product to me because she knew how much I am fascinated by our family's history.  Sincerely,  Diana     Eleanor Mae Lees - 1st birthday Email from Barbara Murphy, NY: "On this weeks episode #21 you were talking about writing your memories. I received a book from my daughter last Christmas that does just what you are talking about.  It is "Your life story in your own words.  I think it is terrific because there was no way I was going to write anything anytime.  This book is a month by month calendar book.  Each month has questions to write about" Update: Anna-Karin's Swedish Genealogical Podcast is no longer being published. Use the time while you"re downloading podcasts to make a few entries into a memory book!  That's a gem of an idea! GEM:  Turn Your Into A Family History Tool  The Micro memo snaps easily into the connector at the base of the video ipod.  It has a flexible microphone and built in speaker. When you plug it into your ipod it automatically puts your ipod in Voice Memo mode with the option to start recording. How To Record From Voice Memo mode Select RECORD When you're done you just select STOP AND SAVE How To Download Recordings to Your Computer Plug iPod into your computer Open up iTunes (it will detect that you have new recorded voice memos on your iPod, and will ask you if you would like to download them into iTunes.) Click OK How Two Use Two Desktop Microphones For An Interview UnPlug the MicroMemo microphone from the MicroMemo unit Plug in a Plug two computer desktop microphones into the splitter How To Record With An External Microphone Or Other Source In Stereo UnPlug the MicroMemo microphone from the MicroMemo unit Flip the switch above the microphone jack on the Micro Memo to LINE.  Plug in your stereo microphone or cable from other source into MicroMemo Record as usual How To Load Images Onto Your Video iPod: Create a IPOD IMAGES file folder on your computer Scan or copy photos and documents and save them to the file Plug your iPod into your computer Open up iTunes. From the gray menu tabs Click PHOTOS Click the SYNC PHOTOS FROM box Click the gray box to choose a folder from your hard drive.  (This will open a window called BROWSE FOR FOLDER.  Navigate your way to your IPOD IMAGES folder.) Click on the IPOD IMAGES folder (the folder icon will open but you won't see image files) Click the OK button. Click the ALL PHOTO button Click the INCLUDE FULL RESOLUTION BUTTON. Click the gray APPLY at the bottom right corner of the screen. ITunes has now copied all of the photos from that folder onto your iPod.  You'll see that happening in the box at the top of the Itunes screen. How To View Your Images On Your iPod Eject your iPod from iTunes.  The main menu will appear on iPod video screen. Select PHOTOS from iPod menu Select PHOTO LIBRARY to view thumbnail images Scroll to the image you want to view and select it How To View Your iPod Photos And Videos On Your Television You will need:  Plug one end of the cable into the headphone jack of your iPod Plug the three plugs into the corresponding yellow, white & red jacks on your TV. Turn on your ipod From menu select VIDEOS Select VIDEO SETTINGS Select TV OUT and set it to âONâ? Click the MENU button and go back and select the video you want to watch Press play You will probably need to change your TV tuner to an AV input How To Create A Photo Slideshows In Your iPod Start at PHOTOS menu Select Slideshow Settings.  Set the time per slide (I suggest 5 seconds) Select MUSIC. Select a music Playlist, or Random.  Set the REPEAT and SHUFFLE PHOTOS settings to OFF. Select TRANSITIONS  (I like Dissolve) Navigate your way back to the PHOTOS page Select the folder of photos you want to play as your slide show. When you see the list of thumbnails and the yellow box is around the first image youâre ready to go so hit play.  So now you can gather the family around the television set and share your photos, and videos in big, living color with your I hope if you do purchase any of the items I mentioned today, you'll do it through the links on my website.  The links simply tell the vendor who referred you.  The price is the same and your personal information goes ONLY to the vendor.  By purchasing through my website link, you help support this podcast and defer the production costs.  So we all win. Your iPod is fun AND hard working.  Happy listening AND viewing!!

SHOW NOTES   Published August 5, 2007 Lisa's Movie Pick:  Full of Life (1957).  It's a really heartwarming movie about immigrants and their American born children that you can watch comfortably with your kids and your grandkids.   The novel by John Fante is still available:     GEM:  Freedom of Information Act Follow Up Email from Richard Hrazanek:  "I loved the tip about requesting your ancestor's immigration file through the Freedom of Information Act. Do you know if you can do the same thing with a person's military record." FOIA can assist you in obtaining military records. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Website article:    Rod Powers of About.com does a great job outlining article: Access to Military Records by the General Public, including genealogists who are not next-of-kin devoted to the 4th Infantry Division 224th Infantry Regiment Company "D" which his uncle served in.  Timothy outlines his experience with obtaining military records.   GEM:  Thanks for the Memories Get a piece of paper or pull up a word document.  Close your eyes for a second, and visualize a favorite memory from your childhood.  In my case I started with a favorite place, my maternal grandma's house.  But perhaps yours is the back alley where you and your friends played baseball, or your great uncle's garage where he showed you how to work on cars.  Whatever is meaningful to you. Now, open your eyes, and write your thoughts one at a time.  Just free flow it. They don't have to be complete sentences.  Later you can try your hand at writing more of your actual experiences or memories of a person.  Again, it doesn't have to be a novel or sound really professional.  It's just the memories from you heart. Tie together this gem with episode 20's Sweet Memories gem where we made a family history chocolate bar label for a candy bar that could be tucked in a Christmas Stocking as a gift.  Replace the Ingredient's list on the back label with a text box that includes these free flowing memories about the photo that appears on the front label.