Lisa Louise Cooke
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Genealogy Gems Podcast shows you, the family historian, how to make the most out of your family history research time by providing quick and easy to use research techniques. In addition, you will learn creative ways to share your family tree and the legacy of your ancestors. Lisa Louise Cooke guides you through the exhilarating process of discovering your family tree. She scours the family history landscape to find and bring you the best websites, best practices, and best resources available. And Lisa's interviews with the experts in the field of genealogy make the Genealogy Gems Podcast your own personal...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Lisa Louise Cook makes family history research more disciplined, practical, and attentive to the people behind the records.
Lisa Louise Cook turns family history into a teachable practice, moving between solo guidance, interviews, listener contributions, and updates on research tools.
A German newspaper might know your great-grandparent better than your family tree does.
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A practical reminder that genealogy work starts with time, place, and the right tools.
Lisa Louise Cooke keeps the focus on two practical anchors for genealogy work: time and place. She leans on locality guides, historic maps, repository and archive details, record sources, and her own notes and strategies to show how those pieces fit together.
A practical look at genetic genealogy in a missing-persons case.
Episode 304 keeps the Nancy Guthrie case centered on the method, not the drama. Lisa Louise Cooke lays out the timeline, the newer evidence from the glove found a couple of miles from Nancy's home, and the limits of using DNA to build out a family tree.
Practical genealogy coaching built around a clearer research plan.
Lisa Louise Cooke turns a familiar genealogy frustration into a workable path forward. The episode spotlights the top seven mistakes that keep researchers stuck, then moves into fixes that favor a focused research question and a step-by-step plan over scattered searching.
A practical genealogy toolkit for sharing trees and finding harder-to-see records.
A practical year-end look at a few genealogy pain points: how to share a family tree with relatives who are not genealogists, how to protect living people's privacy, and how to find more records.
A warm 300th-episode keepsake about podcast history, family photographs, and the stories that keep genealogy human.
Episode 300 treats a podcast milestone as a walk through the memories that shaped Genealogy Gems. Lisa Louise Cook returns to 2007, when getting a show onto an iPod meant using iTunes on a computer, and to early genealogy conferences where she found herself explaining what a…
Practical newspaper search guidance, with a focused five-tool AI transcription comparison.
Episode 301 takes a practical route through newspaper research, pairing a return to Elefine.com, a free newspaper search site, with a side-by-side look at five AI chatbots for transcribing newspaper articles.
A practical FamilySearch tour that treats AI as helpful, while keeping human judgment in charge.
FamilySearch's full text search gives this single-episode lesson a clear practical spine. Lisa Louise Cook walks through searching the FamilySearch catalog, moving through records, saving useful finds, and adding discoveries to a tree before shifting into the AI research…
A clear genealogy news update linking newspaper access with AI-assisted family storytelling.
Genealogy Gems episode 298 uses August 2025 as a natural check-in point for family historians easing back into research or looking ahead to fall routines.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
A season-by-season history show pairing dramatized Rasputin and Salem narratives with historian interviews.
Greg Young and Tom Meyers explain how New York City's streets took shape.
Fashion historians April Callahan and Cassidy Zachary dig into garments, letters, and the people who wore them.
Lisa Louise Cooke frames Genealogy Gems Podcast episode 305 around two identifiers that separate common-name ancestors: time and place.
Host Lisa Louise Cooke pivots her planned episode to cover the Nancy Guthrie missing-persons case — the 84-year-old mother of NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie who vanished from her Tucson home in January 2026.
Genealogy Gems episode 303, recorded in January 2026, has Lisa Louise Cooke counting down seven genealogy mistakes that keep researchers stuck.
Lisa Louise Cooke opens episode 302 with Tree Crossing, OldNews.com, and Google Lens as tools that solve sharing and research problems for family historians.
["Genealogy Gems Podcast episode 301 centers on Elephind's relaunch and AI transcription for newspaper research.", "Lisa Louise Cooke speaks with Stephan Boddy and Damian Bennett from Viridian about a rebuilt free search site that points every result back to the source collection.", "Boddy says Viridian's projects cover more than 200 million newspaper pages, Elephind had just over 13 million pages indexed three weeks after relaunch, and another 150 million pages are still to come.", "Cooke compares Perplexity, Grok, Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT on a clipped 1940 article titled \"Madera's New Citizens Honored,\" and she says Gemini handled the transcription best."]
Lisa Louise Cooke celebrates Episode 300 by revisiting the Genealogy Gems Podcast’s 2007 launch, its original eight-minute episode, and the Google site-search method demonstrated with Lynch records in Polk County, Wisconsin.
Lisa Louise Cooke explains FamilySearch's full text search, released into the main search menu on August 30, 2025, and demonstrates it with Rebecca Hulse in Dark County, Ohio probate records.
Lisa Louise Cooke’s Episode 298 reports that Elefind is returning with semantic search and an AI search assistant for historical newspapers.
Lisa Louise Cooke teaches how to use Google Photos for genealogy and family history research.
Lisa Louise Cooke introduces Newspaper Navigator, a Library of Congress project for finding images in old newspapers from Chronicling America.
Lisa Louise Cooke shares strategies for finding free genealogy records online, including tips for using subscription sites without a paid account and Google search secrets.
This episode focuses on creating family history story videos, with tips on converting genealogical research into engaging narratives for family members.
Lisa Louise Cooke introduces the podcast and discusses strategies for using Ancestry.com effectively, along with promoting her YouTube live show.
Episode 200 celebrates Genealogy Gems' 10th anniversary and 200th episode with messages from listeners, guests, staff, and sponsors.
Kathy Hawkins replaces memory-testing with open questions, sensory prompts, and creative connection for older relatives.