Part two of my interview with my cousin Carolyn. Then I break down the 14 steps she shared for contacting distant relatives

NO EPISODE 13 - How to make genealogical cold calls to distant relatives, and a follow up on online family trees.

By posting what you know about your family tree online you can easily connect with others who are researching people in your family tree. You can share information, collaborate and even get to know distant relatives.

Special Guest: Lisa Alzo, author of Three Slovak Women, Baba’s Kitchen and Finding Your Slovak Ancestors talks about discovering family traits and putting them in perspective. Then we wrap up our coverage of U.S. census records with a decade-by-decade overview, including special schedules.

Push further back in time to follow the census bread crumb trail. Then we are going to explore census enumerations that often go overlooked by family historians with Curt Witcher, the Manager of the Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

You’ll learn not only what to find in the regular census schedules, but about the enumerators, the instructions they followed, and special sections like the economic census.

We look at 5 organizations that provide free online access to genealogy records for those with North American roots.

My guest: genealogy author and educator Lisa Alzo. Lisa talks how family history has impacted her life, and tips for finding your roots. Then we cover the wealth of digitized records online.

My guest: genealogy writer and educator Barry J. Ewell. He talks to us about sleuthing Sherlock Holmes-style for our families. Then we'll cover an overview of the different kinds of historical records in which our ancestors may appear.

I’m going to be talking to Genealogy author and publisher David Fryxell about locating valuable family resources and the importance of being tenacious in your research. Then I'll cover the importance of scouring your home for family clues and creative and effective ways to get the words out to your relatives so that family history information finds you!