The Genealogy Squad IS for You!

Start your New Year off right! 

Join The Genealogy Squad on Facebook at 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad.

The mission of The Genealogy Squad Facebook group is to provide a positive space for the sharing of appropriate and reliable methods and resources to assist genealogists at all levels. We focus on answering questions and solving problems while demonstrating best practices in all aspects of genealogical research.

The administrators are George G. Morgan of The Genealogy Guys Podcast, Cyndi Ingle who created and maintains more than 337,000 links at Cyndi's List, and Blaine T. Bettinger, Ph.D., JD, the world's leading lecturer on DNA and principle of DNA Central. (Questions relating to the use of DNA testing are better suited for our sibling group, Genetic Genealogy Tips & Techniques at https://www.facebook.com/groups/geneticgenealogytipsandtechniques.) We have two fantastic moderators working with the team at the moment too! They are Mia Bennett of England and Samantha John of Australia. They are experts in their areas and abroad too!

Membership in the group, which launched on 6 May 2019, is currently approaching 27,000. The members, administrators, and moderators answer your questions or they point you to excellent resources. TGS is the friendliest and most helpful Facebook group there is to help you with your genealogical questions.

Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad to join. Just answer a few quick questions and you'll be approved and in The Genealogy Squad in almost no time! And if you're already a member, tell your friends and members of the genealogical societies to which you belong!

The Genealogy Squad is here to help!

Upcoming Content in Genealogy Guys Learn

Genealogy Guys Learn, our new subscription education site is a great success! We offer written courses and video tutorials for all levels of family historians and genealogists. We launched the site at https://genealogyguyslearn.com/ on 1 October 2019 and the response has been great.

Our first five written, self-study courses are:

• Basic Genealogical Research
• Intermediate Genealogical Research
• Using the Social Security Death Index
• Wills and Probate Packets
• U.S. Military Records

Our first twelve videos are:

• Introduction to Genealogy
• All about the U.S. Federal Census
• U.S. Agricultural Census Schedules
• Genealogy Orienteering (Using Maps to Find the Right Place)
• Principles of Effective Evidence Analysis
• Getting Past Brick Walls
• Dissect Obituaries for New Clues
• Finding Archived Newspapers
• Colonial and Early American Land Records 
• Using the Vast Resources of MyHeritage.com
• Understanding Copyright and Plagiarism
• Organizing Your Research Process

These are just the beginning! We will be adding new content every month. In fact, we have 22 additional written lessons and 24 more videos in the queue to release in the coming months! These include DNA topics, GEDmatch, British civil registration and parish records research, Swedish research, methodologies, alternative record types, successful research and cemetery excursions, your ancestor's FAN Club, crowdsourcing, effective library research, tutorials for the use id Vivid-Pix RESTORE software, and a wealth of other topics that will make you a better researcher and investigator.  

In addition, we have developed a great Resources area at the site that contains links to Our Books, and a growing collection of Printed Materials that we reference in our courses and videos and that we highly recommend because we personally use them. These include books, quick sheets, and magazines that you may want to purchase for your own library or access at your local library. We offer links to valuable Products and Services that we also personally use and recommend. And we also provide a collection of Useful Links that we reference in our training materials.

Drew Smith and George G. Morgan are internationally recognized genealogy experts, authors, researchers, and host of The Genealogy Guys Podcast since September 2005 and the Genealogy Connection podcast since 2016. They also maintain The Genealogy Guys Blog at Drew also is the Genealogy Librarian at the University of South Florida Library and is involved in several high profile Florida-based genealogical and social research programs.

We invite you to enroll in Genealogy Guys Learn for what we guarantee will be a very enlightening experience. Your annual subscription at $99 works out to $8.25 per month for all the content you want to use to become a better researcher. This is a bargain and The Genealogy Guys are committed to delivering the finest content possible.

All of these products are produced by

Aha! Seminars, Inc. ®

Preview of the New Genealogy Guys Learn Site

By now you've already heard about the launch of the new Genealogy Guys Learn subscription educational site at https://genealogyguyslearn.com. In a separate blog post, we have shared the press release and provided links to it on Facebook, Twitter, and in genealogy sites across the Internet. Be sure to listen to our special podcast #368 for full details and more.

I want to share some images of the new website to help pique your interest in our content. Let's start with our main screen.

We're launching with five written self-study courses. Work at your own speed and mark lessons as you complete them so you know how you are progressing. More courses come every month.

We're launching with twelve videos too. Work at your own speed and mark lessons as you complete them so you know how you are progressing. We will add at least one new video every month.

We also offer a great Resource area. It includes:

• Links to Our Books: How to Do Everything: Genealogy which supplements the lessons and videos; Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques which helps get past your brick walls; and Organize Your Genealogy: Strategies and Solutions for Every Researcher, the definitive guide to getting organized.
• Printed Materials contains links at the time of launch to 28 books referred to in the courses and videos you may want to consult or add to your own library. We also have a selection of quick sheets and links to magazines. This area will grow as new printed resources are included in new courses and videos.
• The Products area offers links to software, hardware, and services, and this list will grow with time.
• Useful Links is a collection of key online resources mentioned in our materials, and this list will grow as new courses and videos are added.

Last but not least, we have a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) area to help you along.

The annual subscription price for Genealogy Guys Learn is $99. That comes out to $8.25 a month for all the site’s many resources you want to use. And don't forget that new content will be added each month and we'll announce these on The Genealogy Guys Podcast, in The Genealogy Guys Blog, at The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection Facebook page, and on our Twitter feed. 

Learn from George and Drew, internationally recognized genealogy experts, presenters, authors, podcasters, and researchers! We have a lot of great content to offer you!

(c) Aha! Seminars, Inc.

The Clock is Ticking Until Our Announcement on October 1st!

The Genealogy Guys are soooooo excited! The clock is ticking until our big announcement on October 1st. We know you will be excited too.

Be sure to mark your calendar and read this blog, our Facebook page, The Genealogy Squad Facebook page, our Twitter feed, and genealogy media outlets everywhere.

The Genealogy Guys Podcast, the Genealogy Connection podcast,

and The Genealogy Guys Blog are productions of

Aha! Seminars, Inc. ®

Big Announcement Coming on October 1st!

The Genealogy Guys will be making a 

major announcement on October 1st.

Watch this blog and our Facebook page!