On today's episode we explore the free genealogy resources!
SHOW NOTES:
1. FamilySearch: Accounts are free and in-person FamilySearch Centers are free!
5. National Genealogical Society: 18 Important Free Websites for Genealogy Research: https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/free-resources/websites
6. Check out other genealogy podcasts: https://podcast.feedspot.com/genealogy_podcasts
7. Send us your favorite free resources and we’ll add them to this list! Reach out through social media (@RediscoveringLatinidad), email us at RediscoveringLatinidad@gmail.com, or call or text us at 646-470-9824.
Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going:
- Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
- Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
- Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad
- X: @RediscLatinidad
- Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad
SHOW NOTES:
1. FamilySearch: Accounts are free and in-person FamilySearch Centers are free!
- FamilySearch Wiki: Hispanic Family History Resources https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Hispanic_Family_History_Resources
- FamilySearch Search Page: https://www.familysearch.org/search/
- FamilySearch Catalog: https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog
- FamilySearch Family Tree: https://www.familysearch.org/en/family-tree
- Find your local FamilySearch Center: https://locations.familysearch.org/en/search
- Facebook, Instagram, etc.: Reach out to relatives you know, and they may be friends with more distant relatives. They may have posted family photos and stories. Find Facebook genealogy groups based on geography or certain last names.
- WhatsApp: Reach out to relatives and start or join family chats. They can share photos and stories. Voice memos can preserve stories.
- All sites: Reach out to researchers directly. Most would love to hear from you!
- Local library: Check for access to online databases at home or through library computers.
- Google: Keyword searches
- Google Books: https://books.google.com
- Google News Archive: https://news.google.com/newspapers
- Wikitree: http://wikitree.com
- Geni’s Genealogy Database: https://www.geni.com/people
- Overview of Latin American national archives: http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/archives/indexesp.html (Some links may be outdated)
- LLILAS Benson Digital Collections http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/lbdc
- Reclaim the Records: https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request
- New York City vital records: https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov
5. National Genealogical Society: 18 Important Free Websites for Genealogy Research: https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/free-resources/websites
6. Check out other genealogy podcasts: https://podcast.feedspot.com/genealogy_podcasts
7. Send us your favorite free resources and we’ll add them to this list! Reach out through social media (@RediscoveringLatinidad), email us at RediscoveringLatinidad@gmail.com, or call or text us at 646-470-9824.
Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going:
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Dear listeners, we are excited to have you join us
for another season of Rediscovering Latini Dan. We hope you
enjoy this sixth season as we port a tremendous amount
of time, research, and loyalty into our episodes. We also
know that these are unprecedented times, and then many of
our listeners or their family members may be living in
fear and certainly anger about the recent developments with immigration, deportation,
(00:35):
and birthright citizenship. We hold space for all of the
emotions here, and we hope the information we provide you
will help you not only in your journey to discovering
your ancestors, but also leading you to documentation that may
secure your safety. We will list all resources in the
show notes and update them as we uncover more. Now,
we hope you enjoy this episode.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Hey, we're back.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Welcome back to Rediscovering Latini Dot Season six, Episode twelve.
We are going to give you a whole bunch of
free bits. You know you don't have to pay.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
For family history research.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We can tell you so many ways that you can
get it for free, just like sometimes you don't have
to pay for family other times you do. Aw interesting,
Let's introduce ourself, shall we.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I'm Fausto, I'm Jalisa, I'm Briar Rose.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Hey, I'm Edward Awesome.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
So, yes, we've talked about some resources where you do
have to pay for access, so you can, like, for example,
you can search records on Ancestry for free, but if
you would like to save them in any way, you
have to pay for a membership.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Family Search is actually one of the big ones that
we love because it also I think it covers a
fair amount of international Like you can get to oh
absolutely many, many, many many in many countries. So that's
your first line of I don't want to say lene
of defense, but line of defense.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Yeah, first line of in Korey.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, And I guess Ancestry has has partnered with those
like newspaper archives, right, whereas Family Search hasn't necessarily no,
but I don't.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Know, like for example, Fold three now has Korean War records,
which I don't really totally understand because some of the
Korean War records were actually destroyed in a fire in
the sixties, like like the letters J through like P
something like that. They were destroyed in a big fire
in a government building. So my grandfather a miles fits
right in. There wasn't going to be found. So I
(02:36):
was like, Okay, that's just I ain't fine on that.
But Full three said we have more Korean War stuff,
the draft cards everything. I'd like to get to that.
But previously with my experience with Full three, when I
was under a membership with Ancestry, I was never able
to find anything.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, it wasn't it's not useful to me as a
demos you're international.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Unless you're American, it's very useful at all.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah, but even as an American, like I was looking
for said things that I knew were in newspapers and
I could not find it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And it just to the point where.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I was like, well this was from the all access
membership for Ancestry, like the most expensive one. I was like,
this isn't worth it. The World Explorer is worth it.
That's the middle one, you know, because you can go
through any country. But I didn't find that the military
records were all that helpful.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So one advice for access, if you don't want to
feed the Ancestry machine, you can go to the library.
And because you know some of that, so a library no,
but like some some libraries do allow you to have
access to these different sites. Others are like you actually
have to go to the library, reserve and computer and
(03:43):
help people at the other computers aren't doing things that
will scare you off. But yeah, that is definitely a
way to you know, if there's something you want to
see on ancestry, ooh, and go to the library for
free embrayer would these sort to just go back to
those records that would just strain in the fire. Do
you think there would have been any backups of them
on like microfiche or something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I haven't tested it out, but because of how old
they were and when they were destroyed, Like if they
were destroyed in the nineties, I would have had a
little more faith. But the sixties, I.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Mean microfiche, gather around children, educate.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
You about what was what went on in the olden days.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yes, and again again go to the library, I mean microfiche, microfilm.
Not just the Church of Jesus Christ, the libarities, saints,
family history centers, but also libraries. You know a lot
of them have microfilm newspapers. The New York Public Library
has a census microfilms which granted and now you can search
(04:43):
online but still, if you want to work out your arm,
you can go to the library and crank that machine.
Have we have We talked about MICROFIESI and microphone before
and what that actually is. Okay, let's explain it to
the children.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yes, I know, because I think I think they're going
to do that thing where they're pretending to understand.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
To understand, yeah, and then they'll just go over their
heads and they'll be like, is this like the precursor
to the iPhone?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah? Maybe it kind of, well, it's.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Sort of a way of scrolling. It's definitely a way
of scroll. Oh, yes, there was a lot of scrolling actually,
So back in the day, I don't know with what
like magic they did this, but they were able essentially
to take you know, like entire newspapers or any paper
and shrink it, shrink the image so that it would
(05:33):
fit on this little plastic film, right, like little piece
of plastic. And then what you would do with that
is that there would be this machine that kind of
looked like a computer, but it wasn't actually a computer.
It was just a magnifying glass.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
It's a physical scanner, yeah, feeding and tapping and it's
moving and blowing up the image so that you can see.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And you actually had to move it so that you
could get to like a certain you know, date or whatever.
And yes, you could go quickly or you could go like,
you know, more slowly or whatever. But yeah, just so
let you guys know, like that's what that's what that
was back in the day, those of us who learned
I guess who went to school.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yes, we had to learn when we were.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Researching and when we had library class, had to learn
how to search that, you know, and the Dewey decimal system.
Oh lord, Okay, that's going to be another episode. Otherwise,
microfiche is a very much more bizarre thing where it's it.
I guess it was sort of like a computer chip. God,
(06:37):
we sound like we're two hundred years.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Old, but it's changed quickly. Yeah, things changed so quickly.
I guess.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It was like a little piece of film plastic that
again they were able to shrink down documents to be
teeny tiny. And then you similarly had a magnifying glass
with a monitor and there was a little plastic handle
that you could turn to, you know, have the magnifying
glass look at one particular part of this.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Think like I would have something like Spotlight or I
want to think of like an old what's that one?
All the President's Men, like an old journalism movie, kind
of as a reference to say, oh and say all
the President's Men, Uh, Watergate, I think it's yeah that
really think of that when they're looking through archives and
(07:22):
blowing it up just as a physical.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I was gonna say, it's kind of like a little
Ouiji board. Yes, yes, so you're playing with we're playing
with the ghosts of the past.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
So yeah, you knowledge in your hands, right.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well, to to not scare off our younger listeners, you
can also start off slow and go on Facebook groups
like you were, like, Hey, I think I have Mexican
ancestry Mexican genealogy groups. It's a good way to start off.
You can use the search function for certain last names,
see if anything familiar, post things. These members. I have
(08:03):
to say, these members in these genealogy groups are besides
being helpful, they are just so generous because a lot
of them just have random subscriptions.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
To things and they're just willing to share their time.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah. And like I remember years ago, during the pandemic,
my I was working on the family tree and then
my husband's grandmother died of COVID and it just sparked
it even more so. I joined a Jewish genealogy group
called Tracing the Tribe, and those members just went above
and beyond for me. I asked a simple question, like
(08:36):
does anyone have any information on this person or this person?
Not thinking anything, I even said the wrong I said,
according to ancestry, they were born in no Tek, Russia,
and they went all in, all in, and they were like,
actually not and here and did you know they went
to Saint Louis first and then here and in here,
and I was like, thank you, so I have. I
(08:58):
think that's a really great way to start off to
at least, you know, it's good to have access to that.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Also, Facebook pages you can go if they're based on
a particular town. There's this one ancestral town of mine,
San Joaquin, and I love this Facebook page because it
is the Colombian Sticks and it's like people driving tractors.
They're holding like bullfights with little rinky dinky cows, like
(09:25):
just there their living country. But they talk a lot
about local like like just people's families, and they'll post
old photographs and be like do you remember this person
and and they'll like talk a lot about their own stuff.
And actually through that, there was a local historian for
this area who was able to reach out to and
I never would have known about this particular branch of
(09:47):
that I wasn't going to go to the Colombian Sticks
anytime soon, so and he he shared with me a
lot of information. So it's great.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I have not had experience. I would love to hear
from anyone else who has experienced with what's app up
with genealogy, because I do not have any experiences with that.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
But there are similarly to Facebook, there are groups on
WhatsApp and there's entired. Everyone else in the world uses
WhatsApp a lot differently to the United States. It is
like the main form of communication in most other countries.
And I have, like I'm a big soccer fan and
a lot of my international soccer teams have WhatsApp feeds
(10:25):
and they'll send me pictures and what's going on in
training and what like. So it is very much like
old school forums that you would have to go to
different websites. They're all kind of localized on WhatsApp.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And I was going to say, actually, if you have
like cousins or extended family live on WhatsApp. Yeah, they
live on WhatsApp number one.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So I would say, just like throw out a question
out there and just be like, you know, what was
grammar like? Or does anybody remember you know? Blah blahlah blah.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Somebody will have some story to tell, you know, it's
I guess it's up to you to you know, find
the complete truth in there. But yeah, and this is
something that I've asked on my maternal side, like some
of my cousins, because there are things my mom remembers
about her parents, and then there are things that her
sisters remember, you know, because they experience their parents differently
(11:12):
at different ages, and so so it's always fascinating to
know what they've heard versus what I've heard, and then
sort of like either meet in the middle or fill
in gaps. So yeah, ask your cousins and aunts and uncles, y'all.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I mean, yeah, that's just in general, I mean, but
also and guarantee when you do that, you're going to
hear like a like some little bomb just thrown in there,
like your elder be like, oh, yeah, and you know,
I had an older sister that died.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
What what what you know?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Like, and then you'll this will be the first time
you hear that you had an aunt at some point,
you know, so that happens all the time and it
won't stop happening.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, and then and then they'll look at you like,
what didn't you know that?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
He's the story about my grandfather from Yes, hence the
story my dad's two sisters.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
That he found out about on the other little Mortos.
And I found out about it on Christmas Day last year.
My entire life, my father never told me that. My
I thought that he was my Alita's only child, only son,
only child. And then on Christmas Day he's like, oh no,
she had twin girls before me, but they died as babies.
What bro I'm thirty five at the point, like really.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Seriously, like what.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, And that's also how I found out my talking
about little younger siblings that have that have passed what
my my mom had like two or three younger siblings
who were the last kids who passed away, and she
couldn't remember their names. And I found them on family
search and I was just like, oh, my god, mother,
(12:48):
look here's their names.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And she was like, oh my god. So then and
then night sent it around to the siblings and that.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
If you don't want me asking where did they pass from?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Was it just that is a very good question. I
think poverty, yeah, No, I have jokingly, but like malnutrition
just like yeah, And I think I think some babies
in my family are born with like some lactose intolerance.
I think I've told the story of my mom, or
(13:17):
maybe I haven't told this story. No, I did tell
the story of when I went to Theminican Republic for
my uncle's one hundredth birthday. And the reason why my
mom was so excited to celebrate her older brother's one
hundredth birthday is because you know, she couldn't digest her
mom's milk, so someone was just like, give her goat's milk.
And then her brother happened to have a goat, and
(13:38):
so he brought his goat so that, you know, could
they could feed my mom. And so you know, she's
alive because he had a goat, and she is eternally
thankful to to that man.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
You know, I my cousin actually just had a baby
this year, her second, and he her so I mean,
old babies cry a lot at the beginning but she
I said, I'm always a proponent of take every child
a poop diaper to the doctor and tested for a
cow's milk allergery, because otherwise you're not going to know, right,
So she I don't think she did it, But then
(14:11):
she just switched his formula to goats mill formula and like,
happiest baby.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah yeah, goat smeke, I think it's easier to like
die chest for us.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Goat smell.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I mean this in goat's milk cheese, it's like fantastic
for your skin. Yeah, for your skin. Oh, but Manchego
if you've had manchego cheese from from saying, I know
the regular like goat cheese is soft. One is kind
of bitter and it's not my yeah, but all the
(14:42):
other goat cheeses are delicious.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
My friend came to visit me in my last weekend
of college. He came down from New York and we
went to this like hipster homegrown restaurant on like college
main Street, and this is so off topic, but he
ordered not chos. He's like, oh, you're a locally groom.
And then he's like, try groats cheese, and I'll try
anything I'll try anything. I literally took a bite and
(15:07):
I said, I'll never forgive you for this. I will
never forgive you for this.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's an acquired taste.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, because I hated it.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
But first regular lots of great properties from buy products.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah, so free resources.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Actually, I actually was going to here's other resources for
your family.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Sometimes maybe I'm just wasting your time. But sometimes just
googling about to bring up Google yeah, names, things like that.
We'll bring up articles. What was that blog?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Blogs?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I found Edward's blog just I just happened to Google
a family member's name and bam, there came up his blog.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
So wiki tree is really good too. It's connected to
some other service. And I'm not saying it's gospel, but
it will get you on a good track.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Like you know.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Again, it's it's user main and users lie a lot,
so let's take it with it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And not everyone's family's on there, not everyone's This is true,
but it's another Again, you don't have.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
To pay for it.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Similarly, Genie dot com g yes, and I although that's.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Also full of errors. And I put a tree up.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
There and people screwed it up, and I'm very angry
about that.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
So told me he was pretty angry someone messed with
his tree once.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Oh my god, someone did mess with What's with these
people was.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
The audacity here? They're like, we're crossing this one off
because it's wrong. I was just like, no, you didn't
read correctly. It's the same person. No, it was a
child named after the father.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You don't get to touch my tree, thank you, my god.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah, who taught.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
These people genealogy manners? They have none, no idea. They're feral. Yeah, okay,
I'm sorry they're feral.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Also, just if you really think information is wrong, make
your own tree correctly, you know, with whatever wrong information
you think you have, go do it kind of frun
how far you get, knock yourself out, make yourself cry later.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Just don't touch my tree.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, because like even during times when I've had to
correct some things, I generally correct my like my file
or my profile right, and I merge it with the
other ones so that I'm not you know, messing with
their you know what their teos are saying.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
And you go back and you doubt yourself, like, oh
I thought I put this and that you see no
Edited by this user, how dare you?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah, family search, that's why I kept my tree now
on ancestry. I tried on family Search.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I didn't like.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I didn't make it very far. But then I saw
a communal editing and I just don't like.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Pa, oh got it, And I don't like you can't
see at least if you were able to see the
history of the changes, I wouldn't mind to say, oh,
that's me and this is what I put and you
don't want to put something else that's your business.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You can't see that on family Search.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
No, it only gives you the most recent change, but
it does tell you who the user was, so i'll
know if I feel like I'm misremembering something, I'll say, oh, no,
I didn't make change someone else that they screwed up anytime.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
You're also thinking like this bitch to learn the first time,
like she tried to correct my record.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
That's hopefully have it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
But yeah, no, that's a good free resource to you too.
I mean, I've used my heritage, I've uploaded my DNA
there to get analyzed and I'll.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Look through the WURATE though.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Yeah it's not the best. Yeah no, No, that's why
I don't like use I know that our previous panelists
have talked about it. That was not my favorite engine.
But the resources for searching for trees is not the best,
but not the worst. It's again a good start. Some
of these things you have to treat as a good start,
and then you have to do your own due diligence
(18:42):
and say, okay, like what doesn't make sense here, what's
going on?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
And I can also just give you access to other
people's research, because say you're looking on my heritage and
you just happen to find someone who's done the research
for you. So they're just good places to start looking.
You may stumble on something more.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yeah, and then you need to also just in general,
knowing or learning when certain censuses or information is active.
So like, for example, you can look for the nineteen
hundred and I think eighteen ninety census for Ireland, so
you can see that now up until that point before
that not so much. But you know, so if you're
(19:22):
looking for something before that you can't. But like saying
oh I don't have if you know that kind of information,
if you're able to research it, then you don't get
scammed into paying for something that really is free.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
There's a lart public domain information out there.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, honestly, it doesn't hurt to check family Search if
there's a resource you want. I've found that family Searches
actually has been the most helpful.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
For me research.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Sometimes they like mix up things like spell things wrong,
but like it's scripts. I mean, you can look at
the original document.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Exactly, and that's usually what I do. I try to
read it best I can. But then also the AI,
I feel like, right, the Family Search.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
AI has gotten made it better, share.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Improved, and at the very least for me, has been
offering dozens of hints.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Speaking of weird translations, though, FYI with family Search, because
I've got names. One of my family name is Mieer
m I e Er, and a lot of the times
they're translating that name into Meyer and I'm like looking
and they're saying, yeah, Meyer, my mart Like, no, this
is a very unique name and a very unique place. Yeah,
don't include all these Americans with the curtain name Meyer,
(20:25):
because now it's screwing up my search.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
And here I was thinking, you're about to tell me
they change it to mir though.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Now they're all trying to translate.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
It into English.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, I thought she was gonna say, Honey, where's this
going yet to Meyer, I think I'm not sure how
many I guess ethnic groups or like national groups have
research institutes and different universities. So I know that at
CCNY City College of New York they have the Dominican
(20:57):
Studies Institute, and for the last twenty a little bit
over twenty years or so, I think they've really been
trying to collect as much information and even old books,
you know, from Dominican I guess personalities, authors as possible.
So I know I have to actually go there and
(21:19):
see if I can take a look at a couple
of books myself, because I know that my Spanish teacher
who passed away in the early two thousands, her husband
about ten years ago donated a whole bunch of her
older books, and some of them were actually like genealogy
books from back in the day. So you know, if
they are sort of like national studies right in a
(21:43):
national group or ethnic studies and institutes look them up.
Speaking of Dominicans, because I have some distant Dominican family.
Sometimes nations themselves will have national archives and they digitize
stuff and they'll put it up. Dominican Republic is one,
Columbia is another. And also to randomly, there's some.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I forget what it's called.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It was like the Academy of Dominican Genealogy or something,
but but anyway, they uploaded a bunch of free publications
online and I was able to find just randomly through
Google found.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
That genealogical societies I think is what they're generally called.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, there were nerds before us.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
You guys also to our listeners, a lot of some
not a lot of services, but like things like ancestry,
they do offer like in certain times of the year,
like free thirty day trials youse sign up for the
thirty d trials are.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The ones that are like discount for three months. Yes,
I learned that from somebody I know to look up
for those, the sign up for.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Those exactly check them because they will offer it, but
they won't advertise it, like they'll just like send an email,
but they will not bless it over their social media.
So because of course they want to save money, right,
so keep an eye out on that. Take advantage of
a genealogy doesn't have to be necessarily expensive. Now, earlier
this season, I did say some of the things that
do add up with the citizenship ones when you're trying
(23:11):
to collect documents, but overall you are and also you
are you can, like genealogy can be accessible for low cost.
It doesn't have to be a super expensive hobby at
least to begin with, depending on what your goals are.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
But you need to pay for internet access, that's well yeah, yeah,
the library, Yes, the library.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
The library are on these New York City streets.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Has anyone tried to use AI, like the using chappee cheet, like,
are you able to like you can? I've heard people
be able to say, please find records of this person
born on this state in this country, and from what
I hear, limited success. But I usually use chappie see
GPT for like essays or posts or something like that.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
How do we know they're not making don't check everything?
Like what what are they finding pulling?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I don't have no clue, but I haven't used it.
But apparently this is part of like the new part
of genealogy, as they are starting to use AI for
searches too, not just for transcribers.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Definitely, yeah, I mean AI for transcription is certainly getting
more and more important because it takes so long to
read the handwriting and to transcribe it. I have a
couple of Google things, So in the tab of Google,
you know, they have like shopping and whatever. One of
them is books to use Google books search.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
For names and google books where they might pop.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Up old old books. Have you can see the whole.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Thing or wherever your ancestor's name pops up in those books.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
If they give you a partial view, you can always
like google the text and they'll give you a little
more and then you google that and you can like
build it out. That's so I have a if you
really needed the importation.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I have a tip that if you ever find like
an article, like a New York Times article about like
an ancestor and it's behind a paywall, Yeah, there are websites.
There are websites that you can you can get past those,
Like one of them is archive dot i s And
basically you put the thing in you then in the
search box in that page, you post the link and
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then you can get the full page because it's creating
an archive of this thing, and then you just there
are several sites like that. Yeah, no, there's several.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
One of those goes down. Just do your due diligence, and.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
There are ways around. There definitely are ways around.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
The paywall pirate. So like, because how pissed would.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I be if I found now?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
And again, it's not hurting anything if you if you
want to look at one web page.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
But like, for example, I found a newspaper record of
my great great grandmother on Long Island, and she had
a double wedding with her sister, like you know, they're
both married and in the same day, same ceremony. Apparently
that was a thing, and they had any There wasn't
like a New York Times article about it, and I
was like, and then it was a paywall, and I
was there, this is my own history. Yeah, exactly, I.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Should have to how dare you?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
But then I was able to get past it. So guys, again,
you don't always have to pay for things. They're always
around it.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
If you want to find double weddings in your family.
New York City Posted uploaded all most of their older
vital records to a website that you can search and
you can download the records for free. And there's a
group that might be worth an episode of their own.
It's called Reclaim the Records. Yes, they are so cool. Yes,
(26:37):
and they they sue all these different governments and they're like,
why are you making us pay for this for public documents?
Make them free? And then the court forces so they
forced New York City to because I think New York
City was going to put a paywall behind everything. They
were like, no, this is public records. Make it available
for the public exact. Yeah, they you know what, I'm.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
All for this form of robin hood. Okay, I am.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
I'm also we're all dead anyway, Like why are you
trying to get more money? I don't know, do our
own research?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
What what do you need to monetize everything for? This
is our family history? What are you doing our season
two genealogists panelists at least was the one that told
us by.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Playing the record, you remember the season that's very good.
That was I remember that was when.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
We were we were still light staffed.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It was just us.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
We were slap happy and.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Those were the days.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
But you know what, it's also fun getting more perspective
and I love it it is this is this is
a change that dynamic we we have. And also besides
ending and our co hosts here, we also like just
we we besides just the intricates of genealogy. Now we're
talking about true crime and Latini Dad around the world
and movies and books. This, this podcast has grown in
(27:56):
such a way that is beautiful. I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Just want to say that, all right, I agree, And
I've gotten that feedback actually from people who listen to
the seasons of Us Versus the first couple of seasons,
not that they were bad, but they were just like,
oh yeah, that's really cool, like they have really different
ideas and then different personalities as well.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Right oh yeah, well yeah. When one of my friends
was she is not Latina at all, and she listens
to our podcast weekly. She's like English, Irish, Scottish, whatever.
So when me and Fosso started, she's like, you guys
are a really good balance. And then she's like what
she's like, Orangelasten, this is amazing, but she's just like
adding them in and then all these episodes like anyway, sorry,
(28:38):
we're tuning around with thing here. So free resources our web.
You know what's another free resource? Rediscovering Latini right, unless
you want to be a Patren subscriber, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
There there are other podcasts out there as well.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
There are yes, so listen to ours first and foremost,
and then also tune into theirs.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Yes, absolutely so, yes, so these are just this is
the This is some of the free resources that you
could use to get your search started if you were.
You can also look for records. If you know for
a fact a record is at a specific town, like
a like someone specifically died in a certain town, you
(29:20):
can go to the town clerk and they'll probably just
pull something for you. Now, if you want a certified copy,
then you're gonna have to pay for something, but they
can search it for you if you really know exactly
where something is. But if you just have a general county,
maybe not. But anyway, just little ideas to get ahead
on things, because I don't want our subscribers to start,
(29:41):
you know, getting swindled into this and then getting overwhelmed
and giving up on their search really early. We don't
need to do that. You don't. This is accessible, this
is inclusive, or.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Or assume that you need to subscribe to a bunch
of websites to do your search.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Not needed.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Family search the only rate you can it's better for
you to make an account, but it is free to
make the account. It is a free account, so you
just have to make the account to save the work.
But it's free, just saying so that's all I got.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
All right, all good, perfect, all right, let's see some housekeeping. Then.
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Latin next parenting our fan favorite from last season favorites. Yes,
guys in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
I
Dear listeners, we are excited to have you join us
for another season of Rediscovering Latini Dan. We hope you
enjoy this sixth season as we port a tremendous amount
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Speaker 2 (01:02):
Hey, we're back.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Welcome back to Rediscovering Latini Dot Season six, Episode twelve.
We are going to give you a whole bunch of
free bits. You know you don't have to pay.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
For family history research.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We can tell you so many ways that you can
get it for free, just like sometimes you don't have
to pay for family other times you do. Aw interesting,
Let's introduce ourself, shall we.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I'm Fausto, I'm Jalisa, I'm Briar Rose.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Hey, I'm Edward Awesome.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
So, yes, we've talked about some resources where you do
have to pay for access, so you can, like, for example,
you can search records on Ancestry for free, but if
you would like to save them in any way, you
have to pay for a membership.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Family Search is actually one of the big ones that
we love because it also I think it covers a
fair amount of international Like you can get to oh
absolutely many, many, many many in many countries. So that's
your first line of I don't want to say lene
of defense, but line of defense.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Yeah, first line of in Korey.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, And I guess Ancestry has has partnered with those
like newspaper archives, right, whereas Family Search hasn't necessarily no,
but I don't.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Know, like for example, Fold three now has Korean War records,
which I don't really totally understand because some of the
Korean War records were actually destroyed in a fire in
the sixties, like like the letters J through like P
something like that. They were destroyed in a big fire
in a government building. So my grandfather a miles fits
right in. There wasn't going to be found. So I
(02:36):
was like, Okay, that's just I ain't fine on that.
But Full three said we have more Korean War stuff,
the draft cards everything. I'd like to get to that.
But previously with my experience with Full three, when I
was under a membership with Ancestry, I was never able
to find anything.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, it wasn't it's not useful to me as a
demos you're international.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Unless you're American, it's very useful at all.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah, but even as an American, like I was looking
for said things that I knew were in newspapers and
I could not find it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And it just to the point where.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I was like, well this was from the all access
membership for Ancestry, like the most expensive one. I was like,
this isn't worth it. The World Explorer is worth it.
That's the middle one, you know, because you can go
through any country. But I didn't find that the military
records were all that helpful.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So one advice for access, if you don't want to
feed the Ancestry machine, you can go to the library.
And because you know some of that, so a library no,
but like some some libraries do allow you to have
access to these different sites. Others are like you actually
have to go to the library, reserve and computer and
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help people at the other computers aren't doing things that
will scare you off. But yeah, that is definitely a
way to you know, if there's something you want to
see on ancestry, ooh, and go to the library for
free embrayer would these sort to just go back to
those records that would just strain in the fire. Do
you think there would have been any backups of them
on like microfiche or something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I haven't tested it out, but because of how old
they were and when they were destroyed, Like if they
were destroyed in the nineties, I would have had a
little more faith. But the sixties, I.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Mean microfiche, gather around children, educate.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
You about what was what went on in the olden days.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yes, and again again go to the library, I mean microfiche, microfilm.
Not just the Church of Jesus Christ, the libarities, saints,
family history centers, but also libraries. You know a lot
of them have microfilm newspapers. The New York Public Library
has a census microfilms which granted and now you can search
(04:43):
online but still, if you want to work out your arm,
you can go to the library and crank that machine.
Have we have We talked about MICROFIESI and microphone before
and what that actually is. Okay, let's explain it to
the children.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yes, I know, because I think I think they're going
to do that thing where they're pretending to understand.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
To understand, yeah, and then they'll just go over their
heads and they'll be like, is this like the precursor
to the iPhone?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah? Maybe it kind of, well, it's.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Sort of a way of scrolling. It's definitely a way
of scroll. Oh, yes, there was a lot of scrolling actually,
So back in the day, I don't know with what
like magic they did this, but they were able essentially
to take you know, like entire newspapers or any paper
and shrink it, shrink the image so that it would
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fit on this little plastic film, right, like little piece
of plastic. And then what you would do with that
is that there would be this machine that kind of
looked like a computer, but it wasn't actually a computer.
It was just a magnifying glass.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
It's a physical scanner, yeah, feeding and tapping and it's
moving and blowing up the image so that you can see.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And you actually had to move it so that you
could get to like a certain you know, date or whatever.
And yes, you could go quickly or you could go like,
you know, more slowly or whatever. But yeah, just so
let you guys know, like that's what that's what that
was back in the day, those of us who learned
I guess who went to school.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yes, we had to learn when we were.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Researching and when we had library class, had to learn
how to search that, you know, and the Dewey decimal system.
Oh lord, Okay, that's going to be another episode. Otherwise,
microfiche is a very much more bizarre thing where it's it.
I guess it was sort of like a computer chip. God,
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we sound like we're two hundred years.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Old, but it's changed quickly. Yeah, things changed so quickly.
I guess.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It was like a little piece of film plastic that
again they were able to shrink down documents to be
teeny tiny. And then you similarly had a magnifying glass
with a monitor and there was a little plastic handle
that you could turn to, you know, have the magnifying
glass look at one particular part of this.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Think like I would have something like Spotlight or I
want to think of like an old what's that one?
All the President's Men, like an old journalism movie, kind
of as a reference to say, oh and say all
the President's Men, Uh, Watergate, I think it's yeah that
really think of that when they're looking through archives and
(07:22):
blowing it up just as a physical.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I was gonna say, it's kind of like a little
Ouiji board. Yes, yes, so you're playing with we're playing
with the ghosts of the past.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
So yeah, you knowledge in your hands, right.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well, to to not scare off our younger listeners, you
can also start off slow and go on Facebook groups
like you were, like, Hey, I think I have Mexican
ancestry Mexican genealogy groups. It's a good way to start off.
You can use the search function for certain last names,
see if anything familiar, post things. These members. I have
(08:03):
to say, these members in these genealogy groups are besides
being helpful, they are just so generous because a lot
of them just have random subscriptions.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
To things and they're just willing to share their time.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah. And like I remember years ago, during the pandemic,
my I was working on the family tree and then
my husband's grandmother died of COVID and it just sparked
it even more so. I joined a Jewish genealogy group
called Tracing the Tribe, and those members just went above
and beyond for me. I asked a simple question, like
(08:36):
does anyone have any information on this person or this person?
Not thinking anything, I even said the wrong I said,
according to ancestry, they were born in no Tek, Russia,
and they went all in, all in, and they were like,
actually not and here and did you know they went
to Saint Louis first and then here and in here,
and I was like, thank you, so I have. I
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think that's a really great way to start off to
at least, you know, it's good to have access to that.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Also, Facebook pages you can go if they're based on
a particular town. There's this one ancestral town of mine,
San Joaquin, and I love this Facebook page because it
is the Colombian Sticks and it's like people driving tractors.
They're holding like bullfights with little rinky dinky cows, like
(09:25):
just there their living country. But they talk a lot
about local like like just people's families, and they'll post
old photographs and be like do you remember this person
and and they'll like talk a lot about their own stuff.
And actually through that, there was a local historian for
this area who was able to reach out to and
I never would have known about this particular branch of
(09:47):
that I wasn't going to go to the Colombian Sticks
anytime soon, so and he he shared with me a
lot of information. So it's great.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I have not had experience. I would love to hear
from anyone else who has experienced with what's app up
with genealogy, because I do not have any experiences with that.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
But there are similarly to Facebook, there are groups on
WhatsApp and there's entired. Everyone else in the world uses
WhatsApp a lot differently to the United States. It is
like the main form of communication in most other countries.
And I have, like I'm a big soccer fan and
a lot of my international soccer teams have WhatsApp feeds
(10:25):
and they'll send me pictures and what's going on in
training and what like. So it is very much like
old school forums that you would have to go to
different websites. They're all kind of localized on WhatsApp.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And I was going to say, actually, if you have
like cousins or extended family live on WhatsApp. Yeah, they
live on WhatsApp number one.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So I would say, just like throw out a question
out there and just be like, you know, what was
grammar like? Or does anybody remember you know? Blah blahlah blah.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Somebody will have some story to tell, you know, it's
I guess it's up to you to you know, find
the complete truth in there. But yeah, and this is
something that I've asked on my maternal side, like some
of my cousins, because there are things my mom remembers
about her parents, and then there are things that her
sisters remember, you know, because they experience their parents differently
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at different ages, and so so it's always fascinating to
know what they've heard versus what I've heard, and then
sort of like either meet in the middle or fill
in gaps. So yeah, ask your cousins and aunts and uncles, y'all.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I mean, yeah, that's just in general, I mean, but
also and guarantee when you do that, you're going to
hear like a like some little bomb just thrown in there,
like your elder be like, oh, yeah, and you know,
I had an older sister that died.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
What what what you know?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Like, and then you'll this will be the first time
you hear that you had an aunt at some point,
you know, so that happens all the time and it
won't stop happening.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, and then and then they'll look at you like,
what didn't you know that?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
He's the story about my grandfather from Yes, hence the
story my dad's two sisters.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
That he found out about on the other little Mortos.
And I found out about it on Christmas Day last year.
My entire life, my father never told me that. My
I thought that he was my Alita's only child, only son,
only child. And then on Christmas Day he's like, oh no,
she had twin girls before me, but they died as babies.
What bro I'm thirty five at the point, like really.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Seriously, like what.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, And that's also how I found out my talking
about little younger siblings that have that have passed what
my my mom had like two or three younger siblings
who were the last kids who passed away, and she
couldn't remember their names. And I found them on family
search and I was just like, oh, my god, mother,
(12:48):
look here's their names.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And she was like, oh my god. So then and
then night sent it around to the siblings and that.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
If you don't want me asking where did they pass from?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Was it just that is a very good question. I
think poverty, yeah, No, I have jokingly, but like malnutrition
just like yeah, And I think I think some babies
in my family are born with like some lactose intolerance.
I think I've told the story of my mom, or
(13:17):
maybe I haven't told this story. No, I did tell
the story of when I went to Theminican Republic for
my uncle's one hundredth birthday. And the reason why my
mom was so excited to celebrate her older brother's one
hundredth birthday is because you know, she couldn't digest her
mom's milk, so someone was just like, give her goat's milk.
And then her brother happened to have a goat, and
(13:38):
so he brought his goat so that, you know, could
they could feed my mom. And so you know, she's
alive because he had a goat, and she is eternally
thankful to to that man.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
You know, I my cousin actually just had a baby
this year, her second, and he her so I mean,
old babies cry a lot at the beginning but she
I said, I'm always a proponent of take every child
a poop diaper to the doctor and tested for a
cow's milk allergery, because otherwise you're not going to know, right,
So she I don't think she did it, But then
(14:11):
she just switched his formula to goats mill formula and like,
happiest baby.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah yeah, goat smeke, I think it's easier to like
die chest for us.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Goat smell.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I mean this in goat's milk cheese, it's like fantastic
for your skin. Yeah, for your skin. Oh, but Manchego
if you've had manchego cheese from from saying, I know
the regular like goat cheese is soft. One is kind
of bitter and it's not my yeah, but all the
(14:42):
other goat cheeses are delicious.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
My friend came to visit me in my last weekend
of college. He came down from New York and we
went to this like hipster homegrown restaurant on like college
main Street, and this is so off topic, but he
ordered not chos. He's like, oh, you're a locally groom.
And then he's like, try groats cheese, and I'll try
anything I'll try anything. I literally took a bite and
(15:07):
I said, I'll never forgive you for this. I will
never forgive you for this.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's an acquired taste.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, because I hated it.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
But first regular lots of great properties from buy products.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah, so free resources.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Actually, I actually was going to here's other resources for
your family.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Sometimes maybe I'm just wasting your time. But sometimes just
googling about to bring up Google yeah, names, things like that.
We'll bring up articles. What was that blog?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Blogs?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I found Edward's blog just I just happened to Google
a family member's name and bam, there came up his blog.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
So wiki tree is really good too. It's connected to
some other service. And I'm not saying it's gospel, but
it will get you on a good track.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Like you know.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Again, it's it's user main and users lie a lot,
so let's take it with it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And not everyone's family's on there, not everyone's This is true,
but it's another Again, you don't have.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
To pay for it.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Similarly, Genie dot com g yes, and I although that's.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Also full of errors. And I put a tree up.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
There and people screwed it up, and I'm very angry
about that.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
So told me he was pretty angry someone messed with
his tree once.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Oh my god, someone did mess with What's with these
people was.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
The audacity here? They're like, we're crossing this one off
because it's wrong. I was just like, no, you didn't
read correctly. It's the same person. No, it was a
child named after the father.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You don't get to touch my tree, thank you, my god.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah, who taught.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
These people genealogy manners? They have none, no idea. They're feral. Yeah, okay,
I'm sorry they're feral.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Also, just if you really think information is wrong, make
your own tree correctly, you know, with whatever wrong information
you think you have, go do it kind of frun
how far you get, knock yourself out, make yourself cry later.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Just don't touch my tree.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, because like even during times when I've had to
correct some things, I generally correct my like my file
or my profile right, and I merge it with the
other ones so that I'm not you know, messing with
their you know what their teos are saying.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
And you go back and you doubt yourself, like, oh
I thought I put this and that you see no
Edited by this user, how dare you?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah, family search, that's why I kept my tree now
on ancestry. I tried on family Search.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I didn't like.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I didn't make it very far. But then I saw
a communal editing and I just don't like.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Pa, oh got it, And I don't like you can't
see at least if you were able to see the
history of the changes, I wouldn't mind to say, oh,
that's me and this is what I put and you
don't want to put something else that's your business.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You can't see that on family Search.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
No, it only gives you the most recent change, but
it does tell you who the user was, so i'll
know if I feel like I'm misremembering something, I'll say, oh, no,
I didn't make change someone else that they screwed up anytime.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
You're also thinking like this bitch to learn the first time,
like she tried to correct my record.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
That's hopefully have it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
But yeah, no, that's a good free resource to you too.
I mean, I've used my heritage, I've uploaded my DNA
there to get analyzed and I'll.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Look through the WURATE though.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Yeah it's not the best. Yeah no, No, that's why
I don't like use I know that our previous panelists
have talked about it. That was not my favorite engine.
But the resources for searching for trees is not the best,
but not the worst. It's again a good start. Some
of these things you have to treat as a good start,
and then you have to do your own due diligence
(18:42):
and say, okay, like what doesn't make sense here, what's
going on?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
And I can also just give you access to other
people's research, because say you're looking on my heritage and
you just happen to find someone who's done the research
for you. So they're just good places to start looking.
You may stumble on something more.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yeah, and then you need to also just in general,
knowing or learning when certain censuses or information is active.
So like, for example, you can look for the nineteen
hundred and I think eighteen ninety census for Ireland, so
you can see that now up until that point before
that not so much. But you know, so if you're
(19:22):
looking for something before that you can't. But like saying
oh I don't have if you know that kind of information,
if you're able to research it, then you don't get
scammed into paying for something that really is free.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
There's a lart public domain information out there.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, honestly, it doesn't hurt to check family Search if
there's a resource you want. I've found that family Searches
actually has been the most helpful.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
For me research.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Sometimes they like mix up things like spell things wrong,
but like it's scripts. I mean, you can look at
the original document.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Exactly, and that's usually what I do. I try to
read it best I can. But then also the AI,
I feel like, right, the Family Search.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
AI has gotten made it better, share.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Improved, and at the very least for me, has been
offering dozens of hints.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Speaking of weird translations, though, FYI with family Search, because
I've got names. One of my family name is Mieer
m I e Er, and a lot of the times
they're translating that name into Meyer and I'm like looking
and they're saying, yeah, Meyer, my mart Like, no, this
is a very unique name and a very unique place. Yeah,
don't include all these Americans with the curtain name Meyer,
(20:25):
because now it's screwing up my search.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
And here I was thinking, you're about to tell me
they change it to mir though.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Now they're all trying to translate.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
It into English.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, I thought she was gonna say, Honey, where's this
going yet to Meyer, I think I'm not sure how
many I guess ethnic groups or like national groups have
research institutes and different universities. So I know that at
CCNY City College of New York they have the Dominican
(20:57):
Studies Institute, and for the last twenty a little bit
over twenty years or so, I think they've really been
trying to collect as much information and even old books,
you know, from Dominican I guess personalities, authors as possible.
So I know I have to actually go there and
(21:19):
see if I can take a look at a couple
of books myself, because I know that my Spanish teacher
who passed away in the early two thousands, her husband
about ten years ago donated a whole bunch of her
older books, and some of them were actually like genealogy
books from back in the day. So you know, if
they are sort of like national studies right in a
(21:43):
national group or ethnic studies and institutes look them up.
Speaking of Dominicans, because I have some distant Dominican family.
Sometimes nations themselves will have national archives and they digitize
stuff and they'll put it up. Dominican Republic is one,
Columbia is another. And also to randomly, there's some.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I forget what it's called.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It was like the Academy of Dominican Genealogy or something,
but but anyway, they uploaded a bunch of free publications
online and I was able to find just randomly through
Google found.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
That genealogical societies I think is what they're generally called.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, there were nerds before us.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
You guys also to our listeners, a lot of some
not a lot of services, but like things like ancestry,
they do offer like in certain times of the year,
like free thirty day trials youse sign up for the
thirty d trials are.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The ones that are like discount for three months. Yes,
I learned that from somebody I know to look up
for those, the sign up for.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Those exactly check them because they will offer it, but
they won't advertise it, like they'll just like send an email,
but they will not bless it over their social media.
So because of course they want to save money, right,
so keep an eye out on that. Take advantage of
a genealogy doesn't have to be necessarily expensive. Now, earlier
this season, I did say some of the things that
do add up with the citizenship ones when you're trying
(23:11):
to collect documents, but overall you are and also you
are you can, like genealogy can be accessible for low cost.
It doesn't have to be a super expensive hobby at
least to begin with, depending on what your goals are.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
But you need to pay for internet access, that's well yeah, yeah,
the library, Yes, the library.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
The library are on these New York City streets.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Has anyone tried to use AI, like the using chappee cheet, like,
are you able to like you can? I've heard people
be able to say, please find records of this person
born on this state in this country, and from what
I hear, limited success. But I usually use chappie see
GPT for like essays or posts or something like that.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
How do we know they're not making don't check everything?
Like what what are they finding pulling?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I don't have no clue, but I haven't used it.
But apparently this is part of like the new part
of genealogy, as they are starting to use AI for
searches too, not just for transcribers.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Definitely, yeah, I mean AI for transcription is certainly getting
more and more important because it takes so long to
read the handwriting and to transcribe it. I have a
couple of Google things, So in the tab of Google,
you know, they have like shopping and whatever. One of
them is books to use Google books search.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
For names and google books where they might pop.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Up old old books. Have you can see the whole.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Thing or wherever your ancestor's name pops up in those books.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
If they give you a partial view, you can always
like google the text and they'll give you a little
more and then you google that and you can like
build it out. That's so I have a if you
really needed the importation.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I have a tip that if you ever find like
an article, like a New York Times article about like
an ancestor and it's behind a paywall, Yeah, there are websites.
There are websites that you can you can get past those,
Like one of them is archive dot i s And
basically you put the thing in you then in the
search box in that page, you post the link and
(25:27):
then you can get the full page because it's creating
an archive of this thing, and then you just there
are several sites like that. Yeah, no, there's several.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
One of those goes down. Just do your due diligence, and.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
There are ways around. There definitely are ways around.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
The paywall pirate. So like, because how pissed would.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I be if I found now?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
And again, it's not hurting anything if you if you
want to look at one web page.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
But like, for example, I found a newspaper record of
my great great grandmother on Long Island, and she had
a double wedding with her sister, like you know, they're
both married and in the same day, same ceremony. Apparently
that was a thing, and they had any There wasn't
like a New York Times article about it, and I
was like, and then it was a paywall, and I
was there, this is my own history. Yeah, exactly, I.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Should have to how dare you?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
But then I was able to get past it. So guys, again,
you don't always have to pay for things. They're always
around it.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
If you want to find double weddings in your family.
New York City Posted uploaded all most of their older
vital records to a website that you can search and
you can download the records for free. And there's a
group that might be worth an episode of their own.
It's called Reclaim the Records. Yes, they are so cool. Yes,
(26:37):
and they they sue all these different governments and they're like,
why are you making us pay for this for public documents?
Make them free? And then the court forces so they
forced New York City to because I think New York
City was going to put a paywall behind everything. They
were like, no, this is public records. Make it available
for the public exact. Yeah, they you know what, I'm.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
All for this form of robin hood. Okay, I am.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
I'm also we're all dead anyway, Like why are you
trying to get more money? I don't know, do our
own research?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
What what do you need to monetize everything for? This
is our family history? What are you doing our season
two genealogists panelists at least was the one that told
us by.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Playing the record, you remember the season that's very good.
That was I remember that was when.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
We were we were still light staffed.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It was just us.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
We were slap happy and.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Those were the days.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
But you know what, it's also fun getting more perspective
and I love it it is this is this is
a change that dynamic we we have. And also besides
ending and our co hosts here, we also like just
we we besides just the intricates of genealogy. Now we're
talking about true crime and Latini Dad around the world
and movies and books. This, this podcast has grown in
(27:56):
such a way that is beautiful. I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Just want to say that, all right, I agree, And
I've gotten that feedback actually from people who listen to
the seasons of Us Versus the first couple of seasons,
not that they were bad, but they were just like,
oh yeah, that's really cool, like they have really different
ideas and then different personalities as well.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Right oh yeah, well yeah. When one of my friends
was she is not Latina at all, and she listens
to our podcast weekly. She's like English, Irish, Scottish, whatever.
So when me and Fosso started, she's like, you guys
are a really good balance. And then she's like what
she's like, Orangelasten, this is amazing, but she's just like
adding them in and then all these episodes like anyway, sorry,
(28:38):
we're tuning around with thing here. So free resources our web.
You know what's another free resource? Rediscovering Latini right, unless
you want to be a Patren subscriber, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
There there are other podcasts out there as well.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
There are yes, so listen to ours first and foremost,
and then also tune into theirs.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Yes, absolutely so, yes, so these are just this is
the This is some of the free resources that you
could use to get your search started if you were.
You can also look for records. If you know for
a fact a record is at a specific town, like
a like someone specifically died in a certain town, you
(29:20):
can go to the town clerk and they'll probably just
pull something for you. Now, if you want a certified copy,
then you're gonna have to pay for something, but they
can search it for you if you really know exactly
where something is. But if you just have a general county,
maybe not. But anyway, just little ideas to get ahead
on things, because I don't want our subscribers to start,
(29:41):
you know, getting swindled into this and then getting overwhelmed
and giving up on their search really early. We don't
need to do that. You don't. This is accessible, this
is inclusive, or.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Or assume that you need to subscribe to a bunch
of websites to do your search.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Not needed.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Family search the only rate you can it's better for
you to make an account, but it is free to
make the account. It is a free account, so you
just have to make the account to save the work.
But it's free, just saying so that's all I got.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
All right, all good, perfect, all right, let's see some housekeeping. Then.
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Latin next parenting our fan favorite from last season favorites. Yes,
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Thank you.
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