Happy New Year! I'm posting the sixth and final episode of Season 5 today, New Year's Day 2026. My New Year's resolution this year is to get back on track with my podcasting. That may entail cutting back on my exercise regiment, taking Saturdays off from exercise and using that time to record. I'm not sure how I'll fare without the streak counter to motivate me beyond six consecutive days, but we'll find out!

I'm back! ...and hopefully here to stay. I took the summer off to focus on some other things, several of which I describe in this month's audio podcast! I did some job hunting, a lot of exercise, a lot of Minecraft streaming, and, yes, even some Genealogy! Here is a quick episode to get back into the swing of things. More genealogy discoveries will follow over the next several weeks!

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I apologize for the extreme lateness on this one. This is actually April's podcast, recorded on May 11th, and edited last Saturday, May 24th. I don't even really remember what I said I'd link to in the show notes! The gist of the episode is that I had a lot of fun with maps last month, from handling an original circa 1790 map of Hempfield Manor in West Hempfield Township to experimenting with the latest in free cartography technology with QGIS.

Peek-a-boo! Yes, my server was down for a shade over two weeks, but it's back up now! I explained what happened, how the server fell, and how the server rose again. Later, I describe some of the research I've been doing on the land records of Joseph Hougendobler and his issue. Finally, I install the new Gramps 6.0.0 on Gentoo Linux via an ebuild that I modified myself.

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This month I describe the Ukrainian Anflick family records that I sought from the State Archives of Mykolaiv Oblast last year and eventually found on FamilySearch. These include birth records for Moishe-Leib, aka Louis, Anflick, death records for his father, Simon Anflik, grandparents Yankel and Leya Anflik and the marriage records of several aunts and uncles.

I close the show by describing a new project to follow in the coming months: my attempt to join the MacSwinney Irish Heritage Club of Jenkintown.

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We start the new year with three fantastic discoveries! The burial locations of three lost souls have either been discovered, or have had progress made toward their discoveries. The death certificates of Elizabeth Attwood Hawkins (d. 1909) and Selma Anflick (d. 1933) each report a cemetery of burial, but at each of the reported cemeteries the records of their burials had gone missing.

In this final episode of the 2024 season, I apologize for my latenesses over the past few episodes and pledge to get back on track with some new content by the end of January. It's been a long December! After that, with two days left in my winter break, we take another stroll down memory lane with a Christmas message from the Grahams, recorded in 1965. Baby Bobby has joined the family by then. The boys tell storie, sing carols, and as always, they describe what they want Santa to bring them for Christmas.

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This podcasts comes to you awfully late, but I'm glad to get it out before the new year. This was supposed to have been the November episode. It was recorded on December 1st, but illness kept me in bed for several Saturdays since, when I would otherwise have been editing and posting.