This month on the podcast, I make substantial progress in preparing my Pennsylvania Ancestors Lineage Society application, hitting several checklist items, and setting my sights on several others.

Also, a Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania officer discovers that we're related! His wife is my fourth cousin, once removed. If he had any kids, they'd by my fifth cousins! The connection is among my Smith and Tierney ancestors.

Hello again! This month I share my progress in completing my PALS application for the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, as well, including some recent death certificates as well as some colonial-era court and tax records. Later, I lament not having contacted some older relatives who passed away in recent years.

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Happy World Backup Day! In this tech-heavy episode, I describe how I set up my web server for easy backup of content and configuration files. I celebrate the recent release of the QGIS 4.0 mapping software. Finally I hint at the revival of my efforts to apply for the Pennsylvania Ancestors Lineage Society. It may be a little much for the casual genealogist, but it's the most important this I did this month. Enjoy it as much as you can!

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I've kept my New Year's resolution ... so far! The first episode of Season 6 comes to you on this last day of January, 2026, and it is all about my distant cousins, the Wetton, whom I have been studying while taking a break from my PALS application.

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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