Come join the fun, watch or listen to discussions about genealogy and family history strategies with Connie Knox, Ashley Moore and others.
Genealogy TV Podcast
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Come join the fun, watch or listen to discussions about genealogy and family history strategies with Connie Knox, Ashley Moore and others.
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Recent Episodes
June 19, 2026
Finding WWII Military Records (Genealogy TV Podcast)
<p>If you've ever tried to piece together a family member's military service from World War II, you've probably hit a wall at some point. In this episode, Ashley Moore joins me to talk through what records are actually out there, what to realistically expect, and how to keep going when things run dry.</p><p><br /></p><p>We start with draft registration cards -- a useful entry point, but registering didn't always mean someone served. Ashley spotted something on her great-grandfather's card that most people would scroll right past:</p><p><br /></p><p>"I actually looked very hard at his draft card, and they actually wrote in the upper corner, enlisted. Keep an eye out for that -- paying attention to those small details, because you might miss it."</p><p><br /></p><p>I also bring up the Old Man's Draft, a separate 1942 registration collection worth knowing about, and we cover what useful details you can find on both sides of the card.</p><p><br /></p><p>From there, we get into service records and the DD-214:</p><p><br /></p><p>"You're going to work backwards from their separation and then up through enlistment. The DD-214 is kind of like a cover sheet that summarizes essentially the person's time in service."</p><p><br /></p><p>A significant portion of these records no longer exist, and it's worth understanding why before you go looking:</p><p><br /></p><p>"They didn't actually burn up, they actually got wet. They were in the basement, all the water from the fire came down and molded all of these records, and very few of those records in that basement survived."</p><p><br /></p><p>We cover what to do when official records are gone -- Fold3, unit histories, pay vouchers, hospital records, local newspapers, and more. Ashley also talks through how to approach the abbreviations and codes that show up constantly on military documents, and medals and uniform ribbons as a way to identify where someone served and what they experienced.</p><p><br /></p><p>I share the story of a family member who was a POW in World War II and left behind two remarkable journals. At the very end of the written one:</p><p><br /></p><p>"He writes, 'We can hear the gunfire getting closer and closer. The guards have suddenly left.' And then he writes in big letters: Liberated. And there's one page after that where he writes: Home with Family."</p><p><br /></p><p>I also share a firsthand account from a great uncle who was aboard a ship at Pearl Harbor during the attack:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Normally it would take two guys to carry one shell, that's how heavy they were. The adrenaline was pumping so hard that one guy was carrying two. The guys in front of him were dropping, the guys behind him were dropping. He just didn't know how he survived it."</p><p><br /></p><p>We close with practical tips on correlating evidence across record types, and a thought worth sitting with:</p><p><br /></p><p>"I encourage people to write down what they know while they can, because these stories don't live forever."</p><p><br /></p><p>---</p><p>Chapters:</p><p>00:00 Introduction</p><p>00:39 Draft Cards Basics</p><p>02:09 Old Mans Draft Tip</p><p>03:04 Reading Draft Details</p><p>04:13 Enlistment and NARA Fire</p><p>05:39 Service Records and DD214</p><p>07:04 Decoding Acronyms Help</p><p>08:15 Alternatives When Records Lost</p><p>10:27 POW Diaries and Artifacts</p><p>14:04 Medals Photos and Context</p><p>16:33 Pearl Harbor Story</p><p>18:57 Closing Research Checklist</p><p>20:12 Where to Search Next</p><p>22:20 Wrap Up</p>
May 8, 2026
Vital Records: Making Sense of Birth, Marriage, and Death Records (Genealogy TV Podcast)
<p>Vital records are where most family trees get built, and in this episode we spend time unpacking what that actually means in practice. There is a real difference between knowing a record type exists and knowing how to use it well, and that gap is exactly where our conversation lives.</p><p><br /></p><p>We start with birth certificates. When they exist, they tend to hold up well, and for good reason:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Birth certificates are typically really good quality records because it's the parents that are giving the information. They witnessed the event. They participated in the event."</p><p><br /></p><p>The complication arrives when the certificate you need was never created. Civil registration of births did not get going until the early 1900s in most states, so for ancestors born before that, the search shifts toward church records, baptism registers, census entries, and family bibles. We also cover delayed birth certificates, which emerged largely because of Social Security in the mid-1930s. People suddenly needed to prove their age, and the resulting documents were often packed with corroborating detail from multiple sources, making them genuinely useful research tools.</p><p><br /></p><p>Marriage records get a substantial portion of the episode. One thing worth holding onto:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Pay attention to the dates. A lot of times people will put in their family tree the marriage license date thinking that is the date they got married, and it's not necessarily so. The marriage license is an intent to marry. The marriage return says, yes, it happened."</p><p><br /></p><p>We also get into marriage bonds, banns, and the value of witnesses. Ashley shares a story about her great-grandmother's records that gets to the heart of why cross-referencing documents matters:</p><p><br /></p><p>"I looked at that and I went, that's not right. She fibbed about her age to get married. Why would any woman want to make themselves two years older? It was so that she could get married. She was 17."</p><p><br /></p><p>Death records close out the conversation. The key is the informant, and why it matters more than most people realize:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Even a spouse didn't witness the birth of that person. So the birth information may not be first-hand knowledge, but the death information might be, because they may have witnessed the death."</p><p><br /></p><p>We also cover the FamilySearch Research Wiki as a practical first stop for any records search, mortality schedules, and county boundary changes that can quietly redirect where you need to look.</p><p><br /></p><p>---</p><p><br /></p><p>00:00 Introduction</p><p>00:23 Birth Records Basics</p><p>01:22 Birth Certificate Clues</p><p>03:53 Before Certificates Existed</p><p>05:01 FamilySearch Wiki Tips</p><p>09:36 Delayed Birth Certificates</p><p>12:02 Marriage Records Overview</p><p>12:48 Marriage Documents and Bonds</p><p>18:41 Marriage Evidence Beyond Certificates</p><p>22:17 Finding Images and FHL Numbers</p><p>24:49 Death Records and Evidence</p><p>27:30 Death Certificates and Informants</p><p>31:44 Copies vs Originals and Accuracy</p><p>34:18 Real World Marriage Stories</p><p>38:04 Wrap Up and Extra Tips</p>
April 23, 2026
Genealogy and AI with Denyse Allen
<p>00:00 Introduction</p><p>01:32 AI in Genealogy Research</p><p>02:19 Denyse's Genealogy Journey</p><p>03:57 AI for Transcription and Research</p><p>05:55 AI as an Assistant in Genealogy</p><p>13:37 AI Tools and Platforms</p><p>19:27 Photo Restoration and Ethical Considerations</p><p>22:49 AI Hallucinations and Early Experiences</p><p>23:26 AI Limitations and Improvements</p><p>24:39 Effective Prompting Techniques</p><p>26:06 AI for Genealogy Research</p><p>27:34 AI Tools and Newsletter</p><p>28:57 AI as a Research Partner</p><p>31:11 Evaluating AI Outputs</p><p>33:23 AI in Genealogy: Case Studies</p><p>38:58 Future of AI in Genealogy</p><p>42:19 Conclusion and Final Thoughts</p>
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