The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show
Hosted by Lisa Louise Cooke · Lisa Louise Cooke
4.5from 330 ratings
- 299
- Episodes
- 30
- Transcribed
- 330
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2007
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show
Genealogy Gems Podcast shows you, the family historian, how to make the most out of your family history research time by providing quick and easy to use research techniques. In addition, you will learn creative ways to share your family tree and the legacy of your ancestors. Lisa Louise Cooke guides you through the exhilarating process of discovering your family tree. She scours the family history landscape to find and bring you the best websites, best practices, and best resources available. And Lisa's interviews with the experts in the field of genealogy make the Genealogy Gems Podcast your own personal genealogy conference. Guests include genealogists such as Dick Eastman, DearMYRTLE, Curt Witcher, Arlene Eakle, and the folks from Ancestry.com, as well as celebrities such as Tukufu Zuberi of The History Detectives, Kathy Lennon of the Lennon Sisters, Tim Russell of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, the band Venice, and Darby Hinton of the Daniel Boone TV series from the 1960s. Your family history is world history.
- Publisher
- Lisa Louise Cooke
- Category
- history · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Mar 2007
- Latest episode
- 6 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
30 of 299 episodes have a transcript.
6 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Roots 50th Anniversary with Chris Haley - Episode 309
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Roots 50th Anniversary with Chris Haley - Episode 309
Published 6 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I give it as a belated gift to the nation on this 200th anniversary. And that's another thing that we kept talking about 250, 250, 250. And I was putting two and two together. And remember that the 250 would also be the 50th anniversary of Roots, the book. The 50th anniversary is next year because that came out in January 23rd, 1977. That's amazing. There was a time when I don't think anybody on the planet hadn't heard of or even watched Roots. And it's weird because as we're getting older, there are generations of people who perhaps haven't read the book, haven't heard about it, or haven't seen the series, didn't grow up going, oh yeah, we all sat down and watched Roots together. […]
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- Chris Haley
- Creators of Tree Crossing
- Judy Nimer Muhn
- Crista Cowan
- Maureen Taylor
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- YouTube views
- 2,157,354
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 328 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- Quality
- 87
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 97
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Who hosts The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show?
Lisa Louise Cooke host the show. Published by Lisa Louise Cooke.
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