Lisa Louise Cooke has been passionate about family history since she was a little girl sitting at her grandmother's knee looking at old family scrapbooks.  It's a dream come true to have turned that passion into a career.

She is the producer and host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, an audio and video genealogy show available in iTunes. 

In addition, Lisa hosts the monthly Family Tree Magazine Podcast and videocasts for Family History Expos.

She is a national genealogy speaker, and author of the book Genealogy Gems: Ultimate Research Strategies as well as the Genealogy Gems News Blog.

Lisa has been happily married to her husband Bill for over two decades and is the proud mother of three beautiful daughters.