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Don't overload your site with animated graphics, cutesy backgrounds and huge, memory-gobbling photos. They'll make your pages look cluttered and take an eternity to download. Use "thumbnail" (small) photos instead. If you want to include a large picture, put it on a separate page with a link such as...
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Look at the cluster idea from another perspective. Successful genealogists use more than a one-person-one-name-only approach to research. If Ann's birth, along with her parents' names, was not registered in public records, you have to look for her parents' names in other documents. If you look only for records that...
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University libraries are particularly noted for special collections of government documents, microfilm, microfiche, rare books or manuscripts. Some universities have an archives housed separately from the general library. Here's a sampling of microform collections especially interesting to family historians: American Culture Series, 1493-1875 (University Microfilms): publications on all aspects of...
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A major piece of the New World's Colonial history will be preserved by a team of academics and archivists from the University of Florida and the Cuban National Archives. Researchers are making accessible more than 8 million handwritten records, which track the comings and goings of many ships and nearly...
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Austin, Texas, Travel Guide Premium
The music will be hot, but the history will be even hotter when the nation's genealogists converge on Austin, Texas, Sept. 8 to 11 for the annual Federation of Genealogical Societies conference. (See www.fgs.org/2004conf/fgs-2004.htm, call (888) 347-1500 or write Box 200940, Austin, TX 78720 for conference information.)
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My interest in genealogy was first sparked by listening to my husband's grandmother, Esterlene Smith Brooks Kesler, tell stories about growing up in the Blue Ridge mountains of southwest Virginia. Her favorite story reached back into the days of the Civil War to a young woman whose life seemed to...
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Mid-Atlantic Timeline 1634—Ships The Ark and Maryland Dove arrive at St. Mary's City, Md. 1638-1655—Delaware is part of New Sweden 1681—William Penn establishes the Colony of Pennsylvania 1694—Annapolis becomes capital of Colonial Maryland 1702—British colonies of East and West Jersey unite 1729—Baltimore established and named for Lord Baltimore 1763—Mason-Dixon Line...
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