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AncestorNews: Portals to Your Pedigree Premium

Use portal sites to get to ancestral information online.

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AncestorNews: Pioneer Certificates Premium

Did you know that several genealogy societies offer "pioneer certificates" to direct descendants of people whose family settled in a certain area before a specific date? Some societies even offer more than one type of certificate. For example, the Utah Genealogical Society offers a Founding Pioneer, Territorial Pioneer or...

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AncestorNews: Finding the Details in Old Photos Premium

  AncestorNews: Finding the Details in Old Photos I have some exciting news to share with all of you. Last week, I received a copy of my book Finding Your Roots Online (Betterway Books, $19.99). I'm so proud of it, and I hope you find dozens of ancestors...

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AncestorNews: PAF in Palm Premium

As most regular readers of the newsletter know, I bought a palm-sized machine last year and began exploring genealogy software. In a recent issue I wrote about GedVisor, one of the newest software programs for handhelds such as Palms, Visors and the new Sony CLIE. Recently, a new—and free—program...

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AncestorNews: Hometown Postcards Premium

AncestorNews: Hometown Postcards Lately, I've been searching for antique hometown postcards—those beautiful old linen cards that depict the towns where my ancestors lived. Using eBay www.ebay.com, I've located and purchased (usually for less than $5) postcards of St. Joseph, Unionville, and Harris, Mo. Although the chances of...

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Photographing Headstones Premium

Several months ago, I contacted a volunteer at a headstone photography projects about getting a photo of my third great-grandfather's tombstone, outside Atlanta. Grandpa was a Union soldier who died of disease in the closing months of the Civil War, and was buried far from his Missouri home. I...

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AncestorNews: PDAs Premium

As AncestorNews readers know, I'm a great fan of using personal digital assistants (PDAs) as genealogy tools. PDAs (also known as handheld computers) include the variety of machines that run on the Palm operating system or a version of Windows. PalmOS machines include the Palm, Handspring Visor, Sony Clie...

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AncestorNews: Finding Your Way Premium

If you've read enough of my newsletter articles, you know that I've always loved maps. In fact, one of my prized possessions is an historic Missouri map, printed when Oklahoma was still called Indian Territory. The map hangs in my office, not far from the pile of gazetteers stacked...

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AncestorNews: Sites for Preserving Heirlooms Premium

See how preserving and sharing your family treasures is easier than ever before.

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AncestorNews: Traveling Notes Premium

Recently, I had the chance to travel through quite a bit of the Northern Plains. I drove from San Diego to Salt Lake City, then to Casper, Wyo., Billings, Mont., Williston and Bismarck, ND, Rapid City, SD, Fort Laramie, Wyo., down through Denver to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, up...

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