AncestorNews: GedVisor for Your Palmtop Premium
GedVisor 1.2 is the latest entry in the handheld genealogy game—and by far one of my favorites. Genealogy software for handheld devices (Palms and Visors) is designed to display the names in your family database, along with pertinent dates, events and notes. The advantages of using a handheld...
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AncestorNews: Taking a Genealogy Trip Premium
About a month ago, I wrote a piece for this newsletter called "Patience (Blast It!)," in which I described my difficulty getting a cemetery photograph. I asked readers for their opinion on whether I should wait for a volunteer to get the photo, or drive 2,000...
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Was Manifest Destiny part of your ancestors' fate? We'll take you to the Great Plains and the Rockies to find the best resources for plowing up your frontier roots.
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AncestorNews: Free Ancestry Databases Everyone knows that Ancestry.com www.ancestry.com has millions of genealogy databases available to subscribers. But did you know that several of those databases are free to all site visitors? These include goodies such as Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Michigan Historical Society...
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Was your ancestor a 49-er? In the two years following the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, 90,000 gold seekers poured into California. San Francisco, a tiny town of 900 in 1849, mushroomed to more than 5,000 by the following summer and 25,000 in the fall...
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AncestorNews: Interview Relatives Now Premium
My aunt Helen, 80, is one of my oldest living relatives and the one I turn to for questions about family members only she can remember. Because she lives in Kansas and I'm in California, our family history is exchanged via frequent phone calls and letters. She's great at...
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AncestorNews: War of 1812 Records Premium
Got a soldier, sailor or marine ancestor who served in the War of 1812? Search these free genealogy War of 1812 websites.
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When I put together my family history book, I tried to add as many photos as possible. Having all the data was great, but photos added that special touch. Most of the time I import my own digital photos or old slides that I converted to digital images. At...
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AncestorNews: Letters as Genealogy Gems Premium
E-mail is one of the greatest inventions to come down the pike. It's kept me in touch with more people, more frequently, and made communicating genealogy information a breeze. However, as I dash off a quick e-note, I often compare my sparse prose with letters written long before cyberspace...
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