AncestorNews: Starting Your Own Family Newsletter Premium
I wrote an article for the August 2000 Family Tree Magazine on electronic family newsletters (see highlights at www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/aug00/enewsideas.html). Since then, I've gotten interested in newsletters that are actually printed and sent via snail mail. I've poked around lots of Web sites and am tempted to...
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AncestorNews: E-mail Etiquette Premium
One of the best things about the Internet is the ability to find and correspond with new cousins. Once you begin posting and answering online queries, you'll be amazed at the number of new cousins who appear in your life. I was fortunate enough to connect with Knox family...
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AncestorNews: Family Reunions Premium
Last May, I wrote about the Boozell Family Reunion that Phyllis Quarg (former president of the San Diego Genealogical Society) had planned in York, Pa. At the time, Phyllis showed me her reunion notebook, the e-mails she had sent to all the Boozells she could find, and the exciting...
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AncestorNews: How Did Ancestors Vote? Premium
Have you noticed how often we group our ancestors into tidy little groups such as "my Germans" or "my Texans"? After all, categorizing our ancestors is an easy way to convey which branch of the family we're currently researching. But the people within those groups were individuals with different...
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Simplify your digital-camera shopping. Our genealogy-focused buying guide helps you zoom in on features that are right for you.
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AncestorNews: Civil War Sources Premium
On Sept. 27, 2004, a special ceremony at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site commemorated the completion of the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database (CWSS). This online, searchable database contains 6.3 million names of Civil War veterans, both Union and Confederate. In case you've never used this database, it's...
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AncestorNews: Count on County Histories Premium
While going through my aunt and uncle's book collection, I rescued a copy of Annals of Platte County, Missouri, published in 1897. Subtitled From Its Exploration Down to June 1, 1897: With Genealogies of Its Noted Families, and Sketches of Its Pioneers and Distinguished People, the book was a gem...
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AncestorNews: Digital-Image Dos Premium
Pam Journey, a genealogy friend of mine, is a whiz at organizing her records. Pam can look up any source citation on her genealogy software, then walk over to her massive collection of three-ring binders and turn straight to the original record. I should be so lucky. This year...
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AncestorNews: Daily Life in the Civil War Premium
When I saw the movie Gods and Generals, I started thinking about how hard it is to comprehend the daily life of our Civil War ancestors—both soldiers and civilians. I have a fairly extensive library of pioneer women's diaries, and because they really do give a clear picture of...
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AncestorNews: Just Another Day in the Colonies Premium
Genealogy has made me an avid historian. I want to know what my ancestors ate, the names and types of plants they used, how they built their houses and what kind of clothes they wore. I recently picked up two books detailing American Colonial life: Plants of Colonial Days...
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