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Links to the lives of the unusual, surprising and infamous: Lizzie Borden's family tree www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/Borden/ Unsolved Mysteries mailing list www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_general.html#GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Notorious Ancestors www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8310/notorious.html Yahoo guide to outlaws dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Crime/Outlaws/ So You Want to Be Kin to Jesse James www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/8225/jesse...

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Would you like free access to thousands of topographic maps? TopoZone.com at www.topozone.com is a fully searchable Web site containing topographic images of the entire United States. Under Get a Map, click Place Name Search to go to the query form. The system will return a...

AncestorNews: Treasure Hunting Premium

I was inspired to search the Web for ancestral artifacts after reading the October 2004 Family Tree Magazine article by associate editor Lauren Eisenstodt ("Object Lessons," page 50). Lauren wrote about 10 ways to research and preserve family heirlooms. One of the sites I routinely check in hopes...

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Three ways to increase your payoff when paying for online databases.

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Web sites to help you in your search for lost family and friends. Telephone Directories Telephone Directories on the Web: Sometimes finding someone can be as simple as looking the name up in a telephone book. This site indexes online telephone directories, yellow pages, e-mail directories and fax listings covering...

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Tips for using search engines' advanced searches to target your online genealogy research.

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AncestorNews: Googling Family Premium

Not long ago I helped a friend trace her family tree. After writing down some basic information, I went online and searched the "usual suspects." I began my search on the databases of FamilySearch at www.familysearch.com and the WorldConnect Project at worldconnect.rootsweb.com. Between the...