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Feel like you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years? Don’t worry – if any of these top genealogical stories are news to you, get up to speed by reading past editions of Family Tree Magazine‘s Branching Out news column. See a sampling of our hot-topic coverage below.
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Ellis Island’s Web debut
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? April 26, 2001, E-Mail Update: “Virtual Overcrowding at Ellis Island”
Ancestry.com’s dominance
? October 2000 Branching Out: “RootsWeb Now Under MyFamily.com Umbrella”
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? April 10, 2003, E-Mail Update: “Online Domination: MyFamily.com Acquires Genealogy.com”
? Jan. 22, 2004, E-Mail Update: “A Growing Family”
Genetic genealogy
? October 2000 Branching Out: “Putting the Gene in Genealogy”
? March 18, 2004, E-Mail Update:“Why DNA?”
? June 2004 Branching Out: “Y’s Up”
? Oct. 28, 2004, E-Mail Update: “Mighty Search”
1930 census release
? April 4, 2002, E-Mail Update: “1930 Census — It’s Finally Here!”
Record-access restrictions
? Dec. 13, 2001, E-Mail Update: “California Halts Sale of Vital Records”
? June 19, 2003, E-Mail Update: “State Updates” (Ohio, Texas, Maine and New Jersey)
? February 2004 Branching Out: “In the Buckeye of the Storm”
National Archives developments
? May 30, 2002, E-Mail Update: “NARA Launches New Web Site”
? April 10, 2003, E-Mail Update: “Electronic Records Galore”
? February 2004 Branching Out: “Archives Unveiled”
? Aug. 5, 2004, E-Mail Update: “Fighting Obsolescence”
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