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Footnote is opening its entire collection of FBI case files for FREE until the end of August, 2008. If you think none of your relatives were ever investigated by the FBI, you might be surprised. I had no idea my grandfather had been investigated and had a FBI case file. In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the FBI, Footnote.com Opens Its FBI Collection Featuring Over 2 Million

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I was pleased to see that Footnote has begun to add city directories to its collection. If you have ancestors who lived in a city, these directories can be a great genealogy resource since they were published annually. City Directory Uses City directories show the husband's name, address, & occupation. If the husband has died, the city directory will show the widow's name and address. It also

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If you are searching for a surname that is also a common word such as Fox, Sales, Day, Park, or Green, you may have found that most of your searches bring up unwanted web pages that have nothing to do with genealogy.Surnames that also can be first names such as James, Dennis or George have the same challenge.Here are some tips to help find these difficult-to-find surnames using Google. These

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Ancestry.com has doubled the size of its Historical Newspaper Collection, adding a billion names and over 20 million images. And they're offering free access until June 19. Searching the Ancestry Newspaper Collection or any newspaper collection is a little bit different than searching other genealogy databases and here are a few tips for better success: If you don't see your hometown newspaper

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Ancestry.com doesn't want the world's stories to disappear so they are creating the World Archives Project to help preserve these records. I signed up to help index at http://landing.ancestry.com/keyingtool/notify.aspx and I received this email this morning: What’s the World Archives Project? The World Archives Project will allow people all over the world to collaborate to preserve the world’s

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The French- Canadian Drouin Collection Also Contains Records of Irish Immigrants The Ancestry.com Drouin Collection of Quebec records that spans the years 1621 to 1967 - (yes, 346 years of records) - has over 30 million names taken from baptism, marriage and burial records of Quebec, as well as church records from Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and some of the New England states. Those with

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Legacy 7.0 genealogy software is officially released -- check out the web site for the newest version of this great software. There is a tour of the new edition plus a comparison chart to other software programs. You can also download the software from the website - no need to wait for the disk to arrive in the mail. Legacy Website Legacy 7 genealogy software comes in two versions. Legacy

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FTM 2008 Lite is now being offered as a FREE download for a limited time. The FTM 2008 Lite page says "Family Tree Maker 2008 Lite includes all the functionality you need to build and maintain your family tree". It continues: •Have complete control of your family tree on your own computer •Attach documents, photos and media files to your tree •Print charts at home to share with friends and

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The Virtual Vietnam Wall Visiting the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D. C. with its 58,256 names carved into black granite is a powerful and emotional experience. The sheer size of the Wall is a sobering reminder of how many young people paid the ultimate sacrifice during this war. Every time I have been to the Wall, I realize it is not just the Wall by itself but seeing the people who

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If you have signed up for a Google gmail account or a blogger account during the last year, you may have automatically been signed up for three additional Google services that you didn't know you had:Personalized Search Web History Personalized iGoogle Homepage Google Personalized Search means that Google gives you unique search results based on your Web History. If you and I are both logged

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Searching for living people may not seem to be genealogy related, but there are times when it can be part of a family history search. Sometimes long-lost family members can help fill out branches on the family tree and shed light on ancestors. Sometimes finding an unknown biological parent can be the starting point for a genealogy search. Sometimes you just want to reconnect with family and

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I'd like to follow through on the question AncestryInsider posed at the Genea-Musings GuestBook in reference to my article about The Genealogy Search Trend on Google. Ancestry Insider: To followup Kathi's article on Genealogy searching on Google, someone needs to do a comparative analysis of other search terms. Did all hobbies decrease in like fashion? It would be interesting to compare

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A wildcard in a Google search query is indicated by an asterisk * and will match one or more whole words.Name SearchFor genealogy searches, the asterisk * is one way to search for a name that has a middle name or initial. Your ancestor's name may be Henry Aloysius Smith and in his lifetime he may have signed all legal documents as Henry A. Smith. A Google search for Henry * Smith will return

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Randy at GeneaMusing's has done a series on the decline in traffic at many of the top 50 genealogy sites based on their Alexa ranking. These include Genealogy Link Sites, Genealogy Social Network sites, and Commercial Genealogy sites. I thought I would take a look at the Google trend of searches over the past few years for the keyword genealogy. Google Trends analyzes Google web searches to

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Kory L. Meyerink, an adjunct professor of family history at Brigham Young University, felt an objective list of genealogy sites based on web traffic was needed. Why base a top 50 genealogy list on web traffic? Because the most useful genealogy sites will have the most traffic. The methodology of combining results from different sites that measure web traffic is a pretty clever way to determine

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Today, April 1, Google made a number of announcements: Google Books announced they made some headway with one type of volume they've struggled with in the past - books employing scratch and sniff technology. Using special equipment and tricky JavaScript, they're now able to capture some of the smells during the scanning process and then embed them in your web browser when you preview these

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The 2008 Artistry of Genealogy Awards, sponsored by ScanMyPhotos.com, awarded the Most Popular Genealogy Data Base to Family Tree Connection . If you aren't familiar with Family Tree Connection, it is different from other commercial genealogy sites. Family Tree Connection specializes in unusual secondary genealogy sources found nowhere else. Family Tree Connection has the type of records that

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Randy at GeneaMusings suggested taking a quick quiz called What American Accent Do you Have? I did and the quiz results were spot on for me. I was born in the city of Philadelphia. I thought the the quiz might find I had a Northeast or East Coast accent. Or I thought I might have picked up some of the accents from the different places I have lived in the country. Nope. The quiz had me pegged:

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I haven't had a chance to read Bad Baby Names: The Worst True Names Parents Saddled Their Kids With, and You Can Too! yet, but it looks like great fun. The authors of this book have combed the U.S. federal census records to find the absolute worst names parents have given their children. They found names like Fanny Pack, Fanny Whiffer, Post Office, Al Caholic, Anita Bath, and Amanda Hugginkiss.

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National Archives and Footnote.com Hold Press Conference to Announce 'The Wall' Interactive online Vietnam War Memorial makes war records more widely available . WHAT: A press conference to unveil a new interactive online Vietnam War Memorial, featuring the largest photo of the Wall on the Web. WHO: Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein, Russell Wilding, CEO, Footnote.com James

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I've been a happy user of FTM 2008 since it was first introduced. But yesterday when I opened Family Tree Maker 2008 and tried to access Ancestry.com through the program, I got the dreaded "authentication with the server failed" error. This was a problem with FTM2008 when it was first introduced, but I thought it had been fixed with a patch. The error was generally caused by a user's computer

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Legacy Charting Pre-Release Edition Now Available For Free Download From the Legacy Family Tree software desk: We are getting closer to the release of Legacy Family Tree version 7. We are just as anxious as you are for the great new features to come, but we also want to be sure that we haven't overlooked anything. One of the biggest new features will be the ability to create large-scale wall

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In addition to the Google Toolbar Word Find Highlighter to immediately pinpoint all occurrences of word or surname on long web pages, the Google Site Search is another great use for the Google Toolbar when genealogy searching. You can use it to: Search a site that doesn't have its own search engine. You will find that many smaller genealogy sites, and surprisingly some larger sites, do not have

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Picasa, Google's Free Photo Organizer, locates all the photos and images on your computer and organizes them for easy finding. Use Picasa to keep your scanned photos organized for free. The folders of photos in Picasa are organized by year created, but if you have a large number of photos on your computer, it can sometimes be helpful to change the sort to more easily find a photo. You can

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In my genealogy research, I inevitably am writing to someone in Europe where the language, currency, and time zone are all different. I can get help translating with the Google Translation Dictionary and Google Search Translation and get help with Google time zone conversions. Now, Google's searchbox can be used as a currency converter. Google Currency Convertor The format is: pounds in

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