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• Family Tree Magazine 2007 Issues Available on CD
• Civil War Widows Pension Files To Be Digitized
• Find WWII Ancestors in Just-Opened Records
• Roundup of Online Resources
• From the Forum: Italian Research and Free Alternatives to Paid Data
  
• Tip of the Week: Add a Space to Your Surname Search
  
• Worthwhile Web Sites
• Photo Detective: Reunite With Long-Lost Photos
  
• FamilyTreeMagazine.com Events Calendar
• Advertiser Special Offers

Family Tree Magazine 2007 Issues Available on CD
Now you can get instant access to 2007 Family Tree Magazine issues in one space-saving CD. That includes:

• 380 pages of the best tips, tools and techniques for tracing your roots
• Thousands of active links so you can click right to our recommended Web sites
  
• Bonus! Printable keepsake family tree chart, our table of US statewide vital-recordkeeping dates, and a directory of 2,000+ Family History Centers across the United States and Canada

Civil War Widows' Pension Files To Be Digitized
That's right, folks: FamilySearch, Footnote and the National Archives plan to digitize and make available 1.28 million Civil War pension records . See when they'll get started, and read the even better news coming out of this partnership.

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Civil+War+Widows+
Pension+Files+To+Be+Digitized.aspx

Find WWII Ancestors in Just-Opened Records
The National Personnel Records Center has opened service records for those who were discharged or died in service prior to 1946. We'll tell you what's in these records and how to access them.

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Find+WWII+Ancestors+
In+JustOpened+Records+.aspx

Online Resource Roundup
An African-American genealogy database called AfriQuest is in the works, British site FamilyRelatives adds home pages for users, and FamilyLink helps you upload a GEDCOM to your Facebook page. Get more details for all three developments on the Genealogy Insider blog:

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Resources+For+
AfricanAmericans+British+Researchers+And+Facebook+Fans.aspx

Free Alternatives to Fee-Based Data Sites
Shhh! Family Tree Magazine readers are divulging the Web sites where they find free genealogical data the big boys charge for. Stop in, see their secret sources and tell us your own.

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/
thread-view.asp?tid=567&posts=5&start=1

Share Your Italian Research Advice
Carole is searching for her Italian ancestors. Visit the Query Center and share your favorite Italian genealogy Web sites, societies, tips and success stories.

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/
thread-view.asp?tid=615&posts=1&mid=1463#M1463

Searching for Surnames With Spaces
Jeteryankeelover (our condolences!) posted this tip to the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum:

For more than 20 years I've been trying to research my McManus line. I've always looked under McManus and variant spellings, but one day I decided to try Mc Manus. And I finally found my grandparents' and dad's records after all these years. So I tried every other relative I could think of and found some great aunts, too. It's amazing how just one little space could fill in so many blanks!

FamilyTreeMagazine.com sorts through new family history Web sites to bring you the best. We recently recommended the following as Sites of the Week:

• Cemeteries of Sarasota County, Florida
  www.rootsweb.com/~flgss/GSSCemteryBook.htm
  View PDF files of a book listing burials in cemeteries of Florida's Sarasota County.
  

• PhillyHistory.org
  www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/
  Search and browse historic photos from Philadelphia's City Archives. You'll also get a map showing the location of the photo, and you can e-mail the picture to someone or buy an enlarged print.

Reuniting With Long-Lost Family Photos
After posting to a message board about an ancestral couple that moved West, one researcher met a distant cousin who not only knew all about the married pair, but also had a photo album full of pictures from the 1870s.

This week, our Photo Detective Maureen A. Taylor gives you tips for searching out long-lost photos of your ancestors.

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photodetectiveblog

If you have a family photo mystery for Taylor to solve, check out our Submission Guidelines at
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/photohelp.htm.

Find upcoming genealogy and living history seminars—and publicize your group’s events—in our online calendar. You must be registered with the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum to post.

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