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Quick! Look through your December 2006 Family Tree Magazine for answers to the following five questions (trust
us,
they’re all in there!).
The first three of you to answer the questions correctly will win a free genealogy how-to book from Family Tree Books. Submit your answers using this Web page: http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsletter/issuequiz1206.asp.
Ready
… set … go!
1. How can you
tell whether a fusible interfacing is the right kind to use for a gravestone
rubbing?
2. Name three sources you can consult to look for an ancestor’s birth information if an official birth certificate is unavailable?
3. Which two German-speaking empresses were largely responsible for the spread of German
enclaves throughout Eastern
Europe during the 1700s?
4. What’s the difference between the christening and baptism fields in your genealogy software?
5. What are two ways to tell female from male children in old family photos?
End Construction
The Allen County (Ind.) Public Library—which has the largest genealogy collection (http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy)
of any public library in the United States—will move in January from its temporary digs into its renovated, expanded home. Lest you want to squeeze in some research over your holiday break, plan for the genealogy department’s relocation scheduled
to start Dec. 26. Watch the Web site for updates on closures.
The
main library expansion is a long time coming: Construction started in 2003; planning was underway long before that. It grew by nearly 125,000 square feet and tripled open shelf capacity to 1.1 million volumes. A grand opening of the expanded building at
900
Webster St. in Fort Wayne is scheduled
for Jan. 27.
Golden Opportunity
Stephen P. Morse, whose tools on the One-Step Web Pages (http://stevemorse.org) help researchers find ancestors in online genealogy databases, has
created a new form for searching the
Ellis Island passenger database (http://ellisisland.org).
The Gold form supplants the Blue and Gray ones (though Morse will keep them available for a short time). The latter
forms—as well as the White
form,
which will stay put—use the EllisIsland.org search engine. The new Gold form uses a different search engine, which Morse says will work faster when you search on name fragments.
Think of the White form as a basic search and the Gold form
as
an advanced search. Morse recommends starting with the latter and going to the White form if your search is unsuccessful and you need a "fresh perspective."
Using the Gold form, you can leave the name fields blank, choose a "sounds like" option for the name and town of origin, search on a traveling companion and marital status, type in a departure port (rather than select it from a drop-down
menu), and customize how your results display. The Gold form also uses the Daitch Mokotoff Soundex system, designed to handle Eastern European surnames; whereas the White form uses American Soundex.
Look for tips on using the One-Step Web Pages
in the February 2007 Family Tree Magazine, on newsstands Jan. 2.
Free Offer Extended
MyFamily.com is extending free access to its immigration records collection on Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com) through the end of the year. The company originally offered free access
through November 30 to mark the expansion of the passenger list collection, unveiled Nov. 9, which now covers virtually all available
US immigration records.
Ancestry.com has experienced its highest-ever site page views after launching the passenger list collection. Average page views per day have increased by 25 percent to 15 million over the past month, and by more than 30,000
page views per day from new visitors.
The immigration collection is part of Ancestry.com's $155.40 annual US Deluxe records subscription.
Be first to check out what's new on our Web site:
Making Corrections
Q. My great-grandmother’s death certificate gives her father's name incorrectly, and the mother's name is blank. The birth year is even different from what’s in her obituary and on
her
gravestone. I have proof of the correct names through my genealogy searches. How can I get this corrected, so that later generations would have the correct information?A. To
learn the answer, see http://www.familytreemagazine.com/nowwhatonline/current.html.
Read more Q&A with the experts at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/nowwhatonline/previous.html.
Have a Photo-Safe Holiday!
Sharing your pictures is a great gift for everyone on your list, whether it’s in the form of a decorated tie, multipage scrapbook or simple framed photo. If you’re considering giving relatives such a
gift,
follow these tips to make it a photo-safe holiday.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/
photos/current.htm.
Taylor is the author of Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photographs, 2nd edition (Family Tree Books, $24.99). If you have a family photo mystery for Taylor to solve,
check out our Submission Guidelines at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/photohelp.htm.
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