Since 2000, the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress has been gathering the stories of veterans of World War I, World War II, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, as part of its Veterans History Project. The center will present "Coming Home," an hour-long radio special based on these oral histories, in honor of Veterans Day (Nov. 11). The special will air on many public radio stations at various times during early November—visit www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/pr03-cominghome.html#stations to check on a station near you.

Look for more information on the Veterans History Project, including how you can participate, in the April 2004 Family Tree Magazine.

Family Tree Legends, the genealogy software debuted by Pearl Street Software in 2002, is now available in an updated version. Just as attractive and user-friendly as the previous edition, Family Tree Legends 2.0 has several new or improved features, including

• SmartMatching: A Family Tree Legends trademark, this feature compares names in your file with names in the GenCircles database (a pedigree Web site by the creators of Family Tree Legends at www.gencircles.com) and intelligently identifies matches, weeding out false hits. The program keeps track of which matches you've already examined and which have been updated since you read them.
• File backup: Family Tree Legends provides automatic, real-time file backup to the Internet.
• GEDCOM merge and find: After downloading GEDCOM files from other software or the Web into Family Tree Legends, search for and eliminate duplicates.
• Reports and charts: Use Family Tree Legends to create appealing family tree charts and generate more than a dozen types of reports. All can be exported in PDF format.

For a full review of Family Tree Legends 2.0, see the December 2003 Family Tree Magazine or www.familytreemagazine.com/specialoffers.asp?EMlr110603. Family Tree Legends 2.0 requires Windows 95 or higher and 32MB RAM. Visit www.familytreelegends.com to tour the program 2.0 and to download it for $39.95.

Late last month the Michigan State Library announced that MyFamily.com terminated library members' remote access to the AncestryPlus genealogical database through the library Web site.

Sold to institutions rather than consumers, AncestryPlus is a subscription service similar to Ancestry.com that allows libraries to offer Ancestry.com's resources to their patrons.

Until October 19, Michigan residents with valid state identification could access AncestryPlus from their home computers via the Michigan library Web site. In its announcement, the library called MyFamily.com's actions abrupt, and said the company cited "customer abuse" as reasons for discontinuing access. MyFamily.com did not respond to our e-mail or phone call seeking comment on whether the action is part of a new nationwide policy.

Library users can still access Ancestry.com databases for free from computer terminals at subscribing libraries. MyFamily.com is the parent company of Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com, Ancestry.com and Rootsweb.com. It was named the country's 286th fastest-growing company in 2003 by the business consulting firm Deloitte & Touche.

Having trouble tracking down those elusive ancestors? In this biweekly, Web-exclusive column, contributing editor Nancy Hendrickson points to new and helpful ways to do your computer-related genealogy research. This week, she reminds us that it's vital to label family photos.

www.familytreemagazine.com/specialoffers.asp?FAMancestorcurrent

Hendrickson is a family historian, freelance writer and the author of Finding Your Roots Online, on sale now at www.familytreemagazine.com/specialoffers.asp?EMfyro. Browse the archive of her AncestorNews columns at www.familytreemagazine.com/specialoffers.asp?FAMancestorarchive.

This week's tip comes from from Paula Lew of Pittsburg, Calif.:

"I had searched for more than 20 years for a photo of my deceased father, whom I never met. I checked for military photos, but was told they were lost in a fire. After a suggestion from a former local school district receptionist, I went to the Unified School District Student Services, and in 10 minutes, I had a 1942 ninth-grade photo of my father. I never would have thought to check there—imagine my surprise!"

If you have a great idea for discovering, preserving or celebrating family history, we'd love to hear it. E-mail us your tip at ftmnews-editor@fwpubs.com with "TIP OF THE WEEK" in the subject line. If we publish it, you'll win a free copy of The Genealogist's Computer Companion by Rhonda McClure, also available for purchase online at www.familytreemagazine.com/specialoffers.asp?EMgcc110603.

Overwhelmed by the number of family history-related Web sites popping up? FamilyTreeMagazine.com sorts through them all—whew!—to bring you only the very best. We recently recommended the following as Sites of the Week:

• Survey Maps of Scotland Towns
Browse the National Library of Scotland's digital library of more than 1,900 maps of 62 towns, surveyed between 1847 and 1895.
www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/townplans/index.html

• Alabama Archives New Databases
Search newspapers, maps and photos at the Alabama State Archives Web site.
www.archives.state.al.us/dataindex.html

• American Women
This gateway site has a searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml