MyFamily.com Covers Canada and Restructures Subscriptions
MyFamily.com, parent company of subscription genealogy database sites Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com, launched a Canadian database service last week.
Ancestry.ca (http://ancestry.ca) provides access to more than 150 million
names, and the Web's only complete index to the recently released 1911 Canadian census. Your search results link to the record images on the Library and Archives Canada Web site, but you view them using Ancestry.ca's image viewer.
(You can browse the census images free at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/1911/index-e.html, but unless you have a good idea of your ancestor's residence, you'll be
browsing for a long time. Automated Genealogy is coordinating a free indexing project at http://www.automatedgenealogy.com.)
Other record collections on Ancestry.ca include Ontario birth, marriage and death indexes; Ontario and Nova Scotia census records; the Canadian Genealogy Index (more than 2 million records of all types, most from the 1600s to late 1900s); telephone directories
and a British Columbia death index.
Ancestry.ca's Canadian Deluxe membership provides access to all its databases for $99.95 annually, or $14.95 monthly. You also can bypass a subscription and use the pay-per-view option; 10 views within 14 days cost $5.95 (these figures are in Candian dollars).
Meanwhile, MyFamily.com has restructured subscription offerings on Ancestry.com and Ancestry.co.uk, its British records site. Gone are the multiple subscriptions to census, immigration and other collections. New Ancestry.com subscribers now select from
two options: The World Deluxe membership includes US, UK, Irish and Canadian
records, and costs $299.40 annually or $34.95 monthly (in US dollars). The second option, the US Deluxe membership, has US census, vital, military, land, court, newspaper and other records for $179.40 annually or $23.95 monthly (also in US dollars).
Ancestry.co.uk and Ancestry.ca each offer the World Deluxe membership. In addition, Ancestry.co.uk has a UK Deluxe membership with British records (69.95 pounds annually), and Ancestry.ca offers the Canadian Deluxe membership.
Current Ancestry.com and Ancestry.co.uk subscribers can upgrade to the World Deluxe or US Deluxe package by calling MyFamily.com customer service at (800) 262-3787. You'll receive a credit prorated for the unused portion of your existing subscription.
If you don't upgrade
before your subscription's renewal time, MyFamily.com product manager Beau Sharbrough says a representative will call you to discuss an upgrade.
February Issue Quiz Answers
Congratulations to Christine Kahle, Bob Janice and Jackie Hufschmid—you're the quick-thinking winners of the Family Tree Magazine February 2006 issue quiz in the Jan.
19 E-mail Update. Each of you will receive our 2006 Genealogy Guidebook, a special issue chock full of brick wall-busting research solutions (it's available for purchase at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/mags/display.asp?id=1737).
Here are the answers:
- Hamburg's emigrant passenger cards are indexed in the Kluber Card File.
- Four key words to remember for safely scrapbooking your memorabilia are acidic (we also accepted acid), barrier, container and environment.
- Two ways you can double-check information from online pedigree databases are to seek out the sources named in the file and to contact the person who submitted the information.
- Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette hit the presses 1728.
- Tim Sullivan is the new CEO of MyFamily.com, which is the parent company of Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com. (You'll find this answer on page 11. A number of you looked at Family Tree Magazine's masthead on page 4 and answered with the name of
our publishing company's CEO—please note we're not affiliated with MyFamily.com.)
Discover Your African-American Roots
In the February 2006 Family Tree Magazine, we wrote about "African-American Lives," a new PBS program that premieres this month. Host Henry Louis Gates leads investigations
into the family trees of well-known African-Americans, including Oprah Winfrey, Mae Jemison and Quincy Jones. Visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives for viewing schedules and, after Feb. 9, a Genealogy Guide with
research advice.
If you're in the Baltimore area, you can stop by the debut of From Freedom's Shadow: African Americans and the United States Capitol, an exhibit at the brand-new Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African-American history (http://www.africanamericanculture.org).
It covers African-Americans on Capitol Hill, from the slaves who helped construct the building to modern legislators who cast their votes inside.
For more research help, see FamilyTreeMagazine.com's African-American Ethnic Toolkit at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ethnic_cat.asp?ethnicity=AfriAmer, and visit
these Web sites:
Private Burials
When I was in North Carolina a few months ago, my friend David Cortner and I talked about accessing cemeteries located on private land. He has a Tennessee ancestor buried on a private farm, and wondered if he could visit the gravesite.
Continue reading at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/
ancestornews/current.html.
AncestorNews columnist Nancy Hendrickson is the author of Finding Your Roots Online, on sale now at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/store/display.asp?id=70583.
Browse
past AncestorNews columns at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ancestornews/previous.html.
Table It
This week's tip comes from Shirley Shewmake Manning of Norman, Ark.:
One of my main pet peeves is having to search through magazines for Web site addresses. To solve the problem, I build a table in a Microsoft Word document, and paste in URLs from e-mail newsletters or type them in from magazines. The first column
has a keyword that corresponds to the Web site, so I can sort on that column and more easily find what I'm looking for.
Editor's note: Good news for Family Tree Magazine readers—no more typing in all the URLs we recommended in our articles! You now can access the links from our Web site: Just click the current
issue on our home page, then select each article title to see links from that article.
Do you have a great idea for discovering, preserving or
celebrating family history? 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 Walking With Your Ancestors
by Melinda Kashuba (Family Tree Books, $22.99), also available for purchase online at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/store/display.asp?id=70683.
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:
• American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
http://www.ahsgr.org
Here you'll find a database of 200,000 obituaries, an index to a Volga census and more. Some resources are free; others require a fee.
• HomeTownLocator Gazetteer
http://gazetteer.hometownlocator.com
Find location information based on a town name, county name or zip code.
• Clergy of the Church of England Database
http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk
Search for relatives serving the Church of England between 1540 and 1835.
• Japanese-American Family History Resources
http://www.carolynbrady.com/jagenlinks.html
Discover your Japanese-American roots with the help of Carolyn Brady's information-packed site.
By the Seashore
Judy Miller sent a long note explaining who she thought was in this portrait: her great-great-grandmother, Mary Jane Adams Waters, born about 1810; her great-grandmother Eleanor Waters Williamson, born in 1847; and two sisters. But as soon as I opened
the picture, I knew this wasn't the case.
So what was the case? Find out at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/
photos/current.htm.
In this Web-exclusive column, expert photo historian Maureen A. Taylor helps readers analyze old family pictures. If you have a family photo mystery for Taylor to solve, check out our submission guidelines at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/photohelp.htm.
Lake Jackson, Texas
Emily Anne Croom
Feb. 18
Brazosport Genealogical Society seminar
Topics:
- Territorial Papers of the United States
- Location, Location, Location: Using Maps in Genealogy
- Timely Tools for Genealogists
- Their Place in Time: Broadening the Perspective Beyond Dates and Places
For more information, contact Gary Gantt at ggantt@brazosport.edu.
Westford, Mass.
Maureen A. Taylor
Feb. 26
Westford Historical Society
- Topic: Identifying Photos—From Pictures to Pixels
For more information, see http://www.westford.com/museum.
Port Charlotte, Fla.
Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak
March 11
Charlotte County Genealogical Society at St. James Episcopal Church
Topics: - Real World DNA
- Reverse Genealogy
- Find That Obituary! Online Newspaper Research
- Remembering Our Ancestors
For more information, contact bfleshman46@comcast.net.
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