For $subst('Recip.EmailAddr') April 13, 2006 The Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City already was a super-friendly place, as I learned last year when Family Tree Magazine staff visited during the Federation of Genealogical Societies conference. Now it's even friendlier: A greeter welcomes visitors and recommends where in the library they should start. And soon, patrons will be able to book a consultation with an FHL librarian. If you can't get to the FHL, see the answers below to our April 2006 Family Tree Magazine quiz—you'll learn how find a branch Family History Center near you. We've got lots of other genealogy news in store for you this week, too, so keep reading. —Diane Haddad, Newsletter Editor ftmnews-editor@fwpubs.com P.S. Make sure you don't miss a single issue of your E-mail Update! Add our address (familytree-newsletter@fwpubs.com) to your email-address book—your software will recognize the Update as an e-mail you want to read.   April 2006 Quiz Winners San Francisco Earthquake: 100 Years Later Show Me Death Records AncestorNews: Memory Gardens Sneak Peeks at FamilyTreeMagazine.com Now What? Online: Bills of Sale Identifying Family Photographs: Taking a Step Back Speakers' Schedule Advertiser Special Offers April 2006 Quiz Winners You all are sharp! Thanks for playing the April 2006 Family Tree Magazine quiz (administered in the March 30 E-mail Update newsletter), everyone! Congratulations to our three winners: Martha Grenzeback, Susan Neal and Patricia Robison each win a copy of the 2006 Genealogy Guidebook, a special issue of Family Tree Magazine available online at http://www. familytreemagazine.com/mags/display.asp?id=1737. The answers are ... In 1847, 52,000 Irish immigrants arrived in New York City. We were looking for three types of records you can find on ArchiviaNet (http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/index-e.html), the Library and Archives Canada online research site. You could have said WWI personnel files, western land grants, immigration records from 1925 to 1935 and censuses. Need a clergyman on your genealogical team? You could have given any of these recruitment tactics: volunteer for a church activity, attend a church function, make a monetary donation or give a copy of your family history to the church. An FHC is one of the many Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Family History Centers, staffed with friendly researchers who can help you research your genealogy. They also can save you a trip to the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City: Visit an FHC to rent microfilmed records form the FHL. Find an FHC near you using the box on the FamilySearch home page, http://www.familysearch.org. A vendue list is an estate record showing the deceased's personal property and how much each item sold for at auction. San Francisco Earthquake: 100 Years Later If your ancestors were anywhere near San Francisco 100 years ago April 18, no doubt the 1906 earthquake and fire was a defining event in their lives. The 65-second temblor, which measured about 8 on the Richter scale, struck at 5:12 in the morning. (The Daily News, shown, managed to publish an April 18 evening edition.) For the next three days, catastrophic fires burned through 500 city blocks. Between 3,000 and 6,000 residents of San Francisco—then California's largest city with a population of more than 340,000—died; anywhere from 225,000 and 300,000 were left homeless. Property damage estimates reached $400 million (today's equivalent would be $8.2 billion). As the United States marks the quake's anniversary, museum and library Web sites are putting both records and historical information on display. Here's a sampling: San Francisco Genealogy Online Databases Link to record indexes, including some from the 1906 quake. http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/sfdata.htm The Bancroft Library: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire This comprehensive online exhibit covers the earthquake and its aftereffects in words, photos and maps. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/earthquakeandfire/splash.html Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 Twenty-six films dating from 1897 through 1916 show San Francisco before and after April 18, 1906. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/sfhome.html US Geological Survey: 1906 Earthquake Learn the geology of the quake and read a 1977 interview with a survivor. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1906_04_18.php Museum of the City of San Francisco: The Great 1906 Earthquake And Fire See transcribed accounts, photos and a list of the dead. You also can contribute related ancestral information. http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html Show Me Death Records The Missouri state archives has expanded its free death certificate database; which previously indexed pre-1910 records, to include 2 million deaths through 1955. Even better, search results for deaths from 1910 to 1920 link to digitized PDF images of the original certificates. Visit http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/ deathcertificates and search on first name and last name, county or month and year. If you're unsure of the name, click Advanced Search to choose starts with, ends with or contains options. You can order copies of post-1920 records by clicking to generate a form you fill out and mail in with $1 per request (the limit is five). Memory Gardens In honor of spring, we're bringing you two classic AncestorNews columns about memory gardens. Learn about these living memorials at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ancestornews/ memgarden.html, then read about newsletter subscribers' gardens 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. Check out what's new at Family Tree Magazine and FamilyTreeMagazine.com: State Research Guides Find out which Family Tree Magazine State Research Guides you missed (and order those issues). We also tell you which states are covered in upcoming issues so you can keep an eye out. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/stateguides Strange Brew Got odd ancestors? E-mail us in 60 words or less about the weirdest thing your ancestor ever did. If we publish your story in Family Tree Magazine's All in the Family section, you'll win a copy of 50 Relatives Worse than Yours by Justin Racz (Bloomsbury, $14.95). ftmedit@fwpubs.com Cyber Solutions If you're confounded by computers, you've come to the right place: Whether it's software or GEDCOMS, we want to hear your tech-related research questions. E-mail us and we may answer your plea in an upcoming Family Tree Magazine. ftmletters@fwpubs.com Bills of Sale Q. My family has a number of slave bills given to our great-great-uncle who lived in Athens, Ga. They're faded pen-and-ink documents that state the date, sale price and a brief description of the person traded. How can I find out a value for these documents? If we sell them, who should we contact? A. For 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. Taking a Step Back I love a challenge, so I was very happy to see Christean Jenkins' photo in my e-mail inbox. All she knows about this charming portrait is what her great-uncle wrote on the envelope when he sent it to her father more than 25 years ago: "Our relation in the old country." That's it. Learn about the clues on the back of this photo 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. Washington, DC Lisa A. Alzo April 19 National Council on Public History Workshop Topic: Genealogists and Historians: Partners in Preserving the Past For more information, see http://www.ncph.org. Richmond, Va. Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak April 22 Virginia Genealogical Society Topics: Real World Y-DNA Testing Beyond DNA: Your Genetic Genealogy Options For more information, see http://www.vgs.org. Boerne, Texas Sharon DeBartolo Carmack April 22 Kendall County Genealogical Society Topics: The Silent Woman: Bringing a Name to Life From Yawner to Page Turner: Writing Your Ancestor's Story Give Me Your Tired and Poor, But Not Your Sick: The Medical Records on Ellis Island Cryptic Clues in the Bone Yard For more information, see http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgskc/seminar.htm. Toledo, Ohio Sharon DeBartolo Carmack April 27-29 Ohio Genealogical Society Conference Topics: From Yawner to Page Turner: Writing Your Ancestor's Story Cracking the Tombstone Code: Interpreting American Tombstone Art and Symbols Before You Publish: What Every Genealogist Needs to Know About Copyright For more information, see http://www.ogs.org. 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