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Connecticut-based Godfrey Memorial Library announced this week it's now one of the genealogical
societies whose members
can get copies of Connecticut birth records. In the Nutmeg state, birth records less than 100 years old are closed except to certain family members, legal representatives and government officials, and members of Secretary of State-approved
genealogical societies. (An in-stater tells me non-society members who know the exact name and birth date can request a record, but that's not in Connecticut's online information
at http://www.dph.state.ct.us/PB/HISR/
VR_FAQs.htm#Who_Req_Birth_Cert.)
That means if you were born in Connecticut, anyone with $50 (roughly, a society's annual fee
plus
the state's record fee) can get your uncensored birth certificate.
Exactly how is this protecting anyone's private information? Isn't there a better way to safeguard records while keeping them as public as possible? Sound
off in our Hot Topics Forum.
—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)
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Take the July 2007 Family Tree Magazine Issue Quiz and WIN!
Now that you’ve got your July 2007 Family Tree Magazine in your hot little
hands, let’s see how closely you read it. Go to http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsletter/issuequiz
0707.asp
and take our five-question pop quiz (all answers can be found in the July 2007 issue).
Each of the first three people to submit the correct answers wins a Family Tree Magazine International
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Flex those page-flipping fingers and get
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More Genealogy Partnerships Bring You Records
Ever since several new genealogy business relationships emerged during May’s National Genealogical Society conference, companies have
been declaring
unions right and left. Three of the latest are the Family History Library and Kindred Konnections; and World Vital Records
(WVR) and the Godfrey Library, and WVR and Accessible Archives. Find out
the details on the Genealogy
Insider blog. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/More+Genealogy+
Partnerships+To+Bring+You+Records.aspx
New Databases Debut
We put our ears to the ground and heard about a few databases recently online. Are your ancestors in them? Learn what they cover in the Genealogy
Insider blog. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/A+Few+New+Databases.aspx
Heirloom Hand-off Ideas From the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum
In a recent E-mail Update newsletter, we invited you to share stories of how
your family hands down heirlooms. Here are snippets of your suggestions for preserving the peace.
Read more on the Forum at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?
tid=317&posts=8&start=1
I
would suggest to parents that even if they can't or don't want to part with things at the moment, that they have a family meeting and decide "who gets what."
—Irelandgirl
Each of my three girls was named after my mother, my paternal grandmother,
or my husband's mother. The family heirlooms will be distributed to them based on which side of the family she is named after.
—christine016
My younger brother decided the only fair way to handle things was to draw numbers … right down
to the artificial flowers, we went through the house and picked.
—cheryls48
My great-grandmother,
Minnie Tryphena (Wade) St. John, had a twin sister, Myrtle Tryphosa Comstock. On their 50th birthday, Myrtle gave Minnie a fancy bowl with a wide gold band. The bowl has been passed on to the eldest daughter on her 50th birthday.
—rockinghorse64
Documenting Sources
We're working on a Family Tree Magazine article about documenting sources in your
genealogy software. So we
got to wondering: Do you
faithfully cite sources in your family tree program? If not,
what's stopping you? If yes, do you have any difficulties with your
software's source citation functions? Tell us in the Toolkit Forum, and we'll address common challenges in the article.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?
tid=349&posts=1&mid=794#M794
Going
Places
Are you taking any long-awaited genealogy research trips this summer? Hoping to visit Great-grandma's gravesite or your ancestral hometown? Tell us where you're headed in the Roots
on the Road Forum.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=11
Tag, You're It!
Moutriecreek posted this tip on the FamilyTreeMagazine.com
Forum:
If you're using a photo-sharing system (such as Flickr),
blog
or social networking site to share photos
and family history information, see if it lets you “tag” your photos or posts. These tags help search engines—and potential cousins—find that content, and find you.
See Moultriecreek’s
post for an example.
Submit your own tip to the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum, and if we feature it in the E-mail Update, you’ll win a free genealogy book or
CD. You must register with the Forum to participate.
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:
- Genealogical Forum of Oregon Indexes
- http://www.gfo.org
- This Portland-based genealogical society offers free online indexes to Oregon obituaries, 1890 veterans schedules and WWI draft registrations, plus a list of Multnomah
County marriages. You can order the records for a small fee.
- War Letters
- http://www.warletters.com
- The Legacy Project preserves soldiers' letters—and these everyday Americans' roles in momentous events—from wars historical and modern. Learn how to contribute
your familys' letters and get preservation tips.
 Porcelain Complexion (Literally!)
Even
in the early days of photography, photographers could develop pictures on anything you could
apply the chemicals to: leather, wood, paper, cloth, and, like this
week’s photo submission, a piece of porcelain. But can we identify this woman?
Find out in photo historian Maureen A. Taylor's Photo Detective blog at 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.
Burbank, California
Southern California Genealogical Society
Genealogy Jamboree & Research Expo
June 8-10
http://www.scgsgenealogy.com
Find out more about this and other 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.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/
calendar/calendar-list.asp
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