For $subst('Recip.EmailAddr') June 9, 2005 We're baaaack! From the National Genealogical Society's (NGS) annual Conference in the States in Nashville, Tenn., that is. It was great to meet everyone who stopped by the Family Tree Magazine booth to say hi, pick up free magazines and register to win $100 worth of genealogy books—congrats to the lucky winner, Natalie Radov of Ellicott City, Md! And welcome to all you new folks who signed for the E-mail Update newsletter. We've heard this conference attracted 1,000 attendees—down from last year's 1,600 draw in Sacramento, Calif. If you were at the 2005 NGS conference in Nashville, what prompted you to go? If you didn't go, why not? E-mail ftmnews-editor@fwpubs.com and let us know. Innovation in the genealogy world seems to have slowed as well—we'd love to see an exciting new product or other development that inspires family historians and generates buzz even outside the confines of genealogical circles. See below for our report on the buzz inside the exhibit hall. —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. Notes from Nashville DAR Index Improvements A Broader View AncestorNews: Do You Know the History? Tip of the Week: Your Inventive Ancestor's 15 Minutes Worthwhile Web Sites Identifying Family Photographs: Collected Evidence Speakers' Schedule Advertiser Special Offers Notes from Nashville Here's what we found during our tours of the exhibit hall at last week's National Genealogical Society (NGS) Conference in the States. Mark your calendar now for next year's shindig in Chicago from June 7 to 10—see http://www.ngsgenealogy.org for details. You can order prints of Irish Ordnance Survey maps from Past Homes (http://www.pasthomes.com). These detailed depictions, created starting in 1829, might show where your Irish ancestors lived, worked and worshipped—some buildings and landholdings are even identified. Prices start at $20. Brigham Young University has launched an online Family History Archive at http://www.familyhistoryarchive.byu.edu, where BYU is posting scanned pages of its collection of 100,000 family histories. You can have your printed family history digitized and posted on the site for .75 per page. The Jefferson Project's Passage Express, the newest incarnation of the Family History CD, will be available July 1 at http://www.passageexpress.com. Read our review of this software, which helps you create a family history CD, in the August 2005 Family Tree Magazine (available June 21 on newsstands and from http://www.familytreemagazine.com). Arphax Publishing Company debuted its Family Maps books of federal land patent maps with indexes to the patentholders, which will help you find your ancestor's land and see who his neighbors were. Deluxe-edition books add local maps showing roads, cemeteries, waterways and more. So far, the books, priced from $19.95 to $34.95, cover counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi and Missouri. Find out more at http://www.arphax.com. Swedish subscription database site Genline (http://www.genline.com), which we reviewed in the June 2005 Family Tree Magazine, introduced an updated viewing utility for its record images. Users can view records faster and open more than one record at a time for easy comparison. Placefinding software U.S. Cities Galore showed off its second version, loaded with 303,000 place names. Look up your ancestral city, town or township, and scan your family tree files for inconsistent or incomplete place names. The program's available for $29.95 at http://www.uscitiesgalore.com. You also can try the county lookup for free by clicking Product Info. Other newcomers to the NGS conference include RootsMap (http://www.rootsmap.com), which makes surname distribution maps for the UK and Ireland; Alpha to Omega Genealogy ( http://www.alphatoomega.us), a software program for creating family history books; and Solid Memories (http://www.solidmemories.com), a service that turns your photo portraits into stonelike 3D mementos. DAR Index Improvements The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has enhanced its online index to the Genealogical Records Committee Reports—the name for its collection of genealogical information from family Bibles, tombstones, church records and the like. DAR, a lineage society for women with Colonial ancestors, has a research library in Washington, DC. Search the 18 million-name (and still growing) index at http://grc.dar.org/dar/darnet/grc/grc.cfm?Action=New_Search for your ancestor and results now show you the book title and a link to its catalog record with the volume number and location in DAR's library. You'll also see the contents of the subject and notes fields, which can help you determine if the book is relevant to your research. Click Ordering Page Copies for details on requesting photocopies of the pages with your ancestor's name. A Broader View Epson has come out with a premium version of its PictureMate personal photo printer—which we reviewed in the December 2004 Family Tree Magazine. Just like its predecessor, the PictureMate Deluxe Viewer Edition makes 4x6-inch or wallet-size prints, no computer necessary—but it adds some perks. In addition to a color LCD screen, faster printing and an optional battery for anywhere printing, the deluxe model has new photo-editing and printing features that address PictureMate's main limitations: only two printing sizes and preset cropping. Those revved-up features include: Personal Settings Wizard to customize your favorite print settings Print by Date mode for printing all the photos you took on, say, your Memorial Day cemetery visit Manual photo adjustments for brightness, sharpness and saturation Unlimited photo cropping options Printing of 3x4-inch and mini-wallet size photos You can get the PictureMate Deluxe Viewer Edition for about $249. The original PictureMate and PictureMate Print Pack still will be available in stores for $199 and $29, respectively. For more information, see http://www.mypicturemate.com. The Best of AncestorNews: Do You Know the History? 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 recommends great history Web sites. Read more at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ancestornews/current.html. Hendrickson is a family historian, freelance writer and the author of the book Finding Your Roots Online, on sale now at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/store/display.asp?id=70583. Browse the archive of her AncestorNews columns at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ancestornews/previous.html. Your Inventive Ancestor's 15 Minutes This week's tip comes from Barton Adams Taylor: A few newsletters ago, you published a Now What? Online response to a reader asking about her ancestor's patent. (Editor's note: See the March 3, 2005, E-mail Update at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsletter/archive.html). The reader also could try Scientific American magazine, which is digitized and searchable from the 1800s at Cornell University's Making of America Web site ( http://moa.cit.cornell.edu). The magazine listed new inventions with a description and the inventor. I found a relative's invention from Sept. 22, 1866, by searching on his last name. 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 Plugging Into Your Past (Family Tree Books, $19.99) by Rick Crume, also available for purchase online at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/store/display.asp?id=70624. 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: • History of US Armies in Uniform http://www.tekawiz.com See photographs of historical US Army and US Marine Corps uniforms. • Kloosterman Genealogy http://www.kloosterman.be Search or browse this well-organized, attractive site for ancestors named Kloosterman or Cloosterman, among others. • The Bostonian Society's Online Collection Catalog http://rfi.bostonhistory.org Access the Bostonian Society's library catalog, as well as its database of 3,000 photographs of Boston street scenes between 1850 and 1980. • The Tait and Tate Families of America http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~taitandtate/index.htm Find information on these surnames plus some connected families. Collected Evidence Expert photo historian Maureen A. Taylor helps readers analyze old family pictures in her Web-exclusive column Identifying Family Photographs. This week, she guides a reader in identifying a photo from a family album. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/current.htm. If you have a family photo mystery for Taylor to solve, check out our Submission Guidelines at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/photohelp.htm. Morris. Minn. Rick Crume June 18 Minnesota Genealogical Society meeting Topic: Immigration and Naturalization Records Online For more information, contact the Minnesota Genealogical Society at http://www.mngs.org. Huntsville, Texas Emily Anne Croom June 25 Texas Genealogical and Family History Fair Topic: You're Known by the Company You Keep: Cluster Genealogy, an Essential Tool in Research For more information, contact the Walker County Genealogical Society at http://www.wcgen.com. RootsMagic Genealogy Software - "An excellent choice for any genealogist" says Family Tree Magazine. 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