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Happy Independence Day to everyone! If your relatives were around to see our country to Revolutionary War victory, check out our tips for researching Patriot ancestors on FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
Read on for genealogy news that'll help you discover ancestors from other eras.
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Preview FamilySearch's New Record Search
You can get
a
taste of the record-searching capabilities coming soon to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' FamilySearch Web site. Find out how in the Genealogy
Insider blog. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Preview+FamilySearchs+
New+Record+Search.aspx
Access American Indian Records
Ancestry.com
has added the 1885-to-1940 American Indian censuses in searchable, digitized
format, offering flexibility to find your ancestors. Learn how the search works and get American
Indian roots research tips at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Ancestrycom+
Adds+Indian+Censuses+French+And+Italian+Sites.aspx
Project to Bring SC Slave Lineages Online
Three organizations will use plantation journals to build and post online family trees of slaves of Charleston, SC’s Magnolia
Plantation and others operated by the Drayton family.
Where should you look for the trees? Read more at
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Project+To+Bring+SC+
Slave+Lineages+Online.aspx
Your Genealogy Research Road Trips
FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum visitor rtanyon just returned from a trip to tiny Jerome, Ark. There, his wife's great-uncle, who was stationed
in the Pacific during World War II, said he was close enough to
see the sky turn red after the atomic
bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
During a research trip to Ireland, a chance meeting gave miztaz a personal family history tour guide and a potential relative.
How are your summer research travels going? Tell us about them in the Back
Fence Forum at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/
thread-view.asp?tid=346
&posts=3&start=1
Find Your Ancestors in Court Records
This court records research tip comes from the July 2007
Family Tree Magazine.
Early Americans were a litigious bunch, so it's not unlikely you'll find ancestors filing (or answering) a divorce
petition, testifying in a criminal proceeding or taking sides in a not-so-neighborly squabble. To find your ancestors' court records, you'll need to learn which court (local, county or state) he may have visited, then find out where its records are kept.
For help, see the court records section of that state's Family History Library research outline (available
on FamilySearch).
You could win a free genealogy how-to book or CD! Post your research tip on the FamilyTreeMagazine.com tips forum (under Exclusives For Registered Users) and we'll send you
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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:
- The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
- http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/
- Search the Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), the American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), and the Jewish Chronicle (1962-present). Results link to digitized
articles.
- Boston Streets
- http://dca.tufts.edu/features/bostonstreets/
- This cool site has four sections: Moments (100 years of street scenes); People (city directories from 1845, 1855, 1865, 1870, 1872, 1875, 1885, 1905 and 1925); Places
(atlases from 1874, 1898 and 1928); and “Cowpaths” (a map-based tool that plots information from the other databases).
Tracking Down a Famous Relative
Attached to the inside velvet of this cased photo is a cryptic note, “may be great-grandfather Swale author of Geometric Amusements.” The photo's owner, Susan Wellington, can’t imagine how
Swale
might be related to her.
Photo expert Maureen A. Taylor follows the clues on the Photo Detective blog at
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/
photodetectiveblog/
Tracking+Down+A+Famous+Relative.aspx
If you have a family photo mystery for Taylor to solve, check out our Submission Guidelines at
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/photohelp.htm.
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