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We're here at the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) Conference in Fort Wayne, Ind. It's so inspiring and exciting to see the enthusiasm of the genealogists here!

To keep that spirit growing, we've joined with FGS to announce a fundraising program for genealogy societies. It lets society members support their groups while getting the how-to information and key resources in every issue of Family Tree Magazine.

For details and to learn how your society can participate, see below.

And to keep up with news from the FGS conference, as well as Family Tree Magazine's visit to the astounding Genealogy Center at the Allen County (Ind.) Public Library, stay tuned to the Genealogy Insider blog.

—Diane Haddad, Newsletter Editor
ftmnews-editor@fwpubs.com

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• Family Tree Magazine Announces Society Fundraising Program 
• US Museum to get Holocaust Records
• HistoryKat Adds To Its US Postal Records
• From the Forum: Readers Open up About 101 Best Sites
  
• Tip of the Week: Leave a Genealogical Calling Card
• Worthwhile Web Sites
• Photo Detective: Identify Your Summer Photos
  
• FamilyTreeMagazine.com Events Calendar
• Advertiser Special Offers

US Museum to get Holocaust Records
Next week, the first batch of digital copies of a major trove of Holocaust-era documents will be transferred to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

To find out how you can use these records, see the Genealogy Insider blog.

HistoryKat Adds To Its US Postal Records
Do you suspect your ancestor was a mail carrier or other US Postal Service employee? Or maybe he committed mail fraud?

If so, a visit to HistoryKat may be in order. We tell you what new postal records the site offers on the Genealogy Insider blog at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/HistoryKat
+Adds+To+Its+US+Postal+Records.aspx 

Readers Open Up About 101 Best Sites

People are talking about our picks for this year's 101 Best Web Sites for genealogy. See which sites they like best, which they don't, and what sites they think should have been on the list. It's all in the Web Watch Forum.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?
tid=229&posts=10&mid=1081#M1081

Leave a Genealogical Calling Card
This tip comes from the September 2007 Family Tree Magazine. Get your copy at your favorite newsstand or from FamilyTreeMagazine.com:

Make it easier for genealogical help to find you by creating business cards especially for genealogy. Include your name, contact information and surnames and places you're researching. Keep some in your research tote bag, and leave a card whenver you go to a cemetery (put it in a baggie under a rock by your ancestor's headstone), research facility or workshop.

Overwhelmed by the number of family history-related Web sites popping up? FamilyTreeMagazine.com sorts through them to bring you the best. We recently recommended the following as Sites of the Week:

• Indiana County History Preservation Society
• http://www.countyhistory.com
• Read about Indiana pioneer life, get a lesson the states pre-Civil War history, see all 91 surviving covered bridges and more.


• Chronicling America
• http://loc.gov/chroniclingamerica
• Search newspapers digitized by institutions participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program. Check back—pages are continuously added.

Identify Your Summer Photos
You've pinpointed a likely year for your picture, but maybe you can do even better! Learn the clues that can reveal a photo was taken in June, July or August.

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/
photodetectiveblog/Clues+Your+Old+
Photo+Was+Taken+In+Summer.aspx.

If you have a family photo mystery for photo expert Maureen A. Taylor to solve, check out our Submission Guidelines at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/photohelp.htm.

Find 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.

Get Family Tree Magazine back issues at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/mags.

Explore Family Tree Magazine E-mail Update past issues at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsletter/archive.html.

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September 2007 Issue

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