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After you've submitted your answers to our our September 2007 issue quiz (below), take another opportunity to win prizes: Does a family member bear an uncanny resemblance to Great-grandpa or another ancestor? Enter the September 2007 All in the Family Challenge! Send us photos of the lookalikes by following the instructions in the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Talk to Us Forum.

If we publish your photos in the January 2008 Family Tree Magazine, you'll win The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists (Family Tree Books, $29.99), a valuable reference for US county record repositories and contact information.

Speaking of winning, congratulations to Victoria Haley of Cohutta, Ga.! She won $250 worth of Family Tree Books in our July sweepstakes. That was so much fun, we're doing it again in August. You can enter once a day at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/sweepstakes.

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

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Take our September 2007 issue quiz and win!
Attention, Family Tree Magazine readers: Show us your genealogy skills! Grab your September 2007 Family Tree Magazine and click here to answer five questions from the articles in that issue. If you're one of the first three people to submit the correct answers, you'll win a how-to genealogy book from Family Tree Books.

To take the quiz, visit
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsletter/issuequiz0907.asp

Free Program Searches Google for Your Surname Variations
Family Tree Magazine author Rick Crume tried out a new, free download to make your online surname searches more effective. Read his report on the program in the Genealogy Insider blog.

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/
Free+Program+Searches+Google+For+Surname+Variations.aspx


Search Lower Canada Land Petitions Free Online
A new Library and Archives Canada land petition database can help you find ancestors who lived in Lower Canada between 1764 and 1841. Learn how in the Genealogy Insider blog.

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Search+Lower+Canada+
Land+Petitions+Free+Online.aspx


When the Genealogy Gods Smile on You
Forum visitor cender shared a stroke of research serendipity and a stranger's kindness, which allowed her to see her parents' first home as a married couple. Read about her experience and share tales of your own genealogical good fortune.

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/
thread-view.asp?tid=403&posts=1&start=1


 What nationalities are you researching?
Last week, we started a poll of nationalities you're researching. So far, German/Austrian/Swiss is most common, followed by close runners-up English/Welsh and Irish. Scandinavian is in third, and we had several Scottish write-ins.

If you haven't already participated, cast your vote:  http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?
tid=428&posts=22&mid=1044#M1044

Color-coding Unverified Data

Noranell posted this week's tip to the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum. She'll receive a copy of our international resources CD.
Whenever I receive information that hasn't been proven, or doesn't have citations or documentations, I save it for a trail to further my research. No sense reinventing the wheel. But I make sure I put the data in my computer in red type. As I'm able to prove the information, I can easily change the color to black. This way my cousins and others know what work I've done myself and what's been "donated" but not proven.
Want more research tips? Got a great idea of your own? Post your tip to the Forum at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=21 (you must register with the Forum—it's free—to view and submit tips). If we publish it, we'll send you a genealogy book or CD.

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 Genealogue
  • http://www.genealogue.com
  • This tongue-in-cheek blog delivers all the latest "genealogy news you can't possibly use." Don't miss the top 10 lists—who doesn't need to know the warning signs of a genealogy obsession?


  • HistoryLink.org: Washington State History
  • http://www.historylink.org
  • This online encyclopedia of the Evergreen State's past includes articles from history experts.

Photo Detective Identifying Children in Photos
A photographer's imprint appears on this photo of two towheaded boys, but questions still mount up for its owner. Are the boys really who relatives say they are?

Our Photo Detective is on the case in the Photo Detective blog. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/
photodetectiveblog/Identifying+Children+
In+Photos.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.

Yorktown, Va.
Aug. 4
Tidewater Genealogical Society
Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak presents Trace Your Roots with DNA.  For more information, see  http://www.rootsweb.com/~vatgs/MeetTrip.htm#Events

Fort Wayne, Ind.
Aug. 15-18
Federation of Genealogical Societies Annual Conference
For details, see http://www.fgs.org/2007conf/FGS-2007.htm. While you're there, stop by the Family Tree Magazine booth for a free magazine, 101 Best Web Sites reference sheet and more goodies. Can't get there? Follow our conference reports on the Genealogy Insider blog.

Find these and more upcoming genealogy and living history seminars—and publicize your group's events—in our online calendar. You must register with the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum (it's free!) 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.

Sponsor This Newsletter
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