For %%emailaddr%% Aug. 3, 2006 Congratulations to the three winners of the August 2006 Family Tree Magazine issue quiz published in the July 20 E-mail Update: Lianna LaLiberte of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Susan Koski, of Oceanside, Calif.; and Eva Allsopp of Channahon, Ill., each win Melinda Kashuba's Walking With Your Ancestors: A Genealogist's Guide to Using Maps and Geography (Family Tree Books, $22.99). Thanks to everyone who played—see below for the answers. Also in the last E-mail Update, we asked for your memorable reunion moments. One of our favorites was Judy Buchanan's recollection of an aunt who, desperate for everyone to get along, brought a hatchet to the gathering and presided over its burial.  Buchanan thinks someone dug it up, as part of the family moved away without a forwarding address. Here's hoping your summer reunions are cheerier. —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.     Atlas Unplugged Research Redux The Answer Is... AncestorNews: Ohio Land Sneak Peeks at FamilyTreeMagazine.com Now What? Online: Border Disputes Identifying Family Photographs: Moving On Speakers' Schedule Advertiser Special Offers Atlas Unplugged Forget paper maps and pushpins: A brand-new program from the makers of RootsMagic family tree software offers high-tech help for tracking the geography in your genealogy. Family Atlas draws on a database of 3.5 million worldwide place names to plot the locations you’ve already plugged into your genealogy software. (The utility reads RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker, Personal Ancestral File and Legacy Family Tree files, as well as GEDCOMs.) Those locales—along with details about their related ancestral events—appear as “markers” whose shapes and colors you can customize. You decide which markers you’d like to show up at any given time; for example, you could display the migration of one family branch, all birthplaces associated with a specific surname or your ancestors’ locations during the Civil War. The Windows-only program also will print legends based on your markers, as well as various reports. Family Atlas sells for $29.95. Watch http://www.rootsmagic.com/familyatlas.htm for additional details. —Allison Stacy   Research Redux The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA; http://archives.gov) is considering reducing research room hours at locations around the country. The Washington, DC, headquarters and the College Park, Md., facility would end evening and Saturday hours, staying open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Regional archives would continue to operate during “core hours” but modify their extended hours—see proposed changes at http://archives.gov/locations/proposed-hours.html. The shortened hours are a cost-cutting measure that NARA officials hope will affect the smallest possible number of visitors.  Research room usage last year showed an average of only 16 percent of researchers at the two Washington, DC, area facilities used the reading rooms in the evening. Only 7 percent of the researchers used the facilities on Saturdays. This change will be open for public comment until Sept. 8 and, if adopted, become effective Oct. 2. To add your comments online, go to http://www.regulations.gov, enter NARA-06-0007-0001 in the Keyword or ID field and click Submit.   The Answer Is... Here are the answers to our questions in last newsletter's August 2006 Family Tree Magazine quiz (see above for the winners' names): 1. Where did the US government relocate 203 Midwestern farming families during the Great Depression? The answer—Palmer, Alaska—is in the Alaska State Research Guide. 2. How can you find your ancestor's name in a Web site that doesn't have a search engine? Many of you incorrectly replied you'd use the Control-F keyboard command (apple-F on a Mac)—but that helps you find your ancestor’s name on a Web page, not an entire site. To find your ancestor in a site that lacks a search engine, you’d do a domain-specific search using Google (http://google.com): Go to Google and type your search term followed by site:[insert the site's URL here].  For example, find FamilyTreeMagazine.com cemetery articles by typing in cemetery site:www.familytreemagazine.com. See the August 2006 Family Tree Magazine’s "In Record Time" article for instructions on downloading the free Google toolbar. 3. Which well-known American football player traveled to his ancestral homeland this summer—and what is that homeland? Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is the traveler, and he went to Switzerland (most people forgot to answer the second part of the question). 4. What surname was Alan Alda born with? In the Time Capsule column, the actor I’ll always think of as Hawkeye says he was born a D’Abruzzo. 5. What year did the US Congress legalize contract labor (indentures) for immigrants? Our Now What? expert Sharon DeBartolo Carmack reports the year is 1864. Ohio Land I wrote in the July 20 AncestorNews about my confusion finding a metes-and-bounds land record in Ohio, a public-land state. Thanks to Ernie Thode of the Washington County Public Library in Marietta, I learned that Ohio's land history is amazingly diverse. How? Find out at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ancestornews/current.html. Nancy 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. Be first to check out what's new on our Web site: High Societies Were your ancestors among the founding fathers of our country? You may be eligible to join a lineage society. Learn more right here. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/oct03/lineage.html Reader Exclusive If you have a copy of the August 2006 Family Tree Magazine, you can forget about typing in all those URLs and click to all of this year's 101 Best Web Sites instead. Just see page 24 for the password that gets you in. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/101sites/2006.asp Border Disputes Q. My fifth-great-grandfather died in Berkely County, Va., in 1799. This county is now in West Virginia. Which state should I research in to find information on him? A. For the answer, see http://www.familytreemagazine.com/nowwhatonline/current.html.  Read more Q&A with the experts at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/nowwhatonline/previous.html. Moving On Emery Veres (born in 1882) smiled at the camera from the back of the wagon for this undated photo. His great-granddaughter, Cindy Nichols, would like some help figuring out where it was taken.  Expert photo historian and author Maureen A. Taylor  lends a hand at  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. Newport News, Va. Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak Aug. 5 Tidewater Genealogical Society  Topics: Trace Your Roots with DNA For more information, see http://www.rootsweb.com/~vatgs. Boston, Mass. Aug. 30-Sept. 2 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference James M. Beidler Topics: Find Your Society's Sense of Place "Duplicate" Documents that Aren't the Same Maureen A. 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