For %%emailaddr%% Sept. 14, 2006 Congratulations to Cheryl McCallum, winner of our free Family Tree Magazine subscription drawing at the recent Federation of Genealogical Societies conference!  Cheryl, an E-mail Update newsletter reader, got two chances to win because she brought a printout of her Aug. 17 newsletter AND renewed her Family Tree Magazine subscription at the show. Other prizes about to land on your doorstep, Cheryl, include The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists (edited by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and Erin Nevius) as well as the September 2005 Family Tree Sourcebook and the May 2006 Trace Your Family History special issues. Below, read about some of the cool genealogical developments we found in the conference 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.    That's a Wrap! There's Moore to the Story... Take Our October Issue Quiz and Win AncestorNews: Finding Homes for Family Photos Tip of the Week: DNA Lessons Worthwhile Web Sites Identifying Family Photographs: Age-Related Problems Speakers' Schedule Advertiser Special Offers That's a wrap! The recent Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference saw several new and soon-to-come products that could fit quite nicely into your roots research agenda. Here's what to watch for: 1837online.com, having finished its British vital-records indexing project, is on to something even bigger: AncestorsOnBoard, a 30 million-name database of people leaving the British Isles from 1890 to 1960. You’ll be able to download images of the passenger lists—which include not just Britons, but those from all over Europe who boarded ships in Liverpool, London, Southhampton, Hull and other British ports. No launch date yet, but keep an eye on http://www.ancestorsonboard.com (and, of course, right here on your E-mail Update). NewsBank’s Tom Kemp filled us in on America’s Genealogy Bank, a tantalizing-sounding subscription service set to launch in month or so. It indexes articles in 900 US historical newspapers—not just a few issues, but comprehensive collections for each title, says Kemp—plus government documents and pages from more than 100,000 other publications. Results show the paragraph snippet containing your search term, then you click to see the whole thing. Fees won’t be announced until the launch, but both individuals and libraries will be able to subscribe. Look for details at http://www.newsbank.com/genealogists/product.cfm?product=216. ProQuest (http://www.proquest.com) announced its index to obituaries in seven major newspapers: The New York Times (from 1851), The Washington Post (from 1877), Los Angeles Times (from 1881), Chicago Tribune (from 1849), Atlanta Constitution (from 1868), Chicago Defender (from 1909) and Boston Globe (from 1872). Once you find your relative, you can click to see the full obituary. The service, which isn’t part of ProQuest’s HeritageQuest Online records collection, is available through subscribing libraries. MyFamily.com offered Family Tree Maker 16, an upgrade from Family Tree Maker 2006. (Wondering why the switch from version numbers to years with Family Tree Maker 2005, and now back to numbers? One MyFamily.com staffer speculated the company wants to avoid being locked into putting out a new version every year.) Family Tree Maker 2006 users need not get out their wallets—just download a free patch at http://www.familytreemaker.com. Irish Historic Maps unveiled its online search tool for Ordnance Survey maps from 1829 to 1913 at http://www.irishhistoricmaps.ie/historic. You’ll need to purchase access to search for a map by county or townland; prices vary from about $6.40 for a day to $383 for a year. The map images are crystal clear, with detailed building drawings. Streets, churches and schools are marked. Once you specify an area you want to print, you can purchase an "A4" map as a PDF for about $30, or order a full sheet ("A0") by mail for $127. Irish Townland Maps (http://www.pasthomes.com) offers collections of Ordnance Survey maps on $39.95 CDs, or you can order a map by mail for $39.95. There's Moore to the Story ... A long-standing American tale is about to change as genealogist and author Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak reveals the truth behind the legend of Ellis Island’s first immigrant. Jan. 1, 1892, 15-year-old Annie Moore stepped onto US shores at brand-spanking-new Ellis Island. Officials welcomed her with a $10 gold coin; she’s memorialized in statues on Ellis Island and at the Cobh Heritage Centre, an emigration museum in County Cork, Ireland. Then, legend has it, she moved to the Southwest, married and had children, became a successful businesswoman and died in a streetcar accident. What an adventurous, all-American story—but it was false. Smolenyak discovered that Annie Moore, whose descnedants have participated in Ellis Island ceremonies, was actually born in Illinois. Bothered by the public’s willingness to believe such “truthiness” without question, Smolenyak launched a contest with a $1,000 prize to learn what became of the “real” Annie Moore. Six weeks later, several genealogists have helped crack the case. According to today's New York Times, the Ellis Island Annie lived the life of a poor immigrant on New York City's Lower East Side, married a bakery clerk and had 11 children, five of whom survived to adulthood. She died in 1924 of heart failure. (Registered NYTimes.com members can access the article free at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/nyregion/14annie.html.) Several of Annie Moore's descendants will be present when Smolenyak and Brian G. Andersson, commissioner of the New York City Department of Records, will share the story and award prizes at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Sept. 15 at 3 p.m. You can go, too, for a $5 fee; see http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org for more information.   Take Our October Issue Quiz and Win! Here’s our bimonthly quiz to see how closely you’ve read the latest Family Tree Magazine. You can find the answers to the following five questions in the October 2006 Family Tree Magazine; the first three of you to e-mail the correct responses to ftmnews-editor@fwpubs.com will receive free copies of the May 2006 Trace Your Family History, a special issue of Family Tree Magazine. Flex those phalanges, everyone. Ready … set … go! 1. Which US city’s Oktoberfest celebration was recognized in the 1995 through 1997 Guinness Book of World Records editions for holding the world’s largest chicken dance? 2. What six nations’ flags have flown over the state of Texas? 3. What’s the term for the loss of small bits of original information every time you copy from a tape or film? 4. What year did civil registration begin in Britain? 5. Name three free public databases of genetic genealogy test results.  Finding Homes for Family Photos On a recent trip I found myself in a small antique shop, sorting through a huge box of old photos. I had no hopes of finding pictures of my family, but I did purchase a few photos I'd return to their rightful owners—if I could locate any. How did our intrepid AncestorNews reporter fare in her mission? 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. DNA Lessons Maureen A. Taylor, who covers her experiment with genetic genealogy in the October 2006 Family Tree Magazine, offers these tips about jumping on the DNA-testing bandwagon: Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA tests tell you about a small section of your family tree, not all of your ancestors The more markers you choose for your Y-DNA test, the smaller your chance of finding false positive matches in Y-DNA test result databases.  Biogeographical DNA tests provide the broad geographic region—not the specific country—where your ancestors originated. Your haplogroup and "maternal clan" are interesting pieces of information, but they won't tell you about your genealogically traceable ancestors. Want to know more about how to use DNA in your roots research? Look for the October 2006 Family Tree Magazine on newsstands and FamilyTreeMagazine.com. 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 Digitizing Your Family History by Rhonda McClure, also available for purchase online at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/store/display.asp?id=70660. 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: • Museum of Houston http://www.museumofhouston.org This still-developing site offers images of famous Texans' journal pages, photographs of historic city buildings and an 1880 city directory advertising page. Look for Port of Houston information early next year. • Seamen Protection Certificate Register Database http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/protectionindex.cfm Search indexes to Merchant Marine data compiled from seamen protection certificates on more than 30,000 men from 1796 to 1871. • eHistory http://ehistory.osu.edu A great resource for historical information, this site has thousands of pages of historical content, timelines, battle outlines, biographies, images, maps and more. Age-Related Problems The owner of this photo knows it’s Susan Morton Sexton (born in 1808, died in 1892) but wants to know when it was taken. On the surface, it's a simple question, right? Not so fast. Dating a photo of an elderly person isn’t always as easy as it appears. For more, see http://www.familytreemagazine. com/photos/current.htm. If you have a family photo mystery for Maureen A. Taylor to solve, check out our Submission Guidelines at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ photos/photohelp.htm. Taylor is the author of Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photographs, 2nd edition, available from http://www.familytreemagazine.com/store/display.asp?id=70677. Saugerties, NY James Beidler Oct. 7 New York Chapter, Palatines to America Fall Meeting Topic: German Names and Naming Patterns For more information, see http://palam.org/chapters/ny.htm. Moorhead, Minn. Rick Crume Oct. 7 31st Annual Family History Workshop at Minnesota State University Moorhead Topic: Researching Your Civil War Ancestors Online Researching Overseas Ancestry Online For more information, see http://www.mnstate.edu/heritage/workshop.htm. BRITISH GENEALOGY. The best textbook on British genealogy is now even better! Check out the new, 2nd Edition of ANCESTRAL TRAILS: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History, by Mark Herber. http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=2692 PRINTING & BINDING:  Archival hardbound books with 4-color ink-based  printing.   Over 53 years experience as bookbinders.  http://www.familyheritagepublishers.com PUBLISH YOUR FAMILY HISTORY. Preserve and share your precious family research. Personal coaching. Many options.  www.GatewayPress.com Genealogy Hotel Rates in Salt Lake-You will love the genealogy rates at the Holiday Inn-Downtown along with the free shuttles to & from the Family History Library.   www.holiday-inn.com/slc-downtown RootsMagic Genealogy Software - "An excellent choice for any genealogist" says Family Tree Magazine. Get a free trial copy at http://www.RootsMagic.com Get Family Tree Magazine back issues at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/mags. 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