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The following announcement was written by Millennia Software, producers of Legacy Family Tree for Windows:

If you are going to be at the National Genealogical Society Conference this week in Kansas City, Missouri, we invite you to visit the Legacy Family Tree booth where we will be displaying the new features in Legacy Family Tree version 7.0.

In fact, Legacy 7.0 will be available for purchase as a special pre-release edition. You will be the first to try out Legacy 7.0's new mapping, sourcing, and wall charting features (lots of other new features too - to be announced soon). This special pre-release edition is only available to attendees of the NGS conference.

Exhibit Hall Hours (free to the public)

    * Wednesday, May 14 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
    * Thursday, May 15 - 9:00am to 6:00pm
    * Friday, May 16 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
    * Saturday, May 17 - 9:00am to 3:00pm

Legacy NGS Conference Lecture

    * Thursday - 9:30am - Citing Sources Evidence-Explained Style Using Legacy's New SourceWriter

Our Booth

Don't miss the opportunity to visit personally with the Legacy staff. Visit us in booths 615 and 617.

The following announcement was written by Geni:

Geni Enables Genealogy Community to Build Family Trees From GEDCOM Files In Bid to Become #1 Family Networking Site

Top rated genealogy and family networking site Geni.com announced today that genealogists can now import their family history into Geni using the popular GEDCOM format. The launch of this features makes it easy to move their research into Geni to easily share it with their family.

Los Angeles, Calif. (PRWEB) May 12, 2008 -- Geni (www.geni.com), the popular social network with a genealogy twist, today gave genealogists the ability to upload their family history from other programs to the Geni site using the industry standard GEDCOM file format. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication and is used to exchange data between genealogy applications.

Genealogists who have extensive files representing years of research have been waiting for this feature to launch. Now they don't need to duplicate the work they had done previously.

David Sacks, CEO of Geni, stated, "Genealogists have been asking for the ability to import their GEDCOM files to Geni and now they can." He added "Genealogists who have extensive files representing years of research have been waiting for this feature to launch. Now they don't need to duplicate the work they had done previously." He continued, "Sharing their research with their family in a simple-to-understand Geni tree encourages others in the family to join in the fun and collaboratively build a scrapbook of the family for future generations."

Since Geni's launch in January 2007 as a simple tool to create a family tree, Geni has continued adding features and enhancements. Among these additions are enhanced privacy settings, unlimited photo sharing and tagging, birthday reminders, personal and family timelines, family discussion, virtual gifts, map and calendar.

Geni was a winner of the 2007 Webware 100 Awards, which named it one of the top 100 sites on the internet and one of the top 10 reference sites. It is by far the youngest site to receive this honor. It was nominated again in 2008 in the social (networking) category.

About Geni.com
Geni.com is a privately held company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Geni was founded by former executives and early employees of PayPal, Yahoo! Groups, Ebay, and Tribe. It is backed by venture capital firms Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. For more information visit the company's web site at www.geni.com.

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HI COUSINS!

Just thought I would let everyone know that I have
found a really neat NEW Genealogy WEBSITE---and have
had some TERRIFIC LUCK with it!

It is called Gumshoe Genealogy, and the URL is....

www.gumshoegenealogy.com

It is rather UNIQUE I think you will agree---in that
THIS SITE has TONS of OLD ANCESTRAL PHOTOS---I found a
number of my own Forebears pics in various lines
(McCallum,WRIGHT,King,SPENCER,Yeager,RICE,McDaniel,etc)......

... AND there are all kinds of
OTHER CATAGORIES....Gravesite headstone pics,
Military, Scanned Documents, Bible page images,
American Indian info/pics, donated family histories
(typed text pages)

AND a NEW (FREE online)BULLETIN
BOARD!! (and the membership fee is VERY LOW at only
$34/year!!)NOTE*** they just began a SALE*** So it is
NOW

...ONLY $20 a YEAR!!(she refunded me the difference as
i had
just joined before SALE started-how's THAT for
ETHICAL?!! I
prefer to support THESE type people!!)


I am very pleased with this site---as it seems to be
the 1st one in a LONG TIME that delivers what it says
and is very well laid-out (NOT BUSY -ie-pleasing to
the eye) with all sorts of DIFFERENT INFORMATION than
most of the same old-same old out there!!

So thought I'd alert my cousins to something FUN, NEW
and USEFUL !
Happy Hunting!! Sincerely--Gerard M. Cummings

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Cemeteries have held my fascination for as long as I can remember. My childhood friends thought I was strange because I always wanted to cut through the cemeteries along the way as we walked home from school. They would have none of it, so afraid of ghosts they were. As I strolled through the several graveyards along the way again and again, the stone markers and the names inscribed on them became familiar. As I grew up, I learned more about the families and the people who were buried there. My curiosity caused me to become interested in their stories. Perhaps that’s why the idea of working with RootsTelevision.com (http://rootstelevision.com) on the series, Down Under Florida, was so attractive to me. I often encounter a marker and somehow feel drawn to learn the story about the person interred there.

During the many years I’ve worked on my family research, I’ve often searched for the burial location of my ancestors and their family members. I’ve learned an immense amount about cemeteries, tombstone art, mausoleum architecture, burial customs, and the wealth of clues that are to be found in these “cities of the dead.” I know I could write a book! And while cemeteries are great research resources, they mean nothing to you if you don’t know how to locate the graveyard in which your family members are buried.

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One of the largest genealogy conferences in North America takes place this coming week in Kansas City, Missouri. The 2008 National Genealogical Society's Conference in the States and Family History Fair will be held May 14 through 17, 2008.

The NGS annual conference is always a major event, and this year's edition is no different. In fact, I hear that the society has already sold more advance registrations than the total attendance of last year's conference. More than 175 presentations will be offered on a wide variety of topics, including “getting started in genealogy,” DNA, maps, ethnic studies, military records, land records, online web sites, research techniques, becoming a professional genealogist, records in various European countries, Civil War topics, and much, much more. Those presentations will be intermixed with workshops, luncheons, tours, receptions, and a banquet.

For more information about the Conference in the States and Family History Fair, including a description of all the presentations and biographies of all the presenters, download the conference brochure at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/2008NGSRegistrationbrochure.pdf.

Of course, my favorite place is the Exhibitors' Hall, and I expect it to be a “happening place” this week. Traditionally, new products and services are often introduced at the NGS conference. I hope to cruise the Exhibitors' Hall often in order to see “what's new” and then to write about those discoveries in future newsletters.

I'll also spend a lot of time in the Footnote.com exhibit in booth numbers #219 & 221. Please drop by and say “Hello.” The Footnote.com team will also be there to demonstrate the web site's many historical documents. More than one hundred other vendors will also be demonstrating their products and services.

I will once again sponsor the “Laptop Lounge” at the NGS conference, thanks to a lot of assistance from Footnote.com. You can check your e-mail at any time by using the free Wi-Fi network that I will set up. The Laptop Lounge will be part of the Footnote.com booth in the Exhibitors' Hall. I'll write more about the Laptop Lounge in a separate article.

If you have a chance to be in Kansas City this week, I'd strongly recommend that you stop by the Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel and join in the festivities. I suspect you will be glad that you did.

I am headed out again this week. I will attend the annual conference of the National Genealogical Society. This year's event is being held in Kansas City.

This will be my twentieth NGS conference. I have attended all the NGS conferences in the past twenty-one years except for the one held in 1995. It will be interesting to contrast this year's event against those of former years. This year's event should have 1,500 or more attendees as well as 100 or so vendors. Attendees are expected from all over the United States plus a few from Canada, and I know of one from England who plans to be there. Exhibitors likewise will be from all over the U.S. as well as from Canada, Ireland, and England.

As always, travel is high risk for an online junkie like myself. I will be traveling with several laptop computers, a wireless modem and a digital camera. I hope to post newsletter articles and perhaps a few pictures while at the event. However, the computer gods do not always smile favorably on such efforts. There certainly is a risk of no new articles being posted to this newsletter while I am in Kansas City. That could be a sign of technical difficulties or it might simply indicate that I am busy. Either way, I expect to have plenty to write about when I return.

Once again, I expect to supply free Wi-Fi networking at the NGS conference being held this week in Kansas City, Missouri. If you are attending the conference, you should be able to check your e-mail and/or surf the web a bit at no charge. There's no need to feel isolated from the outside world simply because you are traveling. You can bring your own laptop or PDA or use one of my laptops to check your e-mail.

I expect the Wi-Fi signal will cover the entire Exhibitors' Hall and possibly may “spill over” into nearby hallways or other rooms. However, for the best reliability, I'd suggest you bring your laptop or PDA into the Exhibitors' Hall, where the signal should be the strongest.

The wireless service I am offering to readers of this newsletter will not use the convention center's network at all. If everything works as I have planned, I will be able to provide open Internet access to newsletter subscribers and others by connecting to an external network from within the Exhibitors' Hall.

We (that's Footnote.com and I) will have a couple of very comfortable lounge chairs in the Footnote.com booth for use by conference attendees. Those chairs may feel very comfortable after a long day on your feet at the conference! I suspect there will be many more chairs and a number of tables near the snack bar: relaxing there with a cup of coffee might also be a great way of checking your e-mail.

If you don't have Wi-Fi configured and running on your computer, you can briefly use one of my laptops to check your e-mail messages. However, it will be a shared laptop, and there may be others waiting to check their e-mail also. Please be considerate of the other conference attendees and limit your usage.

The wireless access is free and available to everyone but with several caveats:

1. The free Wi-Fi access depends on wireless connections in a place where there is no possibility of testing in advance. While everything should work, there is no guarantee. The hardware has already been tested in several other locations and has always worked reliably. However, there is always the possibility of being in a "wireless dead spot" or the chance of some critical piece of equipment failing at an inopportune time.
2. I will ask you to limit your usage by using common sense. Please keep in mind that the network is wireless; so, it will be slower than a DSL line although significantly faster than dial-up connections. In addition, you will be sharing the single connection with me, my booth, and other conference attendees. Feel free to check your e-mail and look at a few web pages. However, please do not use this shared resource to download large files, play online games, or otherwise use more than your "fair share" of network time. Please consider your fellow conference attendees who also wish to use the shared wireless network.
3. Exhibitors are asked to not use this wireless network in their booths for product demonstrations or other "customer-facing" uses. Such use violates the license agreement I signed with the wireless provider. However, please feel free to check your own e-mail at any time. Anyone caught using the service to demonstrate products in their exhibit booth will immediately be locked out.
4. I must assume that you already know how to configure and use wireless connectivity in your own computer. The wireless network will work for me and for others. If it does not work for you, please be aware that I will not have time to set up or troubleshoot your computer. I suggest you test your computer's wireless connectivity BEFORE traveling to the conference so that you will know in advance how wireless connectivity works on your system. If you can make it work elsewhere, your computer will work with the EOGN wireless network in Kansas City.
5. The EOGN wireless network is available free of charge. However, if it becomes saturated or is abused, I may turn the wireless access off or invoke an encryption key without notice.
6. The EOGN wireless network is not sponsored by or sanctioned by the conference organizers or the other sponsoring organizations in any way. If it does not work, please do not complain to them! This is strictly my own personal project; so, stop by the Footnote.com/Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter booth and complain to me! (smile) In fact, please stop by even if you do not have any complaints!

Again, this wireless access does not use the network connectivity provided by the convention center in any way. The hardware and software used in this network is rather unique, and some of it is not available in your local computer store. Stop by this newsletter's booth, and I'll be happy to show you how it works.

I hope you enjoy the free wireless access provided by this newsletter. Your Plus Edition subscription dollars were used to purchase the required hardware. In effect, your subscription dollars are being used to provide another service to you.

This has nothing to do with genealogy, but it is a great story. Perhaps you will enjoy it as much as I did.

Thieves recently stole an Apple laptop from Kait Duplaga, who works at the Apple store in the Westchester, New York, mall and thus knows how to use all Macintosh bells and whistles. What the thieves did not know is that Kait has remote control software installed on the laptop so that she can access it from any other Macintosh. She can sit at any other Macintosh computer, connect to the laptop across the Internet (wherever it is located), enter a user name and password, and then operate her laptop just as if she was typing directly on its keyboard.

The thief apparently connected the stolen laptop to an Internet connection and started surfing the Web. Kait sat at her home, using another Macintosh, and connected to the stolen laptop that apparently was now in use by the thief. She was able to see what the thief was seeing, and she watched as the thief went from web site to web site. Everything that appeared on the stolen laptop's screen also appeared on Kait's desktop screen.

Now for the good part: keep in mind that all Macintosh laptops have built-in video cameras. Kait remotely turned on the video camera of the stolen laptop and was able to see the thief live as he typed on the screen. He also noticed that his own picture had appeared on his screen and he smiled for the camera. Kait then snapped a picture.

She then performed a file transfer, copying the picture from the stolen laptop to her desktop system. When she displayed it on her own computer's screen, her roommate said, “Oh, I know exactly who that is — it’s Ian."

It seems that the thief had attended a party hosted by Kait's roommate in their shared apartment some weeks earlier and apparently had seen the Mac at that time. He must have returned at a later date to steal the laptop along with several other items. Kait gave a digital copy of the picture to local police, along with the thief's name as supplied by her roommate.

The police had little difficulty in finding him. “It doesn’t get much better than [the victim] bringing us a picture of the guy actually using the stolen property,” said Daniel Jackson, the deputy commissioner of public safety in White Plains, New York.

All of the stolen property was recovered, including the laptop. Ian Frias, 20, who usually lives in the Bronx, is now a resident at the Westchester County Jail, held on $7,500 bail.

Note: I use similar software to access my desktop systems when I am traveling. I can access my computers at home from any hotel room or airport lounge or other location that has an Internet connection. Now I realize it has another use: to catch a thief.

Are you a frequent user of Footnote.com? Or are you interested in learning more about the site? Will you be at the NGS conference this week in Kansas City?

The Footnote.com team is looking to hear from people that use Footnote. As the Footnote.com blog states:

Every time we go to these events, we meet with great people that give us straight talk about Footnote.com; the good, the bad, and the ugly.

In order to make sure we have time to listen to our members and potential members, we have reserved a room to hold a Footnote User Meeting. This meeting gives us a chance to talk about what is happening on Footnote and our future plans. We also welcome feedback, suggestions, needs, desires, whatever you want to say. Here is the information about these meetings:

When: Saturday, May 17 - 9:30am

Where: Pershing Room at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center

We invite anyone who would like to come, and we hope that we get a great turnout. Again, this is an opportunity to tell us what you like and what you don’t like about Footnote.com, what you would like to see on the site, and anything else. If you are interested in attending, please email Elizabeth at elittle@footnote.com.

If you can’t make it to this meeting, please stop by the booth and visit with us. We are in booth numbers #219 & 221.

A number of us are fortunate enough to own old books, birth certificates, marriage certificates, naturalization certificates, old newspaper clippings, or other family heirloom documents that we want to preserve. What condition will they be in 20 or 50 years from now? For that matter, will the fruits of your genealogy labor be available to your descendants 200 years from now? You should take steps now to make sure the documents remain in the best possible condition. I thought I would discuss the techniques of document preservation a bit more in this newsletter.

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If you write a genealogy newsletter or other genealogy-related publication, you already know how difficult it is to constantly find new information to write about. I thought I would take this opportunity to remind you that you may use information from this newsletter in your publication.

I do copyright this newsletter, but then I grant rights to others to republish the articles with some minor restrictions:

1. You must do so strictly for non-commercial purposes (commercial publishers should see my comments below).
2. Articles in this newsletter marked with a Plus Sign (+) are not to be redistributed. Those articles are solely for the use of Plus Edition subscribers.
3. I frequently quote other people in my articles. Please keep in mind that I can only grant permission to republish my words; I do not have that authority on words written or spoken by others. You may not republish any words attributed to another person or organization until you obtain permission from that person or organization, even if their words appear in this newsletter.

Also, please include the following statement with any articles you re-distribute:

The following article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com. 

Anyone complying with the above does not need to ask permission in advance. As the Nike ad says, "Just do it."

I will offer a short note to commercial publishers: I normally grant permission to use the words in this document for commercial purposes. However, I do like to know in advance where the articles will be used. Please ask permission in advance. I will say "yes" 99% of the time.

If you run a genealogy web site and want to republish all the articles or at least the headlines from this newsletter, you can use an RSS news aggregator to automatically republish these articles on your own site. I "syndicate" my newsletter articles in RSS format. The RSS syndication makes all the articles available to other sites. All you need is an RSS aggregator installed on your web site to automatically gather articles from this newsletter at http://eogn.com/index.rdf (and other addresses) and republish them on your own site. These RSS aggregators generally run 24 hours a day in unattended mode; you do not have to post the articles manually.

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The International Tracing Service’s archives have now been opened for the public after more than 60 years.

For genealogists of Jewish families, tracing the 6 million Jewish victims that  disappeared without a trace has been a challenge. More than 50 million documents are held at the International Tracing Service (ITS) at Bad Arolsen, Germany. For years, this archive has collected documents to help trace what happened to family members.

For decades after World War II, the files were used only to help find missing persons or document atrocities to support compensation claims. But in November, the last of the 11 countries that govern the archive under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross cleared the way for public access.

Since then, interest has skyrocketed. Erich Oetiker, deputy director of the archive, said while the staff of 400 continue to process some 1,000 tracing requests per day, there are now also near daily visits from historians or individuals eager to trace a lost person's fate or view an original document.

The archive has little information online, almost everything is on paper. Other major Holocaust collections exist at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., as well as Israel's Yad Vashem—both of which hold digitized copies of part of the collection—along with the Polish Institute for National Remembrance.

You can find more information at:

International Tracing Service: http://www.its-arolsen.org

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org

Yad Vashem: http://www.yadvashem.org

Institute of National Remembrance: http://www.ipn.gov.pl/wai/en/10/5

The Washington museum has drawn up a list of more than 150 German keywords with English translations to use in computer searches: http://itsrequest.ushmm.org/its/Glossary.pdf.

The following announcement was written by Footnote.com:

FOOTNOTE.COM ADDS TO ITS LEADING CIVIL WAR COLLECTION BY LAUNCHING THE FIRST-EVER INTERACTIVE 1860 US CENSUS

Footnote.com’s innovative tools enable members to enrich the census records by adding photos, comments, and related documents to names featured on the records.

Lindon, UT – Today, Footnote.com announced the addition of the 1860 US Census to their Civil War Collection. As the largest online collection of original Civil War documents, this new addition to Footnote.com provides a snapshot of America before the bloodiest war in its history.

The 1860 US Census reveals many details about individuals at that time. What was their occupation? Where were they born? What was their marital status? Did they attend school? Could they read or write? Was your ancestor insane, idiotic, or a convict? The 1860 US Census will let you know.

“Is the 1860 US Census already on the internet? Yes,” says Russ Wilding, CEO of Footnote.com. “But what makes the census different on Footnote is that these documents become interactive.”

Footnote.com has developed tools that enable visitors not only to find someone in the census, but also to enrich the records by adding photos, linking related documents, and contributing insights to any name on the record. “Now they’re not merely names on a document,” explains Russ Wilding. “They become people as the contributions start to tell a story about that person.”

This past March, Footnote.com released a similar project using the same technology with an interactive version of the Vietnam War Memorial. For each name on the Wall, a visitor can view military service information, attached photos and comments. The success of the project is overwhelming as priceless contributions are added to the Wall. Footnote expects similar results with the launch of the 1860 US Census.

At Footnote.com, it’s more than just looking at a historical document. History becomes a living subject on Footnote.com as documents from archives come together for the first time on the Internet. Visitors to Footnote.com can add their own contributions and upload their own shoeboxes of information. Letters, documents, and photos from the past create a view of history that few have seen before. 

Every month, two million new documents are added to the site and over a million people visit the site. Footnote promises to continue to deliver new discoveries for those whose interests range from the serious historian to the casual visitor looking for something entertaining.

To view the Civil War Collection including the 1860 US Census, visit Footnote.com today.

About Footnote, Inc.

Footnote.com is a subscription website that features searchable original documents, providing users with an unaltered view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. At Footnote.com, all are invited to come share, discuss, and collaborate on their discoveries with friends, family, and colleagues. For more information, visit www.footnote.com.

Roots Television now has a short introductory video that was filmed at last weekend's conference in London, England. This 81-second video gives a very quick introduction to the show with quick shots of the various exhibits.

You can watch the video at http://www.RootsTelevision.com. More videos from the same conference will become available in the near future.

Congressmen Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Chris Cannon (R-UT) have issued a “dear colleagues” letter to the members of the House of Representatives, inviting them to sign on as original sponsors to the “Preserving the American Historical Record” (PAHR) bill.

PAHR proposed to increase federal support for state and local archival records held by government agencies, historical societies, libraries, and related organizations. This initiative would establish a program of formula-based grants to states for re-grants and statewide services to support preservations and use of historical records. The program, to be administered by the National Archives, will provide a total of $50 million per year nationwide. Each state would receive a portion of these funds for redistribution to organizations within its borders. This program would be in addition to the existing national grants program within the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Your help is needed. You can read more at http://www.fgs.org/rpac/2008/05/07/action-needed-for-the-preserving-the-american-historical-record-act/
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Time is of the essence, as the deadline is this Saturday, May 10.

My thanks to Amy Johnson Crow for alerting me to this letter.

Tom Kemp wrote in his blog the first genealogy published in America appeared in a newspaper 284 years ago - today – May 7, 1724. It appeared in the American Weekly Mercury. It was a genealogy of King Philip V of Spain. Genealogy articles routinely appeared in colonial newspapers.

You can read more at http://blog.genealogybank.com/2008/05/1st-genealogy-published-in-america-7.html.

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hi there
I would be most interested in sharing info and discussing the McCallums of Perthsire, please contact me at jamemcca@yahoo.com

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The Catholic News Service has published an article about new Vatican orders to not cooperate with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the microfilming of records. The Vatican wishes to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a practice that Catholics, Jews, and some others find objectionable.

Catholic dioceses throughout the world have been directed by the Vatican not to give information in parish registers to the Mormons' Genealogical Society of Utah.

An April 5 letter from the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, obtained by Catholic News Service in late April, asks episcopal conferences to direct all bishops to keep the Latter-day Saints from microfilming and digitizing information contained in those registers.

The order came in light of "grave reservations" expressed in a January 29 letter from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the clergy congregation's letter said.

You can read more at http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802443.htm.