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From: Cyndi Howells <>
Subject: New Editor Appointed to NGS NewsMagazine
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:41:20 -0800

For Immediate Release:

New Look! New Content!
New Editor Appointed to NGS NewsMagazine

The National Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the appointment
of Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, CG, as the new editor of the NGS
NewsMagazine. Beginning with the June 2004 issue, Carmack will bring a
new look and new content to the Society's magazine.

According to Carmack, the new mission of the NGS NewsMagazine is
"Helping NGS Members Discover and Preserve Their Family History." The
magazine will offer advice, guidance, instruction, and perspective,
along with the latest NGS news and events, to create a society magazine
with mass appeal. With readable and friendly articles, illustrated with
instructional materials and old photographs, NGS NewsMagazine will get
beginning genealogists motivated to start researching their family
history and will keep them inspired. Seasoned researchers will also find
useful articles on skill building and problem solving.

A typical issue of the revised NGS NewsMagazine will feature a mix of
family history and genealogy articles, along with articles and columns
on closely related topics: photo albums and photography, family
artifacts, family health history, computer software, the Internet, and
NGS news, services, and events.

Core topic areas will feature
1. Skill building (how-to articles on researching your ancestry)
2. Problem solving (case studies)
3. Resources and Repositories (where to get information and how to
get it more easily)
4. Technology (digital genealogy and using the Internet in
genealogy)
5. NGS Events and Services (articles on upcoming conferences,
post-conference events, society services, etc.)

Regular columns will cover the NGS Family Health and Heredity Committee,
beginning genealogy (to springboard off the NGS Home Study Course),
computers and online genealogy, book and software reviews, and humor in
genealogy.

Sharon DeBartolo Carmack is a Certified Genealogist who brings her vast
experience in genealogical writing, editing, and publishing to the NGS
NewsMagazine. As Executive Editor of Family Tree Books (formerly
Betterway Books), she has acquired and edited more than 35 titles,
making Family Tree Books and Betterway Books America's best-selling
guides to genealogy. Many of these titles have become essential
reference sources, as well as introducing the hobby of family history
research to, literally, millions of people.

Sharon is also a contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine, America's
#1 selling genealogy magazine, boasting a circulation of 143,000. The
author of more than a dozen genealogical guides and family histories,
Sharon has written hundreds of articles and columns that have appeared
in nearly every major genealogical journal and publication, such as The
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, The American Genealogist, The
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, The New England
Historical and Genealogical Register, Family Tree Magazine, Heritage
Quest, Ancestry, Reunions magazine, Association of Professional
Genealogists Quarterly, FGS Forum, The Virginia Genealogist, Family
Chronicle, and New England Ancestors. She served as editor of the
Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly from 1989 to 1995,
for which she received APG's Grahame Thomas Smallwood Jr. Award, and
Speak! the newsletter of the Genealogical Speakers Guild from 1992 to
1998.

Sharon welcomes article queries from all writers, and especially
previously unpublished writers. You can e-mail her at
. Writer's guidelines are available upon request.

Sandra Hewlett, NGS PR Chair
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