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From: "GenealogyToday.com Editor" <>
Subject: [GenToday] News from Genealogy Today
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:40:40 -0500


More great articles and announcements... plus, if you haven't visited this
year, we re-launched the entire site with a new look and several helpful
guides.

Enjoy!
- illya d'addezio

)) Mid Continent Services, an Internet marketing company, announced a
partnership with Genealogy Today to bring their digital archive of old
photographs to the Genealogy Marketplace. The Vanished Photo Collection was
established in 1998. Having a photo of an ancestor is a great addition to
your written history or family video history you may make. Photos are also
good for showing family resemblances. Sometimes photos are helpful in
showing genetic health concerns. These 600 dpi scans are ready for digital
reproduction either on a quality color printer or at your local photo shop.
Sizes vary based on original photograph. Scanning fees range between $7.95
and $9.95 per image.
http://www.genealogytoday.com/store/vanished.html

)) Genealogy Today is pleased to announce the acquisition of Help! I'm
Lost! -- a beginner web site that has been online since 1998, and was
formerly known as The Lost Husbands Guide to On-Line Genealogy. One of the
key features of the site is the Genealogy Knowledgebase, which combines all
of the lookup features of the Help! I'm Lost! web site into a single
database of over 5,000 terms. This searchable tool includes such helpful
resources a the many acronyms of the U.S. government, the abbreviations of
the U.S. Post Office, dozens of medical and legal terms, genealogy
abbreviations and much, much more.
http://www.helpimlost.com/

)) E.B. Lapointe posted an exciting announcement 1906 Canadian Census
Released: "The Minister of Industry responsible for Statistics Canada, Alan
Rock, and Shelia Copps, the Heritage Minister responsible for the National
Archives, have just announced that the 1906 Special Census of the three
Canadian Prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta has been
released to the National Archives of Canada, so that it can made ready for
researchers to view."
http://www.genealogytoday.com/ca/connect/030124.html

)) Lisa Ritter Starr posted The Search Is Over ... ?: "Because open adoption
as a legal option is relatively new, there are thousands of people out there
actively seeking their biological families long lost through closed
adoptions."
http://www.genealogytoday.com/adoption/puzzle/column/021231.html

)) Deanna Corbeil posted Name That Ancestor!: "Getting the names right will
help you in your Roots Pursuit. Just remember, your name today may not be
what it was yesterday. Keep an open mind, and you'll find ancestors you
never imagined were yours."
http://www.genealogytoday.com/junior/pursuit/2002dec08.html

)) Lisa Ritter Starr posted The Father's Right to Know: "A new Florida law,
passed in August without Governor Jeb Bush's signature, requires an
unprecedented effort on the part of birth mothers pursuing private adoption
for their children to locate and inform the birth fathers."
http://www.genealogytoday.com/adoption/puzzle/column/021219.html

)) Philip Westwood posted Scotish Records: "Scotland came to Civil
Registration later than England and Wales on I Jan 1855. However , the range
of detail given makes the Scottish certificates and registers much more
useful and informative than those for England and Wales."
http://www.genealogytoday.com/uk/columns/westwood/021209.html

)) E.B. Lapointe posted a two-part article Civil Registrations: "Civil
registrations are those events in life such as births, marriages, and deaths
(BMDs) which are required to be registered with the government."
http://www.genealogytoday.com/ca/connect/021201.html

)) Bob Brooke posted How Our Ancestors Got Here: "Since 1920, despite a
quota system, Germany, Mexico, Canada, England, and the nations of the
Caribbean have helped keep the immigration tradition alive."
http://www.genealogytoday.com/columns/everyday/030102.html

)) Ruby Coleman posted Ancestors in a Sterile Environment: "The most sterile
environment your ancestors can be found in is on a genealogical form or in a
computer database."
http://www.genealogytoday.com/columns/ruby/021213.html


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