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Selection from 1995-2006 DearMYRTLE
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ACROSS MY DESK: NGS DATABASES OPEN FOR
THANKSGIVING
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What's a Google Alert?
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ACROSS MY DESK: Brown University cataloguing rare
maps
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Sources -- Individual (in PAF or otherwise)
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WHY Myrt finally bought an iPod
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Moving GENSMARTS data from one computer to
another, etc.
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Demonstrating GenSmarts
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Genealogy classes at the Bellevue WA FHC
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Upcoming podcast with FamilyTreeDNA
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Family History Minute podcast
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Citing family bibles
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Problem with a name
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Welsh circa 300-1500AD ancestry going online
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Oklahoma Centennial Projects
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ACROSS MY DESK: RootsMagic, Inc. Releases Family
Atlas Genealogy Mapping and
Publishing Software -
Naturalization, women & New York
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ACROSS MY DESK: Newspapers added in October 2006
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READERS' FEEDBACK: 30 October 2006
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Coordinating genealogy research tasks
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Swedish websites and when will the DearMYRTLE's
FAMILY HISTORY HOUR return?
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New DearMYRTLE podcast released today
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READERS' FEEDBACK: 27 October 2006 Includes: Disk life; Japanners; Disk compatibility; British parish site; Making copies of documents; Re: Family traditions.
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Where have the PA Archives gone?
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Parent Search in IGI
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Why PAF isn't being updated
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ACROSS MY DESK: LDS Church launches African
American Resource Site
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READERS' FEEDBACK: 26 Oct 2006 Includes: IGI,
PAFInsight & Legacy; Rare genetic deletion;
Misfiling at the Library of Congress; Noisy
library; Adopted children in obituaries;
Preserving digital files; Ships passing in the
night.
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DNA and finding the parents
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Starting your own computer users group
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Regional genealogy seminars
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Connecting with others
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What I learned about Chinese Genealogies
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Calculating birth or death dates
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Jamboree to be held in Cheyenne, Wyoming 20-21 Oct
2006
Myrt gave the keynote address!
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Ogden conference also features Chinese specialist
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Questions about my grandmother search
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READER'S FEEDBACK: Extraction Program
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Locating all by a surname in a certain parish
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GEDCOM & Book Printing
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COPY & PASTE: Getting the info in notes
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ACROSS MY DESK:
Family Atlas
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Origins Network Labor Day Access
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ACROSS MY DESK: Top notch guest speakers featured
at GenealogyForum.org
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RE: NARA Budget Cuts & Closing Schedule
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ACROSS MY DESK: Free Access to The Origins Network
- 4 September
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New Mailing List software causes mix-up
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This & That 31 Aug 2006
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ACROSS MY DESK: SMGF Updates online DNA database
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Ancestry's Loss is our PDF gain
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ACROSS MY DESK: Essential Pope books MA, ME & NH
on CD
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Access points for US Federal Census records online
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Keepers
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Cavalier manners
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Cemetery follow-up: The MYSTERY Shopper
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9 years of research: Birth
record dilemma
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Readers' Feedback: Occupation: Japaner/Japanner
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Occupation: Japaner/Japanner
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Everton subscription & e-newsletter
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PERIOD COSTUMES - Pennsylvania Germans
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OGDEN, UT 6-7 Oct 2006 - SEMINAR
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DearMYRTLE's Family History
Hour 20 June 2006
Myrt's guests include Kathy Meade from Genline.com
the premier website for scanned images of Swedish
church records 1600-1900; and Denise Olsen from
MoultrieCreek.net for advice about creating
folders in MS Outlook (email program) and battery
back-up uninterrupted power supplies.
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Question about Heritage Quest & Chickasaw & Howard
Counties, Iowa CDs
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Thanks for the memories, Dad
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ACROSS MY DESK: Heirs should sift slowly through
attic
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Portable genealogical file
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READERS' FEEDBACK: MORE Library Manners & Filed
Wrong
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Civil War Notes & Diaries
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APG
Honors Gary Mokotoff
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ACROSS MY DESK: 13 June 2006
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PRESS RELEASE: Myra Vanderpool Gormley Award of
Merit
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READERS FEEDBACK: Leave a legacy -- tell your story
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ACROSS MY DESK: My Ancestors Found buys Rootstamps
Collection
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INS
now USCIS
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Beidler article on early PA land records
accessibility
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Leave a legacy -- tell your story
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Provo
Labs & Everton Partnership Press Release
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1841
Scotland Census Now Online
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ACROSS MY DESK: May Classes, etc.
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Library Manners & Filed Wrong
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Bad library manners
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Announcing FHL Research Retreat with My Ancestors
Found -- June 26-July 1
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New
Adoption Mailing Lists
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ACROSS MY DESK: LibraryThing.com
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READERS' RESPONSE: Step-children in obituary
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Step-children in obituary
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Finding LIVE People
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Meitzler new Managing Editor at Everton
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Great-grandmother's female siblings
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Palatines to America
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1880
Census Image Availability
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Subsequent remarriage with
no children
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Online Jewish Classes
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Reality & Life in general
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READERS' FEEDBACK: 10 April 2006
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ACROSS MY DESK: Italian Conference
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Myrt
speaking at Utah Valley PAF 8 March 2006
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ACROSS MY DESK: Revised DNA website includes
additions to database
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ACROSS MY DESK: RootsMagic 3.2.1 Released
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ACROSS MY DESK: ISBGFH British Institute
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The
younger generation
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Copies, PE and podcast woes
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ACROSS MY DESK: Potential Creation of a National
Museum of the American Latino Community
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RootsMagic, Personal Historian & FHCs
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Legacy database on flash drive
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DearMYRTLE's Family History
Hour 21 March 2006 Myrt's topics and guests include Jay Speyerer who with Myrt about writing techniques discussed in
his new book The Stories of our Days: Writing Your True Story Using
Techniques of Fiction. Pick up a few ideas about
preserving old letters and identifying old photos;
and what to do with those very long URLS that
sometimes get split in email. Myrt also touches on
Cuban family history research, and reports on a new
book from Genealogical.com by Virginia Lee Hutcheson
Davis titled Jamestowne Ancestors. The show page also mentions the
specific links for other genealogy and family
history podcasts.
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Saving old letters & identifying old photos
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ACROSS MY DESK: Holocaust records, 2006 Census & NYC
Brides/Grooms
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Cuban Research
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The
road less traveled
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LIVE
radio stream tomorrow
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FamilySearch Scanning article
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ACROSS MY DESK: Free Non-Member Access to the
Register Online March 20-22
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Immigration Frustration: Malcolm Macleod 1854
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ACROSS MY DESK: PLA Boston – March 22nd – 25th
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Family History Library installs new computers
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DAR
Library completes shelving improvement
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Filing supporting documents
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READER'S FEEDBACK: Coping with Destruction of Bremen
Passenger Lists
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Family Traditions
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Library manners
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Numbering systems: FTM and LFT
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READER'S FEEDBACK: Numbering system
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Single Numbering System
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Desertion and divorce in Arkansas
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READER'S FEEDBACK: Stillborn births?
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Stillborn Births?
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DearMYRTLE's Family History
Hour 21 Feb 2006
Myrt's guests include DeadFred.com's founder Joe
Bott and
the site's archivist,
Jeannette Balleza
discussing the lost photos archives and the new
e-book
The Desperate Genealogist's Idea Book: Creative Ways
to Outsmart Your Elusive Ancestors.
LegacyFamilyTree.com's Geoff Rasmussen discusses
what to do when someone's email address has changed
and how to create a hopefully permanent email
address for your genealogy postings. There are
numerous links to genealogy news that has come
across Myrt's desk including articles about Cape Cod gravestones
and a new Swiss genealogy website.
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1864
medical remedy book
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2nd
Great-grandmother's obit search
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Report on Irish teleconference tonight
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Genealogical.com's newsletter
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Family History Library closes at 6pm due to snow
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Old
book provides insight on legal terms
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DearMYRTLE's Family History
Hour 14 Feb 2006 This week's show is
dedicated to Myrt's first online genealogy mentor
Russ Kyger. RootsMagic's Bruce Buzbee joins
Myrt to discuss the "Share CD" and other unique
options of his program. Myrt interviews Bob Velke
about the importance of legal terms in the
historical context of our ancestors' lives using
Black's Law Dictionary. The 1891 & 1910 edition
are available on CD from his website
ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com. Maggie Stewart from
the USGenWeb Archives Newsletter spotlights the work
of one Kentucky GenWeb volunteer - Mike Meinhart
of Boyd County. The MightyMouse Tour
takes in several stops including an 1882 Austrian
map site, the International Society of Family
History Writers and Editors writing contest, and
purchasing books from Genealogical.com (the case in
point explains the difference between
naturalizations and denizations.) Also Myrt asks
listeners if they would like to hear more of her
regular columns as short podcasts.
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ACROSS MY DESK: Colorful Charting Companions from
Progeny Software
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Preservation, Attributes &
Valentines
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Russ
Kyger - RIP
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Report of 2006 Jamboree in St. George
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ACROSS MY DESK: Coping with Destruction of Bremen
Passenger Lists
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Myrt's Calendar and "TOP 25" announcement

WOW!
Myrt's newly revised "Little Book" Internet
Genealogy has been expanded in 2006 to include not
20 but 25 +1 great ideas to help you get in the
hunt.
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Join
Myrt Feb 10-11, 2006 in St. George
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Heritage Creations & our dear friend Leland
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Genealogy & History Podcasts: A Growing List
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FindUSA database dropped from libraries
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Document preservation
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Hawaiian Adoption
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Happy Camper: I just got my new HANDYBOOK
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PBS'
African American Lives debuts tonight
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African Slaves in Campeche, Mexico circa 1550
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Here's the scoop on Legacy
Family Tree's announcement
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ACROSS MY DESK: Most Comprehensive Collection of
Canadian Family Research Records Online Launches at
www.ancestry.ca
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ACROSS MY DESK: Ancestry.com Celebrates Black
History Month by Providing Free Access
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Coretta Scott King
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MOVING THE DEAD - San Francisco Cemeteries podcast
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DearMYRTLE's Family History
Hour 31 Jan 2006 This jam-packed hour
features Darrin Lythgoe, creator of The Next Generation of
Genealogy Sitebuilding; "Family Tree" from the Ancestral Songs CD by
Steve Lanza; and Courtney Newton, BA (Family History)
who explains to Myrt the strategies for
determining the town of origin for your Italian
ancestors. The MightyMouse tour visits Dick
Eastman's website and explores the Encyclopedia of
Genealogy. From the BookShelf features Genealogical
Publishing Company's The Early Germans of New Jersey. Listen
in as Myrt spills the beans (with permission of
course) about tomorrow's press release from
LegacyFamilyTree.com concerning the possibility of
wining a free genealogy cruise to Alaska or trip
Salt Lake's Family History Library.
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Letters home tell CW Soldiers' stories
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ACROSS MY DESK: Ancestor Tracks Introduces Major
Source for Early PA Settlers
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DearMYRTLE's Family History
Hour 24 Jan 2006Myrt and guest Geoff
Rasmussen have a lively discussion about
synchronizing your genealogy database with other
family members, Legacy Family Tree's "InteliMerge"
and using a BLOG to coordinate a "to-do" list.
Elizabeth Powell Crowe returns to speak this time
about a rather mysterious ethnic group in the
eastern US known as the Melungeons. Myrt also visits
with Sharon MacInnes of Ancestor
Tracks, the producer of the series of books and CDs in the Early Landowners
of Pennsylvania series.
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RootsWeb Mailing List Problems
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Great expectations: Not a worthwhile genealogy
attribute
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ACROSS MY DESK: Boston births registered 1800-1849
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More
on the Poznan Marriage Indexing Project
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Is
Southern US research impossible?
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DearMYRTLE's Family History
Hour 17 Jan 2006 Myrt answers a
listener's question about why we still need Family
History Centers. Then catch her interview with Karen
Sladek, award-winning author of LUCKY STARS &
GOLD BARS: A World War II Odyssey. This
lucky daughter discovered 400 of her father's
letters sent home during the war days. Myrt also
extends an invitation to the 2006 Genealogy and
Family Heritage Jamboree 10-11 February 2006 in St.
George Utah. Pre-registration deadline is 31 Jan.
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Surgeon's Report: Early Campaigns in the North, 1812
to 1813
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ACROSS MY DESK: Transferring files from old to new
computer
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Lost
& Found: Old photo cards
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Readers' Feedback 13 Jan 2006
- Don't use WordPerfect or Word exclusively
- Naranzetta - Is it a carnival name?
- Birth record created for war duty
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Unreliable records
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RE:
Problems with incomplete obit forms
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NEVER GIVE UP: Discoveries of old records are
happening every day
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ACROSS MY DESK: 2006 WhollyGenes Genealogy Cruise
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DearMYRTLE's Family History
Hour 10 Jan 2006 Listen in as Myrt discusses
Reunions Magazine with editor Edith Wagner; PAF
Companion 2 with developer Pierre Cloutier; and
Godfrey Memorial Library (including the
HeritageQuestOnline access) with the Godfrey's
director Richard E. Black. Other topics include:
Tennessee's apprenticed children, the free SSDI &
World Place Finder offer, GeneLines, the 2006
WhollyGenes.com genealogy cruise, and the AGBI
American Genealogical Biographical Index. The
MightyMouse tour visits RootsWeb mailing lists and
explains the difference between L (list mode) and D
(digest mode.)
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ACROSS MY DESK: New Braintree Museum & Research
Center
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Nova
Scotian Runaway to Massachusetts
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Naranzetta - is it a carnival name?
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ACROSS MY DESK: A Crack in the Romanian Archival
Dike?
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READERS' FEEDBACK: What I learned from
Great-Grampa's Death Certificate
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Problems with incomplete obit forms
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Where to insert source citations
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READERS' FEEDBACK: First things first
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Playing Catch Up
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Publishing that Book
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ACROSS MY DESK: Progeny Offers SSDI & World Place
Finder for Free!
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Don't use WordPerfect or Word exclusively
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Internet Genealogy Magazine
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour 3 Jan 2006 Myrt's guests this week include Geoff Rasmussen who discusses
his newest project, the AniMap Training Video; and
Libbi Crowe who provides specific steps for solving
genealogical questions and making real progress in
your research in 2006. During the MightyMouse
segment, Myrt discusses 1837Online's WWI Overseas
Army Deaths Database, the Missouri Land Patents
Database provided by the Secretary of State, and
Godfrey.org's decision to discontinue
HeritageQuestOnline. Links we mention include Myrt's
column about a birth record created for war duty,
and 2006 the Chinese year of the Dog.
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Birth record created for war duty
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2006
the Chinese year of the Dog
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The
Internet, Genealogists and the Future
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20 Dec 2005
DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour with
special guest Mr. S. Claus, direct via satellite
cellphone from the North Pole.
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ACROSS MY DESK: Scottish pride turns to dance ban
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POE
Podcast (Port of Arrival)
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour 13 Dec 2005
Myrt's guests include author Elizabeth Powell Crowe
on the importance of oral histories, and editor
Holly Hanson on the brand new 11th edition of
Everton's Handybook for Genealogists. Myrt thanks
Elizabeth Kasper for sharing her before and after
views her ancestors 1815 marriage record, as she
describes the process she went through with Adobe
Photoshop to enhance the readability of the
document. Thanks to Jill who reminds us that Corel
now owns PaintShop Pro. The MightyMouse tour
spotlights the wonderful volunteers at Random Acts
of Genealogical Kindness. Hats off to Kimberley
Powell for her article on Pearl Harbor Day, Dec 7,
2005.
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The Lost Generation - Tracing
UK World War I casualties
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Working immediate collateral
lines, SSDI & NGS
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Enhancing scanned images
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More on scanners, OCR &
digital cameras
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Incomplete copies of official
records
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READERS' FEEDBACK: SB,
Christenings & Such
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Everton's Handybook 11th
Edition Now Available
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 Pearl
Harbor Day
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Genealogy
Podcasts
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Missouri Land Patents 1831-1910
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour 6
Dec 2005
Guest Bob
Velke, producer of The Master Genealogist software program, joins Myrt to
discuss his with a
brand new venture -- ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com. Other topics include the 1901
& 1911 Irish Census records soon to be released
online, blogging, finding probate records, the
FamilySearch research outlines, determining the
spelling of a town using the FHLCatalog, and
interviewing relatives using the
MyAncestorsFound.com's "Capture the a
Memories" CD with 14 different books for you to
create over the holidays as you visit with your
families.
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ACROSS MY DESK:
Ireland deal will put 1901 & 1911 census online
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Letter to Dad: Found
siblings and names of BOTH parents for our oldest
known PLAYER in England
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Probate in Pierce County
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Handheld Scanners
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Genealogy & The British West Indies
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Colorado sues genealogy company
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Recollections Assignment
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Family tree form
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Vocabulary words
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour 29 Nov 2005
DearMYRTLE interviews Michael Booth, creator of
Personal Historian, where we learn, step-by-step
to set up a new project, and have fun learning to
use this wonderful software program. Myrt reprises
an interview with Katherine Scott Sturdevant,
co-author of Bringing Your Family History to
Life through Social History and author of
Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents.
Topics include preserving old documents, creating
an interview "tote bag," how to make secure
purchases online, and a brief tour of the GENUKI
website for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the
Channel Island, Wales, and the Isle of Man.
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Implements, Harry Potter &
ASSIGNMENT
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Check the courthouse again: Great Falls Montana,
case in point
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What I learned from great-grampa's death
certificate
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STARS & STRIPES: Native American Indian Heritage
Month

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Ancestry.com Class Action Lawsuit
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Little known implements
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ACROSS MY DESK: ArchiveCDBooksUSA expansion
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Installing PAF on your flash drive
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READERS' RESPONSE: SB Association
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What is the SB Association?
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CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
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ACROSS MY DESK: DNA Swab & DNA Analysis
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Connecticut WPA Efforts - Headstone Inscriptions
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Township Maps
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And speaking of West Virginia
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WPA & West Virginia
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South Caroliniana Library catalog
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ACROSS MY DESK: "Family Search Scam" - Oh, Really
Now?
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DearMYRTLE's Family
History Hour 15 Nov 2005 Myrt's guests include Barb
Schulz, a DAR Regent and a Colonial Dames of the XVII Century registrar.
LegacyFamilyTree.com's Geoff Rasmussen talks about "Three Proven Methods
for Getting Responses from your Living Relatives." During the MightyMouse
tour, Myrt explores USGenWeb with USGenWeb Archives Newsletter editor,
Maggie Stewart. Myrt explains "blogs" again, and recommends that you
subscribe to her column if you are having trouble receiving email on a
regular basis.
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The Boy Scout & the flag
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ACROSS MY DESK: AniMap Training CD
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour 8 Nov 2005
with
Frank Koerner, B.S. Physics, Juris
Doctorate, author of
The Missing Peace of a Heritage Puzzle - A Memoir Uniquely Set in a Vanished
Sudetenland; and Colleen Fitzpatrick, Ph. D., author of
Forensic Genealogy available through her website. The MightyMouse tour
discusses BLOGS, and how to subscribe to both Dick Eastman and Myrt's
blogs using SharpReader. Myrt's asks listeners and readers to consider
alternate uses for a digital camera's memory stick. "Links We Mention"
include Walmart's online Photo Center;
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation
Slaveowner by Daniel L. Schafer and the use of
Google's Gmail.
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Podcasts and online Pennsylvania Archives
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ACROSS MY DESK: Sperm sleuth tracks down father
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ACROSS MY DESK: Partnership for the American
Historical Record
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Civil War Databases
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Getting into the swing of things
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Grabbing the brass ring
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Getting from here to there
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Scary Things
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Myrt to speak 5 Nov - 10am Ogden, Utah
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Podcast & getting into the SLC groups
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READERS INPUT: Memory Sticks
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New Certified Genealogist Term
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Posting to genealogy software
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When it RAINS & Shirtsleeves
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How to convert VHS tapes to DVD
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour
11 Oct 2005 with
Frank Koerner, B.S. Physics, Juris
Doctorate, author of
The Missing Peace of a Heritage Puzzle - A Memoir Uniquely Set in a Vanished
Sudetenland; and Colleen Fitzpatrick, Ph. D., author of
Forensic Genealogy available through her website. The MightyMouse tour
discusses BLOGS, and how to subscribe to both Dick Eastman and Myrt's
blogs using SharpReader. Myrt's asks listeners and readers to consider
alternate uses for a digital camera's memory stick. "Links We Mention"
include Walmart's online Photo Center;
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation
Slaveowner by Daniel L. Schafer and the use of
Google's Gmail.
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NEED READERS' INPUT: Memory Stick Question
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The NEW Library in downtown SLC
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SEE DICK about French-Canadian Research
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Reading & Listening to DearMYRTLE
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Foster child, 1880 & Mental
Institutions
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Jacksonville State Hospital in Illinois
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Accessing 1880 & other census views
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Foster child yearns for family history
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Putting Scanned Images of Original Documents
Online
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Cemetery Preservation Workshop in Oklahoma
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour
4 Oct 2005 with Geoff Rasmussen from LegacyFamilyTree.com; James W. Petty, AG®, CGRSSM,
B.A. (History), B.S. (Genealogy) an expert on the headright system in 17th Century Virginia
and Relative Genetics; Grace DuMelle author
of Finding Your Chicago
Ancestors. Maggie Stewart, editor of the USGenWeb
Archives Newsletter provides links to Hancock County, Ohio tidbits. The
MightyMouse tour explores Legacy Family Tree Version 6. Download the
latest free version to follow along. Myrt discusses how to reference
another researcher's work, and the definition of "grass widow" provided by
bartleby.com.
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2
anti-virus programs
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Rosh Hashanah
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Hearth & Home
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Sept 2005 New Ancestry.com databases
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READERS' FEEDBACK: First things first
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Hearth & Home (& It takes A Heap o' Livin')
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ACROSS MY DESK: NC Apprenticeship & Free Blacks
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ACROSS MY DESK: TMG Version 6.04 is out
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Question about referencing another's references
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New York Marriage Record Request
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Ogden, Utah passenger lists
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour
27 Sept 2005 with Barbara Benge, Native American
research expert and Ugo A. Perego, MS, Director of Operations, Sorensen
Molecular Genealogy Foundation. Myrt mentions an obscure cemetery project
in Travis County, Texas. The MightyMouse tour explores the "ScotlandsPeople"
website and Myrt handles the delicate question of
how to document a relationship involving children
where the parents were apparently not married.
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NEED READERS' INPUT: First things first
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SCOTTISH RESEARCH: Cooperation is the name of the
game
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ACROSS MY DESK: Census forms offer from Everton
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Old New York Times issues online

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ACROSS MY DESK: Jewish Sites down due to hurricane
preparedness
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Listen to DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour, etc.
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Changes at Ancestry
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ACROSS MY DESK: Dynamic Redesign Invigorates
Ancestry.com
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ACROSS MY DESK: Poznan Project Newsletter #7
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ACROSS MY DESK: History Detective
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Handwritten
notes in a digital world
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LA
Records and Salt Lake City Visit
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Getting around that brick wall
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Is Inu a surname?
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Is
Inu actually a surname?
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Paul Hatch Daines, Jr., M. D. - Rest in
Peace
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Paul Daines Part 1
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Spelling mistakes & life in general
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FamilySearch website has changed it's look
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Another Genealogy Podcast
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ACROSS MY DESK: Passage Express Newsletter
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Race & Slave Petition Project 1776-1867
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READERS' FEEDBACK: 8 Sept 2005
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RootsMagic 3 Now Available
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Legacy Family Tree 6 - Radius Searching
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Genealogy Workshops and Courses in National
Archives
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ACROSS MY DESK: 1901 British Census Index Access
through 9/30
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour 6 Sept 2005
- Kory Meyerink, AG from ProGenealogists.com
- MightyMouse Tour: step-by-step downloading a
genealogy software program
- Jon Shupe, from PassageExpress.com
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Class Ideas - Family Tree Scavenger Hunt
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Vidstone - multi-media tombstone memorial
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READERS' FEEDBACK: 3 Sept 2005 Tennessee; Hurricane Relief; Landform Maps; Sprucing things up
with familiar quotations & Internet radio
show
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Roots Magic 3 to be released next week
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ACROSS MY DESK: Legacy 6 class in Provo, Utah on
Sep. 10
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Tennessee Resources
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ACROSS MY DESK: Dollarhide's NY Census book at
printer
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American Red Cross
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Verifying Myrt's Identity
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ACROSS MY DESK: BYU Credit for MyAncestors/Everton
FHL Retreats
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour 29 Aug 2005
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Landform Maps of the US, etc.
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Determining Book Lists for Family History Centers
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Legacy 6 to be officially released at FGS in Salt
Lake City, UT on Thursday, September 8, 2005
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Professional genealogists form chapters in
Alabama, Georgia
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Readers' Feedback: How & When to Listen
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JEFF CHAPMAN 1973-2005
RIP
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ACROSS MY DESK: WV vital records online
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ACROSS MY DESK: 1805 Georgia Land Lottery 200th
Anniversary Event
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My
own daughter didn't understand
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ACROSS MY DESK: Google Earth
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour 23 Aug 2005
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ACROSS MY DESK: Source Citations & Citation Detail
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Fishing for ancestors
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LISTENERS'
FEEDBACK: DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 16 Aug
2005
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DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour
16 Aug 2005
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Tuesday's the first day of the NEWEST DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour
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Getting ready for THIS WEEK's broadcast
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Another way to hear DearMYRTLE's Family History
Hour
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Listening to DearMYRTLE's test
promo spot
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1911 Canadian Census Now Online - Census! Census!
Who has the Census? A Brief History of the
Canadian National Census
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Sprucing things up with Familiar Quotations
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Confusing Castle Garden Dates
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ACROSS MY DESK: Genealogy Burnout; Kansas WWII
Veterans Database Online; New Castle Garden
Database; Genealogy Today launches new online
catalog
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Returning family bibles
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Selfish "researchers"
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Selfish "researchers"
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Revolutionary War Resources - selected & complete
records
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Quakers from PA to VA
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All Saints Court C. O. F.
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We're stumped
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Revolutionary War Resources
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HeritageQuestOnline has some Revolutionary War
Files (not OCLC)
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Quaker Meeting Records
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Childhood Memories II
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Double, blind data entry indices
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RESEARCH: We can do it faster, but is it better?
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My new GRANDSON is born!
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READERS' FEEDBACK: Railroads, letters, OCLC & more
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Railroad death
- Old
letters, postcards & telegrams
- Where
my web visitors live
- UPDATE
2005: The Internet, Genealogists & the
Future complete!
- Parish
Locator Program
- Childhood
Memories
- READERS'
FEEDBACK: Decorative pins for Antimacassars
& Chesterfields
- Clogging
the System -- NOT!!
- Decorative
pins for Antimacassars & Chesterfields
- Tracing
Black History through Genealogy and DNA Science
- Majoring
in Family History
- ACROSS
MY DESK: BYU Genealogy Conference 26-29 July
2005
- ACROSS MY DESK: Genealogy Today Database of Biographical Sketches
- Attitudes
& Courtesies
- Getting
to those obscure surname books
- Common
Law, Siblings & Audit Trails
- Myrt
is taking an Online Course for English
Researchers
- Polish
Town
- Reader's
Reply: OCLC for Genealogists
- OCLC
What is it and how can it help genealogists?
- Not
Married "..try not be be
judgmental." See also: Readers'
Feedback: Not Married
- Question
about Red Book "Now, I've not truly
answered your question -- only opened up
discussion of additional possibilities. Some
help I am, eh?"
- Numbering
Pages in Genealogy Notebooks
- READER'S
FEEDBACK: Mortality Schedules (NY)
- Official
US Census Abbreviations Website
- Problems
with Mortality Schedule Microfilms
- Mortality
Schedules
- Reasonably
priced wall charts
- Establishment
of Trade Unions
- French
Research "visiting Paris from London in
October, and would like to take the opportunity
of checking up on my great grandmother's roots."
- Revolutionary
roots "why not commit to documenting
the lineage, and joining a lineage society?"
- Getting
pictures in that Book "... not sure why
the programmers believe that when we insert a
picture we want it to have text to show up ONLY
above and below, and not NEXT to the picture."
- ACROSS
MY DESK: 11th Edition HANDYBOOK due in Fall 2005
- Different
Dates "This is a common problem."
- ACROSS
MY DESK: 1861 British Census - New County
Alert
- The
Bug Man Cometh "Home remedies?"
- Beginning
Lesson #10 - County Boundary Changes -
"The hard and fast rule for genealogy
researchers is record the place or locality as
it was at the time of the event."
- Readers'
Feedback: 24 June 2005 "Help with use
of "Mrs."; Auntie Macassar;
Relationship Terms; Regarding Oversize Notebook
Dividers; Saving Census Enumerations in the
Future; Three Things Not to do at a Family
History Center; Definition of Archival Storage
Materials."
- Hamburg
Passenger Lists "You may need to do
more "place of origin" research,
unless you can find your ancestor in an
index."
- Beginning
Lesson #3 -
Relationship Terms - "MY SON'S NOW WIFE didn't imply a previous marriage. It was used to
protect the estate from being diluted from claims by subsequent wives should this one die and the son
remarry. "
- READERS'
FEEDBACK: Antimacassars
- Watermelon
Pickles & Tell Myrt the Story
- Age
for WWI Draft Registration
- READERS'
FEEDBACK: 11 June 2005: Experience with
Medical Family Histories; Did Amish, Mennonites
or Quakers Avoid Census Takers?; No More Certo
Bottles; Watermelon Pickles & Pickled
Peaches.
- NEAT
THINGS I'VE READ LATELY: The Spinster & the
Cemetery
- Cause
of Death
- 3
Things NOT to do at our Family History Center
- Amish,
Mennonite, Quakers Avoiding the Census
Enumerator
- READERS'
FEEDBACK: Former Photographic Studios
- Former
Photographic Studios
- READERS'
FEEDBACK: 5 June 2005
- READERS'
FEEDBACK: No More Certo Bottles
- No
more CERTO bottles
- ACROSS
MY DESK: PAF INSIGHT FREE UPDATE Version
2005.5.31
- ACROSS
MY DESK: Research Academy in Salt Lake City
- C-Line
11x17 Sheet Protectors Listed as Archival
- Upcoming: DearMYRTLE's
Family History Hour internet radio shows
Click graphic to read Myrt's 2005
Memorial Day Message:

Graphic from the American Memories project
at the Library of Congress website: Soldier's
Memorial Day,"
words by Mary B.C. Slade and music by W.O. Perkins, 1870. Historic
American Sheet Music,1850-1920
- NEILSON/NET
RATINGS for internet use - MORE than Stats
- Palatines
to America National Seminar 9-11 June 2005 Ft.
Wayne
- RR
& Congress not paying into Social Security?
- Google
Scan of Books derided 51 & 31 minutes ago
- EASTMAN:
How not to read Tombstone Data
- ACROSS
MY DESK: PAF Companion Charts now in Color
- Everton's
Access to Godey's Lady's Book
- MYRT'S ARCHIVES: GERMANY: One Researcher's Recent Trip
- MYRT'S
ARCHIVES: Our Beautiful Quilts
- Wholesale
Pedigree Charts
- Meaning
of gravestone graphics
- NEAT
THINGS I'VE READ LATELY: 24 May 2005
- Eye
of the Beholder
- ACROSS
MY DESK: What's happening at the Godfrey
- Bradenton
is a bit of a travel from Chicago
- 11
by 17 Help from Friends
- 11
by 17 photocopy protection
- Oversized
3-ring dividers "a page divider and
sheet protector all in one!"
- READERS'
FEEDBACK 22 May 2005: RE: 1895 Exam; RE:
Social Security Death Index; RE: What's in a
Name?; Myrt's warning to BACKUP
- ACROSS
MY DESK: 2006 Australian Census to be Saved
- 27th
Aero Squadron, USA, at Royal Flying Corps
- ACROSS
MY DESK: ProGenealogists Gains Well-known
Genealogist for Key Managerial Role
- ACROSS
MY DESK: Everton Publishers expanding offerings
- READERS'
FEEDBACK "Random Acts of Genealogical
Kindness"
- Viewing
photos embedded in AOL Email
- Social
Security Death Index Listings
- Random
Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK)
- Star
Wars Family Tree
- What's
in a Name? How's a grandmother to keep
up?
- ASHBAUGH(ASHBOUGH)'S
Clifton, Pierce Co., WI 1850-1900+
- Copies
of Vital Records
- ACROSS MY DESK:
8th Grade Education in 1895
- Death
by Railroad "Family history states
that he was crushed between two train cars and
his
body fell into the Mississippi River."
- NGS
Conference 1-4 June 2005 Nashville
- READER'S
FEEDBACK RE: Loyalist Units "A
wonderful little book that would assist locating
any family within any of the above Loyalist
Units..."
- RE:
Accessing the Published Pennsylvania Archives
Online "Little Book' "...might
be just what you need in one hand, while
mouse-clicking with the other."
- Loyalist
Units: Westchester Refugees; Butler's, Roger's,
Hayden's King's Rangers "They did
not favor the cause of freedom espoused by the
colonists in America"
- Finding
Cousins "If you want to receive
detailed (read that
"RELEVANT") responses..."
- May Day circa 1950s
"...and
watch as she opened the door, to smile as she
discovered your lovely surprise."
- ACROSS
MY DESK: 1 May 2005 "GenealogyToday.com
announces 200,000 Name Milestone; USHMM Filming
in Ukraine; Subscribing to "Genealogy
Gems" from Ft. Wayne; Mother’s Day
Special! FREE Consultation for Female Ancestor;
National Geographic Society launches DNA study
of deep ancestry."
- READERS'
FEEDBACK: Immigrant Children's Clothing "The
cap on the "12 year old boy" is
perfect."
- Immigrant
Children's Clothing "I think you are
looking for dark brown or black knickers or
pants with suspenders."
- FHL
Research Outlines "the most
underutilized yet most valuable source of
"how to" research help on the
web."
- ACROSS
MY DESK: Toronto Emigrant Office Records
- Polish
Roots - First hand research "A
Passion for Poland, Polish Tradition and
Culture"
- RE:
Family Tree's Bad Apples Can Be a Shock "That
way you are not making sweeping statements,
which tend to deter people from believing your
work."
- ACROSS
MY DESK: Family Tree's Bad Apples Can Be a Shock
- Readers'
Feedback: Cost Effective Solution for
Distributing Society Newsletters
- Picking
green beans yesterday "Are the bean
stalks getting shorter or am I just getting
taller?" &
Reader's
Response: Picking green beans yesterday
- Lots
of learning opportunities "The
National Institute for Genealogical Studies"
- Definition
of OBSCURE "Got any definitions to
add to the list?"
- Check out the Lincoln Museum dedicated today
& CORRECTED URL "the museum folks did an excellent job of attempting to translate the museum experience into an informational website."
- Cost
Effective Solution for Distributing Society
Newsletters "Rising costs of paper,
printing & even bulk-mail postage werekilling
our budget."
- ACROSS
MY DESK: Noble & Pious Thing "To
hand them on to new generations, all too ready
to forget."
- ACROSS
MY DESK: Free 72-hour Access to a Premium
Database at NewEnglandAncestors.Org
- Off to Ormond Beach, Bradenton & SRQ
"Ol' Myrt will be away from her
desk."
- Across My Desk - 1841 English Census -- now Online
"Partnerships with leading archives and
genealogical societies in the UK and Ireland,
including the Society of Genealogists, Eneclann
Ltd, The National Library of Ireland, and the
Borthwick Institute for Archives..."
- Readers'
Feedback: 12 April 2005 "Re:
Creating webpages and need good site; Re: Number
of those in genealogy; Re: Revolutionary War
Troop Movements; Problems with the NA microfilm
lending program"
- Notes
with source citations are necessary "We
judge a scholarly publication in any other genre
(history, science, medicine, etc.) by it's
source citations and subsequent critical reviews
by peers."
- ACROSS MY DESK: Society for Women & Civil War Conference 3-5 June 2005
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