DearREADERS, While Ol' Myrt has been away, some pretty "kewl" things are newly available from our friends at LegacyFamilyTree.com. Legacy is a genealogy management program designed to keep track of all names, dates, places, notes, family relationships and multi-media files with the ability to access the internet in addition to printing a variety of reports including books. See: www.LegacyFamilyTree.com. Video Instruction If you haven't been able to attend one of Geoff Rasmussen's classes, you are in for a treat. Legacy video taped two of Geoff's recent ...

DearREADERS, Graveyards provide challenges to the best of us, and recent online video offerings tell the tale. Thanks to the Og Blog Newsletter's recent special announcement, we learn of several offerings designed to settle some of the myths around ancestral burials. Every stone has a story. See: Down Under Utah: A Soldier's Story Genealogists Kory Meyerink and Nancy NeSmith explore the touching story of a soldier buried in Spanish Fork City Cemetery in Utah. Down Under Utah: Icelandic Minister. Genealogists Kory Meyerink and Nancy NeSmith explore the interesting story ...

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: This is just in from my brother-in-law Steve. He's married to Ol' Myrt's sister, who wouldn't be caught dead within 20 feet of a Family History Center. This is the second year in a row I've heard the Family History Library is sponsoring such an event. Please address all inquiries not to my brother-in-law, but to support@FamilySearch.org . May 20, 2009 News Family History Library Sponsors SUMMER of SLEUTHING Are you looking for a ...

DearREADERS, It is with great pleasure that Ol’ Myrt here announces the release of the June 2009 Organization Checklist . This month we officially tackle:

Displaying ancestral artifactsHeirloom gardensScanning old documents

.PDF FORMAT Like many genealogy societies that have turned to digital presentation of their newsletters, these organization checklists are presented in .pdf format, so they will look and print the same on every computer system.

HYPERLINKS Where possible, Ol’ Myrt here has added clickable ...

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: This was just received from our friends at the National Archives (US). Please address all inquiries to Public.Affairs@nara.gov. May 28, 2009 National Archives Announces Homecoming of Long-Lost Lincoln Letter Private Collector Lawrence Cutler Donates Original Lincoln Letter to Archives Washington, D.C. . . . In a press conference today, the National Archives announced the homecoming of an original Abraham Lincoln hand-written letter to Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase. Lawrence M. Cutler, a private collector ...

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was received from our friends at Ancestry.com. Please address all inquiries to support@Ancestry.com. May has been an exciting month of milestones at Ancestry.com: We have added more than 8 billion records on Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com members have added more than 1 billion people to more than 10 million family trees on Ancestry.com. (Read more about this achievement in the press release.)

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New Ancestry.com Content German Phone Directories 1915-1981 -- This unique ...

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was received from our friends at FamilySearch.org. Please address all inquiries to support@FamilySearch.org. 27 May 2009 Overview Eleven new indexing projects were added this week—most international (Argentina, Canada, and France). Five of the projects are birth, marriage, and death records for France. Please forward this update to any organizations or individuals that might be interested in helping create indexes to these or other FamilySearch indexing projects. New indexing projects added this week ...