NOTE from DearMYRTLE: Lots of email announcements of late. This one is from our friend Darrin Lythgoes of TNG The Next Generation of Site Building. Please address all inquiries to him at darrin@lythgoes.net TNG v7.0.1 Now Available This is to let you know that TNG v7.0.1 is now available on the v7 downloads page. The changes are summarized on that page and also here below. Please remember to follow instructions! By far, the number one cause of upgrade trouble is still failure to follow instructions. If you have a problem, please re-read the instructions ...

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was just received from our friends at FindMyPast.com. Please address all inquiries to debra.chatfield@findmypast.com. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FINDMYPAST.COM EXTENDS ONLINE PARISH RECORDS COLLECTION Online access to millions of nationwide parish marriage records pre-dating the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths UK family history website findmypast.com today announced it has added 3.2 million marriage records to its Parish Records Collection at ...

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was just received from our friends at Legacy Family Tree. Please address all inquiries to geoff@LegacyFamilyTree.com . FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Surprise, Arizona, August 18, 2008 -- Millennia Corporation, a leader in family history software, today announced that its software, Legacy Family Tree, is now available in two new languages: Deutsch (German) and Svenska (Swedish). The software, used by beginners and professionals to record, plan, and share their family trees, is now the premier choice for German and Swedish ...

DearLISTENERS & READERS, DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 12 Aug 2008 genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or after transfer to any .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes. You don’t need an iPod to listen. You may play, pause, rewind and listen to podcasts as many times as you wish. Myrt discusses the place of tombstones as a genealogy source, interviews Justin Schropher about FBI Case Files at Footnote.com, and discusses access challenges facing handicapped ...

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following announcement was gleaned from a posting by Gregg Gronlund of the Orange County [Florida] Library System to the public genealogy mailing list known as [GeneaLibrarian]. This is the third group in Second Life of particular interest to genealogists. See also DearMYRTLE"s Get a Second Life, Genealogists, DearMYRTLE"s Second Life: A new type of genealogy society , and “Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies” linked at David Rumsey Map Collection. Sounds like you ought to check out Second Life, doesn"t it? Central ...

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was just received from Gordon Clarke at FamilySearch.org. Please address all inquiries to him at clarkegj@ldschurch.org. We are excited to announce the launch of the 2008 FamilySearch Software Awards. The purpose is to publicly and formally celebrate the software achievements of those developers and companies that are making important contributions to the Family History and Genealogy Industry. The awards banquet will be held in conjunction with the 2009 FamilySearch Developers Conference, March 12, 2009. In addition to the ...

DearREADERS, Finally, it"s time for Ol" Myrt to do as she says, and actually complete some worthwhile personal family history projects instead of merely blogging about them.

I"ve accepted the challenge to participate in the 2008 Genea-Blogger Group Games.

MYRT"S RIGOROUS PRE-GAMES TRAINING I"ve been in training for some of these events since 1995, when I first began writing the DearMYRTLE Column in AOL"s Genealogy Forum, and since 1985 when I began actively researching my family history, averaging about 60+ hours per month. Additional background on Myrt"s ...

DearREADERS, Ol’ Myrt’s Facebook® email box brought a response to my previous blog posting titled “Finding family in Argentina & Brazil” from another genea-blogger, Thomas MacEntee (of Destination: Austin Family and a brand new blog for bloggers titled Facebook® Bootcamp for Genea-Bloggers.) From Thomas MacEntee August 2 at 4:06pm DearMYRTLE, I read your post Finding family in Argentina & Brazil and have to say that while not perfect, the [Babel Fish]translation to Spanish was readable and should give Mayra ...

DearMYRTLE"s Family History Hour 5 Aug 2008

DearLISTENERS & READERS, DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 5 Aug 2008 genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or transferred to any .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes. You don’t need an iPod to listen.

GUESTS THIS WEEK

Susan Goss Johnston discusses American military records research. Elizabeth Powel ...

DearREADERS, Just this past week, I learned of the unexpected death of a good friend Jo Ann French. She was part of a strong community of genealogy researchers in the Bradenton, Florida area. She served as a volunteer at the Manatee Central Library’s genealogy department, and was a well-respected and much loved member of the Manasota Genealogical Society and a long-time member of the Manasota PAF Users Group. Her kind, soft-spoken ways helped many to understand how to make progress with family history research. Unfortunately, these past years have brought sad news ...

From: Claudia DearMYRTLE, Got a quick question I forgot to ask during the Cruise. When I look up items on the http://www.familysearch.org/ website in the library catalog, I know that I can usually order those items through my local Family History Center but if I were making the trip to Salt Lake, would the items be available there also? I am not sure where the film is stored or if they are in circulation and not available in the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City. -- Thank you for any help you can offer me. DearCLAUDIA, ...

DearREADERS, One of the largest genealogy endowments of late was announced today, and I heard about it because I am a regular subscriber of Tom Kemp’s GenealogyBank.com Blog where we read: “The Allen County Library (Ft Wayne, IN) has received a $10 million gift - to be given as $1 million payments each year over 10 years from the Edward D. and Ione Auer Foundation. See: http://blog.genealogybank.com/2008/08/allen-county-library-in-receives-10.html" Find the link in Tom’s blog entry to the local newspaper’s announcement. ...

From: mayraagturismo@yahoo.com.ar DearMYRTLE, I write from Argentina. My name is Mayra Alves Gomes. I´m looking for my ancestral family, the only thing I know is that my grandfather is Alves Gomes from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, but I wanna know more. I don"t know so much of English words. I understand in Spanish and in Portuguish. Can you write me in any of those languages? Please answer soon! DearMAYRA Buen día, Mayra. Lamento mi español no soy adecuado asistirle. Utilicé el " Babelfish" ...

From: GenealogyCanada@aol.com DearMYRTLE, I was back on your blog this morning and read Back in the Saddle Again about you being on a cruise. And I read that you took genealogy classes while there.

I am writing a short article on genealogy courses for a magazine, and I would like to ask you a couple of questions on genealogical courses.

Why have you taken genealogy courses? How long have you taken the courses?What makes it so interesting to take a course while on a cruise? Would you suggest that other people take ...

DearREADERS, Ol" Myrt sends out a special hug and THANKS to Janeil Lambourne for sending me the link to this hilarious "Lost Luggage" video posted at YouTube. It is G-rated (safe for all audiences). I certainly can commiserate with the comedian in this sketch. He has a gift for getting his point across without crying, something Ol" Myrt hasn"t yet mastered. Happy family tree climbing! Myrt :) DearMYRTLE, Your friend in genealogy. Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com http://blog.dearmyrtle.com http://blog.TeachGenealogy.com http://podcasts.dearmyrtle.com DearMYRTLE"s Facebook® ...