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    Ultimate British Genealogy Collection

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    Each month Family Tree University offers a new collection at a reduced price of $69.99. This months collection is Ultimate British Genealogy Collection.

    In this collection you have every resource to research your British Genealogy, the kit includes :

    English Genealogy 101 independent study course

    English Genealogy 101 independent study course
    Digital Download

    From the 13 Original Colonies to London to Leicester, whether your ancestors were Lobsterbacks in the Revolutionary War or serfs under King Henry VIII, you can break into your British genealogy with this independent study course on Anglo ancestry–designed to help you identify your English immigrant ancestors and pinpoint where exactly in Great Britain they came from.
    RETAIL: $99.99

    Hedgerow Genealogy: A Three-Step Strategy for Finding English Origins (Video Class)

    Hedgerow Genealogy: A Three-Step Strategy for Finding English Origins (Video Class)
    Digital Download

    This class covers the basics of tracking early American families back to England, with an emphasis on records from the early 1900s back to the late 1700s.
    RETAIL: $29.99

    Secrets for Seeking Scottish Ancestors Video Course

    Secrets for Seeking Scottish Ancestors Video Course
    Digital Download

    Tracing your Scottish roots is easy when you know how to navigate the Scottish government website ScotlandsPeople.gov. This video course will help you understand the site’s various resources, and which tools to use to focus your research.
    RETAIL: $29.99

    Your English Ancestry

    Your English Ancestry
    Paperback

    Your English Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans was the first book to provide a logical research routine for family historians based in North America. Since the first edition of Your English Ancestry was published in 1993, genealogy has become even more popular, the Internet has become an important tool for many researchers, and there have been significant changes in local government and in the storage of major records in England. These changes are reflected in this new edition of Your English Ancestry. It contains additional detail on many records, a new chapter introducing early English research (before 1730), and a greatly expanded bibliography. For every type of record — civil registration, census, church records, probate, occupation, and local administration — there are clear explanations of availability and access. Each chapter concludes with a step-by-step summary.
    RETAIL: $19.95

     

     

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    Online Privacy: Tips to Protect Yourself and Your Genealogy

    As a Genealogy blogger sharing photos and information about our family in such a large audience, I often wonder what is too much information. All of the information I find is easily found on Ancestry.com or any other Genealogy site.  Family Tree sent me this upcoming webinar that addresses those concerns I have had in the past and looks like it has some wonderful information.

     

    Special offer with purchase: Buy This Internet Privacy Course & Receive FREE Registration To The Follow-Up Live Webinar, Online Privacy: Tips to Protect Yourself and Your Genealogy Data. To enjoy this offer, place both items in your shopping cart and check out by August 13, 2013. You’ll see the savings instantly – no coupon required!

    YOU’LL LOVE THIS IF:

    • You’re concerned about maintaining your privacy on genealogy and social media websites
    • You want to know who is viewing your information online
    • You want to secure your accounts and online activity

    We’ve all heard the horror stories: bank accounts hacked, email broken into, or Facebook users who posted pictures of themselves out of town, only to return home to find they’d been robbed. Protecting privacy online is becoming increasingly difficult as we become more and more connected through the Internet. The privacy precautions you take now can impact your safety later. There are many common sense steps you can take to protect your online identity and reduce the chance you’ll be the next target for a scammer, hacker or identity thief. Learn how to build up your defenses in this Independent Study Course.

     WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

    • How much information on you is line, from public records to social media
    • Who’s watching you online
    • How to set up secure online accounts, such as email and banking
    • Online searching privacy
    • Online family tree website privacy tips
    • Guidelines for posting info on living relatives
    • Best tools to manage your internet privacy
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    Mastering Ancestry.com

    This month Family Tree Store mega kit is Mastering Ancestry.com. Each month Family Tree has wonderful kits that are perfect additions to your Genealogy Collection. This months collection includes:

     

    Ancestry.com Web Guide Digital Download

    Start with this comprehensive 8-page guide before you dive into the detail! The Ancestry.com Web Guide gives you:

    • an in-depth description of how to use Ancestry.com and its collections
    • a quick-start guide and vital statistics
    • step-by-step search secrets
    • a cheat sheet of quick links, resources, hacks and shortcuts

    Retail: $4.00

     

    Official Guide to Ancestry.com (book)

    Written by noted genealogist and lecturer George G. Morgan, this official guide takes you on a tour of the most popular genealogy website. Whether you’re exploring Ancestry.com for the first time or have used it for years, you need this guide by your side! This second edition teaches you to:

    • master the Ancestry.com search
    • create keepsake books with MyCanvas
    • use the Ancestry DNA genetic genealogy service
    • create and develop your own Ancestry Member Tree
    • explore obscure databases you didn’t know existed

    You’ve always known Ancestry.com was a valuable resource. Now you can learn to use it like never before.

    Retail: $24.99

    Your Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com on-demand webinar

    Once you’ve learned a bit about Ancestry.com, now you need to now how it really works. With 5 billion historical records, Ancestry.com can unlock valuable information about your family—if you know how to make the most of its search and other tools. In this hour-long webinar, Family Tree Magazine contributing editor and seasoned Ancestry.com user David A. Fryxell shows you insider tricks and techniques for teasing out ancestor information from the site’s tens of thousands of databases.

    What You’ll Learn:

    • How to efficiently navigate Ancestry.com
    • Tricks for finding the databases you need
    • Strategies for locating hard-to-find ancestors

    Retail: $39.99

     

    Tutorial: Searching Immigration Records on Ancestry.com digital download

    Do you need specific help finding passenger lists of your ancestors’ voyage to America? This quick guide shows you how to locate your kin in Ancestry.com’s vast collection of immigration records.

    Retail: $4.00

     

    Family Tree Maker 2012

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    Trace your Irish Roots.

    March is known for green clover’s, the Luck of the Irish, and celebrating Saint Patrick’s lifelong contributions to Ireland. It was no wonder that Family Tree Magazine would have a special on their Kit of the Month- Irish Ancestry. While we enjoy all the fun festive parties, old traditions, wearing green, and green beer. So many are unaware of  how Saint Patrick ties into Irish History and St. Patty’s Day. He was born in Wales, England, was kidnapped and brought to Ireland to be a slave. He spent 6 years in Ireland as a slave before he escaped and returned to Wales. Later in Life he returned to Ireland as an ordained bishop for the Roman Catholic Chruch. There are many legends of Patrick, such as chasing all the snakes out of Ireland. However he is best known for his dedicated work to help the poor and the date of his death- March 17.

    As a young girl my Uncle had joined the Little Brothers of Good Shepard. The Founder Brother Mathias Barrett had traveled from Ireland as a young man, joined the Catholic Church, helped so many and was born on March 17, 1900. While my Uncle was study When I received my First Holy Communion, he gave up his seat so that I wouldn’t have to kneel the entire ceremony. Later that day, he gave my family a photograph of him before he had left Ireland. The stories were so fascinating to me. We had family ancestors who had migrated from Ireland in the late 19th Century and the way he shared memories of his life made me feel closer to my ancestors.

    Family Tree Magazine has made discovering those Irish Ancestors easier with this Kit of the Month the Irish Ancestry Value Pack. These kits are packed with tons of resources to help you through your Journey discovering your ancestors. I purchased mine and can’t wait to dig into all the wonderful resources included in this kit.

     

     

    Irish Ancestry Value Pack  includes:

    The pack includes a course, ebook and two downloads packed with practical advice for overcoming the challenges of tracing your Irish ancestors.

    Bonus: This Value Pack includes a 25% off coupon for our online Irish Research 201 course when you’re ready to take the next steps and learn how to search overseas records.

    Irish Research 101: Family Tree University Independent Study Course (Download)
    This independent study course will help you successfully use US records to determine who your Irish immigrant ancestors were and learn from where in Ireland they came.
    RETAIL: $99.99

    Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Irish Ancestors (eBook Download) From maps and translations to pedigree charts, this guide provides the information you need, featuring basic instruction for gathering, verifying, recording and organizing your findings.
    RETAIL: $24.99

    Research Strategies: 6 Essential Irish Genealogy Sources (Download) This 6-page guide from Family Tree Magazine covers often-overlooked resources that are valuable sources for genealogists tracing Irish roots.
    RETAIL: $4.00

    Step-by-Step Guide: Irish Genealogy Guide (Download) May the road to your roots rise up to meet you–just follow these seven steps for tracing Irish ancestors.
    RETAIL: $4.00

     

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    1940 Census Volunteer Opportunity

    The buzz about the 1940 Census has been released and you can be part of the process.  Genealogy organizations Archives.com, FamilySearch, and Findmypast.co.uk, will work together on the 1940 US Census Community Project. This project will work to involve online volunteers to publish name index to the 1940 US Census soon after the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) releases the records to the public April 2, 2012. All three partners will provide access to the free index on their websites. You can sign up to be an indexer at http://www.the1940census.com.

    Last month, NARA selected Archives.com, to host the digitized census records. Ancestry.com also has announced it’ll offer a 1940 census index and the record images free, at least through 2013.

    FamilySearch’s RootsTech conference, taking place Feb. 2-4 in Salt Lake City, is open for registration. The early bird rate of $149 is valid through Jan. 13, 2012.

    The National Genealogical Society 2012 Conference, taking place May 8-12 in Cincinnati, also is open for registration. Early bird prices ($175 for NGS members and $210 for nonmembers, plus extra if you want a printed syllabus) are good through March 20, 2012.

    You can read more on  Dear Myrtle’s blog that genealogy expert and Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian author Elizabeth Shown Mills now has a website where she explains her research methodologies. You can visit Mills’ Historic Pathways site here.

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    FREE Webinar Family Tree University

    Researching your family history can be a great adventure. In this free Expert Webinars, Desmond Walls Allen, author of Family History Detective: A Step-by-Step Guide to Investigating Your Family Tree, will discuss research principles guaranteed to give you success.



    Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
    Starting Time: 1 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Pacific
    Presenter: Desmond Walls Allen, author of Family History Detective: A Step-by-Step Guide to Investigating Your Family Tree


    Duration: 60 minutes
    Price: FREE!

    REGISTRATION FOR THE LIVE SESSION INCLUDES:
    Participation in the Live presentation and Q&A session
    Access to the webinar recording to view again as many times as you like
    A PDF of the presentation slides for future reference

    WHO SHOULD ATTEND
    Anyone who has an interest in family history
    Genealogists looking for general guidance on conducting family history research


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    Family Tree University Kits

    Kit of the Month

    I have been a student and huge fan of Family Tree University for almost 2 years. This is where I have gotten the 101 Brick Walls, Google For Genealogists, Photo Rescue, and Cemetery research. There are so many kits, Expert Webinars, and books to explore in Family Tree University. I will look there before anywhere else first when I am looking for Genealogy Resources. They still have plenty of the Google for Genealogist packs available.

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    Using Google Books

    This was part of the Google for Genealogists package that Family Tree University is offering this month. The instructors there are really helpful in finding ways to solve brick walls or other area’s to search. This video is by Allison Stacey an Instructor at Family Tree University. Right now they are having a special on the Google for Genealogists package.

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    Google for Genealogists

    Last summer I read that Google had wonderful ways of helping Genealogists discover information. Lisa Louise Cooke wrote a book called “The Genealogists Google Toolbox” that I first heard about on Family Tree University.  Family Tree University is now offering a limited amount of her book, a webinar, and other goodies for Genealogists to expand their research on Google successfully. Today was the first day of this special and already nearly half of the 200 available are gone. You can even watch the free Webinar with Lisa Louise Cooke http://www.familytreeuniversity.com/free-webinar-ask-google-guru

  • Genealogist’s Google Toolbox book signed by Lisa

  • Google Earth for Genealogy DVDs (2 volumes)

  • Search Engine Tips & Tricks (1 hour on-demand webinar)

  • Google Tools for Genealogists independent study course
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    101 Brick Wall Busters Part 2

    Grandma Ola, Aunt Lovella, and AJ at Aunt Lovella’s home in Corona, NM

    This was a common sight when visiting my Aunt Lovella. Many a day we sat around this table sharing photos, stories, documents. I was always amazed by all the documents she had. She had dedicated all her life in being the Family Historian, listening to stories, gathering documents and keeping photographs. 

    Nancy Ola and Gip Akin with their two eldest children Joy and Roy Akin
    Returning to the Brick Wall Busters, the next three steps will really help you. 
    4. Identify your Sources, make a list of sources that you could find the information you need. Not only is family a great source for records, especially if family was born prior to record keeping, but Churches are wonderful places to search. Long before states started collecting data and information, Churches were the record keepers of births and deaths. Local Newspapers, censuses, naturalization papers, are great places to look. The Family History Library Catalog is a wonderful tool.
    5. When you cant find the information needed online, and there are lots of records still being digitized. Expand your search, try different spellings of your ancestors names. On one census my Great Grandma was listed as Carla, instead of Ula. The location, parents, siblings all matched except her name. On the same census report her Mom was listed as Old N. Akin instead of Nancy Ola. Names got reversed, comparing with other information on these reports will help confirm the lineage. 
    6. Research those who lived and were part of your family. Many multiple families lived together during those times and may have served as witnesses to their lives. Land deeds, tax records, the paper trails in communities can also help verify family members. 
    Maggie Coffee Randell sister to Nancy Ola Akin