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Buy all five titles and save! Recommended for beginners to advanced. Visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/videos.asp to preview sample video training clips. For details and ordering please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Videos.asp =========================================== LEGACY TIPS 1) How to print Legacy News articles from within Legacy Home - Question from Kimberly: "How do you print your articles from Legacy home view?" Viewing these Legacy News articles from within Legacy Home (version 6 feature), is very convenient - just click on the article's link and you're there. Printing the articles from within Legacy Home is almost as convenient. While there is no print button (yet) in Legacy Home, when you're viewing the actual article, simply . . . Read the complete article at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/05/how_to_print_le.html 2) Brick wall solutions - When researching a brick-wall ancestor, any new information provides renewed hope. One of the proven brick-wall recommendations is to create a timeline of the ancestor. Timelines provide a unique perspective of the ancestor's life and may help you pick up on something that you've missed before. I've been stuck on John McCALL's origins for quite some time now. Yesterday I decided to review his timeline again. . . . Read the complete article at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/05/brick_wall_solu.html =========================================== LEGACY AT NGS IN CHICAGO Come visit our booth at the NGS conference in Chicago. Held June 7-10, we will also be teaching two classes on using Legacy: Wednesday, 11:00-12:15 - Organize, Plan, and Publish Using Legacy (beginners) Friday, 11:00-12:15 - Getting More from Legacy Family Tree More information available at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/2006Chicago.cfm =========================================== LEGACY CROSSWORD Test your Legacy knowledge with this crossword . . . http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/05/legacy_crosswor.html =========================================== NEWS AND VIEWS 1) Wisconsin Marriage Index Now Online - The Wisconsin Historical Society recently released its Pre-1907 Wisconsin Marriage Index. The index includes over 1 million names entered on Wisconsin marriage records dated between 1852 and September 30, 1907. . . . Read the complete article at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/05/wisconsin_marri.html 2) List of premature obituaries - Obituaries are great resources for our research, right? Hopefully your obituary is not published before your time has come. Wikipedia has a list of obituaries that were published a little too soon. . . . Read the complete article at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/05/list_of_prematu.html 3) Last American survivor of the Titanic passes - Lillian Asplund was the last American survivor of the Titanic sinking. She died last Saturday at the age of 99. There are two more survivors, both British, who were too young to remember the experience. . . . Read the complete article at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/05/last_american_s.html 4) The Ancestry Card Catalog Feature is Here - The Ancestry Card Catalog is a way to search all of Ancestry's 25,000+ database titles. Now it is even easier to find the database you are looking for. Search by title and/or keyword to narrow a search or focus on a particular record type. Additionally, searches can be limited to a particular time period or geographic region you're researching. There is even an option to search by the date that the database was last updated to see what new additions exist. . . . Read the complete article at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/05/the_ancestry_ca.html 5) 1851 Canada census now online - Great news for Canadian researchers! Library and Archives Canada has just published the 1851 census which includes Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. . . . Read the complete article at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/05/1851_canada_cen.html =========================================== TIPS FROM THE EXPERTS 1) Top 10 Search Tips for Census Success - We all have ancestors we would swear were somehow skipped or overlooked by the census taker. It's more than likely that some of them were. More often, however, it's an indexing error that has us running in circles. When online census indexes leave you pulling out your hair in frustration, try these census search tips for locating your 'misplaced' ancestor. . . . Read the complete article at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/05/top_10_search_t.html 2) Cardinal rule when working with census records - One of the cardinal rules that most new genealogists are given when working with census records is, "Make note of surrounding families on the census population schedules." While you may have been told to note a different number of families on either side of your family, such as two, four, six, or some other number, I heartily agree with this strategy. . . . 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