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Genealogy Hints & Tips

Firefox 1.5 and Scrapbook

If you are tired of your current web browser, or you tend to have a lot of websites open at once, you might want to try out the new Firefox 1.5 browser (for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux). Version 1.5 was officialy released yesterday.

Scrapbooking is popular way to preserve family history

Jean McClelland has written an article in the Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, West Virginia), Scrapbooking is popular way to preserve family history, about combining two very popular hobbies: genealogy and scrapbooking.

Old Cemeteries – Finding and Maintaining them

The Repository, Canton Ohio, has an article by Eddie Pritchard about efforts being made to track down and clean up Stark County’s cemeteries, as well as establishing contacts for each one. If you are from that area and want to help, you may want to read the article and get in touch with some of those mentioned.

Your Ancestor’s Handwriting

If you believe that something can be learned by handwriting analysis, then you might want to read this article, What the graphoanalyst saw, Handwriting offers clues to personality, by Amanda Cuda, in the Connecticut Post Online. It looks at a lady, Irene Lambert, that analyzes handwriting, and one thing I found interesting was that they apply it to genealogy, to help develop a personality of your ancestors.

Getting Off The Rock

Marie L. Monyak wrote an interesting little article, Getting Off The Rock, for Stories in the News (Ketchikan, Alaska), about how a quick forray into genealogy took her on a thirteen hour trip, without her ever having left the house.