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• News from the Blogosphere
• Top Tips: Verifying Information From Online Family Trees
  
• 101 Best Websites: MyHeritage
  
• Family Tree University Crash Course: Finding Living Relatives
  
• Social Media Minute with Kerry Scott
• Publisher's Desk with Allison Dolan

News from the Blogosphere with Genealogy Insider Diane Haddad

Top Tips: Verifying Information From Online Family Trees

You can find a lot of information in online family trees, but it's critical to verify the data you uncover. Nancy Hendrickson joins us to discuss some strategies from her article, "One in a Million," which appears in the March/April issue of Family Tree Magazine, and her upcoming book Discover Your Family History Online.

101 Best Websites: MyHeritage.com

Lisa talks with Daniel Horowitz, Chief Genealogist at MyHeritage.com.

Family Tree University Crash Course: Finding Living Relatives

Family Tree University instructor Thomas MacEntee gives tips on how to use online family trees to locate living relatives from  his on-demand webinar, They're Alive! Finding Living Relatives. Don't miss Thomas' Toolkit article, "Tools to Locate Living Relatives," which features five great tools you're going to want to use. You can find it in the March/April 2012 issue of Family Tree Magazine.

 

Social Media Minute

 

 

Kerry Scott returns to talk about how you can use Facebook to learn more about your ancestors' hometowns. Check out the Facebook page for Glenbeulah, Wis. to see a sample of what you might find.

The Publisher's Desk with Allison Dolan

Allison takes you behind the scenes at Family Tree Magazine and tells us more about the Woman's History Month Value Pack and the Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt.

 

Have fun climbing your family tree!

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