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Stories in our August 2002 issue include:
101 Best Web Sites for 2002 Gone But Not Forgotten Families in Focus Westward Ho! It's in Your Genes Killer Queries Untangling Foreign Tongues COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Out on a Limb Making Connections Branching Out Living History Everything's Relative Preserving Memories Attic Treasures Now What? The Toolkit Time Capsule The August 2002 Family Tree Magazine is sold out. Check your local library or genealogical society for this issue.
FEATURES
Don't move a mouse without this issue's cover story! Get your genealogy research clicking with our annual guide to the 101 top sites for tracing your roots. By Nancy Hendrickson
Links to the 101 Best Web Sites
What can you learn about your dearly departed ancestors from death certificates, funeral home records and obituaries? Here's how to get started following the grim reaper's paper trail and finding answers for your family tree. By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Readers, this one's on you! Zoom in on these 11 success stories of how Family Tree Magazine readers solved their photo puzzles—and make identifying your own old family pictures a snap. By Maureen A. Taylor
Highlights from our feature story
There's gold in them thar records—if you know where to look. If you've got West Coast ancestors, start your own roots rush with our guide to research in California, Oregon and Washington. By Nancy Hendrickson
Highlights from our feature story
Can you find your family tree looking through a microscope rather than microfilm? Discover how DNA technology is putting the gene in genealogy. By Susan Wenner
Highlights from our feature story
Let a professional librarian show you how to craft queries that will get genealogical answers from libraries and archives. By Irene Martin
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Don't let your family history get lost in translation! Follow these tips for breaking through the language barrier and uncovering the clues hidden in sources not written in English. By Nick D'Alto
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Using the Web to capture a moment in time. By David A. Fryxell
Our readers write.
What's new in discovering, preserving and celebrating your family's history, including: • Grave risks to ancestral cemeteries o New resources for Canadian and British research • Taking the wraps off the 1930 census • Ohio and Arkansas history online. By Susan Wenner
Summer's best bets for celebrating your heritage and reliving the past, including: Pennsylvania Dutch doings ... A Basque Fourth in Nevada ... Bagpipes in the Blue Mountains ... Maine celebrates America's folk legacy. By Crystal Conde
Our readers share tales from the lighter side of family history.
Heritage-album tips for pasting up the 1900s and 1910s. Plus: new products, adhesive answers and a "sunblock" for old paper.
Hair today, gone tomorrow? Not if your ancestors kept locks of hair in their 19th-century "friendship albums." By Maureen A. Taylor
Surname spellings and decoding diaries—you've got questions, we've got answers.
Let the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection site whisk you away to yesterday—with an assist from our user's guide. Plus: • Ancestry's new UK-Ireland collection reviewed • Digging into the Making of America digital library • Software reviews of Legacy 4.0, GeneWeaver and BioMemoirs • New genealogy guidebooks. Edited by Allison Stacy
A US Supreme Court justice and her brother recall three generations of their family on a cattle ranch. By Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day
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