For $subst('Recip.EmailAddr') May 11, 2006 I feel your pain. I think I found my Haddad family—with a misspelled last name—in the 1910 census, living in Mississippi. In all my census searching I haven't seen any other Haddads with that combination of kids' names. The problem? Some facts are slightly off: A great-uncle who's 23 in the 1930 census is 6 in 1910; my great-aunt, born in 1910 according to the SSDI, is 2 in the 1910 census. My grandfather, who spent much of his childhood in an orphanage, was born in 1901 or 1902 in Louisiana or Texas, according to various sources. But the 1910 census gives his birthplace as New York—that's a new one. What now? Follow the advice we're always giving you, and keep looking in other records. Speaking of advice, read on for news about genealogy wikis, Wisconsin marriages and more. —Diane Haddad, Newsletter Editor ftmnews-editor@fwpubs.com P.S. Make sure you don't miss a single issue of your E-mail Update! Add our address (familytree-newsletter@fwpubs.com) to your email-address book—your software will recognize the Update as an e-mail you want to read.   A Wiki Situation Did Grandma Marry in the Dairy State? Ladies and Gents, Start Your Computers Scrapbook Setback Sneak Peeks at FamilyTreeMagazine.com Now What? Online: Family Tree at Your Fingertips Identifying Family Photographs: Clued In Speakers' Schedule Advertiser Special Offers A Wiki Situation We Relate is the latest entry in genealogy's well-established tradition of user-contributed online information depots. Unlike the grassroots site RootsWeb (http://rootsweb.com) or pedigree databases such as GenCircles (http://www.gencircles.com), though, We Relate (http://www.werelate.org) is a genealogy-focused search engine and wiki. What's a wiki, you ask? It's a Web site that allows anyone to create and edit its pages—no special HTML knowledge necessary. The free Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org), an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink encyclopedia, is one of the best-known wikis out there. Dallan and Solveig Quass, founders of the Utah-based nonprofit Foundation for On-Line Genealogy (http://www.folg.org), launched We Relate in March to help genealogists connect. You can author We Relate pages about research sources, places, surnames and how-tos, as well as your own family history. The Quasses also are considering adding a pedigree database. We Relate's search engine scours users' pages as well as 6 million genealogy-focused pages from the rest of the Web. You'll find a basic search on the home page; click Avanced Search to enter names, places and keywords. My place search on meridian mississippi, for example, brought up 827 matches including USGenWeb and RootsWeb pages, and We Relate wiki pages about sources (many are book and microfilm listings extracted from the Family History Library online catalog). Contributing to We Relate is free. Get started by clicking the My Relate tab to register (you'll need to provide your name and e-mail address), then use the Toolbox section to create a page. To edit any page, just click the Edit button. You also can make a watch list of We Relate pages so you'll be notified when they change. Did Grandma Marry in the Dairy State? The Wisconsin Historical Society has followed through on its vow to add a marriage database to its online pre-1907 vital-records indexes. Visit http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords to search more than 1 million marriages between 1836 and Sept. 30, 1907, by last name plus optional first name, county and date. You also can search on just a county and year. Most marriages are indexed by both bride and groom. Besides marriages, the index also lists birth and death records dated between 1852 and 1907. Click Details for more information on a match, then Buy to order a copy of the record for $15. Ladies and Gents, Start Your Computers Genealogy is helping to drive a rapid increase in Internet use. According to a report from media watch firm Jupiter Research, the United States' fastest-growing online population is the 65-plus crowd, who logged on to the tune of 11.5 million in 2005. And the only online pursuit in which those seniors dominate other age groups is researching family history. That's according to another firm, Pew Research, which found that 36 percent of seniors versus 23 percent of other adults say they look for family trees online. (Not that it's a competition or anything . . .) If you are—or you know of—a technophobic senior who wants to use a computer for genealogy research, look for free or low-cost classes at a local public library, senior center or community college. Learn more about finding genealogy classes in the September 2004 Trace Your Family History, a special issue of Family Tree Magazine available at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/mags/display.asp?id=1609. Scrapbook Setback People who've created electronic Family History Scrapbooks on the Ellis Island Web site (http://ellisisland.org) might have trouble accessing or editing them due to computer problems at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SOL-EIF). The online scrapbooks were touted as a benefit of a $45, one-year Sustaining Membership in the foundation. Donors could add stories, photos and audio, and have their scrapbooks printed on paper or CD. SOL-EIF spokesperson Peg Zitco says the foundation is working on the situation and staff will do whatever they can to help anyone having problems with a scrapbook. If that's you, call SOL-EIF at (212) 561-4588. The scrapbook is no longer listed among membership benefits and you can't create new ones, though site visitors still can search existing albums. Be first to check out what's new on our Web site: June Web Links No more typing in long URLs from Family Tree Magazine articles—just go to our Web site and click to the sites our genealogy experts recommend. Here's where to find links from the June 2006 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/mags/display.asp?id=1768 Motherly Instincts Celebrate this Mother's Day by finding the mystery women in your family tree. We'll show you how to research and write the stories of your female ancestors. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/apr01/female.html Blogging Your Memories Learn how to chronicle your family history research adventures in an online journal http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/feb05/blogs.asp Family Tree at Your Fingertips Q. I just purchased a palmOne LifeDrive handheld computer. I've never used one before. I have Family Tree Maker on my computer, and I can use it to create a GEDCOM file, but do I need software on my handheld to receive that data? A. For the answer, see http://www.familytreemagazine.com/nowwhatonline/current.html. Read more Q&A with the experts at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/nowwhatonline/previous.html. Clued In Eighteen-year-old Peter Gordon of Middlesbrough, England, submitted this photo, which he found in a box of his great-aunt's things. The young genealogist has a fair amount of information on family members, but needs a date for the picture to identify the sitter. Who is this lady? Find out at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ photos/current.htm. In this Web-exclusive column, expert photo historian Maureen A. Taylor helps readers analyze old family pictures. If you have a family photo mystery for Taylor to solve, check out our submission guidelines at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ photos/photohelp.htm. Cincinnati, Ohio Diane Haddad May 20 Hamilton County Genealogical Society Topic: A Delicious Discussion on Family Recipes For more information, see http://members.aol.com/ogshc. Oaklyn, NJ Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak May 23 Oaklyn Memorial Library Topic: Remembering Our Ancestors For more information, see home.comcast.net/~oaklynmlibrary. Lockport, NY Lisa A. Alzo May 24 Niagara County Genealogical Society Topic: Finding Slovak Ancestors For more information, see www.niagaracounty.org/genealogical_society_home.htm. Loro Ciuffenna, Italy Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and Elaine Trigiani Sept. 23-30 (Early Registration Deadline: May 31) Personal/Family Memoir Writing Retreat & Tuscan Culinary Adventure For details, see www.sharoncarmack.com or e-mail Sharon@sharoncarmack.com. Adare, Ireland Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and James W. 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