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• Editor’s Desk with Allison Stacy
• News from the Blogosphere: Genealogical Good News
• Top Tips: 40 Best Genealogy Blogs
• 101 Best Web Sites: Genealogy Gems
• Family Tree University Crash Course
• Safe Keeping: Quilts

The Editor’s Desk with Allison Stacy

News from the Blogosphere with Genealogy Insider Diane Haddad

Diane shares some good genealogical news from the Genealogy Insider Blog:

• “Who Do You Think You Are?” Gets Second Season
• Search 1880 DDD Schedules for 14 States on Ancestry.com
• Search Footnote’s Census Records Free Through April 2010

Top Tips: 40 Best Genealogy Blogs

In this month’s Top Tips segment, Diane and Lisa discuss genealogy blogs and the article Fab Forty from the May 2010 issue of the magazine.

 

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Diane recommends using Google Reader to follow all your favorite blogs. Sign up for free at www.google.com/reader

 

Watch Lisa’s four-part video series How to Blog Your Family History on the Genealogy Gems YouTube channel.

 

 

101 Best Web Sites: Genealogy Gems

Allison talks to Lisa about her website, Genealogy Gems, which is in the 10 Top Sites for Cutting-Edge Tools and Tips section of the 2009 101 Best Web Sites list, which appeared in the September 2009 issue.

 

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Family Tree University Crash Course

Allison provides tips for beginners and tells us about the new “Discover Your Family Tree: Genealogy for the Absolute Beginner” class at Family Tree University.

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Safe Keeping with Grace Dobush

 

 

Grace gives advice on preserving your heirloom quilts—new and old.

Read all our past articles about preserving quilts

Have fun climbing your family tree!

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Listen to Lisa Louise Cooke’s Genealogy Gems and Genealogy: Family History Made Easy podcasts in iTunes and visit her website for great research ideas, podcast episodes and videos.