Firm Sells Ancestral Data On Cd-Rom
A small and fairly new company is starting to make big waves in the area of genealogical resources.
Daniel Hay, nationally known author and presenter, is also president of Advanced Resources Inc. This up-and-coming company offers a wide assortment of genealogical related products on CD-ROM, making a great deal of information easy to store and access.
GenDisk Magazine, published bimonthly, is an electronic genealogy magazine. This unique publication, which comes to you as a little colored computer disk, is in its second year of publication and boasts Rhonda McClure as the editor.
GenDisk provides information on a wide variety of genealogical subjects, including how-tos, book reviews, editorials and a column asking and answering the question, “When have you searched enough?” A oneyear subscription to GenDisk Magazine is $19.95.
Advanced Resources also offers computer disks carrying specific information.
The County Reference Guide comes in both DOS and Windows format and within one year has had three upgrades. This is a listing of every county that ever was or is in the United States and includes the dates of formation, county seats and parent counties.
The main appeal of this disk is that it provides additional information on the types of records claimed to be at the courthouse and all other pertinent county data.
Hay plans to include data for Great Britain and Canada soon, and then tackle Germany. The County Reference Guide costs $15.95.
The Yellow Disk is a very innovative resource. It is a genealogical vendor database that allows the software viewer to search by company name, city, telephone or type of product. The listings are free to any vendor supplying the correct address and selected key words. A small fee is charged to have an extended listing.
Updates are issued each February. The Yellow Disk costs $10.95.
Genealogical societies are listed on The Blue Disk. The viewer can search the nearly 2,200 listings by name or state. The disk gives the address so that you can write to the society of interest.
Hay plans annual updates of this disk and welcomes the name of and information about any genealogical society that he may have missed. The Blue Disk costs $12.95.
Marriage Laws in the United States, 1887-1906, is a booklet written by Desmond Walls Allen, who authorized Advanced Resources to distribute it on disk. This is an excellent compilation of all the marriage requirements over the years in America.
This disk provides insights into the legal structure and the social guides current through 1906.
The Marriage Laws disk costs $14.95.
A new offering from Advanced Resources is The American Gazetteer. This wonderful CD claims to list every place name in the United States and is the first time such a product has been available on CD for less than $795 to genealogists. Information includes longitude and latitude.
This disk includes as a bonus the Surname Reference Guide with over 500,000 entries indexed by Soundex code. The American Gazetteer costs $49.95.
Some of the other databases on disk offered by Advanced Resources include Religions in America, Pre-1900, Death Certificates and Social Security Applications.
Write and request a flier detailing all their databases on disk.
Another new CD offered by Advanced Resources is Railroads of North America: By 1920. This disk is filled with the names of 1,400 railroads and rail systems, total mileage of each system, and all routes and connecting routes. This would be perfect for the researcher knowing his great-grandfather worked on “the railroad.” Without knowing which one, you don’t know where to write for the records. Railroads of North America costs $14.95.
In addition to genealogical resources on disk, Advanced Resources offers some printed resources.
The Copyright Reference Guide for Genealogists is a 30-page booklet explaining what you can and cannot legally do with your genealogical copying. This would be especially valuable to those self-publishers of genealogical material.
Hay is the author of this book and writes a regular column on “Copyright Clarity” for HeritageQuest magazine. The Copyright Reference Guide costs $6.70, postpaid.
Hay’s most recent resource booklet is Genealogic Citations. Described as “a handbook for the hobbyist or the professional genealogist,” this 30-page booklet explains why and exactly how you should cite your sources in properly documenting your genealogical research. Genealogic Citations costs $5.70, postpaid.
If you order two or more products, and mention reading about Advanced Resources in this column, Hay will extend a 10 percent discount to you. Send your check to: 344 South 500 West, Bountiful, UT 84010. (Internet: DJHAY@GENSOURCE.com)
Be sure to ask for the flier that fully describes all the many products offered by Advanced Resources.
EWGS meeting
The April 1 meeting of the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society will begin at 1 p.m. in the auditorium of the Spokane Public Library downtown.
Janice Taylor will present a program on “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain,” or railroad records and how to access them. The building and maintaining of the railroads across 19th-century America involved many of our ancestors. Any interested genealogist is invited to come learn all the whys, wheres and hows of using railroad records.
Canadian ancestry topics
The April 7-8 conference of the Alberta Genealogical Society will be held in Edmonton. Scheduled presentations include topics of Canadian history and records.
Call (403) 424-4429 for more information.
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