Take A Look At Family Chronicle

Family Chronicle: The Magazine for Families Researching Their Roots is a new bimonthly genealogy magazine that’s sure to become a primary research aid. I subscribed immediately!

This magazine is glossy, colorful, with many photographs and graphics. It has regular features I’ve not seen in other similar publications, such as You Wanted to Know and Genealogy Sites Worth Surfing.

I recently read through Family Chronicle’s first three issues and enjoyed every article.

Here’s a partial list of articles:

“Using Your National Archives (Canadian and American)”

“Auswanderers and Amerika”

“Spending Time in the Early 1900s”

“Your Ancestor as a Private Person”

“A Mountain of Information” (about the Family History Library in Salt Lake City)

“The Surname Origin List”

“Reading Old Script” (early American script)

“Digging Up Irish Roots”

“Tuning Into Genealogy (the Ancestors series)”

“Dating Old Photographs”

“East European Primer” (a sketch of each country)

“Lions, Tinctures and Bearings, Oh My!” (heraldry)

“Family Reunions” (planning one)

“The Mayflower” (are you a descendant?)

“Preservation Techniques”

“Publishing Your History” (is it for you?)

“Genealogy Online” (modem into your research)

Because this is a new magazine, published in Eastern Canada, even the ads were different, new and interesting. Another good feature is the genealogy software reviews, written so we can really understand the program.

I suggest you pick up a copy at Ancestors Plus in the Shadle Center and see for yourself.

Cover price is $3.95 and a subscription is $21 for one year; $35 for two years. To subscribe, call toll free (888) 326-2476, or mail your check to Family Chronicle, P.O. Box 1201, Lewiston, N.Y. 14092-9934.

Family Chronicle offers this guarantee: If the magazine fails to meet your needs, or live up to the promises made, you are entitled to a refund on all unmailed copies for any reason or no reason, and any refund will be made promptly and cheerfully.

What other genealogy magazine promises that?

I have a second really good deal for you today.

Would you like to know how to find hidden pieces of information on your ancestors? Ron Bremer, nationally known author and lecturer, presents a way.

All library-going genealogists realize family folders in a library’s vertical file can hold treasures of information. But this material is rarely cataloged and seldom published - so how to find it?

As Bremer traveled across America giving presentations, he would visit libraries in whatever town he was lecturing and listed the family names in each library’s vertical files.

All names have been computerized and indexed. He offers to check for your surname for $25 per surname.

I had him check for Oswald/Oswalt, and I received a list of 27 libraries (with addresses) having vertical file family holders of information on that name! Now I have 27 letters to write!

, DataTimes MEMO: Donna Potter Phillips welcomes letters from readers. Write to her at The Spokesman-Review, Features Department, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210. For a response, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

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