Archive for December, 2011

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Are you trying to save and share your family history by putting family stories down
on paper?

Here’s a great way to capture holiday-related memories: GeneaBloggers announces the
return of the Advent
Calendar of Christmas Memories blogging event Dec. 1-24. Each day will present
a blogging prompt (such as Christmas cookies—yum!) for bloggers to respond to with
memories and family history.

Even if you don’t have a blog, you can use the prompts to inspire your writing.

The Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories founder, GeneaBloggers‘
Thomas MacEntee, reports that some bloggers have compiled their posts into books to
share with family.

Click here to learn
how bloggers can participate in the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories. Also
follow the event on Facebook and Twitter.

Continue your family story writing with My
Life & Times: A Guided Journal by Sunny Jane Morton or Morton’s Creating
a Family History Book course at Family Tree University (the next session starts
Dec. 5).

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RootsMagic has released RootsMagic
5, the latest version of its genealogy software for Windows, along with an update
to the free RootsMagic
Essentials software.

RootsMagic 5 includes more than 80 new feature and enhancements to existing ones.
New features include:

• Timeline View: Show a person’s life in context with events from his or her
  own life and the lives of family members.

• CountyCheck: Confirm the existence of a county, state, or country on any given
  date from a multinational database, and correct place-name errors in your family database.

• Research Manager: Keep track of research goals, sources and results for a person,
  family or place in your tree. “On This Day” List: View family events along with famous
  births, deaths and historical events for any given day of the year.

• Media Tagging: Tag your images and other media with people, families, sources
  or places. (For example, tag an image of a census record with the people, families
  and places named in the record, as well as the census source citation.)

Learn more about the updates in a free “What’s
New in RootsMagic 5?” webinar Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 5 p.m. Mountain Time (7 Eastern,
6 Central, 4 Pacific). If you’re interested, click
here to sign up ASAP, as attendance is limited. (FYI, RootsMagic usually puts
recordings of past webinars on its website for those who missed them.)

The free RootsMagic 5 Essentials contains many core features from the RootsMagic software,
and the two products are fully compatible with one another.

RootsMagic 5 works on Windows 7, Vista, XP or 2000. It’s available
online or by calling 1-800-766-8762.

New users can get the software for $29.95. Users of previous versions of RootsMagic
and its predecessor, Family Origins, can upgrade to RootsMagic 5 for $19.95.

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Your boss told me it’s fine for you to use your lunch hour (plus maybe a few extra
minutes) to shop online in honor of Cyber Monday. Honest!* Just make sure you add ShopFamilyTree.com to
your must-visit list.

Today, Nov. 28, our
Cyber Monday sale marks down some of our best-sellers by 40 percent! For example,

• The Family
  Tree Legacies: Preserving Memories Throughout Time fill-in family history
  book (with a CD of additional fill-in pages you can print) is just $17.99

• The 10
  Years of Family Tree Magazine: 2000-2009 DVD is just $59.99
• Our on-demand webinars on doing genealogy research in Pennsylvania, New
  York and Missouri are
  just $23.99

See
all the ShopFamilyTree.com Cyber Monday deals here.

And remember, if you’re a Family
Tree VIP member, you’ll be able to take off another 10 percent.

*Just kidding. I didn’t really talk to your boss, but I’m sure he or she won’t mind.**

**OK, I don’t really know your boss, so use your own judgment. Our Cyber Monday deals
are good until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time—you can shop this evening, too.