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• Genealogy data service Genealogy
  Today has launched a redesigned home page, easier site navigation and an improved
  search. This site focuses on smaller datasets, such as Masonic rosters, rural school
  and college catalogs, insurance claims and church catalogs, published between 1830
  and 1930. The search works faster, with a form that offers more options and filters.
  In your search results, free and paid resources are  combined into a single results
  set that highlights new and updated items, and identifies free resources and those
  on other websites. 

• Registration is open for the 2012 Southern California Genealogy Jamboree, taking
  place Thursday through Sunday, June 8 to 10, at the LA Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel
  in Burbank, Calif. Early-bird registration discounts are available through April 22. Register
  on the SCGS website.

• The Federation of Genealogical Societies has opened registration for its 2012
  annual conference, too. It’s scheduled for Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, at the Birmingham-Jefferson
  Convention Complex in Birmingham, Ala. (We’ll be there!) Early bird registration is
  available through July 1. Register
  on the conference website.

• WikiTree.com, the family tree site covered in the December 2011 Family Tree
  Magazine, will be available only by invitation from a current WikiTree member.
  “We’ve had users abusing our wide range of free services and treating the site like
  their personal back-up service. Not only does this drain our limited resources, it
  hurts other community members and what we’re trying to accomplish,” says WikiTree
  creator Chris Whitten. “By making membership strictly invitation-only, we can give
  our community some breathing room to clean up the genealogical messes that irresponsible
  users have left behind.” If you want to join, you
  can request an invite using a link on the site’s membership page.