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• Our friend Photo Detective Maureen Taylor is holding a funny
  family photo contest. Upload your photo with a little information, and get your
  friends and family to vote it the “SOS” (Silly Old Snapshot). Prizes include a free
  photo consultation sponsored by VoiceQuilt.com, a copy of Fashionable
  Folks: Bonnets and Hats, and more. Get
  details here.

• Ancestry.com has
  added more than 7 million records from 300 years of Pennsylvania history. The records,
  from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, are in the databases Pennsylvania,
  Naturalizations, 1794-1908 and Pennsylvania,
  Church and Town Records, 1708-1985.

• Subscription
  site British Origins has added the Middlesex
  Baptisms Index: 1538-1751, which records nearly 100,000 baptisms—about 300,000
  names when you add in parents and sponsors—in Middlesex and London.

• Free genealogy search engine Mocavo has made two big
  hires: Michael Leclerc, who spent 15 years with the New England Historic Genealogical
  Society, as Chief Genealogist; and Ryan Hunter, a former Wall Street analyst who covered
  companies including Ancestry.com, as COO.