Since all of them are between 4 and 5 it seems they all have most of the needed features. On 1/2/2012 5:29 PM, L. L. Scott wrote: > December 31, 2011 > > In the three years that the GenSoftReviews website has been in operation, genealogists have posted over 1000 reviews and ratings of the genealogy software they use. Each year, GenSoftReviews tabulates the highest rated programs, and awards any program achieving a score of 4.00 or more out of 5, a Users Choice Award. > > The programs winning a GenSoftReviews Users Choice Award for 2011 include: > > Ancestral Quest - 4.89 out of 5 > Family Historian - 4.63 out of 5 > My Great Big Family - 4.62 out of 5 > Personal Ancestral File - 4.61 out of 5 > Ultimate Family Tree - 4.59 out of 5 > GenSmarts - 4.52 out of 5 > WikiTree - 4.48 out of 5 > Genbox Family History - 4.47 out of 5 > The Next Generation - 4.45 out of 5 > RootsMagic - 4.45 out of 5 > Brother's Keeper - 4.42 out ot 5 > Reunion - 4.36 out of 5 > Family Tree Maker - Up to Version 16 - 4.18 out of 5 > Legacy - 4.06 out of 5 > > Congratulations go to all the 2011 winners. > > ### > > About Louis Kessler > > Louis Kessler has been a genealogist and a programmer for over 30 years. He developed and maintains the GenSoftReviews site. He is also the author of his own genealogy program known as Behold that can be found at www.beholdgenealogy.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

December 31, 2011 In the three years that the GenSoftReviews website has been in operation, genealogists have posted over 1000 reviews and ratings of the genealogy software they use. Each year, GenSoftReviews tabulates the highest rated programs, and awards any program achieving a score of 4.00 or more out of 5, a Users Choice Award. The programs winning a GenSoftReviews Users Choice Award for 2011 include: Ancestral Quest - 4.89 out of 5 Family Historian - 4.63 out of 5 My Great Big Family - 4.62 out of 5 Personal Ancestral File - 4.61 out of 5 Ultimate Family Tree - 4.59 out of 5 GenSmarts - 4.52 out of 5 WikiTree - 4.48 out of 5 Genbox Family History - 4.47 out of 5 The Next Generation - 4.45 out of 5 RootsMagic - 4.45 out of 5 Brother's Keeper - 4.42 out ot 5 Reunion - 4.36 out of 5 Family Tree Maker - Up to Version 16 - 4.18 out of 5 Legacy - 4.06 out of 5 Congratulations go to all the 2011 winners. ### About Louis Kessler Louis Kessler has been a genealogist and a programmer for over 30 years. He developed and maintains the GenSoftReviews site. He is also the author of his own genealogy program known as Behold that can be found at www.beholdgenealogy.com

http://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=16119 There is some new Alabama material

http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/12/q-with-julie-hill-of-archivescom-about.html

http://megansmolenyak.posterous.com/social-security-administration-extends-foia-r

You can access the new 2012 WFGS calendar by clicking on the link on the home page at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfgs/. A list of new officers and contact information for them is pending. Please visit the web page often and come to the meetings, where you will find great programs!

The Great Obituary Hunt: A Genealogy Research Guide by Carmen Nigro, Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York Public Library. http://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/11/09/great-obituary-hunt-genealogy-research-guide Everyone Counts: Using the Census in Genealogy Research http://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/12/08/everyone-counts-using-census-genealogy-research

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Have you visited PALMM http://palmm.fcla.edu/ Florida Memory http://floridamemory.com/collections/ Florida Maps http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/ Florida Digitalized Newspapers Online (see Historic Newspapers) http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/fgils/flnews2.html Florida History Online http://www.unf.edu/floridahistoryonline/Projects/Proj-B-P.html P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/index.html -----Original Message----- From: William G. Bates Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 10:33 PM To: flescamb@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FLESCAMB] Magnolia Cemetery Unfortunately, that is the conditions with many of the coastal states with only a couple really working to do something about it, South Carolina, best archives, and Texas, best online resources, leading the way. Florida sadly lags extremely far behind everyone else with practically no government operations to preserve, or digitize, old records other than those that will bring in money for their viewing/copying. I was born and raised in the middle of the state and still have many relatives primarily in the upper half and panhandle and have had all kinds of problems other counties of research as well. Sparkgapper

A fascinating footnote to American history and brilliantly researched genealogy. Thanks for forwarding. -----Original Message----- From: L. L. Scott <llscott2000@bellsouth.net> To: FLWFGS <fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com> Sent: Fri, Dec 16, 2011 5:33 am Subject: [FL-WFGS] Elizabeth Shown Mills Website http://www.historicpathways.com/articles.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

According to Independent News reporter, Magnolia Cemetery is "historic embarrassment." See story at http://inweekly.net/wordpress/?p=8087

http://www.historicpathways.com/articles.html

From: Dean DeBolt Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:19 AM To: L.L. Scott ; Archives & Archivists (A&A) List Subject: Creek Indian Interviews Online I'm happy to announce that we have converted the audiotape oral history interviews that were done as part of the Creek Indian History Project in the 1980s to digital form and placed them online for listening. This was part of a grant project in the University of West Florida History Department. This link takes you right to the inventory list of these. Click on a digital file to listen to them. You need to be patient as they load, and unfortunately the original tapes often don't say on the tape the date, topic, etc. but we have tried to note these on the inventory if possible. http://143.88.66.76/Archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=44&q=&rootcontentid=12587#id12587 We have also turned up some transcriptions of a few of the tapes and will add these as they are converted to digital form. Please let me know if you have any questions. Dean -- Dean DeBolt, University Librarian/University Archivist University Archives and West Florida History Center University of West Florida Library 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 ddebolt@uwf.edu; 850-474-2213

I wasn't able to make the December program, and wondered if it had been video taped? Kay

Due to sensitivities around the information in this database, the Social Security Death Index collection is not available on our free Rootsweb service but is accessible to search on Ancestry.com. Visit the Social Security Death Index page to be directly connected to this collection http://www.geneamusings.com/

http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/12/best-of-genea-blogs-4-to-10-december.html

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/12/familysearch-adds-new-free-us-records-from-illionis-maine-new-hampshire-washington-state-and-wiscons.html

http://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

This series includes personal information on more than 2.1 million individuals processed by the Einwandererzentralstelle (literally, Immigration Center), a central German authority for the immigration and naturalization of qualified ethnic Germans for Reich citizenship during the period 1939-1945. http://www.volhynia.com/res-ewz.html

Hi all! I just found out that the usual notice did not appear in today's PNJ even though it was provided to PNJ last week before their required deadline. That is especially unfortunate for this meeting, because I have a very good feeling that this will be a very helpful program for some NEW approaches for us to try in our online research efforts. I hope you did see Cynthia Dean's message on 28 November that she sent out to the WFGS rootsweb mailing list. We will have a brief business meeting - including nominating committee report, elections, and 2012 budget proposals and then our speaker - Elizabeth Powell Crowe from Navarre, an author and genuine expert in online genealogy research - will share with us some of the newest things she has included in her latest book, "Genealogy Online, 9th Edition". I recently purchased her newest book from amazon.com and have just begun to read it and already in the first couple of chapters am getting some new ideas to pursue. Bring a pen to take notes - she has a handout with plenty of space to note some of her suggested sites and techniques. She mentioned that she specifically intended to discuss genealogy blogging, podcasts and social networking as research tools. Try to arrive a few minutes early if you can.since it is a new meeting site - Asbury Place at the south side of Cokesbury United Methodist Church across the street from our normal meeting room at WFGL. I will be there about 9 AM to open up for Hospitality Chairman Ron Parks to start up the WFGS coffee makers and put out the donuts, and I will put out our blue and white WFGS directional arrow signs to help you in finding the new site. There is a lot of parking - more than at the WFGL, and DEFINITELY more than we had available at Vickrey Center a couple months ago. ALSO - A SPECIAL TREAT after the program during the "announcements" segment will be a brief listing [and a period after adjournment for your preview] of 37 of the books that WFGS ordered in November as part of our library support budget for 2011. The books were just received this week from several sources, and will be delivered to the WFGL staff after the meeting tomorrow and should be on the "New to the Library" shelves at the WFGL starting Tuesday. REMEMBER>>>>>>>>>NEW MEETING SITE for the 3 December meeting>>>>>>>>>ASBURY PLACE>>>>>>>>just south of and a bit behind(west) of Cokesbury Methodist Church. The address is 5725 North 9th Avenue, Pensacola. I am hoping to see you ALL there!!! Warm regards, Bruce Rova WFGS 2011 President