Researching North Carolina and Virginia families -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hollinghurst <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:17 pm Subject: [NCDOGS] Fw: The Trading Path Journal Returns ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:10 PM Subject: The Trading Path Journal Returns Dear D-OGS Members, Good news! Your journal, The Trading Path, will soon be back in publication. We plan to publish a single, extended issue for each of the missed years 2005, 2006, and 2007. Then we'll resume a publication schedule that will be at least two double issues per year of about 40 pages each, or possibly four smaller quarterly issues if mailing costs are not prohibitive. Needless to say, we’ll be needing lots of material to fill these issues – and make them both interesting and informative to the membership. This is where you come in! Feature articles are needed on the history of our counties, including the families who dwelt there, but there are plenty of other ways you can contribute as well: 1. How-to articles. Have you come up with a method for solving a particular research problem? Share it with the rest of us. 2. Family artifacts. Do you have interesting family letters, diaries, or photos that relate to Durham or Orange County? Transcribe/scan them and send them to us electronically. 3. Old documents. Is there a will, a death certificate, or a marriage certificate in that genealogy box in your closet? These, too, may be scanned and sent to us by email if you would like to share them. 4. Community memories. If you have photographs of old businesses, churches or schools that existed here in Durham or Orange Counties, send us a copy. Photographs from old yearbooks would also be great. 5. Your special area of expertise. If you have knowledge of anything that would help other genealogists, do consider writing it up for our journal. Examples: - photography - archival preservation - organizing files - interviewing senior citizens - publishing your own family history 6. Book reviews. Have you read something related to genealogy or history that really impressed or interested you? Write a brief description of the book and tell us why you liked it. 7. Ideas for articles. Is there a topic you’d love to read about in the journal, but writing isn’t your thing? Send us the idea, and we’ll find someone to work on it. 8. Fillers. We can always use half-page, or less, items such as humorous epitaphs, interesting items from old newspapers, etc. Feel free to write to us any time, at [email protected] . Questions are as welcome as submissions. Articles may be written in either WordPerfect or MSWord. We’ll even take hand-written ones (especially if your penmanship made your third grade teacher proud). Submissions are welcome any time, year ‘round. The copy deadline for volume 15, space permitting, is October 31, 2007. This journal belongs to every member of D-OGS! If we all work at finding those interesting articles, photos and documents, it will be a resounding success. In advance, we thank you for your help. Sincerely, Robert & Catherine Elias Editors ************************* Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com