I don't know how many of you go to Ancestry's website, but this is a free online newsletter from them. You may want to check this out. Ancestry HomeTown Daily "A Daily Dose of Genealogy" www.ancestry.com August 25, 1997 In this issue: - Subscription Database of the Day - Last Chance to Search These FREE Databases - Headlines from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - Question of the Week - Ancestry HomeTown Sports a NEW SSDI Search Engine ================================================ Subscription Database of the Day English Origins of American Colonists Most of the records contained in this database are wills of English families during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, often mentioning one or more of the American Thirteen Colonies. It focuses on information relating to the origins of specific American families by using English probate records and depositions. This work is particularly valuable to those with English ancestors who emigrated to the Colonies during this time period. By the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record To search English Origins of American Colonists go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search.htm ================================================ Last Chance to Search These FREE Databases Ancestry HomeTown now offers MOST of its new Subscription Databases of the Day FREE for 30 days. At the end of 30 days the databases will be available exclusively to HomeTown Library Subscribers. Databases currently available for free that will be moved into the subscription area during the next week include: August 25 -- The Old and New Monongahela August 25 -- United Empire Loyalists, Part I August 28 -- Founders of Old Dunstable [MA, NH] August 29 -- Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah September 1 -- Boston Births, 1700-1800 September 2 -- Boston Births, Marriages and Deaths (1630-1699) ================================================ Headlines from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Here are the latest headlines from Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. - Videotape: Maps! Maps! Maps! - HTMLGenie - Halberts/Burke's Peerage Back In Court - Genealogy Forum In Big Sky Country - Genealogy Databases Worthless? - CompuServe Introduces Flat Rate Pricing - President Clinton Announces "Honorable Ancestors" Program - Home Pages Highlighted To read these stories, go to http://www.ancestry.com/times.htm ================================================ Question of the Week Last week we told you that we were going to start tapping into the vast knowledge of the HomeTown Daily readership to help out some of our fellow genealogists. Each Monday we'll post a question and each Wednesday we'll post some of the best responses to those questions. Here's today's question: "I have hit a road block to further research my g-grandmother's family. All we know is that she was born in 1879 in Kansas and that her maiden name was Harris. The 1920 census index listed her place of birth as Kansas, it did not list a city or county. She was married in Colorado and lived in Colorado until her death in 1952. That's all the info my family has. We do not know of any siblings, or her parent's names. I would like to obtain a birth certificate, but I need to know the county in Kansas where she was born. I live in Colorado. Where do I go from here?" To post an answer to this question, please respond ASAP by sending e-mail to webmaster@ancestry.com. Please be sure to include the following on your subject line: "Answer to August 25 Question of the Week ." To post a question for subsequent weeks, please send them to webmaster@ancestry.com and be sure to include "Question of the Week" in the "Subject" line ================================================ Ancestry HomeTown Sports a NEW SSDI Search Engine Those of you visiting Ancestry HomeTown's Social Security Death Index page will be pleased to see that we have upgraded our search engine software. The new engine, created by our own in-house programming geniuses, is designed to give you faster search results, better navigation and printing of those results, and a few other goodies that weren't previously available. For example, the last name field is no longer required, allowing you to search for a first name along with any other field(s) such as city, county, date of birth, etc. You can also search using the new Soundex feature to find spelling variations for various surnames. To use the new SSDI Search feature, go to http://www.ancestry.com/ssdi/advancednewtest.htm ================================================ HomeTown Daily is a service of Ancestry Publishing and is provided free of charge to subscribers. To receive this message, write to: webmaster@ancestry.com with the word "SUBSCRIBE" included on the subject line. To cancel your subscription at any time, respond with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.