I'm a member of NEHGS, as my husband and I both have numerous New England lines. This is an announcement that should be welcome news to anyone researching New England ancestors. Happy Thanksgiving! Katherine Dick Benbow Historian for the Charles Benbow Family researching Benbow, Carver; also Troy, Balfour, Long, Miller, Bruner, Viele http://www.charlesbenbowfamily.homestead.com/Index.html researching Dick, Fries; also Yates/Yeats, Madison, Snell, Alden http://www.dickfamily.homestead.com/ County Coordinator, Guilford County, North Carolina, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- Open Access to NEHGS' Register Thanksgiving Weekend "A Feast of Ancestors! Enjoy Free Access to the Register Online Over Thanksgiving Weekend! NEHGS is pleased to offer free access to its New England Historical and Genealogical Register database on NewEnglandAncestors.org over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend! Normally only available to NEHGS members, the Register database will be accessible to everyone from Thursday, November 25 through Sunday, November 28, 2004. We encourage all NEHGS members to spread the word about this offering, and we hope that those of you who are not members find a veritable feast of ancestors in the Register database! Published quarterly since 1847, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register is the flagship journal of American genealogy and the oldest journal in the field. The online database includes issues from 1847 to 1994. The Register has featured articles on a wide variety of topics since its inception, including vital records, church records, tax records, land and probate records, cemetery transcriptions, obituaries, and historical essays. Authoritative compiled genealogies have been the centerpiece of the Register for more than 150 years. Thousands of New England families have been treated in the pages of the journal and many more are referenced in incidental ways throughout. The articles in the Register range from short pieces correcting errors in print or solving unusual problems to larger treatments that reveal family origins or present multiple generations of a family. Look for details on how to obtain free access to the Register in a special eNews bulletin to be sent out Wednesday, November 24. A link will also be available on that date on the home page of our website, www.NewEnglandAncestors.org."

I must be missing something here. When I went to the site I couldn't get access to any information without joining. So this looks just like a sales pitch to me. Tell me if I'm wrong! Lois Willand > From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:52:31 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RowanRoots] NEHGS website - open access on Thanksgiving weekend > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:52:33 -0700 > > NewEnglandAncestors.org