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GENEALOGY IN THE NEWS - MARCH 2002

  • Tartan Week showcase in US
    A massive US marketing campaign to coincide with Tartan Week celebrations has been unveiled by Scottish tourist bosses. BBC News (UK), March 29, 2002.

  • Genealogy: Land grant records can produce research gems
    Federal and state land grant applications may yield a mother lode of genealogical information if you're lucky enough to mine the right spot. St. Petersburg Times (FL), March 28, 2002.

  • Census on the internet relaunches in secret
    THE Public Record Office will be making its second attempt to put the 1901 census for England and Wales on the internet some time in the next few weeks, but this time in secret. Telegraph.co.uk, March 25, 2002.

  • OHA opens registration for Hawaiian ancestry
    Registrants in the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' Hawaiian Registry will enter a database that works as a genealogy bank. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, March 24, 2002.

  • FBI takes page from Mormons' data book
    The FBI is consulting Mormon Church computer experts who oversee the institution's vast genealogy data bank to help rebuild the bureau's outdated information system. USA Today, March 21, 2002.

  • Genealogy: Ancestral paper trails don't come cheap
    The price of completing a pedigree chart has skyrocketed in recent years as computer technology and the Internet lure more people into the name game. The St. Petersburg Times, March 21, 2002.

  • Grave explorations
    Students to use modern tools to find who's buried where at cemetery. The traditional archaeological dig has gone high-tech at San Luis Rey Pioneer Cemetery. The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 20, 2002.

  • Anticipation awaits the 1930 Census
    Genealogy columnists are burning up online wires discussing the April 1 unveiling of the 1930 U.S. Census, with an air of giddiness in one column and dread in another. The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), March 10, 2002.

  • Maine Farmhouse Reveals 500-Year-Old Nuremburg Chronicle
    Barrie Pribyl knew she had something special when she took the old book out of the farmhouse and loaded it into her car. What she didn't know right away was that she had a 500-year-old history of the world considered a milestone in the history of printing. The Moscow Times (Russia), March 8, 2002.

  • Genealogy goes beyond all those 'begats'
    A wave of genealogical interest sees novice historians digging for their roots - and publishing the results. The Christian Science Monitor, March 6, 2002.



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