Old Bones Family Research of New England: Family Stories: Using Newspapers to Reconnect with Your Family's Past

Today's blog post is mainly a way for me to introduce you to Legacy Family Tree webinars. They're referred to as "Webinar Wednesdays" and this week's subject is using newspapers to enhance your family research. The broadcasts are free and are archived to access for free for one week. There are membership options that allow you to access the complete archive of the hundreds of broadcasts done over the past few of years. Attendees who stay til the end are treated to the opportnity to win "door prizes".

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Legacy Family Tree offers many services including their family tree building software. The product is really quite good and is updated with reasonable frequency. There's "standard" edition that you can download for free from a link on the website's homepage. There are also links to purchase other products that you may find useful.

But to get back to the webinars for a minute, the moderator is Geoff Rasmussen who introduces the guest of the week. The subject matter is always in the field of genealogy and attracts some very well known genealogy personalities, such as Judy G Russell. Judy is an attorney, a genealogist and a speaker with a national audience. You should take a look at her blog, The Legal Genealogist. She writes in "English" rather than "Lawyer Speak" so you'll get her message rather than a headache trying to figure out what she's writing about. Follow her blog and you'll get a daily notice of that day's blog. How she finds the time is beyond me!

Register for this week's broadcast, "Family Stories: Using Newspapers to Reconnect with Stories of Your Family's Past" at www.familytreewebinars.com.

Take a look and let me know what you think!