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Wholly Genes Newsletter

25 November 2009

Issue 2009, Number 10

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In this issue:

 

o FREE SHIPPING until Nov 30th!

o Preview of TMG v8!

o UPDATED: Second Site

o New Data CDs from the U.S.

o New Data CDs from the Great Britain

o New Data CDs from the Ireland

o TMG Companion Products

o Wholly Genes online chat

o How to reach us

 

 

=== FREE SHIPPING until Nov 30th! =====================

 

The Thanksgiving Day holiday is upon us and our staff will be taking a few days off with their families. As a result, the office will be closed tomorrow and Friday (Nov 26-27).

 

The good news for you is that we're offering FREE SHIPPING during that down-time on any purchase from www.WhollyGenes.com to addresses in the U.S. and Canada. (A discounted flat rate of $10 for overseas shipments applies) . This is a great time to get that planned purchase or gift and save a lot of money on shipping!

 

Remember that WhollyGenes.com is your source for _thousands_ of great genealogy products including TMG companion products

http://www.whollygenes.com/Merchant2/merch..._Code=COMPANION

 

...popular books on genealogy methodology:

http://www.whollygenes.com/Merchant2/merch...gory_Code=BOOKS

 

...and data CDs from the U.S., England, Ireland, Australia, and other countries, including the new releases described below:

http://www.whollygenes.com/Merchant2/merch...de=05GEOGRAPHIC

 

Among our most popular products are:

 

Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England (Savage) (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0205)

Compendium of New England Pioneers (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0400)

Compendium of New England Gazetteers (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0401)

Black's Law Dictionary (First Edition, 1891) (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0211)

Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0212)

Emigrants Who Went to America 1600-1700 (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0107)

Digested Summary of Private Claims (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0343)

Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0261)

Historical and Genealogical Miscellany (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0209)

Dunglison's Medical Dictionary (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0226)

...plus thousands of others!

 

GIFT CERTIFICATES are also available. If you're holiday shopping (or someone is looking for a gift for you), remember that a gift certificate from WhollyGenes.com is always a great gift! For more information, please visit:

http://www.whollygenes.com/giftcert.htm

 

Note that purchases made at this writing will not ship until Monday, November 30th.

 

 

=== Preview of TMG v8! ==============================

 

Bob Velke will be the featured speaker at the Dec 12th meeting of the Roots Users Group of Arlington, Virginia (Arlington RUG). If you're in the area, you'll want to attend because Bob will use that occasion to make the first public demonstration of The Master Genealogist v8! This upcoming new release includes a new report writer engine (including support for 64-bit operating systems) and many other exciting new features.

 

Following the meeting, a feature list and screen shots will be made available through the company's web site. A release date for TMG v8 has not yet been announced.

 

For information about the meeting time/place, please visit:

http://www.rootsusers.org/

 

 

=== UPDATED: Second Site ===========================

 

Second Site is the wildly popular web-page-creation and data-sharing tool that works directly with your TMG data. The author, John Cardinal, has made the following announcement:

 

Second Site Version 3.1 is now available. This free upgrade includes a few new features and corrects a few problems.

 

You can read more about the new features in the latest issue of Second Site News:

http://ss.johncardinal.com/ssn042.htm

 

You can read more about this release in the Change Log:

http://ss.johncardinal.com/changelog.htm

 

Current Second Site 3 users can download the installer here:

http://ss.johncardinal.com/downloads.htm

 

This is a free upgrade for registered users of Second Site 3.

 

 

=== New Data CDs from the U.S. ========================

 

The following data CDs from the U.S. are now available from WhollyGenes.com:

 

NEW MILFORD, NEWTOWN, WOODBURY, SOUTHBURY, KENT, MIDDLEBURY, BROOKFIELD, ROXBURY, AND BRIDGEWATER DIRECTORY 1927, (1927) 2009.

$12.95 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=US0605

This city directory covering the Connecticut towns of New Milford, Newtown, Woodbury, Southbury, Kent, Middleburry, Brookfield, Roxbury and Bridgewater combines four distinct directories into one volume. Information published includes (1) Governmental Directory ­ Town, County, State and Federal; (2) Buyers Directory ­ A local source of sales and services; (3) Alphabetical Directory ­ Names, occupations and addresses; and (4) Classified Directory ­ Business, professional and social.

 

Seth C. Cary, JOHN CARY, THE PLYMOUTH PILGRIM, (1911) 2009.

$9.95 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=US0620

Seth Cary has compiled a genealogy of the family and descendants of John Carey, who had settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, by 1637. The author made an effort to follow female as well as male lines. In the early generations, this generally extended to the children and sometimes grandchildren of a Cary daughter. In the later generations, and especially in the accounts of those living in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this coverage was quite extensive. (more...)

 

 

=== New Data CDs from the Great Britain ===================

 

The following data CDs from Great Britain are now available from WhollyGenes.com:

 

KELLY'S POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF SURREY 1867.

$24.49 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE5027

Republished here on full-searchable CD-Rom is the 1867 edition of Kelly's Post Office Directory of Surrey. Containing nearly 450 printed pages, which includes a map of the county. As with most other directories published by Kelly's, this 1867 Surrey edition, although primarily a directory, also serves as a gazetteer. Originally issued as part of a joint publication for counties Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, this is one of the earlier editions of Kelly's Directory of Surrey. (more...)

 

THE PARISH REGISTERS AND PAROCHIAL DOCUMENTS IN THE ARCHDEACONRY OF WINCHESTER.

$11.95 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE5028

Published in 1909 by the Wykeham Press, The Parish Registers and Parochial Documents in the Archdeaconry of Winchester was edited by the then Archdeacon of Winchester, William Andrews Fearon, D.D., and the Curate of Burghclere, John Foster Williams, M.A. Containing some 204 printed pages, the title of this publication, as the authors themselves admit, is a little misleading. On the first count, this publication is, although fascinating, an inventory of the Hampshire parochial records held in the Archdeaconry of Winchester; and on the second count, the inventory conducted by Messrs Fearon and Williams ceases in 1812 for parish registers and 1800 for parochial records. (more...)

 

BULMER'S HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY OF WESTMORELAND, 1885.

$30.95 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE5029

Published in Manchester in 1885 by T. Bulmer & Co., the full title of the Westmoreland Directory amply describes the breadth and depth of this publication: 'History, Topography, and Directory of Westmoreland, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; A General View of its Physical Features; its Mines, Manufactures and Agricultural Statistics; Historical and Descriptive Sketches of each Town, Parish and Manor; Family History and Genealogical Descent; Biographical Sketches of the Principal Westmoreland Worthies, to which is also added a List of the Seats and Residences of the Nobility, Gentry and Clergy', in short, a completed compendium of Westmoreland in 1885. (more...)

 

BAGSHAW'S, HISTORY, GAZETTEER AND DIRECTORY OF SHROPSHIRE, 1851.

$30.95 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE5030

Samuel Bagshaw's 'History, Gazetteer & Directory of Shropshire' was published in Sheffield in 1851 and the beginning of the full title of the work provides a clear indication of the scope of the publication: History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire; Comprising a General Survey of the County with a Variety of Historical, Statistical, Topographical, Commercial and Agricultural Information, Shewing The Situation, Extent and Population of all The Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, Townships, Villages, Hamlets and Extra-Parochial Liberties; containing more than 700 printed pages and republished here on fully-searchable CD-Rom, Bagshaw's Gazetteer and Directory of Shropshire is one of the best reference aids for the county from this period. (more...)

 

KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, 1894.

$24.49 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE5031

Republished here on fully-searchable CD-Rom is the 1894 edition of Kelly's Directory of the City of Bristol & its Neighbourhood. Containing nearly 480 printed pages the City and Neighbourhood Directory for Bristol is a principally a street directory for the City of Bristol, but as with all of Kelly's Directories also serves as a gazetteer for the city and county. (more...)

 

 

=== New Data CDs from Ireland ==========================

 

The following data CDs from Ireland are now available from WhollyGenes.com:

 

ESTATE COMMISSIONERS OFFICES, APPLICATIONS FROM EVICTED TENANTS, 1907.

$18.49 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE0058

Published in October 1907 under the auspices of the Estates Commissioners' Offices this publication records lists of persons who lodged applications with the Estates Commissioners either in person as the evicted tenant or by the representatives of the evicted tenant. The collection of information issued by the Estates Commissioners' Offices, which is republished here on fully-searchable CD-Rom, was originally issued in four separate collections, one for each of the four provinces of Ireland (more...)

 

ALEXANDER THOM & CO., THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO, 1923.

$24.49 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE0059

Alexander Thom & Co., almost exclusively know for their 'Dublin City & County Directories', made a brief venture into biographical notices. This was Thom's first edition of their 'Irish Who's Who', which was published in 1923, only two brief years after the creation of the Irish Free State and barely a year after the cessation of Civil War in Ireland. This edition containing some 280 printed pages and the 'life sketches' of more than 2,500 Irish men and women (more...)

 

THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY AND CITY OF LIMERICK, 2 VOLS. 1827.

$30.95 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE0060

Originally published in Dublin 1826 and 1827 the two volume History of Limerick is a monumental study in every aspect of the county and one that every historian writing on the county still pays heed and respect to. The two volumes taken together contain more than 1,100 printed pages and are republished here on fully-searchable CD-Rom. (more...)

 

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF DUBLIN, ITS TOPOGRAPHY, ANTIQUITIES AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS, 1939.

$24.49 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE0061

Originally published by Gill & Son., in Dublin in 1912, this CD-Rom republication of the fourth impression of The Neighbourhood of Dublin: its Topography, Antiquities & Historical Associations, published in 1939 was written by Weston St. John Joyce. Weston St. John Joyce (1858-1939), a civil servant by occupation, was also a regular contributor to The Evening Telegraph and later the Weekly Irish Times, to which he contributed numerous illustrated topographical articles over a period of nearly three decades. (more...)

 

STEPHEN GWYNN, HUGH THOMPSON (ILLUSTRATIONS), HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN DONEGAL AND ANTRIM, 1899.

$18.49 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=IE0062

Originally published in London 1899 by MacMillan & Co., Ltd., this first edition of the Highways and Byways in Donegal and Antrim, is republished here on fully-searchable CD-Rom. Macmillan began publishing the Highways and Byways series in 1899, this being one of the earliest in the series, and by 1909 had completed nineteen publications in the series, which extended across the length and breadth of England, Scotland and Wales, with one publication on France (on Normandy) and this the only one in the series on Ireland. (more...)

 

 

=== TMG Companion Products ==========================

 

The following companion products which were developed for TMG users like you:

 

"A Primer for The Master Genealogist"

A great new book for beginning TMG users by Terry Reigel.

See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/primer.htm

 

"Getting the Most Out of The Master Genealogist"

The popular book compiled by Lee Hoffman - now available in electronic form.

See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/gettingthemost.htm

 

Video training for TMG on DVD

Getting Started, Intermediate, Advanced, or Expert

See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/videotapes.htm

 

Second Site

Web site construction tools for your TMG data.

See http://www.JohnCardinal.com/ss

Latest version=3.1

 

Pocket Genealogist

The TMG companion program for Pocket PCs and other Windows Powered devices.

See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/pocketgen.htm

Latest version=3.40

 

GedStar PRO

The TMG companion program for PalmOS users.

See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/gedstarpro.htm

Latest version=3.2

 

GenSmarts

The research advisor that reads your TMG data directly.

See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/gensmarts.htm

Latest version=2.1.1.53

 

Map My Family Tree

See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/mapmyfamilytree.htm

Latest version=1.4.11

 

PathWiz!

Exhibit management utility

See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/pathwiz.htm

Latest version=v8

 

Chartform Delivery

An inexpensive chart printing service

See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/wallcharts.htm

 

For the full list of companion products, please visit the Wholly Genes Community forum (http://www.WhollyGenes.com/forums.htm) and click on "Companion Products."

 

 

=== Wholly Genes online chat =======================

 

The next online chat with Wholly Genes will be Saturday, 28 November 2009, at 2pm and again at 11pm Eastern Time. Don't miss this opportunity to "talk" online with Wholly Genes representatives, as well as with other TMG users around the world.

 

Remember that the Wholly Genes chat room is available to you at any time. Just go to http://www.WhollyGenes.com and click on Public Chat in the Support menu. When you see the security warning, click on or . Then be patient because it could take 30 seconds or more (especially on a dial-up connection) to load the necessary chat tools. When prompted, simply enter a chat nickname and then click on Connect. That's all there is to it. We hope to see you there!

 

 

=== How to reach us ==============================

 

For tech support, please access the Wholly Genes Community message board at:

http://www.WhollyGenes.com/forums.htm

or write to:

support@WhollyGenes.com

 

Please be sure to note what version of the program you are using.

 

You can also reach us at:

 

Wholly Genes Software

5144 Flowertuft Court

Columbia, Maryland 21044

410-715-2260

410-730-9734 (fax)

http://www.WhollyGenes.com

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