Bob Velke 0 Report post Posted August 24, 2006 ================================================== Wholly Genes Newsletter 24 August 2006 Issue 2006, Number 12 ================================================== You received this newsletter subscription by your own request. To unsubscribe, see the end of the newsletter. Please do not respond to this message. Its mailbox is for outgoing messages only. See "How to reach us" below. ================================================== In this issue: o Compendium of New England Pioneers o FGS/NEHGS Conference in Boston o New book in the web store o New data CDs in the web store o UPDATED: Pocket Genealogist v3.02 o Tracking a support question o TMG Companion Products o Wholly Genes online chat o How to reach us === Compendium of New England Pioneers ============ Our sister company, Archive CD Books USA, is proud to announce a major new collection of digitized books for researchers of early New England families. For the first time, the COMPENDIUM OF NEW ENGLAND PIONEERS makes all of the classic genealogical dictionaries of New England available on a single CD. The collection encompasses 14 books (22 volumes), nearly 8300 pages, and thousands of families of early New England settlers through several generations. The titles in this collection were assembled in consultation with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, an authority on New England research, and are so recognizable to experienced researchers that they are often simply referred to by the last name of the author. They include classic works by Eliot, Farmer, Hinman, Goodwin, Drake, Savage, Austin, Pope (2), Holmes, Flagg, Noyes, Bolton, and Spencer. Anderson said, “The broad genealogical surveys collected here comprise the best colony-wide resources for the study of 17th-century New England families. As such, they constitute the resource of first resort for building the framework of Great Migration sketches.” Anderson is the Director of the Great Migration Study Project for the New England Historic Genealogical Society, editor of the Great Migration Newsletter, co-editor of The American Genealogist, and Genealogical Consultant for Archive CD Books USA. “Our CDs combine high-quality images of every page that was originally published with the ability to do powerful full-text searching, including AND, OR, phrase, and proximity searches,” said Bob Velke, President of Archive CD Books USA. “For the first time, we’ve also included special indexing technology that will allow researchers to conduct very fast searches across all of these books at the same time,” said Velke. “Many of the individual titles have been very popular on our web store,” said Velke, “and we haven’t forgotten those loyal customers.” The Compendium is priced at just $89.95 which is 66% off the combined regular prices of those individual books. Those who have bought one or more of the individual titles have been extended full credit for those purchases when upgrading to the Compendium. FREE BONUS: The CD-ROM contains nine high-quality digital maps of the New England Settlement (1629, 1637, 1660, 1675, 1677, 1713, 1754, 1781, and 1812) as originally published in "The Expansion of New England" by Lois Kimball Mathews (1909). For details about the COMPENDIUM OF NEW ENGLAND PIONEERS, please visit: http://www.WhollyGenes.com/nepioneers.htm. === FGS/NEHGS Conference in Boston ============== If you are in the Boston area next week (Wednesday, August 30, through Saturday, September 2, 2006), then don't miss the The Federation of Genealogical Societies and New England Historic Genealogical Society conference at the Hynes Convention Center. There will be 350 presentations for genealogists of all levels, beginner to professional, and speakers from the United States, Canada, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and England. Representatives from Wholly Genes, Inc. will be in the exhibit hall demonstrating TMG and answering questions. Please stop by our booth to say hello! Access to the exhibit area is FREE and does not require attendence at the lectures. For more information, please visit: http://www.fgs.org/2006conf/FGS-2006.htm === New book in the web store ==================== This book is now available from www.WhollyGenes.com at 15% off the regular retail price! BLACK GENESIS: A RESOURCE BOOK FOR AFRICAN- AMERICAN GENEALOGY. 2ND EDITION, 2003, by James M. Rose, Ph.D. and Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., CG. http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...amp;p=BBLACKGEN When Black Genesis was originally published in 1978, it was the first book to provide researchers with information on resources and a methodology specific to African-American genealogy. Now, owing to the unprecedented growth of interest in the subject, this landmark publication has been completely updated and is once again the premier guide to African-American genealogy. The 2nd edition of Black Genesis provides guidance not only to the same basic resources presented in the original edition but also to a substantial amount of additional material. The original goal, however, remains the same--to introduce the novice and professional researcher to African-American genealogical research methods and resources. Some 100 pages larger than the first edition, the 2nd edition of Black Genesis boasts a new format that makes locating resources pertaining to slaves and free blacks in the United States easier than ever. Part I provides an overview of general research principles and methodology, while Part II contains a rundown of specific resources for all fifty states, Canada, and the West Indies. Under each location, the information is organized by the following categories: Important Dates, State Archives, Census Records, State and County Records, Cemetery and Church Records, Military Records, Newspapers, Manuscript Sources (personal papers, slave records, and diaries), Internet Resources, Research Contacts, and Bibliography. Resources described include research guides, published genealogies, community studies on African-American families and, most importantly, original research material that can be found in national, state, county, and city archives, and in historical societies and libraries. === New data CDs in the web store =============== The following new searchable data CDs are (among others) on the new "Compendium of New England Pioneers" (see above) but are also available as separate CDs at www.WhollyGenes.com. Product descriptions are by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, for Archive CD Books USA. Ernest Flagg, GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON THE FOUNDING OF NEW ENGLAND: MY ANCESTORS PART IN THAT UNDERTAKING, (1926) 2006 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=US0303 Flagg goes well beyond the title of this volume and provides extensive information on more than one hundred early New England families, in some cases for several generations. He includes extensive biographical information, full lists of children, and, where available, data on their English origins. John Osborne Austin, THE GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF RHODE ISLAND; COMPRISING THREE GENERATIONS OF SETTLERS WHO CAME BEFORE 1690 (WITH MANY FAMILIES CARRIED TO THE FOURTH GENERATION), (1887) 2006 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=US0305 Austin has compiled accounts of more than 460 families who settled in Rhode Island during the seventeenth century, tracing some of the families to the third generation and others to the fourth, including both male and female lines. These accounts include extensive extracts from original sources. Royal R. Hinman, A CATALOGUE OF THE NAMES OF THE EARLY PURITAN SETTLERS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT; WITH THE TIME OF THEIR ARRIVAL IN THE COUNTRY AND COLONY, THEIR STANDINGS IN SOCIETY, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, CONDITION IN LIFE, WHERE FROM, BUSINESS, &C., (1852) 2006 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=US0309 Royal Hinman collected information on every seventeenth-century immigrant to New England, and then concentrated on those immigrants who came to Connecticut, tracing many of the lines into the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, providing information on thousands of Connecticut settlers. Frank R. Holmes, compiler, DIRECTORY OF THE ANCESTRAL HEADS OF NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES, 1620-1700, (1923) 2006 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=US0310 Holmes has produced a unique resource in which he combined a brief biographical and genealogical entry for each New England immigrant head of household prior to 1700 with etymologies of many of the surnames, reflecting his conviction that the "study of names is of itself an absorbing subject." Charles Knowles Bolton, THE REAL FOUNDERS OF NEW ENGLAND: STORIES OF THEIR LIFE ALONG THE COAST, 1602-1628, (1929) 2006 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=US0311 To the author, the "Real Founders of New England" were those who arrived before the landing of Endicott in 1628, as agent of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Bolton attempts here to write the history and provide a full list of everyone known to have visited or lived in New England before that event. Samuel G. Drake, RESULT OF SOME RESEARCHES AMONG THE BRITISH ARCHIVES FOR INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE FOUNDERS OF NEW ENGLAND: MADE IN THE YEARS 1858, 1859 AND 1860, (1860) 2006 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=US0312 Drake collected in one place all the passenger lists that had been discovered by 1860, of emigrants leaving England for New England in the years before 1676. He included lists from the port of London, as well as lists from some of the out- ports, along with a few contemporaneous private compilations. John Eliot, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY CONTAINING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST SETTLERS, AND OTHER PROMINENT CHARACTERS AMONG THE MAGISTRATES, MINISTERS, LITERARY AND WORTHY MEN, IN NEW-ENGLAND, (1809) 2006 http://www.WhollyGenes.com/find_wg.mvc?ref...WS&p=US0313 In this early biographical dictionary, Eliot has provided accounts of the lives of hundreds of colonial New Englanders, running from the earliest explorers and settlers to the leaders of the revolutionary movement of the mid-eighteenth century, and including many others from the years in between. === UPDATED: Pocket Genealogist v3.02 ============= Northern Hills Software has announced a free v3.02 update to Pocket Genealogist, the popular genealogy software for PocketPC's and other "Windows Powered" mobile devices. Pocket Genealogist will read your TMG data directly (no GEDCOM required) and let you take it with you in the palm of your hand. To upgrade your copy of Pocket Genealogist to v3.02, please visit: http://www.northernhillssoftware.com/download_updates.htm For more information about Pocket Genealogist, please visit: http://www.WhollyGenes.com/pocketgen.htm === Tracking a support question ===================== Did you know that you don't have to keep checking the Wholly Genes Community Forum in order to keep up-to-date on support topics that interest you, program tips and hints, and other news and information? Here are some handy hints to keep you informed: 1) Keep current with the "View New Posts" link. Click on that link in the upper- right hand corner to get a chronological list of every topic that has been updated since your last visit. 2) Be notified by e-mail of new topics. The message board has many categories for news, information, and support. Click on any forum that interests you (e.g., "The Master Genealogist v6") and then click on "Forum Options" on the right side. On the popdown menu, choose "Subscribe to this forum." Thereafter, you will be notified by email of the subject of every new topic that is posted to that forum! If you are interested in that topic, you can click on a handy link in the e-mail to go directly to that section of the message board. Hint: Don't forget to subscribe to the "Frequently Asked Questions" and "Tips and Hints" forums! 3) Be notified by e-mail of new responses to existing topics that interest you. Subscribing to a forum (as above) will notify you of the _first_ message in each new topic. But if you read a topic and decide that you are interested in it, just click on "Options" on the right side. On the popdown menu, choose "Track this topic." Thereafter, you will receive an email notification whenever a response is posted to that topic. (You can also choose to receive just one e- mail every day or week with all such notifications.) If you post or reply to a message, then tracking the topic is almost automatic. Just make sure that "Enable email notifications of replies" is checked when you compose your message. If you want that box to be checked by default, then click on My Controls in the top-right corner of any screen, click on Email settings on the left, check "Enable Email notifications by default" and set the notification type to "Immediate Email Notification." On the same screen, you can specify that email notifications should include the full text of the response (not just a notification that a response exists). If you use these powerful features, you can stay up-to-date with all of the developments on the Wholly Genes Community forum without having to go online periodically to check for new messages! It is all free, of course, and you can cancel your email notifications at any time through My Controls > Subscriptions. === TMG Companion Products ====================== The following companion products which were developed for TMG users like you: "Getting the Most Out of The Master Genealogist" The popular book compiled by Lee Hoffman. 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.WhollyGenes.com/secondsite.htm Latest version=1.9 Build 9 Pocket Genealogist The TMG companion program for Pocket PCs and other Windows Powered devices. See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/pocketgen.htm Latest version=3.02 GedStar PRO The TMG companion program for PalmOS users. See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/gedstarpro.htm Latest version=3.1 GenSmarts The research advisor that reads your TMG data directly. See http://www.WhollyGenes.com/gensmarts.htm Latest version=1.0.9.16 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 on Saturday, 9 September 2006, at 2pm EDT 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 Chat in the 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. 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