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Wholly Genes Newsletter

24 August 2006

Issue 2006, Number 12

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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. 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

9110 Red Branch Road, Suite "O"

Columbia, Maryland 21045

410-715-2260

410-379-5424 (fax)

http://www.WhollyGenes.com

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