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UpFront with NGS
The Online Newsletter of the National Genealogical Society
Volume 1, Number 12 -- 21 November 2002
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Co-editors: Dennis and Carla Ridenour

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Quote of the Day -- 21 November 2002
"Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is
longing to go back to." ---Ashleigh Brilliant
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Today In UpFront
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NGS Publications
--New NGSQ Editors
NGS Circulation Collection
NGS Awards
--Filby Prize for Genealogical Librarianship: Nominations Sought
NGS BookStore
--Pre-Holiday Sale
NGS Regional Conferences
Research Tools and Techniques
--Really Buried Treasures
--The Digital Darkroom, Part 1: Editing Document Photos
News Items, Announcements, and Press Releases
--Major Leslie Peacock to Speak at SBCGS
Previous Issues of UpFront with NGS
Family Reunion Calendar
How to Submit Items for Publication in UpFront with NGS
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe
NGS Contact Information

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"UpFront with NGS" is a publication of the National Genealogical
Society, a nonprofit service organization that leads and educates
the national genealogical community. To learn more about the goals,
publications, conferences, services and members benefits of the
National Genealogical Society, visit the NGS Web site:
http://www.NGSgenealogy.org

© 2002 National Genealogical Society

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NGS Publications
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New NGSQ Editors

Effective November 2002, a new editorial team will lead the "National
Genealogical Society Quarterly." Claire Mire Bettag, CGRS, CGL, and
Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL will follow Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG,
CGL, FNGS, FASG, who announced her retirement after sixteen years of
NGSQ editorship. Between them, Bettag and Jones have more than two
decades of serious genealogical research experience embracing broad
geographic, ethnic, and chronological expanses. Both are respected
genealogical educators, certified as lecturers in the field, with a
range of instructional presentations and articles. Their publications
include NGSQ essays for which both have earned its annual Award for
Excellence. Their lectures and written work demonstrate commitment to
high genealogical standards, the ability to apply those standards to
solving difficult and complex genealogical problems, and skill in
educating researchers at all levels of experience and expertise.

Long affiliated with the University of Alabama, NGSQ now will be
affiliated with Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where Jones
has taught since 1981. Established in 1864, Gallaudet has a unique
mission-providing undergraduate liberal arts and professional programs
for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. NGSQ will the third scholarly
journal based at Gallaudet. The address for the journal will be: NGSQ
Editorial Offices; Gallaudet Research Institute, HMB S-439; Gallaudet
University; 800 Florida Avenue, NE; Washington, DC 20002-3695;
E-mail:

As editors and educators, Bettag and Jones are dedicated to NGSQ's
overarching mission of teaching, and endorse the policies and rigorous
research standards that have become the journal's hallmark. They are
committed to producing a publication that will continue to educate and
to lead the field, and of which the National Genealogical Society can
continue to be proud.

To fulfill their commitment, the new editors seek manuscript
submissions of exceptional potential to demonstrate accepted standards
of research and to benefit the general reader. Essays should provide
practical applicability for researchers working in areas and contexts
beyond those of the article itself. Manuscript submissions may
demonstrate techniques for solving genealogical problems in different
time periods and locales, including international settings. Special
attention will be given to submissions that effectively demonstrate
practical problem-solving, and innovative "how-to" approaches to
methodology. Within those parameters, an almost infinite variety of
subjects can be addressed: researching in a specific locality, or in
other countries; appropriately placing ancestors in historic contexts;
locating and exploiting less-well-known records; avoiding identifiable
research pitfalls; analyzing unusual documents; and many other similar
topics.

The new NGSQ editors already are hard at work on the March and June
issues. They look forward to interacting with prospective authors who
will enable the journal to continue its highly effective role in the
field.

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NGS Circulating Collection
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An anonymous donor has made a very large donation to the NGS
Circulating Collection, now housed at the St. Louis County Library in
Missouri. The donation of about 1500 volumes ranks as one of the two
largest ever received by NGS. All of these books will be available
via Interlibrary Loan to any interested genealogical researcher. The
list of titles is too long to publish at one time, but we have already
begun to catalog the books and add them to our online library catalog.
In addition, beginning with the January/February issue, future issues
of the "NGS Newsmagazine" will list newly cataloged items from this
donation until all of the titles have been published.

The NGS Special Collection is located at the St. Louis County Library,
1640 South Lindbergh, St. Louis MO 63131-3598. The e-mail address is:


Books from the NGS Collection may be borrowed via ILL, two per
request. Interested persons should search the NGS catalog for books
of interest. Every circulating book carries the notation "SLCL - NGS
Collection". Print the full record for each book you wish to borrow
and work with a local librarian to submit your request to the St.
Louis County Library.

The NGS Online Library Catalog is located at
http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/libprecat.htm

Contributed by Dereka Smith, NGS Member Resource Center Director

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NGS Awards
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Filby Prize for Genealogical Librarianship: Nominations Sought

The name of P. William Filby has been much in the genealogical news
recently as we mark the passing of one of the great men of modern
genealogy [see "UpFront with NGS," volume 1, Number 11]. In 2003 NGS
will award the fifth annual Filby Prize for Genealogical
Librarianship. Sponsored by Scholarly Resources of Wilmington,
Delaware, the award carries a cash prize of $1000.00. The first four
winners are Lloyd Bockstruck (Texas), Pam Hall Cooper (Florida),
Martha Henderson (Missouri) and James Hansen (Wisconsin). Nominations
must be submitted by 1 March 2003 and the winner will be
announced at the NGS Conference in Pittsburgh. For details please go
to the following site: http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/comfilby.htm

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NGS BookStore
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Pre-Holiday Sale

The NGS BookStore's Pre-Holiday Sale Flyer offers substantial
discounts on selected books and gift items, plus a special $1.00
savings on any item in the NGS Online BookStore Catalog that is not
listed in the flyer. To take advantage of this sale, readers are asked
to use the special mail-in order form included in the Sale Flyer
located at http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/saleflyer.pdf

To view items in the NGS Online BookStore Catalog visit:
https://www.NGSgenealogy.org/BookStore/

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NGS Regional Conferences
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Mark your calendars now for the next two NGS Regional Conferences:

14-16 February 2003
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

22 March 2003
Hyatt Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey

More details will be published soon on the NGS Web site.

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Research Tools and Techniques
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Really Buried Treasures

What's the best way to preserve your genealogy research?

Should you publish your history on a CD or publish a book? Some
really worry that anything you put on a CD will eventually be in an
archaic format no longer accessible and that you should publish a
printed document. The argument the other way is that the printed
document is costly and quickly becomes outdated.

I cannot understand some of the discussions about this on the
genealogy subscription mail lists. Why, I ask, don't you just do it
both ways? I always try to digitize any items I want to document or
keep, including photos and original documents. I print a copy and
file it in a three-ring notebook. The digitized file is then put on a
Zip disk and also on a CD for backup. Every copy of any document is
also on both a Zip disk or a CD. When I want to share a copy, I can
just attach a file to an e-mail message-or as on one recent occasion-I
mailed a CD with more than 300 files on it.

There can be problems with different types of file formats. I love
WordPerfect, but many who have different programs cannot read
WordPerfect files. PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat and HTML files
seem to be the best alternative, but a few people do not have browsers
or the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. In the old days, we always
saved data in DOS ASCII format, but that is not sufficient today
because its "pure vanilla" format will not allow the use of boldface
and other styles, which seem so important today. I also went from 5
1/4 inch to 2 1/2 inch floppies and finally to CDs. Some argue that
there will always be technology around to read documents saved on old
media and in old file formats. I still remember a plea a few years
ago from a woman in another state who just got a new computer. She
had saved all her family files on 5 1/4 inch disks and her new
computer had only a 2 1/2 inch floppy drive. I could not convince her
to find a local firm that could transfer her data to 2 1/2 inch disks
so she sent them by USPS to me and I quickly put her old disks in one
floppy drive and transferred the to the other. I still have an old
computer with both 5 1/4 and 2 1/2 inch drive on it.

Now comes the real motive I have for writing this article. Our local
genealogy society over a period of more than a year (before stuff was
saved digitally) printed indexes to guardianship records in its
newsletter. A researcher on one of the discussion lists badly wanted
to search these old indexes and asked where she should go. The local
public library did not have copies of the old newsletters. One of the
officers of our society saved pages from the newsletter. But
searching through these printed copies would be a daunting task.
Eventually, I suppose, someone might scan them and put them all
together in a searchable database, but there are other more urgent
tasks.

My point is that all those old bits of data in genealogy society
newsletters throughout the United States are useless today with the
possible exception that they are listed in PERSI and copies can be
obtained. Recently the Civil War newsletter of the Ohio Genealogical
Society has been publishing a couple of valuable lists. One is a list
of all the Civil War photos of Ohio veteran photos at Carlisle
Barracks. The list understandingly, is not alphabetized. I can only
hope it will be saved to a database. The other is a list of veterans
at a local cemetery. It is a great project. I can only hope it will
one day be published in a single volume or put in a database for sale.

If only newsletter editors would keep digital copies of these lists
and offer them for sale. But most do not even keep a digitized copy of
their newsletters. So, if I see something in one of my newsletters I
think I might want in the future I scan it and save it in my own
files.

The rest of the valuable lists being printed in newsletters across the
U.S. are really buried treasures.

Contributed by Harry Liggett

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Research Tools and Techniques
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The Digital Darkroom, Part 2 --
More Tips for Editing Document Photos

In our last issue, we learned how to manually stitch two halves of a
document together to recreate the original. To quickly review, this
process is one of lining up the text on a single axis, resizing the
two halves so that they are of matching size, then moving them
together on a single workspace, and merging them. It sounds simple,
and it really is. The thing that makes it simple is practice. Any
time we work through a process, it needs to be repeated many times
before it becomes an easy task.

In this issue, we are going to talk about a new and very useful
process called masking. The basic principle behind masking is quite
simple, however creating masks can be complicated or, as you will see,
it can also be simple.

What is a Mask?

A mask is exactly what the word implies, a layer of image that hides
another layer of image. Just like a costume mask hides part of your
face, an image mask hides part of an underlying image. As an example,
consider a mask like the Lone Ranger's, which covers only part of his
face. If you were to spray-paint his face with his mask in place,
when you removed the mask, the area where the mask was, would be
unpainted, the area where the mask was not, would be painted. With
some images, we use the same technique. We mask an area then apply a
tool such as lighten or darken, and it only affects the area not
covered by the mask.

So, you can see that masking is pretty basic, where the complication
occurs is when you start building a mask, that is, the creation of a
mask that hides only the areas you do not want to affect.

The Mask Tool

The mask tool is found in Photo Impact 6, along the bottom of the
screen on the right hand side, and looks like a blue Lone Ranger mask
See http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/mask1.jpg

When this mask is clicked on, it fills the selected graphic with a red
semi-transparent screen. This red screen is the area, which blocks
any effect that you might try to use.
See http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/mask2.jpg

In other words, the image underneath is completely blocked from any
editing. At this point, the only editing you can do is editing on the
mask, and that is just the point. We want to edit the mask to allow
us access to the image underneath.

When you clicked on the mask tool, you may have noticed that the color
controls all changed to grayscale. This is because when you edit a
mask, you only edit the transparency of the mask, and this is where
masking becomes such a valuable tool. You can vary the transparency
of the mask, or portions of the mask, from 0% transparency to 100%
transparent. You can punch a hole in the mask that will allow any
tool to affect the image under the mask. You can also vary the amount
of the effect, by varying the transparency of the hole.

Today's Exercise

We will be using the commands in Photo Impact 6.0 to edit a true color
photo of a column of text that is 633 pixels wide by 1,489 pixels
tall. This photograph exhibits several common problems; it is
somewhat out of square, the bottom is darker than the top, and the
entire image has a green caste caused by either an improper lighting
adjustment or an incorrect white balance setting. The sample photo is
available in both .BMP (2.8 MB) and .JPG (128 KB) format. Although I
prefer to work with .BMP files, the .JPG file is smaller and will take
less time to transfer to your computer. The files are available at:
http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/cwconner.bmp
http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/cwconner.jpg

Step 1: Transfer the Sample Photo to Your Own Computer
The actual steps for transferring the sample photo to your computer
will depend on your browser. If you use Internet Explorer, one of the
quickest methods is to right click on the image URL and select the
"Save Target As..." command. If this doesn't work with your browser or
if you have problems transferring the image to your computer and need
additional help, please send a message to

Note: the following editing directions are for PhotoImpact. You will
need to look for similar commands and menu selections if you are using
a different program or download the trial version of PhotoImpact from
http://www.ulead.com/pi/trial.htm

Step 2: Convert to Grayscale
The data type of our sample photo is True Color. Since the photo
consists of black text on a supposedly white background,
the first thing we want to do is convert it to grayscale.

* To change it to Grayscale, click on Format, select Data type, and
then choose Grayscale [1].
[1] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic1.jpg

* When the grayscale picture appears [2], close the original [3].
[2] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic2.jpg
[3] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic3.jpg

Step 3: Square up the Text:
In order to square up the text, we need to create working room at the
top and bottom of the image. The procedure is as follows:

*Select Edit, then Expand Canvas [4].
[4] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic4.jpg

*In the window that comes up enter 100 in both Top and Bottom boxes
[5], then click OK.
[5] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic5.jpg

*Set the selection tool for Rectangle [6], select all the text and the
gray area behind it, by moving the cursor to the upper left hand
corner of the gray area, then left click, hold the cursor down, and
drag a rectangular marquee down and to the lower right corner of the
gray and release [7].
[6] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic6.jpg
[7] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic7.jpg

* To convert this area to an object, right click inside the selected
area, and choose Convert to Object [8].
[8] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic8.jpg

* Now select the Transform Tool, and click on Distort [9].
[9] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic9.jpg

* Handles will appear at the four corners of the selected area. Since
the left hand area of the top is lower, left click and drag the upper
left corner upwards to correct the un-level line of text [10].
[10] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic10.jpg

*Continue to move this handle until the line looks level, and then
repeat the process with the lower left hand corner handle [11].
[11] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic11.jpg

*Once the text is the way you want it, right click in the selected
area and choose Merge All [12].
[12] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic12.jpg

* We want just the squared text, so again choose the rectangular
selection tool, and select just the text area [13].
[13] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic13.jpg

* Select Edit and Crop [14] to eliminate extraneous areas surrounding
the text [15].
[14] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic14.jpg
[15] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic15.jpg

Step 4: Correct the Density:
The graphic is lighter at the top than at the bottom, in fact it
starts to get darker starting at about the last line of the second
paragraph, and reaches its darkest at about the last line of the third
paragraph [16].
[16] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic16.jpg

We are going to create a mask so that we can lighten only the lower
portion. To do this, click on the Mask tool located along the lower
right-hand area of the screen [17]. This applies a red partially
transparent screen over the entire graphic, and changes the color bars

to grayscale. This is the mask, and we are going to modify it for our
purpose.
[17] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic17.jpg

* Select the Liner Gradient tool at the bottom of the left-hand tool
bar, then make sure that the gradient is set to range from white to
black, by clicking on the two squares in the attribute bar, and making
the left one white, and the right one black [18].
[18] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic18.jpg

* Starting at the bottom of the second paragraph, left click and hold
then drag down to the bottom of the third paragraph and release [19].
This creates an area at the bottom of the mask, which is transparent,
but also an area in the middle of the graphic, which gradually becomes
less transparent [20]. Whatever we do to the graphic with this
selection will only affect the transparent, or partially transparent
areas.
[19] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic19.jpg
[20] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic20.jpg

* To lock and apply the mask, again click on the mask tool, and the
red screen disappears, and a selection marquee appears on the graphic
[21]. This selected area represents the mask, and changes we make to
the graphic will be applied only to the areas as were designated by
the mask. If we lighten or change the contrast now, it will be
applied 100% to the lower area, and gradually from 100% to 0% to the
middle area, and 0% to the top area.
[21] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic21.jpg

* To change the density of the photo as controlled by the mask, left
click on the plus side of the Brightness Quick Tuning tool six times
[22]. Next, click three times on the plus side of the Contrast Quick
Tuning. Notice that the brightness and contrast have a great effect on
the selected area, and a gradual effect on the middle of the graphic
and no effect on the top of the graphic. The mask we created is
controlling this effect.
[22] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic22.jpg

* To correct the graphic so that it has a whiter background and
darker text, right click in the selected area and choose Merge All
[23]. Next choose Effect, Special and Two Color from the Menu
Bar [24].
[23] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic23.jpg
[24] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic24.jpg

* The window that comes up [25], allows you to change the brightness
of the bright areas, and the darkness of the dark areas. You can move
the brightness and darkness slider bars and see what effect it has on
your graphic in the thumbnail, or you can select preview, and see the
effect on your entire graphic. Find the density you prefer and click
OK [26].
[25] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic25.jpg
[26] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic26.jpg

* In the view percentage window click on the down arrow and select
100% [27]. The 100% view comes up [28].
[27] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic27.jpg
[28] http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/112102/graphic28.jpg

Well, that's quite a bit to digest, so we will close until next issue.
Please let me know if you run into any problems following the exercise
or have additional questions. Until next issue, think digitally--Denny

Contributed by Dennis Ridenour, or


Note: To download previous issues of "UpFront with NGS" go to
http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/archives.

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News Item
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Major Leslie Peacock to Speak at SBCGS

What: South Bay Cities Genealogical Society (SBCGS) welcomes the
renowned Major Leslie Peacock, Director of Missing Persons, Western
Territorial Headquarters, of the Salvation Army. She will be speaking
on "Just out of Touch - Searching for Living Relatives." Major
Peacock will give suggestions and requirements for beginning the
search for that "long-lost," though possibly still alive, relative.

Where: Torrance Civic Center Library, Public Meeting Room, 3301
Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA

When: 7:00 pm., Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Information: Free. EVERYONE WELCOME. Coffee available.
For details see our Website: at htp://www.rootsweb.com/~casbcgs

Contributed by Karen K. Fitch

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Family Reunion Calendar
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To add your family reunion to this calendar, please send an
announcement to

To view a complete list of other coming events visit
http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/newscoming.htm

June 12-14, 2003 (new)
The BUNKER Family Association will hold its 90th annual meeting and
reunion in Portsmouth, NH on June 12-14, 2003. All Bunkers and
persons related to Bunkers are welcome. There will be visits to old
Bunker burial grounds and the Bunker Garrison House site built by
James Bunker c. 1660. Many Bunker artifacts, books and pictures will
be on display. For more information, contact Gil Bunker at
, 9 Sommerset Rd., Turnersville, NJ 08012-2122 or
check the website at http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org

June 13-15, 2003 (new)
The descendants of Samuel SLADE will gather evening of June 13th, full
day on 14th, and those interested in staying for church on Sunday
June 15th, 2003. This event will be held at Fincher United Methodist
Church, Meansville, Pike County, Georgia. We are seeking names and
addresses of interested parties. For further information please
contact Barbara Slade Dayhuff,

June 21, 2003
The PINEGAR Family will be holding the annual PINEGAR family reunion
in the Des Moines, IA area on 21 June 2003. We are seeking names and
addresses of all relatives so we can contact each and every one
possible. We are planning a fun filled day for all and hoping to
exchange family pictures along with family history.
For further info contact :

June 28, 2003
Armand Allard DUPLANTIER: A Family Reunion and Celebration of Armand
Duplantier's 250th birthday will be held Saturday, June 28, 2003, at
Magnolia Mound Plantation in Baton Rouge, LA. All descendants of
Armand Duplantier are invited to attend. If you are a descendant of
Armand Duplantier, please mail or e-mail your name, address, phone
number and e-mail address to Margo Duplantier Rhinehart, 712
Carondelet St, Mandeville, LA 70448, e-mail:
We would also like to have the names and addresses of any other
descendants you might know. If possible, please let us know how you
are descended. Some of the other family names descended from Armand
are Favrot, Peniston, Reynaud, Toca, Hatkinson, Fortin, Laquier,
Aucoin, Meffre-Rouzan, Kleinpeter, Burke, Randolf, D'Armond, Hathorn,

Noland, Lamon, and others. If you think you might be a descendant but
aren't sure, let us know and we will try to help find out. We will
put you on our mailing list for this exciting event, and further
information will be sent out soon. In the meantime, please visit our
Website at http://www.duplantier.org.

July 4, 2003
The GIACOLETTI family of BISBEE, ARIZONA will be having their family
reunion on 04 July 2003 at the GIACOLETTI Ranch in Bisbee, Arizona.
If more information is needed please contact

July 18, 19, 20, 2003
"Mother Cumberland-A Harvest of Memories: Reunion 2003" will be hosted
by the Brady Family Heritage Association on July 18, 19, 20, 2003
at the Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania. For more information contact Donna Cuillard at
or visit the Brady Family Heritage Association Web
site at http://bradyheritage.org/reunion2003.htm

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NGS Contact Information
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National Genealogical Society
4527 17th Street North
Arlington, Virginia 22207-2399
Phone: (703) 525-0050 or (800) 473-0060
Fax: (703) 525-0052
E-mail:
http://www.NGSgenealogy.org

Membership

http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/member.htm

Conferences

http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/conf.htm

Learning Center

http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/edu.htm

Member Resource Center

http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/libwelcome1.htm

Volunteers


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