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FROM THE EDITOR Big news today: Ancestry.com's announced it'll acquire iArchives.com, the parent company of Footnote.com. What's your take? Comment on our blog or Facebook page.
Also happening this week: Registration is open for our free two-week Family Tree University course on getting started in genealogy! Plus, more digitized slavery records have gone online, we're offering resources and tips for exploring German roots and searching online newspapers, and more.
Diane Haddad, Newsletter Editor
ftmnews-editor@fwpubs.com NEW THIS WEEK Ancestry.com to Acquire Footnote Read about Ancestry.com's acquisition of a competing, well-known online genealogy company.
Exploring German Roots Are you part of America's largest heritage group? We offer resources for researching your German ancestors.
Slavery Manuscripts Go Online The New York Historical Society has digitized nearly 12,000 pages of materials documenting US slavery.
Learn more about this collection and how to access it on the Genealogy Insider blog.
Free FTU Class for Beginning Genealogists The prospect of beginning your roots research can seem overwhelming, but we'll help you get started with our free, two-week Family Tree University course. Find out more about this course!
FROM THE FORUM Occupational Puzzlement
Help! Forum member Elistariel is looking for the meaning of a 1940 city directory abbreviation for an ancestor's occupation: fetywkr.
Know what this abbreviation means, or have a suggestion for how to find out? Post your thoughts to the Genealogy 101 Forum.
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PHOTO DETECTIVE  Photo Jewelry This week, Photo Detective Maureen A. Taylor analyzes a photo within a photo a lovely portrait of a woman wearing photo jewelry.
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Introducing Family Tree University Independent Study
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TIP OF THE WEEK Searching Online Newspapers Searching for ancestors in newspapers on sites such as GenealogyBank and the Google News Archive? These tips, from the Family Tree University course Newspaper Research 101: Find Your Ancestors in American News Sources, can help you find the folks you're looking for:
- Study the newspaper website's search tips and take any tutorials the site offers.
- Narrow your search to the city where your ancestor lived or to the newspaper covering the area, and to a date range covering the lifespan or event you're researching.
- Try alternate spellings of your ancestor's name, as well as any nicknames he or she used. If the site allows it, use wildcard characters to catch misspellings.
- See if the site lets you perform proximity searches. On GenealogyBank, for example, entering jacob NEAR/5 higgenbotham in the "include keywords" box find articles with the words jacob and higgenbotham within five words of each other, in any order.
- If your ancestor's last name is also a common word, or he shared a last name with a well-known local individual, see whether the site lets you exclude certain words to weed out irrelevant results.
- Optical character recognition, which is what makes newspapers searchable, isn't foolproof and sometimes misreads words. You may have to browse by navigating to newspapers published around the date of the event you're researching, then flipping through the pages.
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