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Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:18:32 -0400
From: Rick Roberts <editor(a)globalgazette.net>
To: BOSTON-STATES-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [Bos-St] New Articles May 2002 - The Global Gazette,
Online Genealogy & History Magazine
Resent-Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 13:10:17 -0600
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This email is a notification that there are new Global Gazette history & genealogy
articles posted. It contains a short description of each article, with a hot-link to the
full story.
Each article has a specific link listed for it. If you want to access the all articles
from a single web page, check out
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SUMMARY OF ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE:
Articles Published May 16, 2002
Resources of The Public Record Office (London, England)
By: Roger E. Nixon. The earliest records held at the PRO date from the Norman period and
include the Domesday Book of 1086 and run on right up to the most recent times. Roger
discusses the records held and provides a list of helpful resources. Read the story at:
http://globalgazette.net/gazrr/gazrr82.htm
LEGACY Family Tree (software) Workshop on June 8, 2002
A reminder of upcoming workshops with "the factory guy" Geoffrey Rasmussen. Read
the story at:
http://globalgazette.net/gaztec/gaztec82.htm
What Is the "Genealogical Proof Standard"?
By Brenda Dougall Merriman. Preponderance of the evidence, a phrase so familiar to a
generation of genealogists, is still alive and well, and still being employed daily in
civil court issues�where it belongs. But you may have noticed that the phrase is being
used less and less in the North American genealogy community. And a new phrase,
Genealogical Proof Standard, is replacing it. Read the story at:
http://globalgazette.net/gazbm/gazbm082.htm
GEDCOM Explained
By: Dick Eastman. "What is GEDCOM?" Here is a brief, non-technical explanation
of the term. Read the story at:
http://globalgazette.net/gazrr/gazrr82a.htm
Digital Imaging For Family Historians
By Rick Roberts.
�Digital imaging� has been a boon to those family historians who have an interest in
including pictures, images of documents, correspondence & maps in their family
histories. Read the story at:
http://globalgazette.net/gaztec/gaztec80.htm
POST-1901 CENSUS NEWS (Canada)
By: Gordon A. Watts. On Friday 10 May 2002 our lawyer, Lois Sparling was in Ottawa to
cross-examine representatives of Chief Statistician Ivan Fellegi (Mary Ledoux) and
National Archivist Ian Wilson (Greg Eamon).
Read the story at:
http://globalgazette.net/gazce/gazce82.htm
UPCOMING EVENTS
By: Rick Roberts
This is a listing of genealogy, history, reunions and heritage events around the world
that readers may be interested in. All have been submitted by their organizers for
inclusion in The Global Gazette. If you have a conference, workshop (non-profit) or
reunion which you would like to see listed here, send me an email at the email address
provided in the article, and we would be happy to include it. To check out Upcoming Events
go to:
http://www.globalgazette.net/events/events.htm
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