Are there any formats circulating to document famly disease processes to provide an historical view for the upcoming clan?

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I haven't upgraded to the new Family Tree Maker 2010 yet. I've been looking at the features and reviews and can't make up my mind. What do you think about FTM 2010?

Before you set out on your next genealogy research trip be sure to check your supplies to make sure that you don’t miss a single opportunity to uncover your family’s heritage.

We’re all busy and anxious to get started on our journey. But if we are not properly prepared there’s a chance that we might miss a perfect opportunity to witness a new family story or capture a photo that answers a question that has plagued you for decades.

When it comes to dates – there are lots of rules and lots of exceptions. We've all experienced coming across a date of 08/11/1804 and trying to decide if it is August 11 or November 8. Here are a few common tools and rules that you can use to have a better chance of getting it right.

I was searching the web for interesting stories and found an article in Ancestry.com that sparked my imagination. I have always been interested in photography since I got my first Brownie camera when I was ten years old. The article talked about building a digital camera that could capture images in all sorts of light – infrared, ultraviolet, incandescent and more.

I just found out that Ancestry.com has improved their search engine.

In the past, if I searched for someone with a birth date in the early 1800s I could expect to see results from the 1930 census or other 1900-era records. Sometimes this resulted in lots of untimely results that we scanned through to make sure we didn't miss an important fact.

Everywhere I look I see online genealogy databases that promise instant access to your ancestors. I spent hundreds of hours sifting through any website that I could find looking for that illusive ancestor that seems just out of reach. I bet you have done the same.

All over the internet we see people advertizing the best family tree software…but I am NOT going to! Computer software, like clothes, colors, cars and hairstyles are not "one-size-fits-all".

I thought that this might be a good time to review all of the family tree forms that are available on this website. We all see forms every day. Forms for government, banks, sign-up forms, questionnaires, they are everywhere.

We ignore most of them. However, forms add important structure to our research efforts. The forms themselves will never uncover our ancestor's vital statistics and their stories. But they will help us make sure that we are asking the right questions and carefully recording that information for future use.