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Family Trees

There will not be a “traditional” newsletter this month. This will allow us to make a major upgrade in our Family Tree pages. This is an extensive core upgrade and will take some time so access to the new Family Trees pages (formerly the Genealogy Pages) will be intermittent. Please bear with us during this upgrade.

Coming Soon: Video Tutorials

Video tutorials will be added to the web site in the near future. These video tutorials are an adjunct to the text tutorials already on the web site. The videos will concentrate on the use of the Family Trees pages, i.e. how to add your own tree, upload a gedcom, manually add people, photos, documents, etc. These video will be a great help to those members starting their own family tree on the web site! Keep a lookout for them!

Several of the family trees have been updated—check them out!
We plan several more upgrades and additions to the web site in the coming months so keep checking back!

We are now taking member contributions for our July newsletter so please start thinking of what you’d like to submit, i.e. an old family recipe, a story, a mystery photo or brick wall, feature an ancestor, give us an update on what you have been doing, etc. Any and all contributions are welcomed! Please try to have your contributions in by June 28th although we have taken them up until the wire!

The Staff

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   This week, Mr. & Mrs. Allman and four other couples are second-honeymooning at the Tie the Knot Lodge, with each couple staying in the same cottage in which they honeymooned when they first got married, including one couple in the garishly red-and-pink Valentine Cottage. Each of the couples, including Michelle and her husband, is also celebrating a wedding anniversary, with no two couples having been wed the same number of years. Given the clues below, can you find each second honeymoon couple’s full names, the cottage in which they are celebrating, and the number of years they have been husband-and-wife?

   1. The couples have been married from a high of 50 years to a low of 15 years; the couple married the shortest time isn’t Karen and her spouse.

   2. Mr. & Mrs. Epstein have been married twice as long as Will and his wife; neither is the couple second-honeymooning in the Bridal Veil Cottage.

   3. Steve and Mr. Bronson enjoy a daily round of golf together while their wives play tennis.

   4. For Leah Dixon and her husband, it is their first return to Tie the Knot Lodge since their original honeymoon.

   5. Rick and his wife have been wed 10 years longer than the Chandlers.

   6. Jasmine and her spouse have been husband-and-wife twice as long as the couple staying in the Rose Cottage.

   7. Nina and her mate have been married 10 years longer than Paul and his wife and 20 years longer than the couple second-honeymooning in Cupid’s Cottage.

   8. Ted and his wife have been wed 10 fewer years than the couple who are staying in True Love Cottage; the latter are not Mr. & Mrs. Bronson.

   9. Will and his wife aren’t lodging in Cupid’s Cottage or in Rose Cottage.

   10. The couple staying in Bridal Veil Cottage is neither Jasmine and her husband nor Nina and her spouse.

   This month’s prize is the “How To Use The New FamilySearch Correctly” by George W. Scott and, a full set of blank census forms, 1790 – 1930!

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   Each issue of the newsletter features a monthly contest for members to complete and submit for a chance to win a prize. The rules are pretty simple:

   1. You must be a member of Shared Ancestors and/or GeneaBlogs to participate. No purchase necessary.

   2. Complete that month’s contest and email your solution to the Admin. The first correct solution received will be the winner of that month’s prize. Regardless, entries must be received by the 25th of each month.

   3. That month’s winner, along with the solution, will be announced in the next month’s newsletter. The winner will be notified by email that they have won. The winner will then need to email their address to: Contest so that their prize can be mailed to them. If none of the entries received have a correct solution the prize will not be awarded that month.

There was not a winning entry for last month’s contest.

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Starting this issue, each newsletter will feature a monthly contest for members to complete and submit for a chance to win a prize.

The rules are pretty simple:

1. You must be a member of Shared Ancestors and/or GeneaBlogs to participate. No purchase necessary.

2. Complete that month’s contest and email your solution to the Admin. The first correct solution received will be the winner of that month’s prize. Regardless, entries must be received by the 25th of each month.

3. That month’s winner, along with the solution, will be announced in the next month’s newsletter. The winner will be notified by email that they have won. The winner will then need to email their address to the Admin so that their prize can be mailed to them. If none of the entries received have a correct solution the prize will not be awarded that month.

Enjoy and Good Luck!

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Hello Everyone!

We have a great newsletter for you. It includes our monthly regulars such as the Mystery Photo and old family recipes as well as our newest members. We have added some interesting “tidbits” as well as Irish roots genealogy in keeping with the St. Patrick’s Day spirit – we hope you enjoy it. And when you’re done please pass it on to your family and friends!

This month we are very excited to be kicking off our new monthly “Contest & Prizes”. Each month the Shared Ancestors newsletter will feature a contest with some type of “puzzle” for members to solve and then submit. The first correct solution received will be the winner and the winning member will receive that month’s prize.  Any member of Shared Ancestors and/or GeneaBlogs can participate; only the Admin will have access to the solution so all other members can participate, including Moderators, etc. There is no purchase necessary nor any strings attached – so get started and be the first to get your correct solution in so you can win this month’s great prize!

We are now taking member contributions for our April newsletter so please start thinking of what you’d like to submit. We ask that you have your submissions emailed to the Admin by Mar. 27th so they can be included in the April edition.

We would like to wish you and yours a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

The Staff

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Well here it is, February already! Soon it will be Spring and if you are like the staff here at Shared Ancestors you are more than ready for it!

The February 2010 newsletter has been email to our members and is also posted online. We have a great newsletter for you. It includes our monthly regulars such as the Mystery Photo and old family recipes as well as our newest members. We have added some interesting historical “tidbits” in keeping with the Valentine’s Day spirit – we hope you enjoy it. And when you’re done please pass it on to your family and friends!

We are now taking member contributions for our March newsletter so please start thinking of what you’d like to submit. We ask that you have your submissions emailed to the Admin by Feb. 26th so they can be included in the March edition.

We would like to wish you and yours a Happy Valentine’s Day!

The Staff

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Three new recipes have been added to Shared Ancestors Family Recipe section. These 3 recipes are from my grandmother, Alexa Sevilla “Lexie” Garrett. They are old family recipes and I hope you enjoy them!

We also have 4 new members at Shared Ancestors: jwmw2006, DMFD305, ChinoMom, and Leng – Welcome to our web site and have fun!

If you have not signed up for membership to Shared Ancestors then we invite you to do so. It is loaded with genealogy info, photos, documents as well as family trees, etc. You will not be disappointed!

We have a new GeneaBlogs member: scott – Welcome and we encourage you to also sign up for your own blog!

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   We have emailed our January 2010 newsletter to members and it is now posted online. It is full of great recipes, genealogy info, family news, etc. We hope you enjoy this month’s issue and when you are done we ask that you pass or email it to all of your family friends!

Happy New Year!
The Staff at Shared Ancestors and GeneaBlogs

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   Over a year ago we began this journey by introducing our  genealogy “parent site”  -  Shared Ancestors. With time and toil we’ve managed to set a solid base for a great genealogy site. In late July 2009 members received the first of our monthly newsletters. We hope you have enjoyed them; the staff has worked hard to bring you a newsletter that is not only informative, but enjoyable as well. Once Shared Ancestors was established we felt there was a need for a genealogy based blogging site that offered researchers free space devoid of annoying ads and such. In August 2009 this desire was fulfilled and GeneaBlogs was born.

   Many members have contributed to the sites, as well as the newsletters, and we greatly appreciate their participation and help. The staff at Shared Ancestors and GeneaBlogs would  like to thank each and every member for their patience and support the past year – we couldn’t have done it without you!

From the Staff at Shared Ancestors and GeneaBlogs……

“We wish you and yours Peace, Love, and Happy Holidays!”

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NEW – Members can now request web space for their own Family Tree(s) by going to the Support link under Main Menu and opening a ticket under Family Trees. You must include the name of your Family Tree (what you want your tree to be called) and whether you want to allow gedcom downloads or not.   That’’s it! The admin will create your webspace, give you proper administration rights, and then email you when your family tree space is ready. Please allow 24-72 hours for this to be completed. NOTE: please be sure the email you have registered with Shared Ancestors is up to date. If you do not receive an email informing you that your family tree is ready in this time frame then please Contact Us! Also be sure to take a look at our Tutorials now online!

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Can you believe that it is already December? And to prove it our December 2009 Newsletter has been emailed to our members and is also posted online! It’s a fun holiday issue packed with lots of info so take a minute, fix a cup of hot cocoa, and sit back and enjoy it! And when you’re done please pass it to your family and friends.

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