The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
 Genealogists are experts at identifying deceased people. In fact, the same skills often work well at finding living people as well. Many genealogists find employment that involves locating missing heirs, finding criminals, or what is called "skip tracing:" finding people who skipped out of town with no known forwarding address. The ultimate challenge, however, would be to find D.B. Cooper. After all,...
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The Archives of Ontario has released online and microfilm versions of the 2009 accrual of Vital Statistics records from the Office of the Registrar General, comprising the 1913 birth, 1928 marriage, and 1938 death indexes and registrations. Consisting of more than 127,000 scanned images, the microfilm and its related finding aids are available at the Archives' Reading Room at 134 Ian Macdonald Boulevard in Toronto, Ontario, on York University's Keele Street campus, and at many local... Read the rest of the story »
Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire council archives have now been placed online. There are 46 collections consisting of 23,300 entries including school records,parochical board, poor relief and burlal registers and miltia records. The city of Aberdeen has the oldest and most complete sets of burgh records in Scotland, starting in 1398. They can be viewed at http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/archivecataloge My thanks to Bud Hanks for telling me about this online collection.
 Martha Stewart has discovered genealogy! At least, she has added family tree arts and crafts projects to her web site. MarthaStewart.com features 12 family tree designs suitable for framing. Projects include:
- Make a Family Tree - Branch out four generations of your family with a clip-art tree and clip-art name boxes illustrated by Darcy Miller, editorial director of Martha Stewart Weddings.
- Branching Out: New Takes on the Family Tree - Help your kids visualize their extended family in a...
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