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Newspaper Columns
Arizona
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Green Valley
— Green Valley News & Sun, “Genealogy Today” by
Betty Malesky
is published monthly. The column focuses on education, research
techniques, and current news in the world of genealogy today. Queries
are not accepted at this time. Articles will soon be archived on the
societys website:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~azgvgs/ |
California
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Chico and
Oroville — Enterprise-Record and Mercury Register. "AncestreeSeekers,"
published monthly. Queries connected to Butte, Glenn, and Tehema
counties are accepted. Carllene Marek.
Contact. Carllene Marek, snail mail: P.O. Box 1030, Magalia, CA 95954. |
Colorado
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Broomfield —
Broomfield Enterprise. A monthly genealogy column by
Julie Miller, CG, appears on
the Family page the second or third Saturday of the month. Short queries
pertaining to genealogy are free. Archived articles can be found at:
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/brf_ftr_columnists/ |
Illinois
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Champaign —
News Gazette. "Illinois Ancestors," by
Joan Griffis. Published weekly on
Thursday, it is directed to any Illinois reader, but principally in the
central counties.
Danville — Commercial News. "Illinois
Ancestors," by Joan Griffis.
Published weekly in the Sunday edition and is relevant to readers in
east-central Illinois and west-central Indiana. |
Indiana
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South Bend — South
Bend Tribune. Barbara Harman
authors the Michiana Roots genealogy column that appears weekly
on the History page in the Sunday Punch Section of this newspaper. She
also writes the News and Notes column about area genealogical
events and meets. It runs on the Sunday History page also. The South
Bend Tribune coverage area includes the northern Indiana counties of
St. Joseph County, including the University of Notre Dame, Elkhart,
LaPorte, and portions of Starke, Marshall, Lagrange, and Kosciusko
counties and the lower Michigan counties of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren,
and St. Joseph. The column focuses on local and national genealogical
seminars and events, education, and general feature stories of
genealogical and historical interest in the coverage area. Past columns
are available for viewing. Access the
library or archives page and type in a keyword or author's name with
a date to access the column. Queries are not accepted for print. Harm
also provides private historical and genealogical research and
cemetery/homestead photography is available. Include specific
information in a query, along with your name, address, phone number and
e-mail address. For column or query information, write to: Barbara S.
Harman, P.O. Box 634, Granger, IN 46530 or by
e-mail. |
Louisiana
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Hammond —
The Sunday Star.
(Sunday edition of the Daily Star). A column in two
parts — "Relatively Yours" and "Tangi Ancestry Lost & Found," by
Phyllis Edwards (under the
pen name of Mizzee) is published in the Sunday Star. The
first part is educational and the second part, called Tangi Ancestry
Lost & Found, contains queries posted by those searching for their
ancestors in the Tangipahoa area of Louisiana (also called the Florida
Parishes). The column also appears in the following Louisiana
newspapers:
Amite Tangi Digest; Kentwood Ledger, and
the St. Helen Echo (located in Greensburg).
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Ohio
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Cuyahoga County—Sun
Newspapers. "Let's
Talk Genealogy" by Diana
Crisman Smith appeared twice a month in all editions of the weekly
suburban Cleveland newspaper from 2001-2003. The articles focused on
tips and techniques for family research at all skill levels, reviews of
helpful resources (both new and established), and announcement of
upcoming genealogical events at the local, state and national level. |
Oklahoma
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Lawton—Lawton
Constitution. "Tree Tracers" by
Aulena Scearce Gibson,
published every Saturday, since September 1979. Queries accepted, but
must have a southwest Oklahoma connection.
Oklahoma City—The
Daily Oklahoman; "We The People" by
Sharon King Burns, published
every Monday, since 1975. Queries accepted from submitter living in
Oklahoma or submitter living in other states with Oklahoma ancestors,
family reunions with Oklahoma ties, Oklahoma Society meetings, or
questions about Oklahoma records. |
Texas
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Houston —
Our Loose Ends' Genealogy Column by
Lynna Kay Shuffield
http://www.geocities.com/lks_friday/COLUMN-001.htm My Loose Ends'
Family Tree Databasehttp://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=friday
Victoria — The Victoria Advocate.
"Relatively Speaking," by
Martha E. Jones, Ph.D.,
is published each Sunday and is
online. Click on
"Columns," then "Relatively Speaking" link. Queries on Texas Coastal
Bend counties and south Texas are accepted. Queries also can be
submitted to: Martha E. Jones, Ph.D., The Victoria Advocate, LifeStyle,
P.O. Box 1518, Victoria, TX 77902; please include a SASE. |
Utah
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Cache County —
Logan Herald Journal. "It's
All Relatives," by
Helen LaRae Free VanderBeek
Kerr is a regular column, which is also published from time to time
by Magna Times, West Valley News, Kearns Post, Emery County Progress,
and Wasatch Wave. Kerr also writes a column for the Desert Saints
Magazine of Las Vegas.
Davis County — Davis County
Clipper. "Family History Mysteries," by
Carole O. Cole, is a weekly
column that features human-interest/research stories as well as how-to
information (no queries) |
Washington
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Clark County —
Vancouver Columbian. "Genealogy Today,"
by Connie Lenzen, CGRS, is a
weekly column that features local resources and repositories, Internet
resources, and local happenings. No genealogical queries accepted, but
news releases, announcements and suggestions for column topics are
welcome via e-mail. It currently appears each Thursday and can be found
in the obituary section of the newspaper's website:
http://www.columbian.com/
Articles are archived there; do a search for "genealogy."
Seattle (Ballard)
-- The
Norwegian American Weekly
(formerly the
Western Viking) is a
weekly bilingual ethnic newspaper bringing the latest news from
Scandinavia to America and Canada. The paper reports news from Norway as
well as the many Scandinavian communities in North America to an
estimated readership of 20,000 per week. The 117 year old publication
is the continuation of six of the 562 Norwegian newspapers which have
existed in America, including
Decorah Posten,
Ved Arnen, Minnneapolis-Tidende, Minnesota Posten, Washington Posten,
Norrøna and
Skandiaben, and is published
every Friday, mailed to over 20,000 subscribers in 21 countries.
"Emigrant / Immigrant Passages" is a
weekly column, written by
Luci J Baker Johnson,
and provides readers with brief annotated descriptions of recent
publications, articles, and books; unique finding aids available to
researchers; notes about college and university dissertations;
announcements concerning upcoming lectures, workshops, and seminars;
brief profiles of who's doing what in relation to Norwegian-American
genealogical and historical research; and reprints of relevant
historical news items that have appeared in this newspaper during the
past 118 years. Individuals who have pertinent news, announcements or
suggestions of column topics are welcome to contact Luci via e-mail.
Contact: email:
ljbj@earthlink.net
or snail-mail: Luci J Baker Johnson, c/o Norwegian American Weekly,
7301 Fifth Ave NW, Suite A, Seattle, WA 98115.
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Denmark / Canada |
The Danish Pioneer
- "Forbindelser," a bi-weekly genealogy column by
Lisa D. Petersen, discusses
research in Danish records, internet resources, U.S. and Canadian
records where information about Danish immigrants can be found. Queries
published once a month are currently for researchers in Denmark who are
seeking lost relatives in the U.S. and Canada.
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