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Winter 2008 • Vol. 9, No. 1

UP FRONT
Greetings from NEHGS D. Brenton Simons In This Issue Lynn Betlock Letters & Feedback Announcements • Annual Benefit Dinner • Subscribe now for the 2008 Great Migration Newsletter • TIARA Irish research conference • “Temple of the Arts and Sciences: Stories from British Historic Houses” • New Searchable Databases on NewEnglandAncestors.org • “Beginners in Genealogy” seminar in Concord, N.H. • Luncheon honors NEHGS volunteers • Vermont State Archives digitizes maps • Omission in the Annual Report • Obituaries • News and Notes from the Development Office • Special NEHGS Anniversaries Education Programs & Tours Technology & Genealogy Seminar, Massachusetts Archives Research Day, Weekend Research Getaway, Researching the United Kingdom and Ireland, National Archives Research Day, Quebec Research Tour, Come Home to New England, Online Educational Programs, Boston Educational Programs New England Online From the desk of the Online Genealogist David Allen Lambert

UP FRONT

Greetings from NEHGS
D. Brenton Simons

In This Issue
Lynn Betlock

Letters & Feedback

Announcements
• Annual Benefit Dinner
• Subscribe now for the 2008 Great Migration Newsletter
• TIARA Irish research conference
• “Temple of the Arts and Sciences: Stories from British Historic Houses”
• New Searchable Databases on NewEnglandAncestors.org
• “Beginners in Genealogy” seminar in Concord, N.H.
• Luncheon honors NEHGS volunteers
• Vermont State Archives digitizes maps
• Omission in the Annual Report
• Obituaries
• News and Notes from the Development Office
• Special NEHGS Anniversaries

Education Programs & Tours
Technology & Genealogy Seminar, Massachusetts Archives Research Day, Weekend Research Getaway, Researching the United Kingdom and Ireland, National Archives Research Day, Quebec Research Tour, Come Home to New England, Online Educational Programs, Boston Educational Programs

New England Online
From the desk of the Online Genealogist
David Allen Lambert

FEATURES
New England Missionaries Abroad: The Allen and Wheeler Families in the Ottoman Empire Jonathan Conant Page Lucy Thurston, Missionary Wife Betty Fullard-Leo Onward Christian Soldiers: Researching New England Missionary Ancestors Rhonda R. McClure By Faith Alone Bill Griffeth Zebina the Privateer: Pirate or Patriot? Barbara Sears McRae “That Merciless Element”: Introducing Perished in the Flames: Victims of Deadly Fires in New England Newspapers & Diaries 1675–1830 Christopher Benedetto An Irish Family Story Thomas R. Wilcox, Jr.

FEATURES

New England Missionaries Abroad: The Allen and Wheeler Families in the Ottoman Empire
Jonathan Conant Page

Lucy Thurston, Missionary Wife
Betty Fullard-Leo

Onward Christian Soldiers: Researching New England Missionary Ancestors
Rhonda R. McClure

By Faith Alone
Bill Griffeth

Zebina the Privateer: Pirate or Patriot?
Barbara Sears McRae

“That Merciless Element”: Introducing Perished in the Flames: Victims of Deadly Fires in New England Newspapers & Diaries 1675–1830
Christopher Benedetto

An Irish Family Story
Thomas R. Wilcox, Jr.

COLUMNS
Computer Genealogist Google Books and Google Scholar Michael J. Leclerc Computer Genealogist Spotlight Immigration Sources Online from Harvard University Connie Reik Genetics & Genealogy DNA Q&A Curtis Rogers Manuscripts at NEHGS Preserving a Family’s Legacy: The Thaxter Parks Spencer Collection Judith Lucey Diaries at NEHGS The Diary of Martha Ann Kuhn Robert Shaw Bible Records at NEHGS The Jesse Ives Bible Record Robert Shaw Tales from the Courthouse Drinking with the Drummer Diane Rapaport

COLUMNS

Computer Genealogist
Google Books and Google Scholar
Michael J. Leclerc

Computer Genealogist Spotlight
Immigration Sources Online from Harvard University
Connie Reik

Genetics & Genealogy
DNA Q&A
Curtis Rogers

Manuscripts at NEHGS
Preserving a Family’s Legacy: The Thaxter Parks Spencer Collection
Judith Lucey

Diaries at NEHGS
The Diary of Martha Ann Kuhn
Robert Shaw

Bible Records at NEHGS
The Jesse Ives Bible Record
Robert Shaw

Tales from the Courthouse
Drinking with the Drummer
Diane Rapaport

FAMILY FOCUS
Genealogies in Progress, Genealogies Recently Published, Other Books & CDs Recently Published, Family Associations, DNA Studies in Progress

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