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Ancestry Magazine July Aug 2008

Ancestry Magazine July Aug 2008 Summary (AI-generated with Claude from the OCR text): The July/August 2008 issue of Ancestry Magazine, published by The Generations Network, centres on the theme of 'dream ancestors' and on the value of National Archives regional collections, which Executive Editor Loretto Szucs highlights in her editor's note. The cover feature, 'If Wishes Were Ancestors', asks four family history experts (George G. Morgan, Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Mary Penner and Katherine Hope Borges) to choose ideal ancestors by different criteria: inherited heirlooms, DNA, a rich paper trail, or good stories. Their picks include Abraham Lincoln, Rembrandt, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis and Clark, Pocahontas, Davy Crockett, Wyatt Earp, a Salem witch and the Roanoke colonists. The issue also includes a Q&A with Christopher Haley, nephew of Roots author Alex Haley. Other major pieces include a reader's family legend about descent from the Polish throne, investigated by Ceil Wendt Jensen using ship manifests, census records and Latin parish registers. Ellen Notbohm describes travelling to Edmonton to trace a step-relative, with advice on preparing for archive visits and on the differenc

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