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Ancestry Magazine Jan Feb 2009

Ancestry Magazine Jan Feb 2009 Summary (AI-generated with Claude from the OCR text): This issue of Ancestry magazine, published by The Generations Network, is the second annual research special, devoted to finding the childhoods of ancestors. The main feature, 'Oh, the Game Kids Play', brings together expert advice on records created in early life. It covers birth and civil records, Quaker and slave birth records, shipboard births, hospital records, church and religious records (baptism, confirmation, Sunday school, Jewish mohelbuchs), school records, adoption research and orphan trains. It also gives overviews of childhood records in the UK, Germany, France and Italy, plus advice on naming patterns and on finding 'missing' children through city directories and census clues. A timeline of children's games, from ancient Egypt to Pong, accompanies it. Other features include Jennie Kaufman's 'Scourges of the 19th Century' on cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis, swill milk, infant mortality and the 1918 flu, with a sidebar on the Ellis Island hospital. Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak describes the Unclaimed Persons volunteer project that pairs genealogists with coroners. Howard Wolinsky's 'B

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