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...more complex picture of race relations in early America. Combined with new literature and scholarship on the African American experience such as John Hope Franklin's Runaway Slaves, the companion to the four-part, six-hour PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, and Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, the Encarta Africana, there is respect and understanding for the lives of African ancestors...
...wills, bills of sale and even dowries. Records from slave-ship cargo lists, captain's logbooks, ship route maps, white family histories and oral histories once available only in obscure books and dusty archives are available today on computer databases and widely disseminated via the Internet and on CD-ROMS...
...advertised, FAMILY TREE MAKER from Broderbund (about $82 for the deluxe 15-CD version; $45 for the four-CD version; Windows or Mac) is the easiest and most complete software package available--ideal for beginners. With more than 2 million in sales, it's also the industry leader. The 15-CD package includes a Family Finder index on three CDs, with information on more than 200 million people; two more CDs listing Social Security death-benefits records; five volumes of actual family trees for tens of thousands of families; and an international marriage-records index for more than 1 million...
ULTIMATE FAMILY TREE (about $50 for the five-CD platinum version; $30 for the two-CD deluxe; Windows) by Palladium is another top-selling program whose own genealogy is as complex as any family's. Palladium was bought out in December by the Learning Company, which two months earlier had acquired Broderbund, which itself had acquired two other genealogy-software publishers. A few days after the Palladium deal was announced, Mattel said it would buy the Learning Company...
AMUSE YOURSELF This summer you can skip the long lines and outrageous prices at theme parks and design your own instead. The Legoland CD-ROM ($30, available in July) lets kids ages six and up build castles, waterways and monuments, then see how "visitors" like their design. If roller coasters are more your speed, Microprose's RollerCoaster Tycoon ($30, available now) lets you build fantasy rides, carousels and haunted houses. But don't forget the snack stands; hungry patrons can get grumpy...