Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leaner's plaintive cry was heard by a volunteer researcher, who told Leaner about the Social Security Death Index. That was the breakthrough Leaner needed, allowing her to move out onto the Internet and into libraries, gathering snippets about her heritage. Now, thanks to scores of websites and chat groups, she has traced her great-great-grandparents back to Mississippi, found the cemetery in Hines County where they are buried, obtained a copy of their 1874 marriage license--along with the World War I draft card of a great-grandfather--and in the process, discovered the thrill of cyberrooting...
...mortality, and various ethnic groups exploring their pride and place in a multicultural society. Powering the phenomenon are the new tools of the digital age: computer programs that turn the search for family trees into an addiction; websites that make it easy to find and share information; and chat rooms filled with folks seeking advice and swapping leads. "The Internet has helped democratize genealogy," says Stephen Kyner, editor of The Computer Genealogist magazine...
...says, with a laugh. Lately, Harold Brooks-Baker--head of Burke's Peerage, the British company that does genealogical searches--sees a change. People are less obsessed with nobility and more with the dramatic. "If their ancestor was a horse thief, all the better," he says. Care to chat about family skeletons? The International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists has set up a website and an electronic mailing list for "those who have a dastardly, infamous individual of public knowledge and ill repute in their family...
...clunky, state-run institution until two years ago and the only bank in Korea allowed to make mortgage loans to home buyers. Lending money used to be a relaxed affair. Loan officers decided what a property was worth after a quick look at the house and a chat with the owner or a local real estate agent. Assessments were so rough that the bank could count just 30% of the assessed home value as collateral, and could only lend accordingly. The system was also open to bribery--slipping an envelope full of cash to a bank official was a good...
Before making your choice, ask around at your local genealogical society, through mailing lists and even in website chat rooms for advice. The good news is that it's not hard to export data if you later decide to switch from one software package to another. But don't try to run these products on an old 486; you'll get the best performance on a Pentium-class machine. And save plenty of room on your hard drive. The better you get at tracing your ancestral past, the more you'll need the space...