Word: localize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found an organization, Palatines to America, which referred him to a German genealogist who found his grandfather's hometown, Hinterweidenthal. When he entered the village name in a search engine, he found a private e-mail address. Three weeks after e-mailing, he got a response from a local resident with the phone numbers of two Distler families in the town. In May 1996, three New World and 14 Old World Distlers met at a cozy German inn to celebrate. "Old Uncle Fritz had told me about the mysterious Distlers who journeyed to the other side of the Atlantic," says...
Federal records are rich troves for census, immigration and military records. Prison logs can be helpful too: "Pray that there were sinners in your family," says Denver Public Library genealogy specialist James Jeffrey. They root around local historical societies and county courthouses for land deeds, wills and probate, and tax rolls. "There's nothing like the smell of musty records, the feel of heavy deed books, the irritated look on the clerk's face when you say you're a genealogist," writes Sharon DeBartolo Carmack in The Genealogy Sourcebook. But the rewards are worth it: Alice Wilkinson, a retired Houston...
...punish the real killers. A spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) claimed at the time that the three U.S. humanitarian workers--Terence Freitas, 24, from California; Lahe'ena'e Gay, 39, from Hawaii; and Ingrid Washinawatok, 41, from Wisconsin--were abducted and killed by a local squad leader acting without higher orders. Their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered March 4. But Colombian military intelligence intercepted a radio conversation between the squad leader and his senior officer, German Briceno, in which Briceno ordered the squad leader to "kill these sons of bitches." Although an arrest order has been...
...best way to fight e-commerce, Hanson decided, was to join it. So, last fall he began shopping around for a way to establish a presence on the Internet. He contacted local Internet service providers (ISPs) and asked other small-business owners about their experiences. He settled on Global Store globalstore.net) a company that offered to get him uploaded and running for $5,000, plus $150 a month for maintenance...
...couple, both avid golfers, opened Southern Appeal (www. southernappeal.com) an online store that sells such golf-related trinkets as golf-club stands and golf-bag-shaped Christmas stockings. Before they could open for business, they had to obtain a merchant account number for credit-card transactions from a local bank in Roswell, Ga., and buy specialized software to keep track of inventory on someone else's shelves. It was a lot of extra trouble, but in the end it paid off: the Pinks have more than doubled sales each year, and their sales are already up 150% for the first...