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Johnson said Hehir will fill an important place in the GSE curriculum,--and that his perspective as a former policy-maker would prove valuable...
Jefferson is the first public school to open in South Central Los Angeles in 30 years. Built on a site that was once home to a maker of refrigerator shells and, earlier, to a defense contractor that made fuel tanks for World War II fighter planes, it serves about 2,000 students, mostly poor, mostly minority. But across the street is the former home of a chrome-plating shop, a site so hazardous that it is scheduled for cleanup under the federal Superfund program. During construction of the school, it was discovered that the soil and groundwater under the building...
...parents doubles; by the time you hit 20 generations, it's up to more than a million. In two decades, genealogolist Cyr has collected data on 88,000 relatives and in-laws--going back to 17th century France--and stored the information on his desktop, using Family Tree Maker software (see box, next page...
...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...
...company insists there's plenty of room in a growing field where different programs appeal to different audiences. In UFT's case, the new owners are touting it as a user-friendly but powerful program that should appeal to more experienced genealogists than buyers of Family Tree Maker. Most of these products can still be used by either amateurs or professionals, depending on which user interface you like best and how much you want to spend...