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This month two nifty new genealogy apps have made their way onto my iPhone, which I thought some of you might find interesting.

I am researching Merritt E. ABBOTT . He is possibly of Native American ancestry.

George Stephanopoulos has learned that he may be genetically linked to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It was bad enough that President Barack Obama lost his filibuster-proof margin in the U.S. Senate to a Republican.

Fire destroyed residential units and several businesses when it ripped through an Otho Street complex in Inverell, New South Wales, Australia during the early hours of Sunday morning.

To make it easier to navigate to your account information (such as site preferences, email preferences, and alerts), we’ve created quick links in a drop down menu from the My Account link. With this change, account settings are now one click away from any page on the site.

These links replace the ones that used to be on the Collaborate pages just below the right side of the main navigation bar. If you prefer, you can continue to edit your account settings from the “My Account Information” section of the “My Account” main page.

Message Board Favorites Listed In the Message Boards
The message board favorites list has also moved. You used to have to click on Collaborate > Message Boards > My Favorites. Now you can easily get to the topics you care about from the main Message Boards page. Click on Message Boards under the Collaborate main navigation from any page on the site and your message board favorites are directly listed there. If you have a lot of message board favorites, you can click on the “See all favorites” button to get to your full list.

If you’ve never used the Message Boards, it’s a great place to post questions for other members to help you in your research. To keep track of message boards you want to follow, look for the star icon on the category and board pages to save topics to your message board favorites list.

James Edward Power married May Ferguson in 1900 & they went to live in South Africa where May died.

Please be aware that the Ancestry.com Family Tree Service will undergo scheduled maintenance early Thursday morning, 28 January 2010, from 12:00 AM to 1:30 AM Mountain Standard Time.

This tree service downtime will affect Ancestry Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My Canvas, the sections of the Home Page that are related to Member Trees, and the sections of MyFamily.com 2.0 that are related to Member Trees. Other than that, all other areas of the site will remain functional.

For the vast majority of our members living outside Mountain Daylight Time, 12:00 – 1:30 AM MST is the same as…

Coordinated Universal Time: 07:00 – 8:30 AM
In London: 7:00 – 8:30 AM
In Melbourne: 6:00 – 7:30 PM
In San Francisco: 11:00 PM – 12:30 AM
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Are you ROBERTA DEANNE BECK? Born in Kansas 1952, You mothers maiden name was Dorine Florence Wood.

Today, for the first time, you should notice an important email communication delivered to your Ancestry.com Messages inbox: the Ancestry.com Monthly Update, our monthly newsletter.

The online Messages feature is a place where members can anonymously contact one another to share research about common ancestors, as well as where we can send important company communications to all of our members at once. To access the Messages feature, simply click the “Messages” link at the top of any page on Ancestry.com.

The Ancestry.com Monthly Update (the newsletter) is one of the primary ways we communicate new record releases, site updates and company news, as well as provide educational resources in the form of articles, tips and advice from professional genealogists.

We’ve recently heard from some members that they are not receiving the newsletter in their email. While we continue to work hard to ensure the best email deliverability possible and will continue to send the newsletter by email, we also wanted to try delivering the newsletter directly to your Messages inbox on Ancestry.com.

By delivering the newsletter to you on the site we can make sure each of our members is getting the chance to hear about our latest content releases and site updates. It will also allow you to access the newsletter when you’re on the site and focused on your family history. If you’d like to save a newsletter to refer back to it (for example, for mention of a particular collection you were interested in or tip you wanted to try), the online Messages feature can also serve as a simple organizational tool for you.

As a courtesy to those who don’t want to receive the newsletter online through the Messages feature, we have also provided you with the opportunity to not receive future issues online.  Simply open the newsletter in your Messages inbox and click the “block this user” or “don’t send me messages like this” link.

We hope you check out the newsletter in your Messages inbox today and let us know what you think.