Topic: Research

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• <font class="feature" face="Arial" color="#555588">Timeline Chart- You can now chart up to 4 people on a single timeline. From the timeline chart you can see how people's lives overlapped, find out how old they were at different times and chart the course of their life through time.
  
• <font class="feature" face="Arial" color="#555588">Print Preview Mode- Print your pedigree charts and any other page in phpGedView without all the headers and footers--just the information that you want.
  
• <font class="feature" face="Arial" color="#555588">Multiple Language Support- phpGedView now supports multiple languages by using language files. phpGedView is currently packaged with English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Russian, Italian, Polish, and Turkish<font color="red"> NEW language files. Users can also change the language they are viewing when they visit your site.
  
• <font class="feature" face="Arial" color="#555588">GEDCOM Clippings Cart - The clippings cart gives visitors to your site the ability to take Family Tree Clippings from your family tree, download them as a GEDCOM file and import them into their favorite family history program.
  
• <font class="feature" face="Arial" color="#555588">Multiple Generation Pedigree Chart - View as many generations as you want and quickly navigate up and down the pedigree tree. Click on any person or family to get their details.
  
• <font class="feature" face="Arial" color="#555588">General Keyword and Soundex Searches - Search the entire GEDCOM file for keywords or based on Soundex values of individuals last and first names.
  
• <font class="feature" face="Arial" color="#555588">Descendancy Chart Navigation - View descendency charts and move up and down the chart or easily switch branches with simple mouse clicks.

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<font face="arial" size="2">This awesome map site was submitted by Donald R. Fenrich Jr. - Thank you!
Here is a brief description of the site:

<font face="arial" color="#000000" size="2">"The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection contains to date over 8,000 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection categories include old and antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children and manuscript maps. Genealogy and family history can be studied on the maps. The online collection is an expanding cross section of digital images designed to highlight the depth of the collection."

<font face="arial" size="2">http://www.davidrumsey.com/index.html

Another interesting document submitted by Sharon Lowe McDonnell. David Doom's Will and Probate is a fascinating study of the times, slavery, and family rifts...

The residue of my lands personal property and negroes Naples & her children excepted. I wish my executors as whoever may have charge of my estate to sell at public sale to the highest bidder immediately after my death and the property that I hereby set apart for the use of my said wife during her life. I also wish sold in the same manner by my executors or whoever may have charge of my estate immediately after her death and in the event of said wife dying dying before I do all my property to be sold in the way and manner here in before directed. A suit has been instituted against me in the Lyon Circuit Court by John B. EADS and others or the recovery of my Negroes Naples and her children & in the event of that suit being ultimately determined in my favor I wish her & her children also sold in the same way and manner as I have herein directed in relation to my other property. I hereby authorized my executors or whoever may be appointed to execute this will or take charge of my estate to execute such needs as may be necessary to convey my land to the purchaser. 

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