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Show SECTION SATURDAY, APRIL 12; EDITOR I Elyssa Andrus 344-255- 2008 eandrusheraldextra.com 3 LaRae Free Kerr It's All Relatives i REVIEW 8 STEPS OF x, RESEARCH - Here Allow the review to meet your needs. Read it through before you begin each new problem, Publish after the corrections in Step Eight. Enjoy the trip around the cycle and celebrate every new person you add to your database. I Step One: Obtain only the materials you need. First time around, I recommend Internet access, a genealogy computer program, some manila folders, a file box, a genealogy address book and a magazine. The second time around, purchase the resources you need to solve the problem on which you are working. You don't need to buy every genealogical thing available, though genealogy shopping is fun. I Step Two: Document everything you find for two reasons. First, documentation keeps you researching your own family, not someone else's. Second, you want others to be able to follow your research trail so they don't have to repeat it. When I started doing research nearly half a century ago, this step was not included in the research cycle. So much of the work older researchers did is not But that is no excuse for us not to document from this :7pf V " h.."v::''''':'-:i'-- '"' - ' DIEORA LAIRDCharlotte Observer at a Pure Fashion session on March 9 at St. Patrick's Cathedral Family Life Center in Charlotte, N.C., as she program working to instill virtue, beauty, dignity, purity and modesty in gets her pink Pure Fashion shirt. Pure Fashion is a Anna Case gives a thumbs-u- p faith-base- d teenage girls. nni re aey bringing aekiash sexy J dayoa I Step Three: Collect and copy family records. Your family has more information on your family than any repository. Collect and document. Never let down on this step. Remember who has the old family movies, the family Bible, the war-tim- e letters, etc. and ask for copies over and over. Interview and ask your whole life long. I Step Four Survey computer and printed sources. This step includes a thorough search at FamilySearch.org, both the databases and the card catalog for histories. Then search the large commercial databases they usually have one or more databases you can search for free such as Ancestry, com, genealogy.com and others. search Then do a search-engin- e for your ancestor on AltaVista, Google, etc. Check all appropriate censuses. Then put queries on message boards, mailing lists and newsgroups. I Step Five: Process the collected findings, match then extend. Match new information on a person to four pieces of old data. When you find a match, extend your pedigree by adding the new informatioa Decide what information you want next and plan how to get it. I Step Six: Search original sources. Many people who start genealogy with the Internet do Group promotes conservative clothing foryoung girls, teenagers Rachel Sutherland MCCLATCHY black-and-whi- IV i: Utah County-base- d J companies promoting modest apparet such as Shade Clothing, have flourished in Utah and have a following in other parts of the United States. And in Charlotte, N.G, for example, more than 65 s students are participating in Pure d Fashion, an international program that recognizes "true beauty." "We're looking for more than what Hollywood is portraying as acceptable," says Kathy Comer, 41, the Charlotte organizer. "It's so cool and acceptable now to be Bill Scott who is with Carolina Talent gives final advice to the girls in modest. And that doesn't mean the St. Patrick's Cathedral Family Life Center building on March being frumpy." The ecumenical program de9 in their final Pure Fashion session before the big Westin fashion buted in Charlotte in September. 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Declining profits prompted her to examine the company's Pink line (marketed to younger women and girls) and call for a return to a more sophisticated brand. After Miley Cyrus, 15, walked the red carpet at the Academy Awards in an (but still glam) Valentino gown, she won praise from Kimora Lee Simmons, Baby Phat clothing de- -. f signer and mother of two girls. girl-cen- ',- - is a review of the eight in the genealogy cycle. high-scho- faith-base- 7 . ge See MOW MUCH THIS 0l FOR TOYf V BY THE FIFTY UEMTS. uroc I I Ill-Dr- CUCI BU II WAY, , THIS ISAnN I EXTREMELY RARE 'MAJOR MATT ) FIGURE. -- IT'S MASON' ACTION WORTH A FORTUNE ON EBAYIr imx BECAUSE SHE'S T 1 1 1 OF US! -- GC?, a. 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