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Show Genealogy begins with U How many people read a newspaper? In fact, because you are reading this, you have answered the question. Because of this wide circulation and the fact that newspapers report news their records contain a vast source of genealogical i n -formation. One source of this information in-formation can be found in the newspaper obituary column. Obituaries will list a lot of information on an individual. They will state their date of birth, their parents name (if known), their spouses name (if married), their children's name, any family members who survived the deceased and where they are buried (cemetery records). Another source of genealogical information may be discovered within the newspaper itself. In the course of human events, many of our relatives were in the news. They may have been elected to a political office, became a minister, came back from the service or purchased land or a house, etc. About the best way to locate information about relatives is also available through the newspaper. In this case you write a letter to the editor or letter to this column asking for information in-formation on a particular relative or family. You write this letter so it can be published in the area where your relatives had lived at least 25 years. If you have been following these principles, your map should have several clusters of tacks. You are then going to write to these areas. Many people who have been doing genealogical reserach notice there is a magical barrier about the year 1750. It becomes difficult to do research before 1750. Next week we willdiscuss our eighth genealogical principle Pre-1750 research. ANCESTOR LINE Ancestor Line is published as a community com-munity service by the Iron County Record. Questions that may be answered in this column should be submitted to the Iron County Record, P.O. Box 1568, Cedar City. Utah 84720. Claudette Maerz, P.O. Box 37010, Bloomington, Minn. 55431, publishes the Quarterly, "Chambers Helping Chambers." These books are full of information, genealogical data and cemetery records for the surname Chambers. This material is an abolute must for anyone who is interested in finding out more information on the Chambers family. Mulkey Family Association, P.O. Box 192, Boise, Idaho 83701. The Association has approximately 225 families as members. Keith Mulkey Hunt, The MFA Historian, and a night editor with the Oregon Journal in Portland, Por-tland, is completing an 850page book on the Mulkey Family from 1720 to present date |