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NEW: Voice Mail Box

1. To leave a message:  Click "LEAVE A MESSAGEÃÂÃÂÂÃÂÂ
2. Opens a window: enter your name, and email address (not public). 
3. Have a microphone plugged into your computer 
4. Click RECORD

GEM #1:  You Tube Follow Up

Bill Puller of the Genealogy Tech Podcast was a real gem for teaming up with me last week on how to use the YouTube website - Thanks Bill!

Click this link YouTube.com, and search "Genealogy Gems" to find my two new videos:  "A Nurse In Training Part 1"  & "A Nurse In Training Part 2".

GEM:  Bring Sites Back From the Dead with Google

After pulling up an error page in Google: 

1. Hit the Back button 
2. Click the "cached" link  (This should bring up a copy of the page as it appeared at the time that Google indexed that page, with your search terms highlighted in yellow.)

The Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org/web/web.php)    

GEM:  Spice up your database

When you don't have an ancestors photo, find something that represents what you do know about that person.  It really does help you see them more as a person and less as an entry in your database. 

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