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WHAT'S NEW!
Online - October 13, 1999
Genealogy Resource, Family Tree Magazine, Ready to Debut
The publishers of Writer's Digest have recently announced the launch of a new title, Family Tree Magazine. According to a recent press release, "Family Tree Magazine is the first mass-market, beginner friendly magazine on family history. It's also the first magazine to cover all the areas of potential interest to family-history enthusiasts, such as ethnic heritage, family reunions, scrapbooking and historic travel. And it's the only magazine to explore all the tools family historians use: websites, CD-ROMs, computer hardware and software, photography, books, memory albums and craft supplies."
TAKE A PEEK AT THE CONTENTS HERE.
The hard copy version of Family Tree Magazine will be distributed from November 2, 1999. The online version will have a number of quick and easy tools for genealogy research, including: special search engines, free e-mail service, forms and templates for downloading, weekly e-mail newsletters of genealogy tips and techniques, and the family history "Site of the Day."
A Recent Article in the Washington Post
Online - September 7, 1999
Video Biography to Treat Alzheimer's
Washington Post Staff Writer, Susan Okie, reports that personal history is being used to treat Alzheimer patients in the D.C. area. The pioneering effort is the work of psychiatrist Gene D. Cohen of George Washington University Medical School. Cohen believes that "fragments of the past, presented in the form of video biographies, (may) help anchor Alzheimer's patients in the present – by orienting them, triggering memories and making it easier for them to interact with family members and caregivers."
READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE.
According to the Post article: "Although experimental, the idea apparently strikes a chord with relatives of people with Alzheimer's disease and with health care workers who care for such patients. In the first five months of Cohen's study, he said, 20 families of residents of the Washington Home's Alzheimer's unit have signed up to be part of the research... Doctors, nurses and staff members at the Washington Home are enthusiastic about the project... 'The reason people don't think about [such approaches] is that everybody is busy saying you can't treat Alzheimer's,' said Jerry M. Earll, the facility's medical director. 'You can't cure it, but you sure can treat it.' "
A Recent Essay for the Cybervillage
Online - August 19, 1999
Discovering Peace Through History
Writing for a news group called "Cybervillage," Stanford graduate student Momoe Waguri describes her experiences traveling in Asia which gave her new insights into Japan's role in World War II and the true nature of peace.
"I was in a small guesthouse in Pagan, Burma," Waguri writes, "when this elderly man came to see the Japanese (me) to sing a Japanese military song. He also uttered some Japanese sentences, which I was shocked to realize were in the way a military personnel would talk. No one in Japan talks like that anymore. He carried the moments from the war, with which for the first time in my life the war in the past felt real to me. Yes, it was, for me, 'the war in the past' but for him, I don't think it was a thing of the past. He wasn't at all trying to be mean to me by showing that, but the whole thing stabbed my heart and made my eyes water."
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