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“Lineage Lessons” by Mary Penner appears every Thursday on the free website for the Albuquerque Tribune. The column features research topics that can help all family historians. Some past topics include military pension records, Quakers in your family tree, and poorhouse records. Useful Internet resources are reviewed as well. The current column is posted in the “Neighbors” section of the website and the previous columns are also archived. See: http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/neighbors. Queries are not accepted, but research-related questions and column suggestions are welcome.

Pilgrims, Pioneers & Aliens is a series of how-to articles written by Diana Crisman Smith on a wide variety of topics including the use of basic forms, specific research techniques, and repositories in various parts of the country.

Tracing the Tribe - The Jewish Genealogy Blog is authored by journalist, genealogist, blogger, online genealogy instructor and speaker Schelly Talalay Dardashti. She also writes The International Jewish Graveyard Rabbit - The Jewish Cemetery Blog; and the general topic My Heritage Genealogy Blog. Tracing the Tribe was ranked #10 in ProGenealogists's Top 25 Genealogy Blogs (2009), and named "Best for Jewish Researchers" in Family Tree Magazine's Top 101 Best Genealogy Sites (2008). She authored the Jewish genealogy column, It's All Relative, (1999-2005) for the Jerusalem Post's Metro and Online Edition and still writes for them. Her credits include: Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Ynetnews, The Forward, Reform Judaism, many U.S. Jewish newspapers, NGS News, Avotaynu, Stammbaum, Dorot and other Jewish genealogy society journals and newsletters. A former MyFamily.com online Jewish genealogy instructor, she co-founded and teaches online Jewish genealogy classes at GenClass - Online Genealogy Classes. Member: Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), American Jewish Press Association (AJPA).

Writing the Westward Sagas, about genealogy, history, writing family history, and the author's novels. David Bowles

Michael Hait writes Tricks of the Tree, African American Genealogy Examiner and Baltimore Genealogy & History Examiner

Tammy Tipler-Priolo writes genealogy articles for www.baytoday.ca under the column "Genealogy In Action" and monthly genealogy articles for the Gateway Advertiser under the stories section "The Ancestor Investigator.

Alice Keesey Mecoy writes a blog John Brown Family Genealogy.