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I’M ONE-SIXTEENTH IRISH (down from one-eighth, after I learned my Irish great-grandmother had a German mother). My Irish immigrants are among my hardest to trace, mostly due to their common names: Edward Norris and Elizabeth Butler. If I’d started my genealogy research with this couple, I might’ve found myself a new hobby. So I don’t know if I’ll ever get the Norrises to Ireland. But I’ve found some interesting stories while trying. Elizabeth’s brother, James, lived in her household in the 1860 census. Then he disappeared. Finally, I discovered his name in records of the Dayton, Ohio soldiers’ home. Elizabeth was noted as his nearest relative—with her address—otherwise I wouldn’t have known it was the right James. Turns out he served in the Civil War in the 10th Ohio Infantry, Cincinnati’s…

YOUR STORY Yesterday’s News The same week that I received the December 2016 Family Tree Magazine with the Genealogy Workbook on newspapers, I found an amazing newspaper resource in my state. The Gateway to Oklahoma History on the Oklahoma Historical Society website includes “hundreds of thousands of newspaper pages dating from the 1840s to the 1920s.” I knew that my great-great-grandparents James T. and Nancy E. Day came to Oklahoma from Kentucky in the early 1900s, and that my great-grandparents George T. and Florida Castle moved here right before statehood in 1907. They settled in a small town called Davenport, halfway between Tulsa and Oklahoma City, but I never really knew why or exactly when. The Davenport Leader answered my questions: A group of Methodist ministers in Kentucky had incorporated under the unwieldy…

WHAT’S THE FAMILY STORY THAT GOT YOU INTO GENEALOGY?

There was a family story about my great-great-grandfather, who was supposed to have born in Ireland. As an adult, he disappeared and the family discovered he’d cut his page from the family Bible before taking a ship back to Ireland. The true story is, he was born in Georgia, left his wife and kids for another woman, and died of old age in Alabama. » Teresa Grace McGowin My father-in-law never spoke about his WWII experiences, so at the age of 90, he agreed to let me write his war story. From there, my interest in family history just grew. » Marie Warren One story was that my third-great-grandmother came from Ireland with two small boys. Wrong. She married in County Cork and then they came over in 1836 and had two…

Reclaiming Records

In 2015, the group took the New York City Department of Records and Information Services to the state supreme court in a case that opened early 20th-century marriage records with nearly half a million names. EXERCISING FREEDOM OF information laws to request ancestors’ records from the government can take time, money and often, details about the record’s date and location that you just don’t know. Wouldn’t it be great if someone submitted Freedom of Information requests for entire collections of records—and then made them available online for free? That’s the strategy of the nonprofit, volunteer-run advocacy group Reclaim the Records . Members target local, state and federal historical records that are legally open to the public, but aren’t online or widely available on microfilm. They file Freedom of Information Act requests for…

Reclaiming Records

5 Questions With RANDY MAJORS

Randy Majors is the brain behind the eponymous website named to Family Tree Magazine’s 101 Best Websites in 2016 . His free online genealogy helps include the interactive Historical US County Boundary Maps tool and Ancestor-Search, which lets you run genealogy-specific advanced Google searches. We found out why he does it. 1 What inspired you to develop the county boundaries tool and AncestorSearch? Both were born out of my own genealogy research: thinking there have got to be better, quicker, more efficient ways of performing tasks I do repeatedly. 2 What’s your professional background? In college, I got degrees in geography and GIS [geographic information systems] just as that technology was moving more mainstream. I spent much of my early career developing interactive, computerized mapping tools for the energy industry. When I became…

5 Questions With RANDY MAJORS

DNA Testing News

Developments in the rapidly growing genetic genealogy industry include: • MyHeritage launched its autosomal DNA testing service , which provides ethnicity estimates and genetic matches. DNA results are linked to MyHeritage family trees. • FamilyTreeDNA now accepts Ancestry DNA and some 23andMe results. Upload data at to get free matches at FamilyTreeDNA. For $19, you also can access the site’s chromosome browser and other tools. • Ancestry DNA is rolling out a Genetic Communities experience for testers with ancestry in one of the post-colonial North American genetic groups identified in a study of 770,000 DNA profiles. • Britain's Living DNA testing service launched into the US market at February’s RootsTech conference. Its ethnic breakdown includes 21 regions just in Britain, potentially offering specific details on British origins.…

Bringing Home the Bacon

IF THE 21ST century to date had an official food, it would surely be bacon. Sales in the United States could have surpassed $4 billion annually, with restaurant bacon consumption up 25 percent. Even including people who follow dietary restrictions against pork, Americans average almost 18 pounds of bacon each per year. Bacon is now a flavor for everything from milkshakes to shaving cream. But bacon hasn’t always been so beloved. Because pigs historically offered the cheapest source of meat, bacon was viewed as peasant fare. Shakespeare’s Henry IV disdains “bacon-fed knaves.” As recently as the 1850s, then-journalist Frederick Law Olmstead wrote that “the bane of my life” on a journey through the rural South was a constant diet of “corn bread and bacon.” Among Americans of means, bacon was seasonal fare,…

Bringing Home the Bacon

1493 | Columbus brings the first pigs to the New World 1660s | The British in Yorkshire and Tamworth breed pigs just for bacon 1708 | Poet Ebenezer Cook complains that almost every food in the American colonies contains bacon 1770 | John Harris introduces mass-produced, wet-cured bacon 1924 | Oscar Mayer sells America’s first pre-sliced, prepackaged bacon 1953 | Pork falls behind beef in US meat consumption 1978 | Charles of the Ritz debuts its “I can bring home the bacon” commercial for Enjoli perfume 2015 | Boosted by a bacon boom, pork regains the top spot in US meat consumption…

Vintage Photo Albums

ELABORATE, HEAVY VICTORIAN albums gained popularity with the rise of portrait photography in the mid-19th century. Photographers saw a ready market for photo albums as families purchased multiple tintypes, large “cabinet cards” and smaller carte de visite photographs. Care for your heirloom antique album as you would any special book, with extra consideration for the photographs inside. 1 When working with old photos and albums, wash your hands first. You also could wear white cotton or nitrile gloves. Handle photos by the edges, never touching the surface with bare fingers. 2 Judge the book by its cover. Victorian photo albums came in various sizes, from tiny books for miniature prints to large tabletop display volumes. Velvet, celluloid, leather, metal, and fabric were used as decorative covers, held together by embossed brass hinges.…

Vintage Photo Albums

Q I’m trying to find out info about a Seneca Indian in Civil War service. Where do you recommend I look? A We seldom hear about American Indian participation in the Civil War, but up to 29,000 tribe members served on either side of the war. A Seneca lawyer and Union lieutenant colonel, Ely S. Parker, was the military secretary for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and actually drew up the articles of surrender that Gen. Robert E. Lee signed at Appomattox Courthouse. (See for more on Parker.) After the American Revolution and several treaties, most Seneca settled in what are now two tribes in western New York. The state archives has an index of Civil War soldiers from New York ; you’ll also find useful information at the New York State…

Missing Matches With Mom

Due to database demographics—mostly Americans descended from European immigrants—test-takers whose families are recent immigrants or have roots outside Europe will have fewer matches than test-takers whose families have been in the United States for generations. Q My mom and I have both tested with AncestryDNA . Should she be a shared match for all my matches from her side of the family, because I received all that DNA from her? I have hundreds of matches, and she and I share only 12 of them. I thought things would be more equal between the two sides of my family. A Because of the way autosomal DNA is inherited—you get half of your DNA from your mom and half from your dad—every person on your match list should match one of your parents if…

Missing Matches With Mom

WAS YOUR GREAT-GRANDMA a Cherokee princess? Mine too! And like lots of Americans, you probably have an immigrant ancestor whose surname was changed at Ellis Island. Oh, and your whole genealogy is awaiting you on the internet, right? Wrong. Myths and misconceptions like these abound when it comes to genealogy. Some, like the last name changes, come from family lore and some we hear from other researchers. Anyone can fall victim to these myths because they’re so often repeated and sound reasonable. Why wouldn’t you believe that your original Polish surname Tomasczewski was changed to Thomas by an immigration inspector at Ellis Island? It seems plausible. And of course not every historical record is on the web, but genealogy commercials seemingly would have you think you can find your complete family…

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Keeping It Civil

IRISH GENEALOGY RESEARCH has a reputation for being impossible. A 1922 fire in Dublin’s Public Records Office destroyed many valuable genealogical records (but not all of them by a long shot), and it’s easy to get discouraged by this challenge. But Irish civil registration records, created by the government starting in 1845 for some marriages and 1864 for births, all marriages, and deaths, survive. Digitization projects from major Irish record offices are making it easier than ever to find your ancestors from the Emerald Isle. While Irish civil registration records aren’t perfect—they don’t contain all the genealogical information you might want them to—the collections provide building blocks for your genealogical research and help you work back in time, generation by generation. In this excerpt from my new book The Family Tree Irish…

Keeping It Civil

History of Irish Civil Registration

Civil registration in Ireland began more by chance than by design. A spate of bigamy cases went before the courts in the 1830s, then an 1842 case made it all the way to the House of Lords in London. There, the government invalidated all marriages of Protestant Dissenters (mostly Presbyterians) in Ireland. Couples in Ulster, where most Dissenters lived, were outraged at the suggestion that so many had been living in sin and that their children were, by extension, illegitimate. The Marriages (Ireland) Act of 1844 took effect April 1, 1845, creating a centralized civil registration system for marriages. It was meant to embrace all Christian and Jewish denominations, but the Catholic Church, concerned that civil registration would detract from the religious nature of the marriage ceremony, resisted what it saw…

History of Irish Civil Registration

Going to Church Records

If you can’t find your Catholic ancestors’ civil records or your family left Ireland before registration began, church records may hold the answers you seek. Surviving registers are now available online. In 2016, the National Library of Ireland (NLI) released its free collection of digitized Roman Catholic baptism and marriage registers at . Covering events up to 1880, this collection represents all but 56 parishes across Ireland. It’s not searchable, so you have to know the county and parish you need—but Ancestry.com and Findmypast have created a searchable index to this collection in a joint project. Findmypast’s index is free to search. Both sites link to the record images at NLI. Subscription site RootsIreland has an extensive collection of transcriptions of locally held Catholic parish registers from almost all of…

Going to Church Records

Free Web Content • Historical Irish jurisdictions • How to use in Griffith’s Valuation • Q&A: Finding ancestral origins in Ireland For Plus Members • Search the 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses for free • 12 best websites for Irish genealogy • Irish genealogy resources ShopFamilyTree.com • The Family Tree Irish Genealogy Guide • Video download: Irish Church Records • Irish Genealogy Cheat Sheet …

ALTHOUGH NORTH CAROLINA was one of the original 13 American colonies, its geography, harsh coastline and system of “proprietor” land grants meant it was settled mostly via older colonies. First, in the 1650s, came Virginians who populated the Albemarle Sound area. Primarily English, these transplants had spread throughout the Coastal Plains region by 1730. Small groups of German Palatines, Swiss, and French Huguenots did settle directly along the coast in the early 1700s, followed by Scots-Irish in the upper Cape Fear Valley from 1729 to 1775. But other Scots and Germans trekked the Great Wagon Road south from Pennsylvania and Virginia to fill the Piedmont region. This adventurous spirit persisted, so your ancestors may have been just passing through: By 1850, a quarter of all North Carolina natives had gone on…

1585 Settlers land at Roanoke; “The Lost Colony” later disappears mysteriously 1650 Permanent settlement begins in Albemarle area 1663 Charles II grants land to Lords Proprietor 1729 North Carolina becomes a royal colony 1775 Gov. Josiah Martin flees, ending British rule 1795 The University of North Carolina’s first student, Hinton James, arrives on campus 1861 North Carolina secedes from the Union 1868 North Carolina rejoins the Union 1903 Wright Brothers make their first powered flight in Kill Devil Hills 1911 Hoke County completes the state’s current 100-county organization 1960 “The Andy Griffith Show,” set in fictional Mayberry, NC, first airs on TV 1999 Hurricane Floyd devastates parts of eastern North Carolina…

HOW DID A place whose identity is linked with the potato come to be known as the Gem State? Blame it on a bad translation. When Congress created Idaho Territory in 1863, its name was chosen because of the erroneous belief that Idaho was a Shoshone word meaning “gem of the mountains.” Given Idaho’s natural resources and topography—which proved to be a perfect breeding ground for disease-resistant russet potatoes—the description fit, if not the actual nomenclature. The nickname is apt for family tree research, too: You’ll find the state’s genealogical gems are as plentiful as its potatoes. Land records In the 1840s and 1850s, Idaho—then part of Oregon Territory—was merely a stopover for migrants on the way to California’s gold fields. Mormon pioneers from Utah founded Franklin, the first permanent non-native settlement…

1805 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark enter Idaho at Lemhi Pass 1843 The Oregon Trail is established in Idaho 1862 Gold is discovered near present-day Warren 1867 Mount Rushmore sculptor and Idaho native Gutzon Borglum is born in Bear Lake County 1877 A group of “nontreaty” Nez Percé fight the US Army 1878 President Cleveland’s pocket veto keeps Washington State from annexing Idaho’s panhandle 1884 The Oregon Short Line Railroad is completed from Wyoming to Oregon 1902 The Thunder Mountain Gold Rush begins, eventually yielding half a million dollars 1924 Craters of the Moon National Monument is established in south central Idaho 1942 US places Japanese-Americans in a WWII internment camp near Eden 1995 Idaho native Picabo Street is the first US woman to win the World Cup in downhill skiing 1999 Wildfires burn more than 559,000 acres of Idaho forests…

Websites • Basque Americans in the Columbia River Basin • BYU-Idaho Family History Resources • Idaho GenWeb Project • Library of Congress: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Idaho : Under Location on the left, click Idaho. • Mountain West Digital Library • Native Americans in Idaho • The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Idaho Maps Publications • A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources by Kip Sperry (Ancestry) • History of Idaho by Leonard J Arrington, 2 vols. (University of Idaho Press) • History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains by James Henry Hawley (Forgotten Books) • In Mountain Shadows: A History of Idaho by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes (University of Nebraska Press) • The Lolo Trail: A History and a Guide to the Trail of Lewis and Clark by Ralph S. Space (Historic Montana Publishing) Archives & Organizations •…

After a Fashion

WORLD WAR I, also known as the Great War, did more than change the political landscape of Europe. It transformed how our ancestors lived and worked, and thus, how they dressed. By the time the United States joined the Allied war effort 100 years ago, fashions—especially those of women—were already different from when the war began in Europe July 28, 1914. When the armistice was signed Nov. 11, 1918, styles bore little resemblance to their prewar roots. Gone were floor-length skirts, long corsets and big hats. Many of the items in our wardrobes today debuted during those tumultuous years: shorter skirts, knitted sportswear, trench coats, wristwatches, brassieres, makeup. Women working for the war effort and filling jobs left open by GIs needed roomier, practical clothing. After the war, having answered their country’s…

After a Fashion

WWI Fashion Timeline

1913 • French designer Paul Poiret brings his fashion show to New York, inspiring a wartime trend of fundraising fashion shows. 1914 • The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austro-Hungary, sets off a chain of events that leads to war. • Burberry patents an all-weather breathable fabric, used to make trench coats for the British Army. Coco Chanel adapts it for everyday wear. • Mary Phelps Jacob applies for a patent for her brassiere design. • War in Europe shuts down Paris couture houses, giving New York City a chance to become a fashion capital. 1915 • A German submarine sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. • American inventor Maurice Levy designs a metal case for lipstick, spurring the mass production of the cosmetic. • Maybelline begins offering affordable make-up; Helena Rubenstein…

Free Web Content • Photo Detective blog • Timeline of WWI war declarations • The best way to label old photos For Plus Members • Women in World War I research guide • Historical hairstyles • Fashion clues by the decade ShopFamilyTree.com • Family Photo Detective • How to Archive Family Photos • WWI Genealogy Websites downloadable guide …

SO YOUR ANCESTORS appear to have disappeared. From the census, where they’d been consistently listed for decades. From the J section of the city directory. From tax lists that recorded your family’s payments for years. You may eventually find your kin somewhere else and piece together an explanation behind their move. On the other hand, your family might still be exactly where you last saw them, but something else changed: the city or county boundary, the street name or their address. To figure out which scenario applies to your situation, ask yourself four questions about the place where your family lived and the neighbors who resided nearby. Once you determine whether it’s your family or their address that was the moving target, you’ll be able to track down that census, city…

Searching Records by Address

Censuses and city directories are prime sources for information about an address and its residents. But it takes the following steps to get from an address with no name attached to a listing in a census or city directory: 1. USE AN ONLINE ENUMERATION DISTRICT TOOL. Censuses are organized by state, county, town and enumeration district (ED). Go to the online Unified Census ED Finder and select the census year you need. 2. FIND THE RIGHT ED FOR THE ADDRESS. Choose the state, county (which you’ve determined from the Historical US County Boundary Maps website), and city or town, if applicable. Fill in the house number and street name as of the selected census year. If the deeds or maps you’ve checked show cross streets near your address, choose them to…

Free Web Content • Finding a place with Google Earth • Best map websites • Census enumeration districts For Plus Members • General Land Office online patents • Touring ancestral homes • Researching deeds from afar ShopFamilyTree.com • Online Historical Maps quick guide • The Family Tree Historical Atlas of American Cities • Use Maps to Solve Research Problems on-demand webinar …

A Trail of CLUES

IF YOU’VE EVER gone hiking, you know that no two trails are alike. Scenery varies from woodland waterfalls to desert rock formations. So does the altitude, climate and length of the journey. Dangers may range from poison ivy to thousand-foot cliffs. How hard it is to stay on course also depends on the quality of the map and markers. Each of our ancestors’ lives forged a similarly unique path through history. As a genealogist, you get to hike that path. The landscape is the time and place in which that person lived. Genealogical records serve as signposts, telling you where you are and pointing you in one direction or another. Learning to discover and interpret the “trail markers” in genealogical records is a key skill for every family history hiker—and online tools…

A Trail of CLUES

Free Web Content • Handwriting helps • Documenting your tree • Record worksheets For Plus Members • Five steps to finding vital records • Getting the original record • Online translation tools ShopFamilyTree.com • Organize Your Genealogy book • Solutions for Missing Records video class • Birth Certificate Substitutes video class …

It’s in the Details

Extract each detail from every record, as shown here (we’ve corrected spellings for ease of reading). Then consider how each piece of information can lead you to additional records. The most promising leads are shown in the table below. • Name of deceased: Henry Fox • Place of death: Parkview [Municipal?] Hospital, Pueblo County, Colorado • Usual place of residence: Pueblo, Pueblo, Colo. • Length of stay in Pueblo: 71 years • Address: 900 Frontier St., Pueblo, Pueblo, Colo. • Residence: not in city limits and not on a farm • Death date: October 26, 1961 • Sex: male • Race: white • Marital status: divorced • Birth date and place: January 1, 1890 • Birthplace: Denver, Colo. • Age: 71 • Occupation: masonry sub-contractor • Industry: residential construction • Father’s name: Nicholic Fox • Mother’s maiden name: Mary Eirman • Military service: no • SSN: 527-01-5454 • Informant: Mrs.…

It’s in the Details

Comparing Notes

Compare and contrast information in records covering your relative’s birth, marriage, death or other life event. Here, you can see the different details in three marriage records for Mike Fox and Mary Eiarmann: an index to the civil record, the original civil marriage record, and the church marriage record. We’ve highlighted new information the latter two provide. Index to civil marriage record • Groom: Mike Fox • Race: W[hite] • Bride: Mary Eiarmann • Race: W[hite] • Place of marriage: Denver, Colo. • Date: 2-28-1889 • Officiant and title: G [or C] Raeber, “C Priest” • Address: Denver, Colo. “Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006.” Database with images. FamilySearch.org. http://www.familysearch.org, 2016. Civil marriage record • Groom: Mike Fox • Bride: Mary Eiarmann • Marriage date: 2-28-1889 • Marriage place: Denver, Colo. • Officiant: Godfrey Raeber, Catholic priest, Denver, Co. • Date of application: 2-23-1889 • Date of filing:…

Comparing Notes

THEY SAY EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas. To confirm, look no further than the city of Houston, where even historical population growth is big. Houston’s 1910 US census population of roughly 79,000 doubled by 1920 and doubled again before 1930. Today it’s the fourth-most-populous US city. This 1912 birdseye map of downtown Houston hints at the city’s rapid expansion. Its key reports the city’s population at 105,000 and brags that Houston is “where 17 railroads meet the sea.” The incredible detail includes criss-crossing streetcar lines and crowds of pedestrians. Labels call out prominent buildings, such as the Rice Hotel (on the site of the former Republic of Texas capitol) and the Houston Chronicle headquarters. City maps like this one can provide similarly detailed views of places your ancestors lived. The Library of…

US Census Mortality Schedules

MORTALITY SCHEDULES, CREATED during the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 US censuses (as well as the 1885 federal census, for the few states that conducted this enumeration), capture information about people who died in the 12 months prior to the census date. Thus, they extend back in time to include individuals not enumerated in that year’s population census. Mortality schedules also are valuable because they can provide you with evidence of deaths that occurred before many states and counties kept official death records. It’s important to note that the 1850 and 1860 mortality schedules were supposed to name everyone—including slaves—who died between May 1 of the census year and July 1 of the previous year. Slaves were usually recorded only with a first name and sometimes with the slaveholder’s name. Compare…

US Census Mortality Schedules

5 Tech Tools That’ll Revolutionize Your Research

DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE innovative technology tools in the family history industry, FamilySearch’s Innovator Showdown is a highlight of its annual RootsTech genealogy conference in Salt Lake City each winter. This year, more than 40 applicants from the United States and Europe vied for nearly $200,000 in cash and prizes sponsored by Amazon Web Services, the Kickstarter Seed Fund, the Sorenson Legacy Foundation and others. In the 2017 showdown, each of the five finalists had three minutes to present his or her innovation and win over a panel of judges and a live audience, and four minutes to answer judges’ questions. Prizes went to the judges’ top three picks as well as the audience-chosen People’s Choice Award recipient. We’ll introduce these award-winning tech tools and websites that will change how you…

5 Tech Tools That’ll Revolutionize Your Research

Health Tools for Your DNA Results

Your genetic genealogy results can not only tell you about your ancestry, but also provide insight into your health. These websites and apps let you upload your raw DNA data and get reports that estimate your risks for certain medical conditions. (Testing company 23andMe used to provide extensive health-related data, but after FDA intervention, now offers only limited information about disease risks.) Some have additional tools to help you track your health information. These tools aren’t regulated by the FDA, so use the results with caution and talk to your doctor before making health decisions based on the DNA results.…

Health Tools for Your DNA Results

Find Old Records With ArchiveGrid

Many of your “most-wanted” genealogy records may be one-of-a-kind manuscript items hidden in an archive somewhere: diaries, correspondence, records, local histories, old photos, and papers from local governments, schools, businesses, churches, cemeteries, social clubs, orphanages and other institutions. Fortunately, you can search for them using Archive-Grid , a free online catalog of finding aids that describe more than 4 million archival materials in 1,000 repositories around the US and the rest of the globe. You can then use the finding aid to learn more about the materials and request copies, visit the holding library or hire a local researcher. Follow these steps to find what you need in ArchiveGrid. 1 ArchiveGrid has a single search box (no advanced search) in which to enter all keywords and search operators. Try entering full…

Find Old Records With ArchiveGrid

Something about springtime, with its bright green leaves and new flowers, makes us think of babies—so we dug up these adorable family photos from readers. Liz Steele Forman shared this photo of her grandmother Rhoda Mae Dotson Steele cradling son Allen Dotson Steele in 1914. “My father’s light blue eyes were the same vibrant color all his life,” Forman writes. This 1896 family photo shows Elsie Adelaide Palmer, left, with her twin aunt and uncle, Harry and Helen Scott. Elsie was younger by only five months, notes her granddaughter and namesake, Elsie Buyers Viehman. “Stringing beans, with some difficulties,” reports the caption on the back of Annette (Nablo) Klopp and children about 1910 in Haldimand, Ontario. “As a mother of young boys, I can relate to the distraction,” chuckles Klopp’s great-grandniece Grace Peacock.…

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