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Calling All Storytellers, Would-Be Authors and Aspiring Writers

TFA is looking for your participation in keeping the newsletter filled with interesting articles. Some old and new topics that we would like to see featured include:

Your genealogy research questions and brickwalls;

Your candid reviews/opinions on genealogy software, books, websites;

Your favorite forms of genealogy recordkeeping and other technology;

Your personal family history, stories and traditions, passed on by your ancestors;

Issues of Interest: national/regional events, local gatherings, conferences, locations of interest;

Health, DNA and family history;

Significant newsworthy events in the lives of our members (births, deaths, graduations, marriages, promotions, publications, volunteer work...and, anything you'd like to brag about!).

Submission Deadlines
March Issue - January 15
June Issue - April 15
September Issue - July 15
December Issue - October 15

Please make all submissions via email to our About Towne editor. Files should be sent as attachments, in a word-processing format, such as Microsoft Word or WordPerfect. Also, if you have photos to include as part of your submission, please attached them in a JPEG, BMP, GIF or other picture format, in a small to medium size.

Any questions, ideas for columns or regular features, or if you're having trouble submitting your articles, please contact the About Towne editor, Carole Towne Seaton, at AboutTowneNews@hotmail.com

Towne-Treadwell Path Dedication Oct 2011
Photography courtesy of Elizabeth Hanahan

Salem Witch Trials Memorial: TFA Reunion 2007
Photography courtesy of Stablegirl Cindy

ABOUT TOWNE Newsletters
With membership in TFA you will receive quarterly newsletters packed with little-known histories of various descendants of William and Joanna Towne. Individual genealogies are included in most issues, as well as association news.

About Towne December 2011

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If you get a blank page when you click on this link, RIGHT click it and then select "Save Target As" from the drop-down box to download the newsletter.

Current TFA members may click here to view our online archive of over 30 years of past issues: Past Newsletters

SPECIAL OFFER

To celebrate 30 years of publication of TFA's "About Towne" quarterly newsletters (1981-2011), we are pleased to offer all active TFA members a special CD, formatted into one "searchable" pdf-file, containing all 124 issues--2,492 pages. The CD was created by our genealogist, Gail Garda, to help her with her own research. Copies of the CD will be available for a limited time, while supplies last, at a small fee to cover costs, of $15.00 for members, and $30.00 for non-members, plus postage. The TFA website will continue to have all the newsletters individually available for download, along with the People and Subject indexes.

For ordering information contact:

townefolk@allies.com

Interested in newsletters from our archives? Check for your ancestors in one of the following indexes covering 1980-2011:

PEOPLE INDEX

SUBJECT INDEX

Back issues of all newsletters are available at a cost of $2.50 for Non-Members. Contact Elizabeth Hanahan at hanahantfa@aol.com to order or for more information about particular issues. When writing, please give specific information about the issue(s) you are interested in: Volume, page, and person or subject.

A page from our December 2011 issue:

For information contact:

townefolk@allies.com

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