Newsgroups: soc.roots
Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:12:57 -0400
Reply-To:     "(Carol Botteron)" <botteron@BU-IT.BU.EDU>
From:         "(Carol Botteron)" <botteron@BU-IT.BU.EDU>
Subject:      Genealogical Helper (Re: Roots Cellar On-line)
Comments: To: ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU

Either Jean Suplick's finger slipped, or I can get you a better deal.
:-)  Genealogical Helper is _six_ issues a year, not four.  BTW, mine
arrive in the middle of the even-numbered month, so the eagerly
awaited Sept./Oct. 1992 issue may not show up for at least a week.

Looks like time to post my GH file again, so here goes:

Everton's Genealogical Helper (formerly just The Genealogical Helper)
is probably the largest-circulation genealogical magazine (it's been
around since the 1940s) and I have found it useful for making contacts
with other genealogists as well as for information.

It is published by:

The Everton Publishers
P.O. Box 368
Logan, Utah 84321
800-4-GENEAL or 800-443-6325  (toll free)
801-752-6022  (that's a regular toll call)

There are six issues a year, which arrive in the middle of the
even-numbered month.  Subscription price is $21 (U.S.) for 6 issues
(1 year), $42 for 2 years, or $4.50 for a single issue.  For non-U.S.
subscribers the price is $24.15 per year in U.S. funds.

Every issue has articles, questions/answers, book reviews, and queries
(including a section of queries about missing relatives who may still be
alive).  Queries cost $0.30/word.  I have placed a few queries and
responded to several others, making some good contacts.  Each issue has
an index of surnames, subjects, and localities.  Of course there are
also a lot of ads: researchers, books, printers, photograph restorers,
computer software & hardware, etc.

Another section is the Computerized "Roots" Cellar.  People send in
entries consisting of a name, event (e.g. birth), year, and place.
(Note that an entry is one year and one place, not a range.)
These cost $5.50 for the first, $1.25 each for more, except when
there's a special lower price.  In each issue the magazine prints the
new ones they have received, with the addresses of the people who sent
them in.  In addition, people can send for a printout of all the
entries with a given surname and location (e.g. state of the U.S.).

Each issue also has a listing of some sort: locality periodicals and
local history associations, family organizations, professional
researchers, etc.  I think each type is done once a year.

EGH/TGH certainly hasn't solved all my genealogical problems, but I have
found it a useful resource and have subscribed for several years.  You
might check a large library or genealogical society to see if they get
it.  (If they shelve magazines alphabetically, look under both G and E.)

Hope this was helpful!
Carol Botteron    botteron@bu-it.bu.edu

P.S. A very useful feature of GH and other genealogical magazines is
the ads.  You can find researchers, books, photographers, photo
retouchers, accommodations near major libraries, T-shirts for family
reunions, and dozens of other items and services that you didn't even
know you need!  Also, unless you ask Everton not to, they'll
distribute your name and address to genealogical publishers, etc.
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