Millenium Gazette

A forest of trees The new links page in our trees chapter now offers five varieties. Check the Family Tree Maker link, where you will find all new stuff after the shortened introduction. A "progenitors" group of photos there with fresh captions is meant to provide a concise "course" in Usher's branch.

Shlomo's Day is the latest addition in the Farberman section (page one, table of contents). It's a quick-loading, fast-scrolling photo feature of his 1998 bar mitzvah in the Vien hasidic tradition, with photos by the acknowledged best in all of Borough Park, Brooklyn.

'Permissions' for all: Everyone who is a member of CousinsPlus has permissions on our web site at MyFamily.com. You can put up your family news.

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Our MyFamily.com cover photo? Your choice! You can put up your family photos, your reviews on the last movie you saw or some new software you like, and recipes you want to share. My Weight Watchers' custard straight from founder Jean Nidetch is meant to kick off our CousinsPlus recipe trove.

Make your own favorite magical family photo our cover for a while at MyFamily.com.

Adjust your 'user preferences' on MyFamily.com before you get annoyed. For example, you can "adjust" to never receive an E-mail notification of anything. (Or, you could choose an alert only before Jewish holidays.) You can delete yourself, or you can ask me to delete you. I am a privacy nut and am satisfied MyFamily.com is OK. It's so very private and secure that you need an invitation. I've invited 40 of our most gung-ho cousins. Everyone else is invited, too; just E-mail me.

Listen up: We have a cousin with a friend who is arranging to make us proper audio clips from a cassette of messages put on LPs over 60 years ago. These sound 'letters' were sent by family members to loved ones afar. Details when they're on-line.

It's up to you now ... Jump-starting CousinsPlus on MyFamily.com was my brother's idea, like most of our most daring innovations. Whatever I put there is just to pave the way. It's so user friendly that it's a no-brainer to type in your news or put up your photos. After six days of exploration and setup, on the seventh day ... I'm done. Now, cousins, it's up to you.