European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes computers tuesday january 17,1995 Microsoft corp. Plans to offer full Access to the internet computer network As part of its Microsoft network on line in bits service scheduled to debut later this year. ,.���. Bill Gates chairman and chief executive of Microsoft outlined Microsoft a internet strategy. Thursday night at a conference sponsored by the Washington software association. V1. A a Apple computer inc. Chief executive officer Michael spinster says it will take several years for Apple to learn whether its new strategy allowing clones will help it win Market share. Apple reversing nearly two. Decades of guarding its technology decided last year to let other companies make copies of its macintosh personal computers. It with two companies during the past few Days. Spindler speaking briefly to reporters at Mac world expo recently said More agreements will follow. Apple based in Cupertino a a a a a up a company boost its Market share Calif Hopes clones will help the estimated at 10 percent to 15 percent. But Spindler said it would be two or three More years before the company knew if the strategy will work. He also disagreed with some Industry analysts who have said Apple needs to win about 20 percent of the Market to keep software companies from abandoning the macintosh. Quot to me its much More year by year if you re making Progress than How far you Are away he said. Ism Type personal computers powered by Intel chips and running Microsoft software came to dominate the Market after ism in the Early 1980s agreed to let others clone its pcs. A a a a a a a a a. From wire reports Back to your roots genealogy software comes Complete with family finder Index by Jack Warner Cox news service for those genealogists with a cd rom drive on their computer who can to get to a National Archive Branch easily family tree maker from Banner Blue offers some useful advantages. It my a Basic program runs under windows and its a Good although not outstanding genealogical data base. Its notes Section allows a generous amount of input a you can include a relatives personal information such As height weight medical history and cause of. Death As Well As statistical information such As address Telephone number and social Security number. You can attach a dozen major events and their dates to each relatives record. You also can include ancestral photos with your printed reports if you have a Means a such As Kodak photo cd. Rom or scanner a to get them into your computer. Ftp $60 list will print two kinds of descendant charts a descendant outline and descendant tree a As Well As family group sheets that include birth marriage and death information in parents and their children As Well As names of parents of the parents. It my a biggest shortcoming is its inability to print a useful ancestor or Pedigree Chart. It will print such a Chart up to 12 generations but it formats the tree so you can paste it All together and have a monumentally unwieldy thing a up to 110 by 110 inches a to hang on the Wall. What genealogists use is a Page by Page Chart with references on one Page that Lead the browser to connecting Points on another Page and the whole thing can be put into a notebook. The kind of ancestor Chart Ftp makes is useless. Another significant shortcoming is it my a inability to produce an Ahnen Tancl Chart although it will provide Hanc Tafel numbers. Ahne Tafel is a numbering system that establishes ancestral relationships. The most unusual part of the Ftp go rom is a family finder Index a list of More than 150 million names from census records state marriage record and land record indexes and All publicly available social Security death benefits records indexes. My wife a great great Grandfather Groves Harrison Cartic dec lived in v Franklin county a. The Ftp indexes list a Groves h. Carl Lodge four times in marriage records for Alabama Georgia and South Carolina the.1850 and 1860 census Index records for Southeastern states and the 1754-1850 marriage v records Index for Georgia. It for $18.99, we could order an Archive cd that will include the husbands name the wife a name and the marriage Date. We also could order a cd of the 1850 census Index there arc a great Many different cd rom indexes available at various prices. However an Index alone is of limited help you still have to go to the actual census record to get detailed information. These arc available at the National archives in Washington with branches in some major cities including Atlanta libraries and some state archives and through the Church of latter Day saints in Salt Lake City. Having the Index could narrow the. Search at such places. . Tourist in in phenom penh Cambodia a gunmen killed an american woman and seriously wounded her husband sunday As the couple toured cambodians biggest tourist attraction. The couples cambodian guide also died in the attack at the angkor wat Temple Complex. A state department official in Washington identified the woman As Susan Ginsburg Hadden of Austin Texas. Other government sources identified her husband As James Hadden or. A a provincial official said the gunmen were Khmer Rouge guerrillas but that statement could not be confirmed. The Khmer Rouge is battling government sol Dicks for the forested area around the temples in siem reap province but other outlaws also operate in the Countryside. In another development King Norodom Sihanouk has postponed a visit to siem reap an official said monday he said however that the delay was because the House where the King is to stay was still being furnished. The King will go to siem reap on Friday said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Sihanouk who returned to Cambodia on Jan. 4 after six months of cancer treatment in China plans to make a movie at angkor wat. Ironically the King along with foreign embassies issued travel warnings for Cambodia last year. The americans were headed for ban Teay secy one of several 12th-Century temples in angkor wat. Guides regularly take tourists around the main Complex of delicately carved temples but discourage visits to Bantay secy in an isolated vulnerable area. Us Kim Long provincial police chief said the Khmer Rouge fired on the tourists vehicle with a grenade launcher As it travelled the Long dirt Road to the Temple site. A the provincial official who asked not to be identified said gunmen opened fire on the tourists Van after it stopped at a Roadblock. The official said robbery appeared to be the motive. A police officer in the Van returned fire he added. The Cambodia daily phenom Penhos English language daily newspaper reported that the americans were in the fourth and last vehicle in a Convoy carrying More than a dozen tourists and that four police officers were provided to protect the group. Five dead 11 missing in Iceland Avalanche Reykjavik Iceland apr an Avalanche of ice and Snow hit a fishing Village in Northwestern Iceland on monday killing five people. Eleven others a including 10 children a were reported missing. Johannes Reykdal of Iceland a civil defense Force said five bodies were found by search teams in a Udavak 130 Miles North of the capital of Reykjavik. He said ten survivors seven of them injured were also found the Avalanche was reported at around 6 30 . Torvald Frederickson of icelandic radio said fierce snowstorms had blocked roads to Sulavik which is just North of the 66th parallel. Germany opens its first Center on holocaust Frankfurt Germany apr fifty years after world War ills final months Germany has got its first Center for the documentation and study of nazi genocide and the holocaust a legacy. The Fritz Bauer foundation dedicated sunday was created through the transformation of the existing Fritz Bauer Institute. The foundation is named after the prosecutor w to in the 1960s oversaw the Frankfurt trials of is men who ran the Auschwitz death Camp in occupied Poland where 1.5 million people were murdered most of them jews. The foundation received $ 130,000 in support Money from the City of Frankfurt the state of Hessen and other patrons. 1 he City and state each have promised $260,000 for annual operating costs. A
