Yankee Magazine, See Where it is Published

Yankee Magazine Publishing Co.

Dublin, New Hampshire

Many New Englanders are familiar with the Old Farmer's Almanac and the Yankee Magazine. Both are usually sold at every magazine stand in grocery and pharmacy stores. For as long as I have been blogging (almost nine years), I have always wanted to get inside the building, take photos to share with you. However, since I am usually passing through the town on the weekend, and they are closed, I knew it would have to be a work day. We (husband and I) finally visited this past Friday.

When I first became a subscriber, the first section I looked at was the one devoted to genealogy queries. The queries listed who they were looking for and had abbreviated information, the writer's address or phone number, so the reader could respond. Years later, people could respond to email. Now, that wonderful feature is no longer.

This town of less than 2,000 people is charming and has the burial place of my 5th great grandmother, Elizabeth Johnson Sanger, in the 1751 town cemetery.

For more information, I'm sharing two websites about this company.

https://newengland.com/yankee-magazine/

https://ypi.com/history

Across the small "green" facing the offices and the 1882 town hall.

Below are the office photos I took. As you can see the room is for advertising their products, items such as books covering many topics, journals, a puzzle, and a wide assortment of magazines. I believe the most popular magazines are Yankee (began 1935) and Old Farmer's Almanac (began 1934). The room I was in is the oldest, and they added on several times. I had hoped to see some old original magazines or equipment from their early days, maybe a mini-museum, but that wasn't the case.

There was a receptionist, a temp, at the desk, and I asked if I could take photos, and told my reason why. She got her boss, which was good since I'm having problems with my subscription. So I explained the issue with her, and she told me she'd notify the Florida office. It was my understanding that the 85 employees work in this building or Manchester. It was a full house when we visited, I got the last parking space.

In the back is a charming memorial garden.

Dublin Town Hall 1882

Route 101

Dublin Public Library

Across the street from the Yankee building, and next to the town hall.

I have never been inside because it is always closed when I pass through. Even the day I visited Yankee Magazine, a Friday, the library was closed. The library had a rather large addition added to it, so I'm hopeful they kept some of the original library.

Bites of News -- Social, Social

As I was about to toss my issue of Smart Computing, (February 2011) issue out, the new issue of Internet Genealogy arrived (April/May 2011). As a long time subscriber, actually a charter subscriber to Smart Computing, I've mentioned the magazine before. I thought some readers might be interested in seeing what the topic of the day is.


It is no surprise that Internet Genealogy has articles about social media, every issue seems to cover something along that line. However, Smart Computing is a different matter. Their article, Get Connected, How Social Networking Can Benefit Your Business runs from pages 56 to 71, no small article for sure. Chapters includes the following:

•  Put Your Business On Facebook
• Get Linkedin
• Put Social Networking To Work
• Beyond the Big Names

Bits of News

The May issue of Smart Computing has at least three articles that might be of interest to genealogists. I have mentioned this magazine several times in the past.  Nobody knows more than me, how expensive they can be, and I subscribe to quite a number including a fair share of genealogy publications. I have always thought that if you want to read it, and don't want to subscribe, just check out your library.

This issue has "To Tweet Or Not to Tweet?" a three page article, "Gmail Goodies," and "Roll Your Own Blog with Tumblr."

You would think that with all the magazines I subscribe to, I would be smarter in the technology aspect of computers.  I even had my first computer class at the Pentagon, no less, many years ago. So far back, that we had a tour of their computer center and the computers were five feet tall or higher! But, it was genealogy that interested me, and now the two have messed! Amazing how that turned out.

Bits of News, Magazines

Genealogy and Google just seem to go together, then throw in any information about computers.  Now you have three topics that make for an educated person, even if you don't know what the heck they are writing about. You are educated in the sense you read it, but do you understand it?  Sometimes magazines speak our language a bit simpler, so once again, I'm discussing some recent magazines I received.

PC World has a number of articles pertaining to computer security. Family Circle has a nice article called "Backup Plan" covering software, online backups and external drives.  Smart Computing has several that I enjoyed and understood. Included are, "Google, More than a Search Engine," "Cruising In the Cloud" and "Share Your World on the Web" Head-to-Head: Blog Services, a three full page review of five blog hosting services.

Genealogy Reviews from Two Magazines

The two current (for March) magazines shown above have articles that might be of interest to some readers. As a lover of magazines, I often find bits of information pertaining to genealogy in them. Last night I found two.

It is without pleasure that the Entertainment Weekly magazine gave a review of “Who Do You Think You Are?” The write-up wasn't very good, but the rating of a D was pretty low. Considering this magazine is popular with TV viewers, it didn’t send a positive message to them, nor entice them to watch.

Smart Computing has an article, "Find it Online, Root out Your Family History." The magazine has always covered new genealogy products, so this wasn't a surprise. Covered are reviews of six genealogy sites, Dick Eastman's newsletter and Family Tree Builder.

Internet Genealogy and WorldCat

Thursday, August 17th, 2006


Barb Poole has written another article for today’s Blog. Someday Barb and I will have to actually meet each other! Here’s Barb’s GuestBlog:   (Note:  Steve and I have met twice.)


I wrote a piece about a new genealogy magazine in Steve’s blog of May 20th, in which I wrote, “A new genealogy magazine has arrived on the scene; it is Internet Genealogy and can be ordered as a hard copy or downloaded from the internet (different prices for each). To order go to http://www.internet-genealogy.com/ and you can see the specifics as well as download a preview issue.” This is an update, which may be beneficial to some, whether you subscribe or not. The editor/publisher of that magazine asked for suggestions from the subscribers as to what they wanted in the magazine.


One suggestion was to have all the websites listed in that issue of the magazine to be on one page, so you could go to that page and see all the links listed, and not look all around for them. However, the magazine went one step further and now has on their website all the links that were mentioned in that particular issue. If you go to the site listed above, you will see a section listing the links for each magazine (both past and current issues) and the link will take you to that webpage. No more typing out the addresses. And, these sites give you an idea of what the magazine has covered thus far. In addition, if the links change, the company will change them as well on their homepage. So far, there is a pretty impressive list of genealogy sites.


My second recent find is a site called WorldCat, which I got from a message board, out of Canada. It is the first I have heard of it, but is a site I will use many times over. This is what I received, ” Google is easily accessed, but WorldCat’s locations of 1.3 billion items in 10,000 libraries around the world previously have been available only through institutional access. It’s become available to the public here and now. It’s FREE and simple to use. Just type in a book name or author and it shows which library holds that book. Just go to: http://www.worldcat.org/ .”


On a personal note, I put in titles of three books and not only did they appear, but it gave the name of the library and the distance from where I live (Massachusetts). For an example, I put in the book title New England Marriages prior to 1700 and there were 381 hits. The closest library that has the book is the library in Lexington, 13 miles away, and the furthest is Alaska, all of 3,349 miles away from me! With this information, you can either go to or contact that library or see if you can get it through the inter-library loan process.