Monday, January 13, 2014

Irish Casualties from WWI

Google and the government of Ireland have collaborated to provide names and data for the 49,000 Irish soldiers who died in WWI. Click here , scroll down to paragraph 3, and click on "name list".
An article about it from it from siliconrepublic can be found  here.
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Slave surnames

This article  from the theroot.com  explains why determining the surname of an enslaved person can be difficult. 

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