Friday, February 19, 2016

Asbury Park, Catholic Registers from Ireland, Pullman Porters

For a fee, you can read 111 years of  the Asbury Park Press online, including birth and wedding announcements, and obituaries....
Ancestry will be putting a collection of Irish Catholic Registers online next month. Ancestry Library Edition is available at the library in our e-resources....The Pullman Porter Museum  is constructing an online registry of  Pullman porters- click on the 'National Registry" tab on their home page. (source: ResearchBuzz) 
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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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