Here is something interesting, courtesy of the Genealogy Insider blog on the Family Tree Magazine website: a free online tool from the New York Public Library called the Map Warper. This program allows you to overlay and old map on to a new one, then digitally rectify them. A brief video tutorial is available on the site. There are 20,000+ maps available.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
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From WebMd.com: another article on DNA and genealogy
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Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the mail moved slowly and some citizens had to travel a good distance to check for mail...
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Newspapers. com, which is available to library card holders from the library's website, has added 450 more papers from 15 states and 3...
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Sometimes information about our ancestors can come from places where we'd rather not find it, such as arrest and prison records. This ...