Friday, February 27, 2015
Florida Ancestors
In 1845, residents voted to make Florida the 27th state. Florida Memory digitized the returns in 2014. This blog post by Josh Goodman of the State Archives shows how the data can assist genealogists trying to learn about their ancestors from the Sunshine state.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Black History Month
fold3.com is making its Black History Collection of more than a million photos and documents available for free this month.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Searching categories on Cyndi's list
This May 2014 post on the Cyndi's List blog talks about the advantages of browsing the categories instead of entering keywords in the site's search engine. You may be missing out on some helpful information, or new directions in your research.
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Ellis Island Research
The Statue of Library- Ellis Island Foundation is a good place to start your immigration research. The link is here .
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Buncombe County (NC) has added 50,000 names to its Slave Deeds database. To read about it and find links to the database, click here. ...
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From APNEWS.COM
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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 ...