Thursday, February 22, 2018
Tracking Down the Source of Newspaper clippings
This article from abundantgenealogy.com offers tips on identifying the source of clipping, obituaries, etc that don't include the name of the publication or the date. Source: ResearchBuzz
Monday, February 5, 2018
New York Slavery Index & Fold3 Black History records
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York has compiled an index of slavery records for New York that covers the period 1525 through the Civil War. The number of records is at 35,000 and growing, and includes much data of interests to genealogists....In recognition of Black History month, Fold3 is making all the records in its Black History Collection available for free for the entire month of February.
Source: ResearchBuzz
Source: ResearchBuzz
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Ted Talk: How We're Building the World's Largest Family Tree
From Ted.com in 2018.
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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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Over the course of U.S. history, county boundaries and names changed, and large counties were broken up into smaller ones. In 1883, for exam...