Monday, July 30, 2018
Lost military records
A fire in 1973 at National Personnel Records center in St. Louis destroyed a significant amount of records covering service personnel who were discharged between 1912 and 1964. Read here about what records were lost.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
So. Carolina Revolutionary War records
The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has
made a new set of records available on its Online Records Index: more than
11,000 Revolutionary War documents "presented by citizens to the treasury
in support of claims for military service, supplies, and other contributions
rendered during the latter part of the ...war". A press release, including
a link to the records, is here Source: ResearchBuzz
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Irish Genealogy Project Archives
Here is a good free site from the Emerald Isle. It's broken down by category and includes gravestones, obituaries, census and church records. It is somewhat limited but growing thanks to volunteer contributions
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Vermont newspapers archive
If you are on resident of the Green Mountain state, you can have free access to 200 years of Vermont newspapers on the newspapers.com website, via the state archives. To learn more, click here.
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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...