Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Georgia Civil War and Reconstruction newspapers online
The Digital Library of Georgia has made available online more 100,000 pages of newspapers from 1861-1877. The papers are fully searchable. Learn what papers are included and find the link here. source: ResearchBuzz
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Fee hikes proposed for immigration records
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is proposing large fee hikes for obtaining immigration documents from the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. source: ResearchBuzz
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Traveling to Research Your Irish Ancestors
An Irish airline offers travel packages for Americans interested in tracing their Irish roots, including a consultation with a professional genealogist. Here is an article on how to prepare for it.
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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...