This article might help you to decipher those hard-to-read old documents, and this one from familyhistorydaily.com provides translations for abbreviations you may encounter.
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Ancestry Blog: Thanksgiving Recipes
Next week is Thanksgiving, and that means family and feasts. Recipes passed down from generation to generation can help us to connect to our...
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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...
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