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Nowadays we find
many online databases full of newspaper articles. As with everything else, they all operate a
bit differently. Kenneth R. Marks (The
Ancestor Hunt blog) talks about 4 Challenges in
Downloading Historical Newspaper Articles.
Did your
family live in the NYC metro area? If
so, they might be buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
Over the years I have researched several families for whom this is their
final resting spot. Check out this New
York Times article Preserving History,
and Uncovering Secrets, at Green-Wood Cemetery for some fascinating insight into
this 175-year-old cemetery. You can
search for burials through this link.
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Census Year: 1825, Item Number: 5984, Surname: Smith, Given Name(s): Joseph, District Name:
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Thanks to Elizabeth
Shown Mills (and others) via Facebook (FB) for letting us know that come the 15th
of August the Archival Research Catalog (ARC), the online catalog of NARA 's nationwide holdings in the Washington , DC
I
always hate to see anything thrown away, especially records that might have
relevance to future genealogists and/or historians. Unfortunately, due to space limitations, laws
passed, ignorance, and other reasons, we still hear about records being
discarded, such as in this Washington
Post article Historians
decry officials in Va. county for tossing Depression-era land records. Check out the
presentation mentioned in the comments section.
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Are you
familiar with PERSI (PERiodical Source Index)?
If not, learn more about this great resource here. If you are familiar, we’ve learned
that PERSI is moving from Heritage Quest to brightsolid (parent company of FindMyPast).
It will be interesting to see what that means in terms of accessing this
wonderful resource.
Love to
watch videos? Archives.com posts
videos every Wednesday on its YouTube channel. A wide variety of topics have
already been presented. New videos are announced on the Archives.com Facebook (FB) page.
Something
fun ... a post titled Reflections:
Portraits of the Elderly as They Once Were: “A photo series by Tom Hussey,
where he portrays the elderly as they reflect on their younger selves in the
mirror.” Very fascinating. How often
have you looked at an older relative and just seen them at that age and
forgotten that they were once young, also?
This happened to me with my grandmother.
I was used to her as an old woman.
Then I saw a photo of her when she was much younger. The resemblance of my grandmother in this
photo to my then young aunt was amazing.
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