Welcome to our
newest edition of our bi-weekly feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we provide eight tasty
bits of genealogy news that will help give you a deeper byte into your family
history research. Each item is short and sweet. We encourage you to check
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Tennessee Union Provost Marshal records are now online via Tennessee State Library and Archives. The provost marshals were the Union’s military police. They hunted and arrested deserters, spies, and civilians suspected of disloyalty; confined prisoners; maintained records of paroles and oaths of allegiance; controlled the passage of civilians in military zones and those using Government transportation; and investigated the theft of Government property.
There is a neat
page on the Library of Congress website: American Indian
Constitutions. It discusses the addition of 428
Native American documents containing constitutions, charters, and acts from the
years 1830 to 1960 to Law.gov. The collection contains two types of material: constitutions from the 1800s produced by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek; and constitutions and charters drafted after the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
Did you have Polish/Galician/Ruthenian ancestors from Rzeszow area like I did? If yes, you’ll enjoy this website as much as
I did, Archiwum Państwowe
w Rzeszowie.
While on the site, you can also search on the archives for other Polish
communities to see what online holdings they may each have.
“Best of” websites
are nice since they give us a chance to review what resources we might be
overlooking and confirm those that we are already using. Check out Family Tree Magazine and its list
of 75 Best State
Genealogy Websites in 2013.
Maps, maps, maps! Just discovered
another historic map collection: Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library (University of Georgia), Historical Maps. What’s your
favorite Historic Map collection?
Continues
to be nice to see more and more Irish resources becoming available. Whether you have Irish ancestry or not, you
might find this fun to check out: The
top 100 Irish last names explained.
Thanks to John D.
Tew and his Filiopietism Prism Blog for pointing out Some Choice Bits of
Slang From American Soldiers Serving in WWII.
Who ever knew that “Egg in your beer” meant “Too much of a good thing?”
Did
your ancestors settle (either permanently or temporarily) in what is now
Ontario, Canada before 1865? If so,
check out Free Online
Searchable Land Records 1763-1865. This website discusses an online
database and how to use it. The database contains more than 82,000 individuals
who arrived in present-day Ontario ,
Canada
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