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Whether your ancestors worked for the Federal Reserve
or you have handled US
Is there
Rhode Island (RI) ancestry in your family tree? Check out the RI online digital
archive here. This article (Boston.com) provides a nice overview.
How neat that a bunch of Austrian newspapers are online at the Austrian National Library website.
Here is a list
of the currently available newspapers (and magazines). Remember that the Austrian empire and its
borders changed quite a bit through time.
You may also want to read about the Austrian
Empire and Austria-Hungary.
Many of us with Polish, Galician, Ruthenian, Czechoslovakian, Ukrainian,
and other eastern European ancestors will find that they lived within the
borders of Austria-Hungary
at the time of their emigration to the US ,
Canada
If you are researching South
Georgia , make sure to check out The Digital Library of
Georgia. It recently added the Vienna News to the South Georgia
Historic Newspapers Archive. The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive
now provides access to sixteen newspaper titles published in ten south Georgia
cities (Albany , Americus ,
Bainbridge, Brunswick , Cuthbert, Thomasville , Tifton, Valdosta , Vienna , and Waycross )
from 1845 to 1922.
Do you have an early 19th century prominent North Carolina family
in your lineage? Were there any daughters of school age c.
1809-1818? If so, maybe they attended the Mordecai school in Warrenton , North
Carolina
Olive Tree
has reconstructed ships'
passenger lists to New Netherland (present
day New York) covering 1624-1664 from various sources.
If I really wanted to get my husband interested in genealogy, I might just
introduce him to The Guinness Archive which preserves the historical records
of the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin
Here’s a
great resource for those researching family who lived in Northeastern Alabama.
The staff and volunteers of the Huntsville-Madison
County Public Library system have created an obituary index. Current coverage starts in 1819 and comes
forward to about 2005.
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