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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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Did an ancestor
practice law in
Did
you know that cartographers used to think that California was an Island? This reminds us to be cautious about what we
take as “fact” as we do our research.
Check out this neat collection of these maps.
It’s not always archival institutions that had the forethought to preserve history. Sometimes it’s individuals like you and me
who amass an archive of material that then gets a long-term home in an
archive. Read about such a situation in The Incredible
Story of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years of TV News. From 1977 to 2012, she recorded
140,000 VHS tapes worth of history that the Internet Archives plans to make
public and searchable. On a related note, read here about the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
Have Norwegian ancestors? Check out the
online presence of The National
Archives of Norway. You can access digitized parish registers, probate
records, court records, and much more!
We often discuss
getting more youth involved in the fascinating discovery of one’s roots! A Bibliography for Young People and Families created by New England Historic
Genealogical Society (aka American Ancestors) might help get the ball rolling.
The Irish
Genealogical Research Society’s annual journal, The Irish Genealogist, has been published since 1937. It
has included information from newspapers, parish registers, family Bibles,
genealogies, voters lists, pedigrees, membership rolls, deeds, marriage
settlements, census substitutes, land and tenure surveys, marriage license
bonds, courts records, and wills. Over 250,000 names can be searched
via a new database.
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