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I
love the “old” Brooklyn Eagle archives
and the newly expanded version is wonderful.
Did your ancestors
live in Canada in the late 19th century and into the 20th century? Were they possibly Aboriginal? If you
answered yes, check out Residential School Records Resources,
including the newest digitized collection, photographs of residential schools.
Our
ancestors died of many illnesses that we don’t recognize. Ignoring that, most of us aren’t that
familiar with many modern illnesses.
Help is available via the Medical Heritage Library, “a digital curation collaborative
among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, [that] promotes free and
open access to quality historical resources in medicine.” A neat element is that it gives you information
in the context of published medical resources and it is international so you
are not limited to English-language medical terms.
Fairview Cemetery is an important vestige of the
African American community in
With a daughter who is a linguist and as a genealogist who often struggles to
figure out how a name was both pronounced and written, it’s impossible for me
to ignore anything that might help me better understand the English
language. My newest play space into
language is the Dictionary of
American Regional English (DARE) where you can search on regional words, phrases, and
pronunciations. You can search across
the country, in a particular region (group of states), or regions within a
state (e.g. Outer Banks for NC).
Understanding the
“law” always helps our interpretation of the documents we research into. If you are researching
There always seems
to be some “new” Irish resource in the news.
The most recent one is The Irish Mission
at Watson House. Learn about “...
the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the Protection of Irish Immigrant
Girls. This Mission operated from 1883 to 1954 in Watson House, which overlooks
New York Harbour ... it was set up close to Castle Garden, the depot where immigrants
were landed in the mid-to-late 19th century, before Ellis Island opened.“
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