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The
North Dakota State Historical Society has unveiled Digital Horizons, “an online treasure house of
thousands of images, documents, video, and oral histories depicting life on the
Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today.”
“... Maxwell
Ancestry, [is] pleased to bring you this new website [Scottish Indexes] bringing you even more indexes to
help you trace your Scottish family tree online. We now have a large collection
of indexes, from unique sources such as prison and court records to more
commonly used sources such as birth, marriage, death and census records. While
currently many of our records are from the south of Scotland ,
we have Quaker records and mental health records covering all of Scotland
Prisoners of the First World War, the ICRC archives is a great collection which encompasses 1914-1918 and the 10 million people, serviceman and civilians who were captured and sent to detention camps.
Do look at the tab “Examples of Index Cards” to fully understand the
information provided and how you might access additional information.
If you have Mormon
ancestors, some of the more than 60,000 who traveled overland to the Salt Lake
Valley
The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains almost 73,000 issues
comprising over 600,000 pages and almost 7 million articles for California
If a family member
served in the marines and was a casualty (wounded, missing, killed, or deemed a
prisoner of war) during
Research into the records of Savannah (Georgia
Editor’s Note: I have one lone Scottish family in my tree
and so I’m always looking for information for Newton Scotland to
find some of the baptisms of the children listed in the records of the Newton Stewart
Relief Church
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