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Laws are
important. Free access to legal
information is great. Check out this
great collaboration between the Law Library of Congress and the legal
publishing company William S. Hein & Co., Inc. as described by The Legal
Genealogist.
Burials
for the Cook County
Cemetery at Dunning, IL are now online! With
over 38,000 burials spanning some seventy years, it served as an institutional
cemetery for the Cook
County institutions. These consisted of the County Poor house and farm opened 1854, the Insane Asylum opened 1869, the infirmary opened 1882, and the Consumptive hospital (TB), opened 1899 and was the official Cook County potters field serving the poor and indigent of the county. Read the article, Database Remembers Chicagoans Buried, Forgotten in Dunning Cemetery, to learn more.
A research
challenge we run into is when currency changes. How do we get a grasp on
obsolete currency? The International Society for British Genealogy and Family
History (ISBGFH) has posted a nice & short summary of Post- and
pre-decimalization monetary units (covering British currency).
The
Ohio History Connection’s State Archives’ online catalog of death records has
expanded. On October 1, the Ohio Department of Health transferred
nearly two million death certificates from the years 1954 to 1963 to the Ohio History Connection.
Fort Dodge (Iowa)
newspaper archive is now online. It covers 56 local and area newspapers and
publications for the years 1856-1934.
The
University of New
Hampshire has some neat Maps & Atlases online with the earliest item a
Gazetteer of the state of New
Hampshire from 1817.
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