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Do you have ancestors buried in Hopkins
County TX
More genealogical
news from TX -- Congregation Beth
Israel in Houston (TX) has digitized and placed online early
records, ledgers, and books covering from 1861 to the early 1920s. The
documents are in German, Hebrew and English.
One more bit of
news from TX. The Texas Seaport
Museum has compiled a listing of
immigrants to Galveston , Texas
My gran and her 2nd
husband both died in 2000 and 2001 respectively in the
I’ve come across all kinds of yearbooks as I do
research and this is a first – Yacht Club Yearbooks. I guess since I’ve never stepped foot in one,
it’s not something I would have known about.
If your family belonged to the Avalon (NJ) Yacht Club, there is now an
online archive of Avalon
Club Yacht Club Yearbooks covering 1953-2007 online.
The Irish Anzacs Database has been launched.
The projects aim is to identify all Irish-born enlistments in the
Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War. Read more here. Here’s a video on how to access the database.
Search the database.
The
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa is placing a special
emphasis on Canada’s HomeChildren, since 70% of these children were settled in Ontario
I’ve always liked
The Week for “short” new items. When I
stopped subscribing to the print version, I took up reading the online version.
A recent-to-me find (from June) was These maps show the
most common religions, Christian and non-Christian, in your state. To me what was most interesting
was not the largest reporting group for each state and the second largest one.
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