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Google Offers Historical Newspaper and Archive Searches
Google now offers timeline listings of Google News Archive Search. This is a great way of searching historical newspapers and documents for your mention of your ancestors. Many of those search results currently come from NewspaperARCHIVE.com. Your Portal to the … Continue reading
Ordnance Survey: Online Maps of England and the United Kingdom
UK Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency of Great Britain. It hosts a ton of geographic information about the UK including maps, educational material, and games. If you have an ancestor who came from or lives in Britain, you … Continue reading
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Writing Family Reunion Letters
Dana Huff has a great post on writing “Family Reunion Letters” as part of your family reunion plans. Once you have collected as many addresses as possible, send copies of the family group sheet chart to each family. Ask that … Continue reading
Mapping Medieval Towns with New Technology
ADS Arch Search’s “Mapping Medieval Townscapes: A Digital Atlas Of The New Towns Of Edward I” uses mapping technology to create a map of how Wales and England looked under the reign of King Edward I: Using mapping as a … Continue reading
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Family Reunions Are Family Affairs in Decatur, Illinois
The Decatur Daily’s article on “Exploring Their Roots” talks about how the Jones family preserves their family history by involving the whole family, including the younger generation, by making their family reunions as family affair. Catherine Miller knows what it … Continue reading
Google Releases Tesseract OCR Open Source Software
SearchEngineWatch announces “Google Opens Tesseract OCR Software”, which is exciting news for those of us who scan or want to covert a lot of documents to text: The Google Code Blog announced that Google has “re-released” the Tesseract OCR software … Continue reading
All DNA Traces Back to Original African Black Man and Woman
There is a lot of news around today on DNA tests to prove your lineage. It’s still early days in the technology, but it has opened up a huge front for genealogists and family history researchers. The Pasadena Star News … Continue reading
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Asking for Help on Your Genealogy Blog
Dana Huff’s Family History blog has an interesting category of posts called Research Questions. It is a collection of posts that asks questions, and invites answers, about the topics that puzzle her and her family about their ancestors. In “Johnson … Continue reading
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Lenawee County, Michigan, Online Resources for Local Information, Cemeteries, and Vital Records
My West and Farlin family were brought together in Raisin Township, Lenawee County, Michigan. The term “lenawee” or “lenawai” (Shawnee) cames from the Native American word meaning “man” from the Delaware “leno or lenno”. Lenawee County’s first white settlers were … Continue reading
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History of the San Diego Marine Base
Leatherneck Forum – A base is born in San Diego reports on the history of the development of the San Diego Marine base. If you have an ancestor who served in the Marines on the West Coast of the United … Continue reading
