26 June 2017
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Ancestry | Desktop Education Series (YouTube)
Join Crista Cowan, The Barefoot Genealogist, for a weekly look at how to do genealogy research, use the Ancestry websites, and build your family tree.
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Ancestry Blog - Restoring Slave Families Using USCT Pension Records
By Linda Barnickel.
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Ancestry.com - England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 $
Original source: Membership registers 1751-1921 from the collection of the United Grand Lodge of England held by the Library and Museum of Freemasonry. Images reproduced by courtesy of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London. Rights reserved.
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Ancestry.com - Ireland, Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland Membership Registers, 1733-1923 $
Original source: Freemasons of Ireland Membership Registers. The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
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Ancestry.com - More than Passenger Lists: The other Records of Ellis Island
By Rhonda McClure.
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Ancestry.com - The History of Freemasonry $
Original source: Robert Freke Gould. The History of Freemasonry - Robert Freke Gould 1887 (3 volumes). London, England: Thomas C Jack.
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A new, fresh take on family history and genealogy research techniques from and for people of color.
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Boone County, Indiana, Cemetery Map
Google Map highlighting the location of cemeteries in the county.
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BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel
Excellent webinars, from very basic for beginners to detailed information on Law and Land Records.
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Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections
John D. Reid, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Craven County, NC Lost Souls Genealogy Project Cemeteries
Google Map highlighting the location of cemeteries in the county.
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A searchable catalog for the library of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington D.C.
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Dave Obee - Family History - Local History
Dave Obee has written a dozen books and has given more than 600 presentations at genealogy and history conferences since 1997. He offers four dozen presentation topics, ranging from general genealogical information, to Canadian research, to technology and more. Located in British Columbia, Canada.
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Duplin County, NC Lost Souls Genealogy Project Cemeteries
Google Map highlighting the location of cemeteries in the county.
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Ken McKinlay, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Five Minute Finds on Ancestry.com (YouTube)
By Judy Sharp, from the BYU FHL webinar series.
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Friends of Newport and Carisbrooke Cemeteries
Volunteer group helping to care for the Newport, St Paul's and Carisbrooke cemeteries in the Isle of Wight. The site includes a database of burials with images, transcriptions etc.
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genealogyKris - Thoughts from a librarian, archivist, & family history researcher
Kris Rzepczynski, an archivist at the Archives of Michigan in Lansing. Alderson, Grobner, Hanna, Hansen, Hopper, Jarand, Kamp, Piotrowski, Russell, Rzepczynski, Stempkowski, Tobolski / Topoll, Vero.
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I Have the Results of My Genetic Genealogy Test, Now What?
By Blaine T. Bettinger, Ph.D.
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Introduction to Scrivener for Family History Writers (YouTube)
By Lynn Palermo.
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Janet Iles Consulting & Research Services, Ontario.
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JewishGen - Chicago Obituary Database
A database of over 8,800 obituary notices for the Chicago, Illinois area that covers December 1994 through September 1998.
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JewishGen - Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Database
This is a database of 32,500 obituary notices which appeared in the Cleveland Jewish News, which covers Oct 30 1964 through Dec 31 2016.
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This database contains records of more than 17,000 funerals in Denver, Colorado, between 1936 and 2015.
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JewishGen - Intermountain Jewish News Obituaries, 1918-2011
The Intermountain Jewish News (IJN) first began publication in Denver, Colorado in 1913. This obituary index begins in October 1918 and extends through June 2011.
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JewishGen - Jewish Consumptive Relief Society, Denver, Colorado, 1904-1940
The Jewish Consumptive Relief Society (JCRS) was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1904 as a non-sectarian sanatorium to treat tuberculosis (TB) patients in all stages of the disease. The society was founded by a group of immigrant Eastern European Jewish men, many of whom were themselves victims of TB.
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JewishGen - Manifest Markings - Board of Special Inquiry
To better understand the process that created Lists of Aliens Held for Special Inquiry (Board of Special Inquiry, or BSI), follow the case of one Roumanian Jewish immigrant and his family who were held for a hearing.
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JewishGen - Manifest Markings - Record of Detained Aliens
Beginning in 1903, at New York (Ellis Island), new forms came to be filed with each manifest and bound in the manifest volumes. One of these is the list or Record of Detained Aliens. Information on the record helps to clarify why a given immigrant was detained, how long they remained in detention, and how the case was resolved.
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JewishGen - Sinai Congregation, Chicago, Marriages Database
A database of information on 526 marriages, contained in two small books with handwritten notations attributed to Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal. Title: Marriage records, Sinai Congregation, Chicago, IL, records entered from 1861-1905.
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JewishGen - The Connecticut Jewish Ledger Obituary Database
The Connecticut Jewish Ledger is a weekly Jewish newspaper for the state of Connecticut. It started in 1929.
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JewishGen - The Houston Jewish Herald-Voice Database
Since September 1908, Houston, Texas, has had a weekly newspaper which covers Jewish events in the Houston area and much of Texas. It has been published under several different names during this period, but has been the Jewish Herald-Voice for many years.
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A multiple database search facility which incorporates databases contributed by individual donors. The combined databases have more than 1.75 million entries.
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Jones County, NC Lost Souls Genealogy Project Cemeteries
Google Map highlighting the location of cemeteries in the county.
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Ledbury, Herefordshire, England.
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Lindon Shared-Stake Family History Center
Lindon, Utah.
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Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems (YouTube)
Lisa sifts through all the new technology and genealogy resources to bring you the best family history resources -- the "genealogy gems!"
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Kathryn Lake Hogan is known for her fun and dynamic style as a professional genealogist, author, educator and speaker.
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Madison County Cemetery Map - Kentucky
Google Map highlighting the location of cemeteries in the county.
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Making the Most of Ancestry.com (YouTube)
By James Tanner, from the BYU FHL webinar series.
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Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses From 1790 to 2000
Details the instructions given to census enumerators for recording information in the census.
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Mich. Masons: Deaths | genealogyKris
Alphabetical indexes of deaths identified in the annual Transactions (up to 1936) and Proceedings (1937 and after) of the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the State of Michigan.
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National Genealogical Society Educational Recordings Powered by PlayBackNow
Video and audio recordings of presentations at the NGS conferences.
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NYC Marriage Index - Reclaim The Records
This collection contains images of the index to New York City marriage licenses, applications, and affidavits. These records were obtained and published by the non-profit group Reclaim The Records, through two successful Freedom of Information lawsuits.
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Old South Meeting House - List of Tea Party Participants
Boston, Massachusetts. Over 5,000 colonists participated in the fateful meetings at Old South Meeting House that decided the fate of the tea in December of 1773, but only about 100 to 150 men actually boarded the ships to destroy the tea.
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Powell County Cemetery Map - Kentucky
Google Map highlighting the location of 115 cemeteries in the county.
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Prince William County Virginia Cemeteries
Google Map highlighting the location of cemeteries in the county.
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Pulaski County, Virginia Cemeteries
Google Map highlighting the location of 140+ cemeteries in the county.
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Blog by Diana Ritchie.
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Roots to the Past | Atlantic Canada's Genealogy Hub
Diane Lynn Tibert McGyver, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Scottish Genealogy Tips And Tidbits
Christine Woodcock, Canada.
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Scrivener for Genealogists QuickSheet PDF Guides $
QuickSheet for sale by Lisa Alzo.
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Writing software for Windows, Mac, and iOS.
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Stars and Stripes: U.S. Military Newspapers in the Library of Congress
A research guide by Rodney Katz and Lawrence Marcus, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Washington, DC.
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The National Archives - Research Guides
365 guides for research in the United Kingdom.
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Research services by Ruth Blair, Ontario, Canada.
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Immigration Records
Immigration records for arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and 1982. The records are arranged by Port of Arrival.
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Requesting Copies of Older (pre-WWI) Military Service Records.
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Villanova University Digital Library - Pennsylvanische Staats-Gazette
This German language newspaper was published in Philadelphia from 1892-1917.
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Voices from the Days of Slavery, Audio Interviews (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom.
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Wallace Cadet Taylor & the Last U.S. Volunteers
The military career ofa little-known Nebraska Officer, who sewed in both the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars, is a case study in the evolution ofthe American "citizen soldier."
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Insightful short stories about life in Upper Canada during the War of 1812, how to find primary and secondary source information about the war, indices to primary document collections, and Upper Canada Militia transcripts. By Fred Blair.
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The World Memory Project is building the largest free online resource of information about victims and survivors of Nazi persecution
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Free videos focused on using search functions.
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YouTube - familysearch's Channel
Videos for family history and genealogy from the familysearch.org web site in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Includes a series of genealogy videos about the records held by the National Archives.
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YouTube Channel - BYU Family History Library
This is a collection of 12 webinars on using maps for Family History Research.
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Beauvais (Bouvet), Belair (Janvry), Bray, Caill
