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Miles Files 9.0 - Main Page - 1 views
Civil War pension application files - a rich source of detail - 2 views
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Many Civil War veterans and their widows or other dependents received pensions from the U. S. government for their support. For those researchers whose ancestors received pensions for service, these files are arguably the single richest record group in terms of information contained within them.
American Experience on PBS - 'Reconstruction: The Second Civil War' - Watch it free online - 0 views
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The PBS program "American Experience" is a wonderful series of documentaries about the history of the United States. The series also has a remarkable online presence, often creating unique sites for each episode of the series.
National Blog Posting Month - Can genealogy blogs meet the challenge? - 0 views
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Taking their inspiration from National Novel Writing Month ("NaNoWriMo"), which challenges its members to write a complete novel in a month, a group of bloggers has issued the "NaBloPoMo" challenge - for bloggers to post at least once every day during the entire month of November.
There is a social website dedicated to the site, providing inspiration and promotion opportunities for members' blogs.
Visit the site (http://www.nablopomo.com/) for more
information.
The Dead Librarian - 2 views
Open Publishing Guide | Open Publishing Guide - 2 views
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The Open Publishing Guide has everything you need to know to publish your work.
War Grave and Memorial Photographs supplied by The War Graves Photographic Project - 4 views
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"The aim of The War Graves Photographic Project is to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, MoD grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day and make these available within a searchable database.
Now working as a joint venture with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, this will enable families, scholars and researchers to obtain, via the CWGC or TWGPP websites, a copy of the photograph of a grave or memorial which for many is impossible to visit due to the location."
Papers of the War Department - 1784 to 1800 - 3 views
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"Fire destroyed the office of the War Department and all its files in 1800, and for decades historians believed that the collection, and the window it provided into the workings of the early federal government, was lost forever. Thanks to a decade-long effort to retrieve copies of the files scattered in archives across the country, the collection has been reconstituted and is offered here as a fully-searchable digital database."
Citing a Source at Find A Grave - 5 views
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An interesting discussion on citing a source from the Find A Grave web site.
A history of conflicts - 3 views
Castle Garden - 0 views
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Immigration data from Castle Garden - official U.S. immigration entry point from 1855 to 1890.
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"This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 12 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period."
The basics of Y-DNA testing for genealogy - 1 views
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From CSI to The Maury Povich Show, DNA and DNA testing has become a part of American popular culture. But what is DNA?\nIn simple terms, DNA is a string of proteins that contain coded blueprints for our bodies. It tells our bodies how to grow. We inherit our DNA from our parents, which is where its genealogical value comes in.
Redmond Historical Society - 0 views
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Redmond, WA
Cambridge Historical Association | Scribd - 0 views
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Cambridge Historical Association - Cambridge, Iowa
This is their page on Scribd where they are posting their association newsletters.
CHA Notes - Cambridge Historical Association - 0 views
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Cambridge, Iowa
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