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Excellent how-to for Diigo

how to obtain vital records from the City of Detroit

The goal of this site is not to help you find your ancestors' names (although the Records section does contain a lot of how-to information). Instead, this site's goal is to help you understand your ancestors' lives - particularly those who lived in the 1700 and 1800s in Western Europe. For grandparents and even great-grandparents, you can often learn quite a bit about their lives by talking to people who knew them. However, once you get back several generations, the task becomes more involved. In most cases, the only evidence of these ancestors that survives is names and dates in basic records. Despite the lack of detail about your ancestors individually, there is a lot of information that can help you understand your ancestors' lives. By accessing this, you can gain important insights into their daily routines and most important life events. To find this information you have to do two things: first, look deeper into the records and second, look beyond your ancestor. I hope this site can help you do both of these.

Back in June of 2007, we began our first collaboration with a civic institution to facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content of a publicly-held photography collection. The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer. You're invited to help describe photographs in the Library of Congress' collection on Flickr, by adding tags or leaving comments.*

How many times have you wished: You had your bookmarks available on your work/friend's/library computer?There was an easy way you could send your coollection to someone else?You could easily grab a group of links from Cindi's List?You could post your (fill in the blank) bookmarks on your Web site? cursor:

From RootsWeb:

So you just found your ancestor on the 1860 census, and you see the
value of his personal estate listed as $500. "That's great," you
think, "but how much is that today?"

A site called Economic History can help you figure that out. Use their
calculators and other resources to get an idea of whether your
ancestor was a prince or a pauper.

http://eh.net/hmit/

A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard.

"I don't know about you, but I'm a history buff. And I'm particularly fascinated by WWII. Unfortunately we're losing our WW II vets at an alarming rate now and we're missing out some of the most fascinating history there is - the personal stories of those who were a part of that great effort. I was pleased to find out that one of the small cities here in Georgia, through its local newspaper, the Rome News-Tribune, has produced a very well done set of videos featuring local WW II vets along with their stories. It is very similar to Ken Burns "The War" but on a much more local level. It's fascinating and a very worthy addition to the oral histories of WW II. There are 8 videos in the set and they're all worth the time to watch. But if you have to pick just one to watch, I'd suggest the one on Iwo Jima. Two Marines and a Navy Corpsman talk about that battle, what they saw, what they did and how it effected them and their lives. It is worth the few minutes it takes. If anyone knows about more of these projects that are available on line, I'd love to know about them so I can feature them (mcq51atbellsouthdotnet)."

"Lookbackmaps is a network of neighborhood historians, historical photo enthusiasts, historians, book publishers and others who collaborate to map history.\n\nThrough the online digitization of high-resolution public photo collections and geotagging technology, Lookbackmaps creates collaborative, standardized views into the past.\n\n \n\nThere's something in being human that wonders what was here before us-who occupied this space, how did they live, what did they leave behind? By mapping the millions of historical photos available through public libraries and private collections on the web, we start to piece together the puzzle."

I was delighted to read about this lady, so keen to share her genealogy "how to" knowledge. Maybe she will do an interview for NZTV!

This column has previously focused on African-American genealogy blogs, in the articles Shout-outs to African-American Genealogy Blogs and More shout-outs to African-American genealogy blogs. A third edition soon forthcoming will spotlight several new genealogy blogs. The responsible genealogist, however, would be advised to learn more about United States history, including how it affected African-Americans. History blogs are a vital source for keeping up with current perspectives as well as newly available historical resources, many of which may provide genealogically useful information.

A discussion on the reliability of flash drives.

Alphabetical listing of newspapers in the Google News Archive. Lists how many issues and date range; does not list location.

not sure how much genealogical value this site may have, but then you never know! It may lead to a long-lost felony relative!

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.

The Mission of the Historical Archives of the Chancery is to assist the Church in reflecting on her history, and specifically on how the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has lived the Gospel message. Every generation examines and interprets its history in order to understand the present life and activity of the Church. This reflection and historical perspective is especially important during times of great change and transition in the life of the Church.

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