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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.

The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy is located in the The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library. The Milstein Division collects materials documenting American History on the national, state and local level, Genealogy, Heraldry, Personal and Family Names, and Flags. The Milstein Division bears the responsibility for maintaining the excellence of a body of materials that has traditionally been one of the strengths of The Research Libraries. The Astor Library's holdings of United States history on the national, state and local level were enriched by the acquisition of the George Bancroft Collection, purchased by the Lenox Library. Later significant additions were the Ford, Emmet and Myers Collections. Complementary holdings in the Rare Books and Manuscripts & Archives Division, the Print Room and other divisions of The Research Libraries enhance the resources of The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy.

Written by Leslie A. Lennox, Lt. Col USAF (Ret), this article provides a fascinating look at the logistical effort involved in assembling 1200 bombers to carry out a strike on Germany. This article has little genealogical information, but should be read by anyone whose father or grandfather was involved in this effort.

"Many photographers were drawn to Ellis Island by the general human interest and newsworthiness of the scene; others, such as pioneering social photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), responded to the individual humanity of the immigrants' raw eagerness, symbolized for Hine by their humble possessions and their stoicism."

This is major: a Federal District Court in Colorado has held unconstitutional a portion of the Copyright Act, holding that 17 U.S.C. §104A, which restored copyright in certain foreign works that had previously fallen into the public domain, cannot survive First Amendment scrutiny. The government defended the statute by arguing that such restoration was required by Article 18 of the Berne Convention, the international copyright treaty that the US joined in 1988, but the court in Golan v. Holder today held that the First Amendment trumps such treaty obligations, and that the statute impermissibly interferes with the free speech rights of the plaintiffs, "artisans and businesses that rely upon works in the public domain for their trade."

The Census of Agriculture historically was conducted by the Census Bureau in conjunction with the population census every ten years. Since 1992, however, the Agriculture Census has been performed by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service every five years in years ending in "2" or "7" This is website has information going back to 1840.

These negatives are from a collection of glass plate negatives which was acquired by the Museum in the 1980s and appears to have been made by a Sydney based photographic studio from around 1890 through to 1920. The images are on both whole and half plate negatives and many of the larger images are of a high quality.

This set is a selection of images representing the work of the Florida Folklife Program. Created by Florida folklorists, the Florida Folklife Collection of the State Library and Archives of Florida consists of 88 individual series that document the performances by, interviews with, and fieldwork surveys of folk musicians, artisans, storytellers, folklife interpreters, and other Florida peoples and their traditions.

"The Memoro Project is a non profit online initiative dedicated to collecting and divulgating short video recordings of spontaneous interviews with people born before 1940. An editorial staff identifies and authenticates the material uploaded by the volunteers involved in the project. The Memoro Project was created by Memoro S.r.l. with the financial support of the Province of Cuneo, Italy. [...]"

"Millions of brides indexed from genealogy files on other web sites. This site may be useful in "brick wall" situations to learn where an ancestor's sister went. Also be sure to check http://GedcomIndex.com, also by this webmaster, for a town-by-town listing of GEDCOM entries and a further explanation of GEDCOM files."

Social Security Administration's lists of popular baby names by decade, by state, for twins, and in U.S. territories

Following are the 7 ATCC Bacteria, provided by Bangalore Genei, a Division of Sanmar Specialty Chemicals ltd, Bangalore-India, to study the impact of The Trivedi Effect® by Mahendra Trivedi.

Brought to the world by Mahendra Trivedi in 1995, the Trivedi Effect® is a natural phenomenon that, when harnessed and transmitted by individuals, transforms living organisms and non-living materials so they can function at a higher level and serve a greater purpose.

Late last year, research by the University of Chicago revealed that air pollution could be reducing global life expectancy rates by an average of 1.8 years per person. These figures would make air pollution the world's deadliest killer.

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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced the Party's radical plan to revive the struggling UK high street by enabling councils to reopen abandoned shops by giving them to start-ups, community projects and co-operative businesses.