May 2013
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Finding your family history in the news →
Hit a dead end in your family history search? Newspapers may provide the resuscitation you’re looking for. Not only are they a prolific source of obituaries, but they can also provide insight into the
March 2013
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Slaves’ Forgotten Burial Sites, Marked Online →
“The fact that they lie in these unmarked abandoned sites, it’s almost like that they are kind of vanishing from the American consciousness,” said Sandra Arnold, 50, a history student at the School of Professional and Continuing Studies at Fordham University.
June 2012
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April 2012
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Free access to virtually all administrative and... →
How to Find Cool Stuff in the Newly-Released 1940... →
The Census Bureau just released reams of data from the 1940 U.S. Census online (the website’s been up and down all day; if it doesn’t work, try later), and you are going to spend the next hour or so tooling around on the website. I know because I just did it myself.
Free Access to the entire WWII collection on Fold3 for the entire month of April. Please share with family and friends….
— Fold3 (@fold3) April 3, 2012
March 2012
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Back in the '40s ... →
1940 census data will be released April 2. Take a look at life in the ’40s, and how it compares to today.
How Green Was My Surname; Via Ireland, a Chapter... →
So many African-Americans have Irish-sounding last names — Eddie Murphy, Isaac Hayes, Mariah Carey, Dizzy Gillespie, Toni Morrison, H. Carl McCall — that you would think that the long story of blacks and Irish coming together would be well documented. You would be wrong.
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WWII European Theater Army Records, 1941-1946 →
War is waged primarily in battle, yet made possible by operations beyond the battlefield as revealed in the WWII European Theater Army Records, a collection of administrative documents compiled by the U.S. Army’s Historical Division, 1941 through 1946. These records, originally marked secret and confidential, are now available on Fold3.
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Jerome Bettis tracks his family history
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Dead men do tell tales →
Ancestry.com will host a chat at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday to help you find death records, what information is included in those records, and where to find obituaries. RSVP now.
