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Friday, December 29, 2017
A Comprehensive Guide to the Old Fulton New York Postcards Website
On December 25th the Old Fulton New York Postcards website (which, by the way, is not a website for postcards) received a major update that added a whopping 700,000 more old newspaper articles from the USA and Canada. The site, however, has an aesthetic that makes it slightly more difficult to start using than the average site. This post will help you learn to use this incredible resource to its full capacity.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
3 Ways to Use Archive.org for Genealogy
Archive.org is one of the most valuable free resources for genealogy you have at your disposal. This post will teach you how to use it for your own research.
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Friday, December 22, 2017
5 Beginner Tips for Using the Třeboň Regional Archives
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So you just found that you have Czech ancestors, you even narrowed down the specific location of those ancestors to Southern Bohemia, the region covered by the Třeboň Regional Archives. What now? Note that this guide will only cover the basics of using the archives and navigating the records, it won't deal with techniques for reading the Czech language or for finding people when nothing else is working.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
The Mysterious Origins of William Smith: A Tale of an Insane Irish Man
Nearly every family has one; a seemingly-eccentric-nutter-turned-black-sheep. The ancestor who lived under a guise of normalcy for years until a seemingly insignificant event turned them sour. On the Van Wert side of my family, this person is the Irish born William Smith, my 4th great grandfather by the following line:
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