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Click the links below to access all the Web sites highlighted in this June 2006 Family Tree Magazine article.
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Before you visit a Family History Center in person, you can search various databases on the Internet on your home computer or at a public library. Many state libraries and historical societies also have indexes of vital records, naturalizations, censuses and other records that can be accessed via the Internet...
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The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas Geographical Names of Canada geonames.nrcan.gc.ca Belgian Place Names belgium.rootsweb.com/bel/_places GEOserv www.genealogienetz.de/misc/geoserv.html Horlacher Genealogy Site www.horlacher.org Institut Géographique National www.ign.fr The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker Luxembourg Gazetteer of...
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From the Grave: A Roadside Guide to Colorado's Pioneer Cemeteries by Linda Wommack (Caxton Press, $24.95) Frontier House by Simon Shaw with Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (Pocket Books, $29) The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition 1859-1900 by Rodman Paul and Martin Ridge (University of...
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Each year during Memorial Day weekend, I visit the Farrar family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery. For the past few years, someone had been placing a flower box of geraniums on another Farrar lot and, a couple of weeks later, the box would disappear. I assumed that the groundskeepers were removing...
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AfriGeneas—Slave Data Collection www.afrigeneas.com/slavedata This site helps locate slave ancestors through wills, Bible records, slave manifests and other collections. One of the collection's gems is a partial transcription of slave manifests into New Orleans from 1818 to 1860. Search the entire site or browse by surname or...
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Find the contact information for national archives in Central and South America.
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Forget partying like it's 1999. Researchers and historians around the globe have a better reason to celebrate Y2K—it's the 200th birthday of the Library of Congress. The past two centuries have turned the library into a gold mine for people in search of practically anything. It began in 1800...
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