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Footnote acquired by Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com has acquired Footnote, an online database of American history. A common complaint against Ancestry.com is that researchers are unable...
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Newspaper ads offer genealogy clues

Boston Evening-Post NewsBank Inc. Newspaper display and classified advertisements not only offer insight into an era, but they give us valuable...
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Genealogy 101: starting your family tree

Just like Julie Andrews explains to the children in The Sound of Music: “Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When...
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The Mayflower Passengers: Saints and Strangers

The Mayflower left England in September 1620 with 102 passengers. Of this number, less than half of them were known as Separatists or Saints&mdash...
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Wright Museum depicts life in the military and at home

The sight of a World War II Army tank crashing through a brick wall abruptly reminds us of how far-away military actions affected people on the...
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Massachusetts 1865 state census index and images online

Federal censuses are great tools for finding families at a given time and place, especially when vital records are not available. Some states, such...
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Maine Genealogy site grows from one man's obsession

Five years ago, Christopher Dunham created the Maine Genealogy site to share some of the genealogy resources he had collected---and he’s been...
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New Hampshire births to 1900 available online

FamilySearch Record Search pilot site now offers a searchable name index to New Hampshire birth records from 1640 to 1900.Don’t get too...
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Genealogy 101: top 10 reasons to publish on paper

Why should I print my genealogy research on paper (in manuscript form, in a magazine or journal, or as a book) when there are so many easier and...
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Massachusetts Archives offers searchable indexes online

The Massachusetts Archives at 220 Morrissey Blvd. in Boston, holds the “official records created by Massachusetts state government.”...
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