Finding Ancestors’ Border-Crossing Records in North America
Entry laws tightened today for those crossing the US/Canadian or the US/Mexican border on land—now you must have a passport or an acceptable equivalent to get across. It’s a bit more of a hassle, but at least future genealogists will have records. Plenty of our ancestors immigrated, then up and...
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The historical records site Seeking Michigan has added Michigan death certificates from 1897 to 1920. You can search athe index and click to view a record—free.Run a basic search by name or construct an advanced search by typing keywords and assigning a data field for each term (such as...
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The Wyoming State Library has posted the first set of historical Wyoming newspapers from the Wyoming Newspaper Project. This project involves digitizing a 70-year collection of the state’s newspapers from 1849 to 1922. So far, more than 407,000—about half—of the newspaper images are online. They span 1867 to 1922...
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