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While you'll want to make a photocopy of your ancestor's will when you find it, abstracting the record for later use is easier than reading through the whole document again. Here are the key items to record when abstracting a will: • type of record (will, inventory, intestate proceedings...
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Hawaii Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness, Hawaii www.raogk.com/hawaii.htm Ask these volunteers to assist with your Hawaiian research. Idaho Idaho GenWeb Project www.rootsweb.com/~idgenweb Look here for county-level resources, including archives, message boards and queries. Illinois Illinois State Archives www.ilsos.net/departments/archives/databases.html Excellent collection of more...
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Nebraska Nebraska School Records idreamof.com/school/ne.html If your ancestor attended school in Nebraska, check here for records dating from 1871. Nevada Nevada Historical Society dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/museums/reno/his-soc.htm Virtual exhibits of your Nevada ancestors' past, links to sites about Nevada history and information on collections. New Hampshire...
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You'll face several problems when upgrading your old home movies to modern technology—here are some fixes: Problem: Movies have a different horizontal and vertical ratio than videos. Solution: Choose "letterbox format," which professional filmmakers use to show the entire visible frame. Or cut a little on...
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The United States Newspaper Program is a national effort to preserve America's historic press. Each state library inventories the newspaper collections of its local libraries, museums, courthouses and other sites, and catalogs them on a national database maintained by the Online Computer Library Center www.oclc.org. Under the...
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AfriGeneas www.afrigeneas.com African-American genealogy. Carolina Cuzins www.carolinacuzins.org The Freedmen's Bureau Online freedmensbureau.com Records of freed slaves. Mid-Atlantic Roots Network midatlantic.rootsweb.com Includes Virginia and North Carolina. Southern Trails homepages.rootsweb.com/~south1/trails1.htm Traveller Southern Families genealogy.traveller.com/genealogy/ National Archives Confederate Pension Records information...
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