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6 Strategies to Finding Irish Ancestors in Religious Documents
Here are six tips for using church records to discover more about your Irish ancestors.
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Everything’s Relative: Uncommon Sense Premium
From her ravishing red ringlets to her designer stilettos, not much is common about Mona Lisa Smile actress Julia Roberts—that is, except her last name. Any family researcher knows you can have the widest, whitest smile in the country, but if your last name takes up roughly half the phone...
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Links to the lives of the unusual, surprising and infamous: Lizzie Borden's family tree www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/Borden/ Unsolved Mysteries mailing list www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_general.html#GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Notorious Ancestors www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8310/notorious.html Yahoo guide to outlaws dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Crime/Outlaws/ So You Want to Be Kin to Jesse James www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/8225/jesse...
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Would you like free access to thousands of topographic maps? TopoZone.com at www.topozone.com is a fully searchable Web site containing topographic images of the entire United States. Under Get a Map, click Place Name Search to go to the query form. The system will return a...
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Want to mingle with fellow researchers and get the scoop on local sources? Check out the links below to find a genealogical society that's right for you.
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Track down your Scandinavian family with these books, Web sites and organizations that focus on Sweden.
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Music of the Civil War Premium
Molly Mason admits she didn't know much about Civil War music when she and her husband, Jay Ungar, were tapped by Ken Burns to play the haunting soundtrack for "The Civil War" PBS-TV series. (Ungar wrote the now-famous "Ashokan Farewell" used by Burns as the epic documentary's theme.) "We...
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County Location of New England Place Names neatlas.huh.harvard.edu/NECounty Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 sanborn.umi.com Genealogy.com: Family and Local Histories www.genealogy.com Historical County Lines jrshelby.com/hcl RootsWeb County Finder resources.rootsweb.com/usa United States Digital Map Library www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps US County Formation Maps...
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Alabama Alabama Civil War Roots www.rootsweb.com/~alcwroot Links to all Alabama units and tips on tracing your Civil War ancestor. Historic Alabama Maps alabamamaps.ua.edu/alabama/historical Follow the evolution of Alabama counties with these historical maps from the University of Alabama. Alaska Alaska GenWeb Project www.akgenweb.org Begin...
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The American South: A History by William J. Cooper Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill (McGraw-Hill, $53) Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree by Tony Burroughs (Fireside, $16) The Dixie Frontier: A Social History by Everett Dick (University of Oklahoma Press, $16.95) Encyclopedia...
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