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Angel Island Immigration Photographic Collection 207.212.67.173/angel_island/ Angel Island—known as the Ellis Island of the West—was the immigration point for many Asians entering the United States. This site contains four pages of Angel Island photos, including boats, people and even slides of blood work taken from immigrants. Images...
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American Revolution The American Revolution and Its Era memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html Spy Letters of the American Revolution www.si.umich.edu/spies RevList—The Revolutionary War Mailing List www.liming.org/revlist Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists Maryland Loyalists users.erols.com/candidus The War for...
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If you think the odds of meeting online cousins are slim, think again. By the time you go back 15 generations, you have more than 32,000 ancestors. Since some of them had 10 or more siblings, the number of potential cousins alive today is staggering. Suddenly, the odds are...
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National Institute on Genealogical Research Box 14274 Washington, DC 20044 www.rootsweb.com/~natgenin Established in 1950. Held each July at the archives in Washington, DC. The week-long program takes an in-depth look at federal records of genealogical value located primarily in the Washington, DC, area. Regional In-Depth Genealogical Studies...
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Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Currently, 3.5 million soldiers from 30 states are named in this searchable database. CWSS also includes histories of more than 4,000 Union and Confederate units, which are linked to the soldiers and the battles. Although all 5.4 million soldier names have...
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