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• Antiquarian Maps at Reed College web.reed.edu/resources/library/maps/ • Canadian County Atlas Digital Project imago.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/ • David Rumsey Map Collection www.davidrumsey.com • Global Gazetteer www.calle.com/world/ • Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection, University of Georgia www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html • Historic...
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• A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820 by Clarence Brigham (Greenwood Publishing Group, $85) • American Newspapers 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada by Winifred Gregory (H.W. Wilson Co., out of print) • Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast...
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Rand McNally 2001 Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico A genealogist needs maps showing small towns, roads and county names and boundaries. This inexpensive road atlas fits the bill and also includes an index to counties, cities and towns. Unfortunately, the Canadian maps do not show county names and...
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First, here's what not to take along on your family history vacation: your original files, photos or documents. But do make room in your suitcase for these family history "road warrior" essentials: Paper for note-taking (some archives don't allow spiral-bound notebooks) Pens, pencils and pencil sharpener or mechanical pencil...
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Macintosh users, don't despair! You might be able to run Windows genealogy programs on a Mac using PC emulation software. Or you can choose from these programs designed for the Mac: GEDitCOM $49.99, www.geditcom.com. A customizable program that works directly with GEDCOM files, GEDitCOM has multimedia support...
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Last August, when my brother, Louis Schwarz of Lafayette, La., visited my family, he brought an old letter from a Fred Griffin of Corydon, Ind., addressed to our deceased brother Fred in Durham, NC, dated Feb. 2, 1968. Fred Griffin had enclosed information on our maternal grandfather's family and asked...
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Here's a list of the materials you'll need to encapsulate properly and with minimal trouble. Most can be purchased through any of these archival supply catalogs. Polyester film (Mylar) An X-Acto type knife. Olfa is another brand name that has snap-off blades. Lint-free cloth, to clean the Mylar and...
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• Call Family History Support at 1-800-346-6044, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time, Monday-Saturday. • Visit the FamilySearch Web site • Contact a local LDS congregation—you'll have the best luck on a Sunday—usually listed in the white pages of local phone books under "Church of Jesus...
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Although most people see technology as part of the future, it often brings family historians an important part of the past. That's what happened to genealogist Carolyn Meek Nelson when she received the 182-year-old Bible that belonged to her great-great-grandfather, thanks to an Internet mailing list. Back in the 1950s...
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Web Sites American Memory Project memory.loc.gov: Search by collection or the entire group of 7 million digitized records. Getty Research Institute www.getty.edu/research/library: The institute developed The Art and Architecture Thesaurus and The Union List of Artists' Names. You can search its databases through an online catalog...
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