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History in Shambles Premium
When the Stadtarchiv Köln—City Archive of Cologne, Germany—collapsed March 3, two people died, surrounding buildings were irretrievably damaged and more than a thousand years of records were buried in rubble. The 38-year-old archive building contained 65,000 documents, the oldest dating to 922. Holdings—more than...
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January 2010 Genealogy Insider: What’s New In News Premium
Michigan-based educational database company Gale (part of Cengage Learning) whose products include the ProQuest line of historical newspapers and genealogy collections offered in libraries, has introduced a new database of 19th-century British newspapers for at-home subscribers. British Newspapers, 1800-1900, lets you search and browse more than 2 million pages...
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All the Newspapers Premium
Genealogy Web sites are scrambling to digitize yesterday's news.
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2010 Genealogy Conference Scene Premium
What do you get when you mix a bunch of genealogists with how-to classes and an exhibit hall full of software vendors, data services, publishers, photo restorers and genealogy societies? Sounds like a family history conference to us. “Genealogy conferences promote new tools, new sources and new methods available...
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Meet the person readers selected as Family Tree Magazine's 2010 genealogy Difference Maker of the Year.
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Meet Our 2009 Difference Makers Premium
Readers nominated these genealogy volunteers as our 2009 Difference Makers.
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Teaming Up for Free Census Records Premium
Two big genealogy organizations join to expand census access.
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How to Use the FamilySearch Pilot Site Premium
See step-by-step how to access millions of digitized records on FamilySearch’s Record Search Pilot Site.
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AncestorNews: Wills on the Web Premium
The first will I ever tried to read was written in 1850 by my 3rd great-grandfather, John Snow. I remember feeling overwhelmed because I didn't know what to expect, couldn't read the writing and didn't have a clue as to what I was really looking for. Fortunately, Phyllis Quarg...
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