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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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Click the links below to access all the Web sites highlighted in this June 2006 Family Tree Magazine article.
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Genealogy Detective helps direct your online genealogy research, but sometimes points in the wrong direction.
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Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records www.glorecords.blm.gov The GLO Web site is the premier site for genealogists searching for land records. Its database contains records of land transfers from the US government to individuals, and even holds some Revolutionary War bounty warrants. Search results...
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AfriGeneas—Slave Data Collection www.afrigeneas.com/slavedata This site helps locate slave ancestors through wills, Bible records, slave manifests and other collections. One of the collection's gems is a partial transcription of slave manifests into New Orleans from 1818 to 1860. Search the entire site or browse by surname or...
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On my next trip to Missouri, I want to hunt up the Shore family cemetery, the burial place of my Moravian Shore (Schor) family who emigrated here from Switzerland in 1750. Although I know the cemetery exists (I've found reference to it in a Shore genealogy book) I wasn't...
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Web sites American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island www.ellisisland.org Search lists of 22 million passengers, including 17 million immigrants, who passed through the Port of New York from 1892 to 1924. Delaware GenWeb Project www.rootsweb.com/~degenweb Features an online gazetteer and a search engine for...
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