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Monday, December 30, 2013

It's almost 2014, and the digital age is still a ways off

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Harvard historian Robert Darnton in the New York Review of Books , [$] reviewing Arlette Farge's 1989 book The Allure of the Archive...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Good news for pre-1850 US "Dark Age" ancestors

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My great-great-great grandfather Eliphas Thrall (1767-1834) did not serve in the American Revolution. But when I searched for his name in qu...
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Historians' (and our?) habits of thought

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The December issue of Perspectives on History , published by the American Historical Association, has a fascinating column by president Kenn...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Pretty good news for Kane County Illinois land researchers

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Quietly, the Kane County, Illinois, Recorder's office has placed all of its deeds (and several other kinds of documents) on line. Basic...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

BCG revises and updates Genealogical Standards

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Thirteen years ago, the best minds in genealogy, under the aegis of the Board for the Certification of Genealogists, published a manual of ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

On Line State Resources for Genealogy 3.0

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There's an old saying, "When you're tired of London, you're tired of life." Well, when you get tired of browsing this ...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Good news for Illinois AND Indiana researchers

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The indefatigable Michael John Neill points us to a treasure trove of Illinois statutes at Western Illinois University , both compiled st...