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6 Steps To Your Family History: 15 Minutes At A Time- This is a marvelous site with a basic six step approach for your project followed by more and more details as you progress. Scroll down to the Tool Box section to find an incredible collection of neatly organized links for reference to continue learning, searching, and keeping your information.
The Boston Pilot. (Irish Immigrants): From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston
Pilot newspaper printed a "Missing Friends" column with advertisements
from people looking for "lost" friends and relatives who had emigrated
from Ireland to the United States.
Archives of Ontario /Newspapers - quite a range of newspapers. This .pdf will tell you all of their holdings - it's arranged in the first section by the name of the paper, and in the second section by the place name.
The Boston States Migration Links Page - The "Boston States" is a term that Canadians have used to describe the magnet migrations to the New England area.
MAPCO: Map And Plan Collection Online - high-quality maps to aid genealogists with U.K. interests. The site currently has 10 London maps
and views dating from circa 1560 to 1897 with more London and English county maps planned.
Use these maps to illustrate your family history project.
Search Military Records: Hosted by FindMyPast. Registration or Subscription may be required.
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MAPS (1861-1865) - Brings together materials from three premier collections:
the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division,
the Virginia Historical Society, and
the Library of Virginia.
Gen Disasters - A search engine / chronicle for events that touched our ancestors' lives. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books
and photographs detail hundreds of tragedies from the 1800s to the 1950s. Search or browse by state or event.
The National Park Service: search for CCC. The Civilian Conservation Corps as part of WPA (1933-1942) built improvements still standing in our National Parks.
Public Records Search: an accurate and easy to navigate directory of legal and law enforcement office contact information. Easily find the phone number or address for that County Clerk you are looking for!
Topeka - obituary database: contains information found in Topeka newspapers from 1906 to 1935 and from 1 January 2004 to the present. A work in progress.
