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The Westward Expansion and American Pioneers—How...

20 Jul, 2018
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Until recently, my knowledge of the westward expansion, the Western frontier, and pioneers mainly came from the popular Little House on the Prairie books and the pioneer computer game Oregon Trail. (I naively thought all pioneers died from dysentery out o

20 Jul, 2018
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<![CDATA[ Lancashire Baptisms Discover your ancestor in in over 1.1 million baptism register records from Lancashire. Learn when and where your ancestor’s baptism took place, as well as your ancestor’s parents’ names. The registers sp

18 Jul, 2018
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The 50th annual BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy will be held July 31—August 3, 2018 at the BYU Conference Center in Provo, Utah. It offers more than 100 classes, including a free track on Friday for Temple and Family History Consultan

16 Jul, 2018
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Ellis Island is famous for being the United States’ front door for receiving immigrants—but did you know millions of people had already come to the U.S. by the time Ellis Island opened in 1892? This history of Ellis Island can help you better unde

14 Jul, 2018
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Did your immigrant ancestors land at Castle Garden or Ellis Island? Or did they arrive in New York before those facilities existed? The answer matters because it determines where you should look for them in records. Don’t worry—New York passen

13 Jul, 2018
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<![CDATA[ Over 122,000 new records and newspaper articles are available to search this Findmypast Friday, including; Berkshire Registers & Records Explore over 600 registers and records from the English county of Berkshire. Discover your ancestor i

11 Jul, 2018
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FamilySearch added 2.5 million searchable records to its England historical record collections, 1.5 million in Germany, 5.4 million in the Netherlands, 2.5 million from Find a Grave, and over 1 million in South Africa. Almost 1.5 million new browsable ima

06 Jul, 2018
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<![CDATA[ There are over 29,000 new records available to search this Findmypast Friday, including; Cambridgeshire Registers & Records Explore publications pertaining to the English county of Cambridgeshire. Discover your ancestor in more than 300 p

29 Jun, 2018
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<![CDATA[ There are over 57,000 new records available to search this Findmypast Friday, including; Kent, Lydd Midwife’s Birth Register 1757-1815 Search for your Kent ancestors in William Waylett’s birth register. The collection contains ove

22 Jun, 2018
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<![CDATA[ There are over 960,000 new records avaialble to search this Findmypast Friday, including: Scotland, Fife Death Index, 1549-1877 Search over 265,000 deaths recorded in Fife’s old parish records including deaths and burials from St Andrew