Meeting Reminder - Today, May
28:
New to Genealogy SIG Meeting
2:00 PM in the Gladiola Room at the Allamanda Recreation Center.Do You Have Hessian Descendants? SAR Wants to Talk to You:
"The Sergeant Lawrence Everhart Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution needs the public’s help with writing a book of genealogy about local descendants of German Hessians: mercenary troops hired by the British Army to fight American revolutionaries."
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The Amateur Genealogist: The importance of searching original records...
Peterborough This Week: by Fraser Dunford
"One of the remarkable features of beginning genealogists is their startling reliance on data on the web. Only a few per cent of all genealogical records are on the web and I doubt that any of us will live to see a quarter of the available records available from our living rooms.:
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Duffy's Cut: Irish emigrants' plight highlighted as murder victim returned home...
By Fiona Murray: BBC News NI
"A priest who will conduct the funeral service of a woman murdered in the US 183 years ago has said it brings into sharp focus the plight of Irish emigrants."
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This Day In History:
1987: A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1888: Jim Thorpe, an American athlete, is born. He died in 1953
1863: American Civil War: the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African-American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union
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