New Online Collection of Civil War Records Released in Observance of Memorial Day:
FamilySearch
"In conjunction with Memorial Day, FamilySearch.org announced today significant updates to its free Civil War historic record collections online. The new FamilySearch.org/civil-war landing page provides a quick overview of the vast array of historic records and aids for those researching casualties and veterans of the Civil War. Collections include: Collections include: Union and Confederate pension, prisoner of war, cemetery, National Soldier Home, and census records."
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The Perfect Family History Cemetery Kit:
MyCanvas
"If you’re an avid family historian, chances are you’ve wandered around a graveyard more than once searching for ancestors. Regardless of whether you are an old pro, or a beginner, you’ll find there are several handy tools to have with you when visiting a graveyard to archive history. In your family history cemetery kit, Be sure to include…"
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Googling History: The AHR Explores Implications of Using Digital Sources for Historians:
AHA Today
"The April issue of the American Historical Review inaugurates a new listing of digital primary sources. This feature serves as a preliminary guide to freely accessible online collections that will grow with each issue. We encourage readers to use this form to submit their own favorite digital primary-source archival collections for listing in future issues. As Lara Putnam argues in her article “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” in the same issue, historians should be more aware of the implications of using these kinds of sources for the stories we tell about the past."
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According to the experts: Reasons To Keep Multiple Trees Online
FindMyPast
"Where do you store your family tree? On your computer? On the internet? In a binder?
The savviest genealogists will us a blended approach, storing portions or copies of their trees in multiple locations."
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How to Recover an Unsaved Microsoft Office File:
How-to-Geek
"You’ve just closed an Office document and accidentally clicked Don’t Save. Or maybe Word crashed or your laptop lost power before you remembered to save what you were working on. We’ve all felt that pain, but all is not necessarily lost. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary backup copies of your documents as you work and there’s a good chance you can recover them."
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This Day In History: 2 June
1537: Pope Paul III bans the enslavement of Indians in the New World.
1793: Maximilien Robespierre, a member of France’s Committee on Public Safety, initiates the “Reign of Terror.”
1883: The first baseball game under electric lights is played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1731 Birthday: Martha Dandridge, the first First Lady of the United States. Widow of Daniel Park Custis, she married George Washington in 1759.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Michigan
1763: Detroit under siege for 135 days
1803: Became part of the Indiana territory
1805: Detroit destroyed by fire
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