Researching French-Canadian Ancestors:
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"Even if you can't read French, tracing French-Canadian ancestors can be easier than many people expect due to the excellent record keeping of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada."
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FREE ACCESS To Over 1 Billion Records At Findmypast!
FindMyPast
"Discover your ancestors’ journeys to America in over a billion free records, including 118 million travel and migration records, 112 million US marriage records and censuses from the UK, Ireland and the US, free on Findmypast until July 6th"
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Oh, The Secrets One Can Find Through DNA:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"It was a television commercial with the slogan “Find Out Who You Are” that prompted Ms. Rauen, 48, to pay $99 for a kit to test her DNA through AncestryDNA. She’d been adopted as an infant and spent more than 20 painful and frustrating years searching for her birth mother, giving up about a decade ago. She had long suspected she was British."
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How You Can Overcome The Tragically Lost 1890 Census:
FindMyPast
"At some point every genealogist encounters this discouraging reality.
And if you haven't heard yet, we might as well just tell you - The 1890 census is gone. Long gone.
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How 1970s “Roots” Inspired a Generation of Family History Researchers:
Ancestry
"Despite the later questions over Mr. Haley’s research and writing, there is no doubt the “Roots phenomenon” ignited a passion for finding one’s ancestral heritage that is still burning today."
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How to Set Up an Amazon Dash Button:
How-to-Geek
"Amazon already makes it really easy to order stuff with its 1-Click ordering system, but the company’s relatively new Dash buttons make ordering stuff even easier. Here’s how to set one up quickly and easily."
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This Day In History: June 30
1857: Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin’s Hall in London–his first public reading.
1859: Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil, becomes the first man to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1908: A mysterious explosion, possibly the result of a meteorite, levels thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force approaching twenty megatons.
1917 Birthday: Lena Horne, American singer.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Illinois:
1818: Admitted to the Union.
1825: Settlers from New York and the Erie Canal start to arrive.
1832: Black Hawk War
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