ISGS
"The Indiana State Soldiers Home opened in West Lafayette in 1896.
Meals were served in the main dining room. Here is the "bill of fare" for December 1901, as it appeared in the Home's annual report that year."
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Local Project Digitizes Invaluable Documents:
NGS
This article gives you an idea of genealogy projects that are ongoing at the local level. When was the last time you checked the libraries in your research area(s) to see what projects they may be undertaking?
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Ancestry Updates Their Naturalization Indexes:
Ancestry
"Search our newly updated U.S. Naturalization Records collection w/ 14 million records + 11 million new images." See what's new...
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Turning the Model Upside Down:
Ancestry Insider
"FamilySearch wants to turn upside down the usual order in which people engage in family history, said Steve Rockwood in his keynote address at the 2016 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy."
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Jakob Lenz (1748-1821), Vinedresser, 52 Ancestors #128:
DNAeXplained
"Today, I get to write the article I thought I’d never ever write. For a genealogist, this is red letter day! Not only the fact THAT I get to write about this person that I never thought I’d identify, but WHAT I get to write about him just defies any hope or expectation I could ever have had. I could never have dreamed this big. I’m really not exaggerating. You’ll see!!!"
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Is Static Electricity Damage Still a Huge Problem with Electronics?DNAeXplained
"Today, I get to write the article I thought I’d never ever write. For a genealogist, this is red letter day! Not only the fact THAT I get to write about this person that I never thought I’d identify, but WHAT I get to write about him just defies any hope or expectation I could ever have had. I could never have dreamed this big. I’m really not exaggerating. You’ll see!!!"
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How-to-Geek
"All of us have heard the warnings to make sure we are properly grounded when working on our electronic devices, but have advances in technology lessened the problem of static electricity damage or is it still as prevalent as before? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has a comprehensive answer to a curious reader’s question."
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This Day In History: 1 August
1791: Robert Carter III, a Virginia plantation owner, frees all 500 of his slaves in the largest private emancipation in U.S. history. An 1839 mutiny aboard a Spanish ship in Cuban waters raised basic questions about freedom and slavery in the United States.
1801: The American schooner Enterprise captures the Barbary cruiser Tripoli.Often venturing into harm’s way, America’s most famous sailing ship, the Constitution, twice came close to oblivion.
1893: A machine for making shredded wheat breakfast cereal is patented.
1779 Birthday: Francis Scott Key, author of the “Star Spangled Banner.”
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
North Carolina
1653: Immigration began from Virginia
1660's: Influx of Royalists from Barbados
1664: Albemarle formed
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