Nova Scotia Archives
"This is a searchable database for petitions made to government by individuals or groups of people seeking grants of Crown Land for settlement purposes in early Nova Scotia. The database contains 11,464 names, and will link from the petitioner's name to the fully digitized document file created for that particular land grant — 1890 files, containing 9259 image scans. If you're searching for online information about early land settlement in Nova Scotia, you've come to the right place!"
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Nova Scotia Genealogy:
Nova Scotia Archives
"Take a look at the Historical Vital Statistics home page to review complete date coverage for records now open to the public, and to learn where more recent registrations, not yet released, are held. We’ve also shared name indexes for the Historical Vital Statistics with Ancestry.ca, where they’re available along with a variety of Canadian research collections."
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Royal Navy Records Reveal Place Of Birth For Thousands Of Mid-C19th Irish Sailors:
Irish Genealogy News
"Ancestry has added another of its 'Web Search' collections, meaning it has uploaded a searchable index to a record-set held on a third party website."
Ancestry has called the index the Royal Naval Seamen Index, 1853–1872.
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Additional Relatives Added To Phased Family Matches At Family Tree DNA:
DNAeXplained
"On July 7th, Family Tree DNA released Phased Family Matches which included phasing to people linked to your tree who have DNA tested who are related to you. These phased matches allow Family Tree DNA to assign matches to maternal or paternal buckets, or both. The people that could be utilized for this phased matching were as follows:"
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Irish Genealogy News
"Genealogist John Grenham MAGI FIGRS has been busy creating a series of webinars for Irish family historians of beginner to intermediate levels of experience.
Called The Foundations of Irish Genealogy, the six-part series was launched last week within the Legacy Family Tree Webinar Library."
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How to Show the Control Panel and Recycle Bin in the Windows File Explorer Navigation Pane:
How-to-Geek"By default, the Windows File Explorer’s sidebar is divided into big categories like Quick Access, This PC, Network, and so on. But a quick setting change can make your navigation pane look a bit more like the traditional tree you’d see in an Open/Save As dialog box, with a few normally hidden folders–like the Control Panel and Recycle Bin–to the view as a bonus."
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1819: The first parachute jump from a balloon is made by Charles Guille in New York City.
1862: The Army Ambulance Corps is established by Maj. Gen. George McClellan.
1876: Wild Bill Hickok is shot while playing poker.
1924 Birthday: James Baldwin, writer whose works include Go Tell it on the Mountain and Notes of a Native Son.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
North Carolina
1664-6: Cape Fear settled by English
1670: Charleston founded
1683: Scottish farmers settled Port Royal
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