ONWARD

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LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN THE NEW YEAR!

I'm looking forward to 2024.... more to learn, more to discover, more to document.

See you then!

CHRISTMAS

 

A POMEGRANATE FAMILY TREE

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BEAUTIFUL and BOUNTIFUL

 

ARCHIVES ORG - IS THIS ALL ENCOMPASSING WEBSITE WORTH YOUR TIME? HOW TO SEARCH FOR GENEALOGY RECORDS

archives.org  aims to have it ALL but recent searches on it seemed to be real time wasters.  WHY would archives.org sallow COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS to COME UP that are simply obnoxious to sort through for the good stuff?   I put in the search terminology  BERKS COUNTY and then PENNSYLVANIA BERKS County?  I think these ads are a misuse of the intent of the organization.

After giving up in frustration I tried it again.

I chose BOOKS and then put the word GENEALOGY in the search engine.

Here is what it says:   The Archives ever-expanding collection of genealogy resources includes items from the ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY GENEALOGY CENTER in Fort Wayne, Indiana,  ROBARTS LIBRARY at the University of Toronto, the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN LIBRARY, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY in Provo, Utah, THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND, the INDIANAPOLIS CITY LIBRARY'S  INDIANAPOLIS CITY DIRECTORY and YEARBOOK COLLECTION, the LEO BAECK INSTITUTE ARCHIVES OF GERMAN- SPEAKING JEWRY - LEO BAECK INSTITUTE ARCHIVES, and the BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Resources include among many things, books on surname origins, vital statistics, parish records, census records, passenger lists of vessels, and other historical and biographical documents.   

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Up came a lot of RECLAIM THE RECORDS contributions.

I NOTICED THAT I COULD SEARCH THE COLLECTION, so I put in New Jersey...  Now a sense of satisfaction came over me.

Reclaim the Records is an organization that aims to make records that genealogists and historians use free in the public domain (i.e. no subscription databases) and have been particularity interested in the states and counties that have not been so cooperative with the big database companies to fork over records - such as New Jersey. 

PATIENCE my friends.... PATIENCE

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