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Name: Sarah
Date registered: 16 April 2012

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  1. Sample Book Photos — 28 June 2012
  2. Don’t Look Now – Your Phonebooks Are Gone — 21 June 2012
  3. Library of MI – Genealogy Collection at least partially preserved — 15 June 2012
  4. New Blog Area – Great Lakes Research — 12 June 2012
  5. NEHGR 2000 — 17 May 2012

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Jun 28

Sample Book Photos

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This is from an early effort. Images will typically be this good or better. The book citation is Taft, William Howard. 1922. Service with Fighting Men: An Account of the Work of the American Young Men’s Christian Associations in the World War. Volume 1. New York: Associated Press.

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Jun 21

Don’t Look Now – Your Phonebooks Are Gone

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In genealogy today, one of my favorite resources is the city directory. Before there were telephones, these venerable publications gave loads of data about nearly every working member of a family. Then came the phone book and later the reverse phone book (if you know the phone number, you can look up who owned it …

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Jun 15

Library of MI – Genealogy Collection at least partially preserved

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Great news via a post on blog.EOGN.com. Back in 2010, the political situation combined with the budget in MI resulted in a short-sighted decision by the governor to move the Library of Michigan under the Department of Education and significantly change its mission and cut its funding (including quite a number of staff). Now, at …

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I’ve added a new blog area to deal with Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basin resources.

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Added index to book reviews in the New England Historical & Genealogy Register in 2000.

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Added index to book reviews in the New England Historical & Genealogy Register in 1999.

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Jan 13

Lake County Illinois Naturalization Records – 4 vols.

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Publication Information – Johnson, Mary K. and the Lake County Illinois Genealogical Society Mundelein, IL: Lake County Illinois Genealogical Society 2008 Availability – 10 libraries – including Allen County, WI Hist Soc, FHL (not microfilmed)   not found online   not available at bookstores (new & used) – available from the society     Summary …

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Nov 11

The Oxford Guide to Library Research: How to Find Reliable Information Online and Offline. 3rd Ed.

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Publication Information – Mann, Thomas New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2005 ISBN: 0-19-518998-1 Availability – Over 1680 libraries   Online at http://books.google.com/books?id=eAaFAPITy_QC&lr (limited preview)   bookstores (new & used) – many for under $15 used (Amazon Look Inside of 1998 edition) Summary – [from WorldCat, OCLC # 58050982] [from back cover of book] With …

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Oct 14

Survey of American Church Records. Volume I (III Edition – Enlarged). Major Denominations before 1880

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Publication Information – E. Kay Kirkham. Logan, UT: Everton Publishers. 1971. Availability – Over 250 libraries   Not found online in its entirety. Google Books has a snippet view of the 4th ed.   bookstores (new & used) – under $25, older editions under $5   Summary – Written for genealogists, the stated purpose of …

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Sep 28

The Bark Covered House. Or, Back in the Woods Again.

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Publication Information – Nowlin, John. Edited by Quaife, Milo Milton. Dearborn, MI: Dearborn Historical Commission. 6th Printing – 1992. [Republication of an 1876 book. Footnotes and index added in 1937 by the Commission.] Availability – Over 300 libraries   Online at American Memory (Library of Congress) without the index or footnots   bookstores (new & …

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