Name: Sarah
Date registered: 16 April 2012
Jun 28
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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