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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