Category Archive: Great Lakes Research

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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Status update

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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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