"British Newspapers, 1800-1900 " available for home access
I love being able to sit in my home in the U.S. and read newspapers from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. I have been doing this for the last couple of hours and as usually happens when I read old newspapers, I start reading everything and forget the exact thing I was searching. But I usually find things that I w

WorldVitalRecords.com: Free Access to Early American Records through Nov. 30
WorldVitalRecords.com sent this press release."In honor of Thanksgiving, through November 30, 2009, we have over 200 early American databases available to the public for FREE. This free access include vital records, court and land records, and military records."It includes early Colonial Databases from 1607 - 1800 such as Mayflower family lineages, DAR lineages, and many other items for a total of 200 databases. Click here to see the databases. Simply click on each of the topics, Birth, Death and Marriage Records, Land/Court Records, and Military to see

Wordless Wednesday: Thanksgiving 1948
Paula Stuart, age 4 1/2 months with her paternal Grandfather E. J. Stuart.

U. S. Thanksgiving history from the National Archives
November 25, 2009THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES CELEBRATES THANKSGIVING"Thanksgiving, like Ambassadors, Cabinet officers and others Smeared with political ointment, Depends for its existence on Presidential appointment." -Ogden NashWashington, DC . . . On October 3, 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789, as an official holiday of "sincere and humble thanks." The nation then celebrated its first Thanksgiving under its new Constitution. On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln made the traditional Thanksgiving celebration a nationwide holiday to be commemorated each year on the fourth Thursday of November. In

Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses is back!
Over at GenealogyBlog.com, Leland Meitzler announced that Dollarhide and Thorndale's Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses 1790-1820 is back in print!As Leland states, "The county has always been used as the basic Federal census unit. Genealogical research in the censsus, therefore, begins