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Get the front page of the day you were born or any day in history!
Looking to decorate your den?Use GenealogyBank to identify, save and print the front page or any article from newspapers published in the past 300+ years. Choose the front page of the day your Dad was...
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Family History Expos – Georgia 2011
Georgia Family History Expo – Duluth, Georgia 2011Over 400 genealogists gathered in Duluth, Georgia, for the annual Family History Expo held at the Gwinnett Center on Nov. 11-12, 2011. Now in its...
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Dating Old Family Photographs with Civil War Revenue Stamps
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary shows how to determine the date of undated, Civil War-era...
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Old Tombstones Recently Unearthed from Forgotten Illinois Cemetery
Genealogists are always digging. So are backhoe operators. It was a good thing that the Fosterburg Water District was digging for a waterline in Prairietown, Illinois, because while digging they found...
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Historic Illinois Cemetery Project Is Documenting the Dead
Like many historic cemeteries, the Herrin City Cemetery in Herrin, Illinois, is trying to document all of the persons buried in the cemetery. Source: South Illinoisan (Summer 2015) See:...
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Illinois Archives: 506 Newspapers for Genealogy Research
If you are researching your ancestry from Illinois, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online IL newspaper archives: 506 titles to help you search your family history in the “Land of Lincoln,”...
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Illinois Archives: 564 Newspapers for Genealogy Research
If you are researching your ancestry from Illinois, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online IL newspaper archives: 564 titles to help you search your family history in the “Land of Lincoln,”...
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Illinois Archives: 589 Newspapers for Genealogy Research
If you are researching your ancestry from Illinois, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online IL newspaper archives: 589 titles to help you search your family history in the “Land of Lincoln,”...
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Illinois Archives: 602 Newspapers for Genealogy Research
If you are researching your ancestry from Illinois, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online IL newspaper archives: 602 titles to help you search your family history in the “Land of Lincoln,”...
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Homestead Act – May 20, 1862 – Daniel Freeman 1st Homesteader
Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862. It would take effect on January 1, 1863. The first homesteader to take “the required oath and [be] given the documents which made him possessor...
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It’s Wild Bill Hickok’s Day ….
Wild Bill Hickok – James Butler Hickok – was born on May 27, 1837 in Troy Grove, Illinois. Famous in movies, films and hundreds of newspaper articles – he is central to the legends of the Old West....
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Patty Barthell Myers died 9 October 2008, at the home of her daughter, Lucy Bonnington. Her obituary (San Antonio Express-News (TX) – October 13, 2008; Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 Oct 2008) simply stated...
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Illinois Archives: 641 Newspapers for Genealogy Research
If you are researching your ancestry from Illinois, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online IL newspaper archives: 641 titles to help you search your family history in the “Land of Lincoln,”...
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