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Resource Spotlight: Money Matters
This sort of thing is always fun: Inflation Calculator: Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation Calculator: 1774-present Great stuff for writing about U.S. pocket change! The first one only goes back to...
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Resource Spotlight: NYC Newspapers
Although I studied this stuff in my journalism classes, I admit that every so often I look up and say to myself, “Geez, New York City had a lot of newspapers.” I mean lots. Some had short runs, some...
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Resource Spotlight: Staten Island Maps
If you have a vintage document with a Staten Island address, and Googling it gets you nowhere, you should visit this site: Mapping Staten Island This invaluable tool comes courtesy of the Museum of the...
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Resource Spotlight: Old German Occupations
Been a while since I did one of these — and this sure came in handy the other day: List of Old German Professions Befuddled by someone’s Beruf? This is a collection of dozens of archaic German words...
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Resource Spotlight: Photogrammar
Look, I’m completely gobsmacked over here, clicking madly through photo after photo and saying to nobody in particular: “Will you just look at THAT!” Don’t expect any pearls of prose. Why don’t we just...
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Resource Spotlight: Churches Of Newark (NJ) Archdiocese, By Year
Once you’ve fiddled with GPS coordinates and old address books and decided that you’ve located a great candidate for your ancestor’s Catholic church on a present-day map — you do not want to find out...
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Greetings From 1915, N.J.
Courtesy of the ever-informative Michelle Tucker Chubenko at Jersey Roots Genealogy comes the news that the 1915 New Jersey State Census went live earlier this month on FamilySearch.org. Michelle’s...
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Resource Spotlight: Bergen County Places
For such a little state, New Jersey has undergone a wealth of boundary and place name changes, with Bergen County providing more than its fair share of riches. The confused but determined researcher...
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New: Death Notices from Lansingburgh, NY
UPDATE, 3 March 2015: Looks like my Connors great-great grandmother is in this thing! Seriously, check it out! Ed. Note: This blog would be missing huge chunks of family stories without the work of the...
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New Database: Lansingburgh (NY) Marriages
Bill McGrath, project coordinator for the Troy (N.Y.) Irish Genealogy Society, announces another project that digitizes a valuable resource compiled decades ago: Marriage Notices Appearing in...
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