history
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Money Worth Since 1774
Jul 18
Have you ever found a receipt for a purchase your relatives made decades ago and wondered how much in today's money value they really spent on that item. For example, if you have a receipt or an advertisement that a loaf of bakery bread in 1915 cost five cents, how does that compare today? Well, five cents in 1915 in purchasing value is today abo...
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Historical Photos
Jul 14
A web site named Historic Map Works is not just maps but rather a large collection of numerous items to assist someone with their family history. One section is 'historical photos' and can be useful to the researcher. There are approximately 556,900 drawings, photographs and historical notes covering some 38,600 different American buildings, indust...
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Historical Event that Changed Your Ancestor’s Life & Yours
Jul 10
So much unknown and yet there is a great deal a family historian can piece together about their ancestors. After gathering vital records, documents, journals; a researcher really needs to take some time to see if any patterns of behavior emerge and if such actions can be directly traced to a historical event. Examples of how historical events c...
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Names of Early Occupations
Jul 2
Our ancestors had a few unusual jobs, most which were very manual laborers. Of course the name for some of those jobs are even stranger. The following are some of names or titles of positions, many of which no longer exist in most of the developed nations of the world today. For instance there was a Lardner' an official in charge of pig food. T...
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Photo Help in Reverse
May 15
There is a new web site available, called TinEye, that is a search engine which uses reverse images to location similar images. Instead of placing a keyword, surname or place you download a digital image. The results can help you find out where that image came from, how it is being used, if there are higher and larger version of the images and if ...
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Study An Ancestral Hometown
May 3
A really unusual online database of information on ancestral homelands is titled "One Place Studies". Its purpose is to gather and share information about as many villages, towns, cities, so that those researching their own family ancestral places and not living there can have a much better idea what that place is like and especially how it was wh...
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California Digital Newspapers
Apr 17
The state of California dates back to the 1840s with the first gold rush and even earlier under Spanish rule. Many people over the decades have lived and worked in this very physically large state. So with the opportunity to search a massive collection of the California newspapers is a great chance to learn additional information about any relative...
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The New Deal and Our Ancestors
Apr 9
Many of our recent ancestors and relatives lived through America's Great Depression and the Roosevelt's New Deal program. Most people today are aware of the massive economic collapse (1929-1933) across the country during those years of the Great Depression, but few really understand what the New Deal (1933-1938) was comprised of for our ancestors. ...
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New Techniques for Saving Memories
Apr 7
The treasured diary, journal, letter, document, and photo are so very important in learning more about one's family and ancestors. If names, dates, and stories of events are captured at the time or even years later, they are very helpful to a researcher / a family descendant in the future. One of the best resources I located for my family research ...
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Dublin, Ireland – Digital Collections
Apr 3
The University of Dublin in Ireland with the Trinity College Library has made available in digital format a good portion of their collections making them accessible on the Internet. The collections include paintings, maps, photos, documents, postcards, books, public broadsides (posters) and manuscripts all relating to Dublin, Ireland and with other...