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Crossing the Canadian Border at Detroit
Apr 15
With such a long border between the United States and Canada, some 3,987 miles just with the lower 48 states, there are several official locations that people can cross to visit or immigrate into the country. One of the major places to cross is at the Port of Detroit in Michigan coming from Ontario province into the United States. Other nearby entr...
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Using Google Efficiently to Find Ancestors
Mar 30
Yes, Google is not the only search engine on the Internet, but it is one highly used and recommended by everyone. As with any search engine, the top items high up on a search will be those people or events related to celebrities, sports events, scandals or even where the closest place to order a pizza is found. Regrettably, archival records on our ...
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‘Finding Your Roots’ – airs PBS – March 25th
Mar 22
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will be hosting another season of ‘Finding Your Roots’ beginning on Sunday evening, March 25, 2012 on the Public Broadcasting Stations. There are ten parts to the series which run until May 20, 2012 at 8 pm Eastern standard time. Similar to the ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ series, family genealogies research several...
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New Additions to FamilySearch.org
Mar 18
FamilySearch.org is always free to the public. This non-profit Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints web site offers to millions of people around the globe the use FamilySearch records, resources and services to learn more about their family history. For decades it has been made possible due to the volunteers who transcribe and index th...
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Ancestral Phrases, Sayings and Clichés – Part 2
Mar 12
Did you come across familiar sayings in the earlier blog, strange little clichés you have heard all your life? Here is an additional set of familiar and unusual phrases from our ancestors. Upper Crust Refers to the high society or wealthier classes in a community. It originated when making bread in the 1500s was done using a ra...
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Florida’s Memories in Photos
Mar 8
Compared to many of the other states of the union, the State of Florida may appear to be a fairly recently settled state. Yet, the history of this peninsula goes back to the oldest city in all of the United States, that of St. Augustine in the northeast corner of the region. It has been a colony of the Spanish, English, French and a territory of ...
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Millburn, Ill & Surrounding Areas with Digital Resources
Mar 2
Go north of Chicago, Illinois, close to the shores of Lake Michigan and in Lake County is the town of Millburn. There the Historic Milburn Community Association has developed a collection of databases relating to numerous aspects of the people, occupations, land, churches and homes of Millburn. Their Online Historical Archives is filled with all ...
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Ancestral Patent Medicines & Home Remedies
Feb 25
For our grandparents and great grandparents, most did not go to doctors on a regular basis. Instead people around 1900 (in many countries) used various home remedies, homeopathic methods or an array of ‘patent medicines’ such as Omega Oil which claimed to be "natures own remedy for pain, with a sparkling green color, and there’s nothing else ...
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Create Your Own Family Website
Feb 19
A new year and now half-way through the second month of this year, so how about trying something really different? If you do not have your own family Internet site created by you already, begin your own family web site this month. The California based company called Weebly has made it so simple for anyone to design, set up and get their own we...
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Recording Those Family Tall Tales
Feb 17
Everyone at some time in their lives has heard stories told by family members of ancestors who either met a famous person, accomplished some great feat, was a war hero, invented a time saving device or somehow brought honor and glory to the family name. There may also have been a few tales of the “black sheep” of the family who even had a shady...