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Google News Archive: Out of Orphaned Status!

Filed in Free, Resources, Strictly SC by on 21 February 2014 3 Comments
Google News Archive: Out of Orphaned Status!

The Who Hunter is excited to test drive the relaunched Google News Archive for South Carolina newspaper research.

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Riding a Wave of Eastern European Resources

Filed in On The Hunt, Reading List, Resources by on 16 September 2013 3 Comments
Riding a Wave of Eastern European Resources

  Have you ever had a genealogy wave experience? The nearest thing I can liken it to is car shopping. Honda Accords are everywhere, but you don’t really notice them on the road until you decide you’re in the market for one…then you see them everywhere! Same thing happens in genealogy. Eastern European genealogy has been […]

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#genfair2013 Fabulous

Filed in Free, On The Hunt, Resources, Reviews by on 9 September 2013 0 Comments
#genfair2013 Fabulous

What can I say, as a first time attendee, other than I thoroughly enjoyed last week’s NARA Virtual Genealogy Fair? It truly was a fun, informative experience. Several sessions warrant special mention: Zack Wilske’s “Citizenship Matters: Bureau of Naturalization Files at the National Archives” was particularly informative.  As was Damani Davis’s “Genealogy and the Freedman’s Bank: […]

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Make Fast Work of Your Census Research

Filed in Free, On The Hunt, Resources, Skill Building by on 17 December 2012 2 Comments
Make Fast Work of Your Census Research

Over the past week, I have been catching up on my blog reading. There were great posts about conducting extended census surveys, also known as cluster genealogy. I have made frequent use of this technique tracking down my Shivers kin. Jenny Lanctot, at her blog Are My Roots Showing?, found potential family members when she […]

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