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The Southern California Genealogical Society has added a valuable database to its website, The database is a fully-searchable index of decedent names listed in obituaries and death notices published in the Los Angeles Times. The database currently covers the years Continue reading Los Angeles Times Obituary Index Now Online
Clark County, Washington, Genealogical Society volunteers are assembling photos and information for an online directory to all known cemeteries, large and small, within county borders. In addition to burial records (showing information such as dates of birth of death, family Continue reading Clark County, Washington Cemeteries Online
Why would anyone be interested in a cemetery whose first burial was in 1851 and where there have not been many recent burials? For Jewish genealogists, Jewish Graceland is a treasure of our heritage. It documents members of the earliest Continue reading Chicago’s Jewish Graceland
My article in the Heritage Quest Magazine #109, “Locating Colonial Wagon Roads on a Modern Map,” describes the first wagon roads in America. A sidebar to the article describes the first known written account by someone traveling the Boston Post Continue reading Madam Knight on the Boston Post Road in 1704
Have you had any of your relatives incarcerated in the Texas State Prison System? It you have, then you’re in luck! (A good scandal makes for interesting genealogy.) The prison system included Huntsville Penitentiary, which opened in 1849, and Rusk Continue reading Texas Prison Records on Microfilm