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From the Grave: A Roadside Guide to Colorado's Pioneer Cemeteries by Linda Wommack (Caxton Press, $24.95) Frontier House by Simon Shaw with Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (Pocket Books, $29) The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition 1859-1900 by Rodman Paul and Martin Ridge (University of...

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Everything’s Relative: Geranium Genealogy Premium

Each year during Memorial Day weekend, I visit the Farrar family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery. For the past few years, someone had been placing a flower box of geraniums on another Farrar lot and, a couple of weeks later, the box would disappear. I assumed that the groundskeepers were removing...

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AfriGeneas—Slave Data Collection www.afrigeneas.com/slavedata This site helps locate slave ancestors through wills, Bible records, slave manifests and other collections. One of the collection's gems is a partial transcription of slave manifests into New Orleans from 1818 to 1860. Search the entire site or browse by surname or...

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Find the contact information for national archives in Central and South America.

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A Voluminous Celebration Premium

Forget partying like it's 1999. Researchers and historians around the globe have a better reason to celebrate Y2K&#151it's the 200th birthday of the Library of Congress. The past two centuries have turned the library into a gold mine for people in search of practically anything. It began in 1800...

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Learn how Poles have left their mark on the world.

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Visit these online resources for how-to advice, historical background and ancestral data.

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Books and websites to help you track down your ancestors during your Ellis Island research.

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Research your Eastern European roots with these key websites, organizations, books and more.

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After the Revolutionary War, American families migrated on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, typically a one-way trip. When steamboats debuted in 1812 and flatbottom riverboats in 1815, river routes became increasingly accessible. But American settlement was still primarily confined to the eastern seaboard. The natural barrier of the Appalachian...

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