Have a family historian on your holiday shopping list? Here is my list of five great gifts any genealogist would love to receive. An application for a library card. In addition to the genealogy databases Ancestry.com Library Edition and HeritageQuest …
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(Google and the Google logo are registered trademarks of Google Inc., used with permission) When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, this phrase meant that something was cool, unbelievable or just plain amazing. It could also be …
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In the past few months, there has been a new collection of training videos added to Heritage Quest Online, that will be of interest to family historians of all skill levels. This collection is called the “Learning Center.” As a …
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Daniel Boone Regional Library subscribes to Heritage Quest Online, a database that is available 24 hours a day to any patron with a library card and Internet access. This database is great because it covers some neat resources for genealogists, …
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The Daniel Boone Regional Library currently subscribes to two databases that can help you locate information about your family members who might have taken part in or been affected by the Civil War and its aftermath: HeritageQuest (which I will …
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For genealogists, family historians and the curious, a long wait is over. The opening of the 1940 census–after the 72-year waiting period–has arrived. The National Archives decided for the first time, in this technological age, to put the scanned and digitized …
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