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Americas GenealogyBank:
The TourResources You'll Find Nowhere Else!
16 August 2009
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We have never had this level of
access before
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So What is inAmericas GenealogyBank?
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So What is inAmericas GenealogyBank?
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So What is inAmericas GenealogyBank?
Over 1 Billion names
Over 2,300 newspapers
All 50 States; 1690 to today
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So What is inAmericas GenealogyBank?
Over 1 Billion names
Over 2,300 newspapers
All 50 States; 1690 to today
Over 263,000 rare books & documents
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So What is inAmericas GenealogyBank? Over 1 Billion names
Over 2,300 newspapers
All 50 States; 1690 to today
Over 150,000 rare books & documents
Over 130 million obituaries & death
records
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Sample Searches and Results
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Eastern ArgusMaine: 1828-08-19 Page 3
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Baltimore Sun 28 Jan 1895
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Read the News as it Happened
Battle at Lexington & Concord21 Apr 1775
NH Gazette & Historical Chronicle
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Read about the stories when they were reported
Attack on Fort McHenry War of 1812Baltimore Patriot & Evening Advertiser
A Special Issue
20 Sep 1814
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Details of Passenger Arrivals
Duluth (MN) News Tribune
18 July 1906
Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer
13 May 1902
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Family Reunions
Dallas Morning News
31 Aug 1931
Tacoma Daily News
10 Aug 1894
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Columbus (GA) Enquirer
28 Feb 1900
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Rare, one of a kind documents
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In memory of Solomon Snow who was drowned
in crossing the Kennebec River from Swan Island
to Bowdoinham, August 11, 1811.
Solomon Snow is not in the published Snow genealogy;
not in the census this might be the only record of him.
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Published Government Reports
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Looking for informationon Rachel (Bittinger) Platter
of Garrett County, MD
Details like this are not in
the census; not in the published
family history.
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Rachel (Bittinger) Platters cousin Wooly Bittinger & family 1937
just a few years after Rachel applied for her pension
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Obituaries routinely published
in government reports.
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Obituaries of Report of theConvention of American Instructors
of the Deaf
Proceedings of the twenty-first meeting of the Convention of American
Instructors of the Deaf. Held at Hartford, Conn., June 29 to July 4, 1917.
January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.
Date: 1918-01-30; U.S. Congress. Senate
Serial Set Vol. No. 7320, Session Vol. No.10
65th Congress, 2nd SessionS.Doc. 172
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Prisoners at Algiers. Letter in relation to
the prisoners at Algiers, communicated to the
Senate, 21st January, 1791, by the Secretary of
1st Congress, 3rd Session. Publication No. 48
Quickly locate obscure documents
like this list of US prisoners inAlgiers in 1791 .
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War of the Rebellion Record -
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1819-1820 Passenger List
Report of the Secretary of State, pursuant to the act to regulate
passenger ships and vessels, of the number of persons arriving
in the several ports of the United States, from October 1, 1820, to
September 30, 1821. April 22, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on
the table.
Date: 1822-04-22; U.S. Congress. House
Serial Set Vol. No. 69, Session Vol. No.9
17th Congress, 1st Session
H.Doc. 134
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New Features in theHistorical Newspapers Section
Search by Specific Locality By City(ies)
By State(s)
Search by Specific Newspaper Limit search to Recently Added Content
Limit search by Article Category
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Search by Specific Locality or Newspaper
Limit search to one or more states Limit search to one or more cities
Limit search by one or more newspapers
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Click on Historical Newspapers
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TipYou may search only one state orany combination of states!Check off the state(s) you want and
then begin your search.
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Limit search to one or more cities
To limit search to one or more cities
click on the state you want to search A new map will appear showing the list of
cities
Check the city or cities you want tosearch
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Select the city(ies) you want to search
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TipYou may search any one or all of thenewspapers published in the cities
from each state list!Simply check the city(ies) you want
to include in your searchand begin your search.
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Limit Search to Recently Added Content
Saves you time Search only content added in the past
one, two or three months
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Limit Your Search to Recently Added Content
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Limit to past one, two or three months
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TipBy limiting your search toRecently Added Content
your search results will only includethe new content added in the past
one, two or three months.
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Limit Search by Article Category
Saves you time Quickly narrow your search to just
obituaries, birth notices or other
category
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Sample SearchFind marriage notice of
Abraham Lincoln
of Maine
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Once you have your search results you can quickly narrow them
down by choosing an article category
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Results limited to just marriage notices for
Abraham Lincoln of Maine
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New Features in theHistorical Newspapers Section
Search by Specific Locality By City(ies)
By State(s)
Search by Specific Newspaper Limit search to Recently Added Content
Limit search by Article Category
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Americas GenealogyBank
Over 1 Billion names
Over 2,300 newspapers All 50 States; 1690 to today
Over 263,000 rare books & documents
Over 130 million obituaries & deathrecords