16 December 2014 – Whats new at Internet Archive?

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The following items are some of the new manuscripts placed online at the Internet Archive for 16 December, 2014 which pertain or would be of interest to genealogists. This weeks additions consist of records mainly pertaining to Maine counties and towns, including biographical, histories, vital records, directories, centennial addresses, and church related manuscripts. The “town registers” mentioned below can serve as both a directory for the town(s) and a census. Maine A history of Belfast Maine, with introductory remarks on Acadia A report of the proceedings at the celebration of the first centennial annivesary of the incorporation of the town …

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Whats New at the Internet Archive

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The following items are some of the new manuscripts placed online at the Internet Archive for the week of 7-13 December, 2014 which pertain or would be of interest to genealogists. This weeks additions consist of records pertaining to Maine counties and towns, including histories, vital records, cemetery transcriptions, centennial addresses, and church related. The “town registers” mentioned below can serve as both a directory for the town(s) and a census.

Arizona Obituary Search

Arizona Obituary Search

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The Mesa AZ FamilySearch Library has been indexing a variety of newspaper obituaries for Arizona and provides a database to be searched from their website. The search enables you to search by name for an obituary and allows last name only searches or last name with given. For the most part, these obituaries seem to be from mid 1980’s through the present date. I did find, while searching for Partridge, an index to an 1899 obituary for a William Partridge, but the paper is not given, making it more of a death record then that of an obituary. Once users …

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1970s Panorama of Prairie du Rocher

The History of an Illinois Town – Prairie du Rocher

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AccessGenealogy has been working over the past year to compile early records and histories of French-American, Canadian-American towns and settlements that presents a look into the early history of this ethnic group of people as they were some of the earliest settlers in the Midwest, settling and trading in Native American towns long before the English were present in the area. Our American history, though, so perpetuated by English roots, often forgets this settlement of people, and their contribution to what is now America. The latest offering takes a look at the oldest European settlement in Illinois: Prairie du Rocher. …

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John Ward's Reformatory School Record

1856-1914 Reformatory School Records for West Yorkshire England

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On 6 March 1856, thirteen year old John (alias William) Ward, born in Dublin, was sentenced to two weeks in a House of Correction and five weeks to a Reformatory. He was subsequently imprisoned at Seeds Borough Gaol, and then on the 19th of March 1856 sent to the Calder Farm Reformatory. It was his first conviction. He offense was receiving stolen goods (brass weights). Accurate brass weights were vital to many shop keepers in order for them to weigh accurately items for sale. Any theft or alteration of them was considered a serious offense in those days. The records …

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