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Its a Great Day for Genealogy!
GenealogyBank.comFamily History Expo St. George, UT
27 Feb 2009
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We have never had this level ofaccess before
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So What is inGenealogyBank.com ?
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So What is inGenealogyBank.com ?
Over 3,800 newspapers
All 50 States
1690 to today
Over 250,000 rare books & documents
Over 116 million obituaries & deathrecords
Over 1 Billion names
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Sample Searches and Results
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TIP: Search Options
Entire Database
Only Specific Newspaper(s)
Only Specific City(ies)
Only Specific State(s)
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Search
Boolean Search Terms And; Or; Not; ( )
Wildcards * St*rk
Limit by Date Ranges August 1856; 1712 1815; Aug 1856 Aug 1884
Limit by Article Category Search only: Births
Search only: Advertisements
Search only: Ship Records
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Eastern ArgusPortland, Maine: 19 Aug 1828 Page 3
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Eastern ArgusPortland, Maine: 19 Aug 1828 Page 3
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Baltimore Sun 28 Jan 1895
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Baltimore Sun 28 Jan 1895
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Baltimore Sun 28 Jan 1895
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Baltimore Sun 28 Jan 1895
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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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Then there are the stories
we wish the papers didnt print
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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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Obituaries of Report of the
Convention 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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Death Certificates give the facts
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Death Certificates give the facts obituaries give the details.
Philadelphia Inquirer(21 April 1905)
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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
US Army Register
US Navy Register
US Air Force Register
Military reports of all kinds
1789 - 1980
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Obituaries routinely published
in government reports.
Orman K. Osbon, killed in
1903
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A Soldiers Last Letter
I was there as a spectator only.
Imagine my surprise which wasonly equaled by my delight at firstand later by my thankfulnesswhen my name was called
What have I done I asked myself, todeserve to be remembered bystrangers in a town in which I hadnever been...
Corporal Wilson Mcpherson Osbon (1877-1899)
written 28 Dec 1898, Spanish-American War
Philippines
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Its a Great Day for Genealogy!
We have never had this level of
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