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• Footnote.com: Holocaust collection free through 2009

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 479
  Great breaking news from Footnote.com! The Holocaust Collections free open access was supposed to be available only during October. However, due to the exceptional popularity of the sites new Holocaust Collection , it will remain free to the public through December 31, 2009. More people will now be able to search ...
  2 days ago

• "Beat the Crowds" by reserving your National Archives visit online

  
  GenWeekly — Authority: 124
  If you are considering a trip to the U S. National Archives, you may want to check out Dick Eastmans blog, " National Archives Launches New Online Reservations System ," providing information on how to "Beat the crowds" and reserve your time, conveniently online.
  2 days ago

• Racing legend Sir Jackie’s ancestry on display at National Archives

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 569
  B y Rory Reynolds THE ancestry of one of Scotland’s most treasured sporting heroes is to be displayed at the National Archives as part of the Famous Scots series. The family history of F1 racing champion Sir Jackie Stewart – who won three world championships – is to be part of the finale for the popular ...
  5 days ago

• Follow-ups and things of interest from around the Web

  
  ArchivesNext — Authority: 112
  I’ve got the nasty cold that making its way around the East Coast, but I can’t resist posting some follow-ups and things of interest: Dan Santamaria has posted audio, powerpoint, and supplementary files from the presentation by Ellen Fleurbaay and Marc Holtman (of the City of Amsterdam Archives) at Princeton ...
  5 days ago

• 1940 U.S. Federal Census Information

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 589
  Joel Weintraub kindly forwarded a link to the U.S. National Archives web page for the 1940 census -- http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/1940/ . The web page looks like this: The big clock on the page counts down the seconds until the 1940 census is released by NARA on 2 April 2012. When I made the ...
  6 days ago

• 4,444% Increase in 50 Years: How Britain Is Being Colonised by the Third World

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 643
  A comparison of official Government figures has revealed that the Third World-origin population of Britain has rocketed from a mere 180,000 in 1958 to approximately 8 million 50 years later — a dramatic increase of 4,444 percent. At this rate of exponential growth, Britain will have been completely colonised by the ...
  1 week ago

• Sir Noel Coward: the sturdy WWI soldier

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  As a soldier Noel Coward exhibited a "good sturdy and well conducted" character when he was honourably discharged a few months before the end of the First World War according to his papers.
  1 week ago

• IRA death list and bombing targets

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Newly released file shows IRA bombers had target list including MPs, lords and police officers, as well as cultural and military sites A death list and the names of potential bombing targets that included the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and part of Buckingham Palace were found in a London ...
  2 weeks ago

• National Archives Releases Evidence Of IRA’s Balcombe Street Gang: In Pictures

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 620
  THE IRA is no longer the pariah of the British Isles. Factions of armed Irish Nationalists still exist. But the fear factor has been mush diminished. The National Archives has released documents showing an IRA list of potential targets recovered by police in a raid on a north London flat in the 1970s. What was ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Most Influential Document In American History

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 441
  This post was first published here last year, 23rd October, 2008. We thought it is worth bringing to your attention again this year. The People’s Vote, co-sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration, National History Day, and U.S. News & World Report, invited Americans of all ages and ...
  3 weeks ago

• House Subcommittee to Examine the 2010 Census Master Address File

  
  GeoData Policy — Authority: 112
  On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Archives held a hearing entitled: “The 2010 Census Master Address Files: Issues and Concerns.”The hearing provided an opportunity for the Census Director to offer testimony on the status of the 2010 Census Master Address ...
  3 weeks ago

• A little hectic

  
  ArchivesNext — Authority: 112
  I just realized that my schedule is about get a little hectic, so posts will be sporadic for a while. In the meantime, here are a bunch of links to keep you distracted from the stuff you should probably be doing. The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a number of interesting reports recently, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clay to senators: End Vitter’s Census “ploy”

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 613
  WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. David Vitter is taking a “political shot in the dark” with a proposal to discount illegal immigrants from the upcoming 2010 census, Rep. William “Lacy” Clay , D-St. Louis, said Tuesday. “We’re going to stop playing games with a constitutional requirement…
  3 weeks ago

• Scrubbing History is a Marxist Tradition in the Democratic Party

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 453
  The Post & Email published MODUS OPERANDI TO CONCEAL INFILTRATION OF COMMUNISTS DURING LAST 70 YEARS by John Charlton (Oct. 19, 2009) — The scrubbing of the internet to rewrite Obama’s birth story, perpetrated by Google’s Newspaper Archive and  numerous news sites such as the Honolulu Advertiser ...
  3 weeks ago

• National Archives Staffer Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty

  
  Faces of War — Authority: 111
  I was caught off guard a couple weeks back after an unexpected package arrived from the National Archives. Inside I found photocopies of the military service record for a soldier who served in the Fifty-sixth U.S. Colored Infantry. A few weeks earlier, I had requested his file only to learn that the MSRs from his ...
  4 weeks ago

• National Archives displays present antiBritish view of history

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  The National Archives in Kew have been accused of presenting an "antiBritish" view of history by presenting a display which describes the Empire as having been "profoundly oppressive" to its overseas subjects.
  4 weeks ago

• NARA’s Digital Partnership Agreements: The Good, the Bad, and let’s hope, not the Ugly

  
  ArchivesNext — Authority: 112
  The issue of the terms of NARA’s agreements with their “digitization partners” has come up again lately, inspired by the recent news that Footnote.com, a NARA partner, has digitized and will make available on its site many NARA records relating to the Holocaust. Footnote is generously making those records ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mining for Genealogical Information in Federal Records

  
  GenWeekly — Authority: 124
  We might think of the National Archives as containing a static body of information, and genealogists anxiously await each new set of records scheduled to come online.  What we might not realize is that in the U.S. (and probably so in other countries as well), the repository is not static at all. The federal archives ...
  4 weeks ago

• Important genealogical lessons can be learned from the story of Michelle Obamas ancestral roots

  
  Afro-Netizen — Authority: 115
  By Tony Burroughs Guest Contributor Last week a New York Times  article  reported that Michelle Obamas great-great-great grandparents were a white man and a slave whom he impregnated. This story highlights the growing importance of genealogy in America. Some of the comments posted online were from ...
  4 weeks ago

• I’d like to get my news about records implications of government social media use from the National Archives, not Mashable.com

  
  ArchivesNext — Authority: 112
  This post is not a criticism of Mashable–I love them, and I’m very happy that someone is finally pointing out the relevance of the Presidential Records Act in regard to all the fuss we’ve seen about how the White House needs to preserve the comments they receive via social media. Here’s the Mashable story . ...
  8 weeks ago

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