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Now you can research family records going right back to the reign of Henry VIII. Our amazing new London Parish Records collection gives you a unique opportunity to see records going back further than 1837 — which is when formal birth, marriage and death [...]

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Ancestry Library Edition (ALE) is the result of a partnership between Ancestry.com and ProQuest. This premiere genealogy database is distributed exclusively by ProQuest to the library market and is ideal for the family historian or the social historian. A [...]

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It is one of the oldest public transportation systems in the world. Since Manhattan’s original 28 stations were built, its subway system has grown to over 468 stations serving 1.64billion riders a year. These black-and-white images show the painstaking [...]

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More than a century of British official agonising over the Olympics – from how to approach the 1936 Games being held in Berlin amid the rise of Nazism, to a doomed project to build an Olympic park in London’s then derelict Docklands in the 1980s – h [...]

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One of Charles Darwin’s last experiments – which seems more like a trick the evolutionist enjoyed playing on his dinner guests – has been re-born for the digital age. The pioneer of the theory of evolution owned a collection of photographs showing a [...]

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Anthony Turns 3, a photo by midgefrazel on Flickr. My grandson turns three today. His birthday party will be held later this month. As you can see he is very serious about his love of birthday frosting. Soon, there will be another little baby and Anthon [...]

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Discussing both the Declaration of Independence and Michael Jackson’s patent for anti-gravity shoes, Archivist of the United States and "collector-in-chief" David Ferriero spoke on Monday afternoon about the array of challenges he faces helping to digit [...]

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On her gravestone, her name is Emma Aedt (d. 1873). A record of her death, which also names her parents, lists her last name (spelled Aydt), no first name, and gender, unknown. EMMA Dau. of J. & C. AEDT DIED Aug. 1, 1873 "Ohio, Deaths and B [...]

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Hundreds of historic documents and images relating to the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been made available online by The National Archives for the first time. From the 19th to the 21st century. The new site 'The Olympic Record' includes a timeline f [...]

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Trinity College Dublin historians have reconstructed invaluable medieval documents destroyed during the bombardment of the Four Courts in 1922. The Four Courts was the home of the Public Record Office, which was catastrophically destroyed when it was bomb [...]

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