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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 certificates were introduced, for more click here
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. Ancestry Library Edition provides the most genealogical information available on-line, with more than 5 billion names in [...]
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 process endured by the laborers who laid the foundation for the 842 miles of track winding [...]
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 – have been revealed on a website created by the [...]
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 French man having his face contorted via electrical shock treatment into a [...]
Anthony Turns 3 by midgefrazel
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 Anthony will be the big brother.

It is a day for celebrating!

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 digitize and declassify the 12 billion papers under the National Archive’s control.

Ferriero’s lecture, organized by five local libraries, was part of the “Leading Voices in Higher Education” strategic planning lecture series.

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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 Burials, 1854-1997," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F662-662 : accessed 15 May 2012), Aydt, 1873.

Waldo Cemetery, Marion County, Ohio
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 feature which enables visitors to track back through time and browse material from every summer Olympics from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008.

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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 bombed in the conflict between pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty forces at the start of the Irish Civil War.

It was previously thought that the entire medieval archive had been destroyed, but forty years’ work by a team of researchers at Trinity has led to the reconstruction of more than 20,000 hugely important government documents produced by the medieval chancery of Ireland.

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