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GenealogyBank: The Tour Resources You'll Find Nowhere Else!

Thomas Jay Kemp APG NY Metro Chapter

2 June 2008


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Genealogy Growth1724 1876 1976 - 2008

1724 1 st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury newspaper


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1776


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1776 1791 - 1 st Historical Society


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1776 1791 - 1 st Historical Society 1844 1st Genealogical Society 1847 1 st Genealogical journal


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1876


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1876 1876 - Centennial The nation celebrates


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1876 1876 - Pres. Grant calls for county, town & family histories 1894 Family History Library (Utah)


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1876 1876 - Pres. Grant calls for county, town & family histories 1894 Family History Library (Utah) 1920 2,000 published genealogies


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1876 1876 - Pres. Grant calls for county, town & family histories 1894 Family History Library (Utah) 1920 2,000 published genealogies 1972 50,000 published genealogies


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1876 1876 - Pres. Grant calls for county, town & family histories 1894 Family History Library (Utah) 1920 2,000 published genealogies 1972 50,000 published genealogies 1975 400 genealogical societies


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1976 Roots


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1976 Roots Early 70s PC becomes affordable Mid 70s Census Indexing


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1976 Roots Early 70s PC becomes affordable Mid 70s Census Indexing 1992 Mosaic web browser 1996 Google.com 1997 Ancestry.com


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1998 90,000 published genealogies


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1998 90,000 published genealogies 1998 6,000 genealogical societies


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1998 90,000 published genealogies 1998 6,000 genealogical societies 1999 FamilySearch.org
http://new.familysearch.org/http://new.familysearch.org/


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2000 Census & Books start to go online Use of census microfilm evaporates

2005 GenealogyBank.com

2008 150,000 published genealogies 2008 10 Million genealogists


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We have never had this level of access before


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So What is inGenealogyBank.com ?


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So What is inGenealogyBank.com ? Over 1 Billion names


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Over 3,400 newspapers All 50 States; 1690 to today


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Over 150,000 rare books &documents


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So What is inGenealogyBank.com ? Over 1 Billion names Over 3,400 newspapers

All 50 States; 1690 to today Over 150,000 rare books & documents

Over 100 million obituaries & death

records


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Sample Searches and Results


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Eastern Argus Maine: 1828-08-19 Page 3


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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 Issue20 Sep 1814


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Family Reunions

Dallas Morning News

31 Aug 1931

Tacoma Daily News10 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 inthe census; not in the published family history.
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Rachel (Bittinger) Platters cousin Wooly Bittinger & family 1937 just a few years after Rachel applied for her pension


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Obituaries routinely published in government reports.


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Obituaries of Report of theConvention of American Instructorsof the Deaf

Proceedings of the twenty-first meeting of the Convention of AmericanInstructors 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. SenateSerial Set Vol. No. 7320, Session Vol. No.10

65th Congress, 2nd SessionS.Doc. 172


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Prisoners at Algiers. Letter in relation tothe prisoners at Algiers, communicated to theSenate, 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 -


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1819-1820 Passenger List Report of the Secretary of State, pursuant to the act to regulate

passenger ships and vessels, of the number of persons arriving in the several ports of the United States, from October 1, 1820, toSeptember 30, 1821. April 22, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie onthe table.Date: 1822-04-22; U.S. Congress. HouseSerial Set Vol. No. 69, Session Vol. No.917th Congress, 1st SessionH.Doc. 134


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