genealogybank.com - the tour - feb 2009

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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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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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