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Photo Story: Uncle Sam Calls


(Original Images and Text, Copyright (c) 2011 Cynthia Shenette) Civilian or soldier...


Gram is right there with him.


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A long-time librarian, I am mostly of Polish, Acadian, and French-Canadian descent. I have started this blog to share and acquire genealogical knowledge, achieve inner peace, and perhaps realize my ultimate quest, to find two ancestors with the same surname who actually spelled their surnames exactly the same way...
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  • 1930 Census (Not just the 1930!)
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  • Ancestry.com - $$
  • ArchiveGrid
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  • Family Tree Magazine - $$ and free
  • FamilySearch
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  • Internet Archive
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  • Library of Congress
  • Making of America (Cornell University)
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  • One-Step Web Pages by Steve Morse
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  • WorldCat
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Worcester - Massachusetts - New England

  • American Ancestors
  • American Antiquarian Society
  • Archaic Community, District, Neighborhood, Section and Village, Names in Massachusetts
  • Boston Public Library
  • Cambridge Public Library Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection
  • Feed Me Bubbe (Worcester's Favorite Online Grandmother Cooks!)
  • Folger Library: Maine Town Documents
  • Gazetteer of Massachusetts (1890)
  • List of Persons Whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts. 1780-1892.
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  • Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS)
  • Massachusetts Genealogical Council
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  • Worcester Historical Museum
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  • IL - ChicagoAncestors.org
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  • PA - ExplorePAHistory.com
  • PA - PA-Roots
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  • Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  • FrancoGene
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  • La Societe des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan
  • Le Village historique acadien de la Nouvelle-Ecoesse
  • Library and Archives Canada
  • Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
  • Quebec Heritage Web
  • University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections
  • Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society

Polish Resources

  • 1938/39 Warsaw Telephone Directory
  • All Poland Database (JewishGen)
  • BASIA
  • Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies
  • Genealogia Polska
  • Genealogy Indexer
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  • Geneteka Genealodzy
  • Genoroots
  • Gesher Galicia: The Bridge to Galicia
  • JewishGen
  • JRI Poland
  • Palmieri, A. (1912). Archdiocese of Warsaw. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved Novemember 17, 2010 from New Advent
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  • Tasting Poland
  • Warsaw Uprising 1944
  • Warszawa1939

Ukrainian, Carpatho-Rusyn Resources

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  • Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies
  • Genealogy of Halychyna and Eastern Galicia
  • Lemkos
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Historic Preservation, Property, & Land

  • City of Worcester Property Records
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  • Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986 (FamilySearch Historical Records)
  • National Register of Historic Places
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  • Preservation Massachusetts
  • Preservation Worcester
  • State Library of Massachusetts Real Estate Atlases
  • Worcester Registry of Deeds

Maps & Newspapers

  • Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (Newberry Library)
  • Chronicling America
  • David Rumsey Map Collection - $$ and free
  • Elephind.com
  • GenealogyBank - $$
  • Google Earth
  • Google Maps
  • Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy - $$ and free
  • History Pin
  • Newspapers - USA and Worldwide
  • Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library
  • ObitsArchive.com - $$
  • Old Fulton Postcards (New York newspapers)
  • Panoramic Maps
  • State Library of Massachusetts Real Estate Atlases
  • The Boston Atlas
  • Waymarking
  • Wikipedia: List of Online Newspaper Archives
  • Worldology (European History Interactive Map)

Military & Civilian Conservation Corps

  • Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
  • Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy
  • MaritimeQuest
  • Naval History and Heritage Command
  • NavSource Naval History: Photographic History of the U.S. Navy
  • The Doughboys & Camp Greene, Mecklenburg County, NC. 1917-1918
  • U.S. Army Center of Military History
  • United States Department of Veterans Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator
  • Vermont in the Civil War

Surname Links & Lineage Societies

  • Baillon Research Project
  • COMEAU Genealogy
  • DAR Genealogical Research System
  • Deschenes - Miville
  • Ladd Family
  • Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the USA
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