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• FDR's New Deal for America

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• Mervyn Sharp Bennion

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• Unknown location in Germany 1945

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• Barbed Wire Killed More Men Than Water Wars

  Bert Bennett of American Fork, Utah collected hundreds of varieties of barbed wire from all over the west. He often related the stories of battles…

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• HANDIBOE or HANDEBO'S originally from IRELAND.

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• Continental Congress: Hospital Reports

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• what does my last name mean?

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• Zumbi dos Palmares

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• R.M.S.Titanic Sinks

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• Frank T Hopkins

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• Footnote Search Tips (updated)

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• Female hangings 1632 to 1900

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• Buddy Holly's plane crash site

  On Feb 2, 1959, rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Booper performed at Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. Shortly after midnight, the three…

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• The Cherokee Trail of Tears

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• Slave Rebellion

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• The Battle of Little Big Horn

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• Confederate Compiled Military Service Records

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• 1,648 Slaves in the Estate of Nathaniel Heyward, Charleston, SC, 1851

  The estate inventory of Nathaniel Heyward, filed in June of 1851, lists the names of 1,648 enslaved ancestors on 15 plantations in Charleston, Colleton…

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  Updated 31 Aug 2010 - 322 views this week (322 total)

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• Battle of Gettysburg

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  Updated 23 Aug 2010 - 285 views this week (31,208 total)

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• Luka Misov Peyovich (1891-1963)

  A memorial to my Serbian grandfather from Montenegro. I hope to find lost family connections. Comments from family and friends are especially welcome.

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  Updated 21 Aug 2010 - 281 views this week (13,332 total)

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