Swipe card: USA
Publicly unavailable sources from New York, published for the first time
For the first time, several family history sources from Yonkers, New York, have become available to the public. The sources have neither been available to the public in...
Register of dead from Nebraska, now online.
For the first time, a register of the dead in Nebraska has been published online. The registry is completely free to use and has never before...
Increased base of potential soldiers from World War II by 7 million...
This spring, FamilySearch added a new searchable database of American draft cards from World War II. The cards were sent out in 1942, not long after the...
Australia's role in the television broadcast of the moon landing in 1969
As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Slekt1 will take the opportunity to tell the dramatic story of when...
Mrs. Muus's complaint - a book about the marriage scandal that shook the...
The fall of 1879 marked the beginning of the end of the marriage between Bernt Julius Muus and Oline Muus, when Oline took her husband to court for...
Searchable newspapers from the United States
On the Library of Congress website you can search American newspapers from the period 1836-1922. The project is called Chronicling America and provides access to well over 7 million newspaper pages. You probably have a relative who emigrated to America, perhaps you will find him or her mentioned in one of the newspapers?
