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A genealogist's dream: 50 million historical documents on Web
SF Gate ^ | 4/4/03 | Eun Kyung-Kim - AP

Posted on 04/04/2003 12:31:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Researchers, genealogists and the plain curious can now use the Internet to check more than 50 million historical records at the National Archives, from Civil War battles to family immigration files.

Before the system became available, people had to either visit the Archives and spend hours combing through documents or request the files by phone and pay to have them mailed.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: documents; dream; genealogist; historical
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To: JoshGray
"All your relatives' souls are belong to us."

Just kidding, with a little bit of FR humor.

As for "recruiting," even LDS doctrine holds that the individual, living or dead, can exercise his/her free agency and decline or accept the vicarious ordinances........

41 posted on 04/04/2003 3:29:38 PM PST by tracer (/b>)
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To: Hanging Chad
Thanks!
42 posted on 04/04/2003 3:43:09 PM PST by error99 (this space for lease)
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To: NormsRevenge
bump
43 posted on 04/04/2003 3:48:52 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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