The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. A newsletter reader recently posted a comment about some articles I have written explaining why the cloud is good for genealogy and for many other purposes. The newsletter reader protested, “You constantly tout that cloud storage is much more secure than …
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Cause of Death
October 14, 2022 Some people might find it creepy, but I am on a quest to find the cause of death of as many of my ancestors as possible. Finding the cause of an ancestor’s death can reveal a lot about their life. People in earlier times died of conditions and diseases that …
Elgin County, Ontario, Archivists Are Putting the Old-Time News Online
More than 160 years of community newspapers from Elgin County are going online, making the stories, advertisements and images readily available to anyone curious to learn about days gone by. Archivists have secured funding to digitize 36 different newspapers from St. Thomas, Alymer, Dutton, and places in between, with the first printed paper dating back …