Over 1,700 issues of The Central Express and The Sanford Express are now available to view thanks to our partner Lee County Libraries and funding from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). According to the Library of Congress, the paper was published under name The Central Express from ~1886 until 1891 when it was changed to The Sanford Express. This batch adds issues from a …
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3.9 Million Pages of Finnish History Digitized
All Swedish-language newspapers published in Finland are now available digitally, as the National Library’s digitization project has been completed. The University of Helsinki reports that nearly 3.9 million pages were digitized in the project which ended on December 31st. Now, almost six million pages of Swedish-language newspapers are available digitally through the National Library’s digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi service. According …
Records Related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs or UFOs) at the National Archives
Here is an article that is not about any of the “normal” topics of this newsletter: genealogy, history, current affairs, DNA, and related topics. However, I suspect it will be of interest to many readers of this newsletter. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has established an ‘‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection,” per sections …