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Asheville Citizen Times Donates 130 Years of Photo Archives to UNCA for Preservation

There’s a treasure trove in the basement of the Asheville Citizen Times building. It’s what Gene Hyde, Head of Special Collections at UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library, calls the “Holy Grail” of Asheville’s archival history — thousands of photographs dating back to the paper’s 1870s origins. But for nearly a decade, the archive, often called the …

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Thousands of New Records Added to TheGenealogist and Its Powerful Map Explorer™ ·

The following is an announcement written by the folks at TheGenealogist: Over 140,000 names from War Memorial records released, plus thousands of Image Archive pictures pinned onto georeferenced maps TheGenealogist has just added 142,861 new individuals to their War Memorial collection, bringing the total number of fully searchable War Memorial Records on TheGenealogist to over 1,688,000. These fully searchable records have …

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Thousands of New Records Added to TheGenealogist and Its Powerful Map Explorer™ ·

The following is an announcement written by the folks at TheGenealogist: Over 140,000 names from War Memorial records released, plus thousands of Image Archive pictures pinned onto georeferenced maps TheGenealogist has just added 142,861 new individuals to their War Memorial collection, bringing the total number of fully searchable War Memorial Records on TheGenealogist to over 1,688,000. These fully searchable records have …

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