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April 2015 Newsletter

Why I Subscribe to GenealogyBank: Family Stories

I am a subscriber to GenealogyBank and use it all the time because it has the stories of my family – millions of stories I can't find anywhere else. I want to find these stories and make sure they are preserved and passed down in the family. I want them remembered.

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Native American Newspapers for Genealogy Research

As part of its online historical newspaper archives containing more than 6,700 different newspapers spanning 1690 to today, GenealogyBank has a specific collection of Native American newspapers, fantastic for researching Indian roots from several tribes, from all around the country.

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An Irish Immigrant's Obituary Tells Her Coming to America Story

Ellen Canning O'Rourke was born in Ireland and died in Connecticut on 16 December 2011 at age 101. As a little girl she lived through the "Irish Troubles" in County Leitrim, and had keen memories of those events – and her coming to America and finding work here. Her recollections were recorded in her obituary.

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GenealogyBank Just Added 33 Million More Records!

We constantly add more newspapers and obituaries to our online archives. Currently, GenealogyBank features over 6,700 newspapers from all 50 states, with more than 230 million obituaries and death records. Here are details about our most recent additions: a total of 38 newspaper titles from 16 U.S. states. We've shown the date ranges so that you can determine if the new content is relevant to your personal research.

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