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The Johnstown Pennsylvania flood was one of the worst natural disasters in Pennsylvania history. By the time the wall of water had subsided, 2,200 lives were lost, many more were injured, and destruction was rampant. The flood would impact the lives of the residents and visitors to that tourist area, much as the current Hurrican Katrina did in modern day.

Olive Tree Genealogy has the complete list of Interments in St. Mary’s Burial Grounds, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania from 1788-1800

It is difficult to trace a marriage that took place in a Protestant church in Quebec(Lower Canada) and Ontario (Upper Canada) before 1867.
Marriage bonds were prepared for Protestant marriages by licence. After obtaining the bond, a licence was issued and the marriage took place a few days later.
Library and Archives Canada holds:
2960 marriage bonds for […]

AccessGenealogy is one of the largest providers of free genealogy databases online. Created in 1999 by Dennis Partridge and Judy White, it’s collection of free databases now surpasses 1.1 million names. The following update provides just a glimpse into the growing collection, and resulted in over 140,000 additional names being added to their databases and webpages in just one week!

Steve Morse of One-Step Search Engine fame has come up with a single search method for the SSDI (Social Security Death Index) that combines all the desirable features of the various SSDI websites…..

The U.S. Social Security Death Index is an index of almost seventy million deceased people who had social security numbers and whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration.

Here is how it can be useful in your genealogy research…