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John Ward's Reformatory School Record

1856-1914 Reformatory School Records for West Yorkshire England

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On 6 March 1856, thirteen year old John (alias William) Ward, born in Dublin, was sentenced to two weeks in a House of Correction and five weeks to a Reformatory. He was subsequently imprisoned at Seeds Borough Gaol, and then on the 19th of March 1856 sent to the Calder Farm Reformatory. It was his first conviction. He offense was receiving stolen goods (brass weights). Accurate brass weights were vital to many shop keepers in order for them to weigh accurately items for sale. Any theft or alteration of them was considered a serious offense in those days. The records …

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Gazetteer of the United States of America

Dang those old towns!

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Dang those old towns! I find that nothing is more irritating then having FamilyTreeMaker tell me a location doesn’t exist. But then I remind myself, FTM’s quirky database is built on the geographical location today, not the location at the time the event occurred. A lot of those older smaller post offices used as locations in the olden days have simply vanished. Sometimes those small towns just disappeared from history. Maybe they were flooded out… maybe people just got up and left… often they simply changed their name. Today, if the remnants of the towns buildings still stand we call …

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1876 Map of Seneca County NY

Free Genealogy in Seneca County New York

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A guide and directory to Seneca County New York genealogy, containing both online and offline resources for genealogy and historical research. This article contains sources of genealogical data about Seneca County such as biographies, cemetery records, census records, church records, court records, family records, land records, military records, naturalization records, and vital records. The vast majority of the materials on this page are free to access. If they find a particular set of data that is not free they place a $$$ at the end of it to signify it’s currently only available on a membership website. Do you have …

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Ovid Bee Bill

Index to the Interlaken and Ovid Newspapers, 1822-1994

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In 2006 the Interlaken Historical Society created an index to a variety of newspapers which had been published in either Interlaken or Ovid since 1822. This index to over 76,000 items from the Farmer, Interlaken and Ovid newspapers, alphabetical, in a three-ring binder. At present the only method of getting this manuscript is buy purchasing or borrowing it from a lending library. The actual newspapers can be found on microfilm at a variety of historical societies and libraries in New York. Newspaper covered: Farmer Saturday Morning Review, 1887-1888 Farmer Village Review, 1889-1892 The Farmer Review, 1892-1904 Interlaken The Interlaken Review, …

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John Sullivan marker

Stanley I. Reynolds Collection

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The Stanley I. Reynolds collection contains research data compiled by Reynolds while researching for various potential D.A.R. members, including birth, death and marriage records for Seneca and Ontario Counties, New York. Included are a record of wills, powers of attorney, guardianship and family records, census and military records, as well letters to Reynolds requesting genealogical information. The research from volumes 19-29 is likely excerpts and index from the same records now published digitally online by Family Search and known as the New York, Probate Records, 1629-1971. Microfilm of original manuscripts and typescripts, extracts of Seneca County families from court records, wills, …

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