ELMIRA, NEW YORK DIRECTORY, 1889-93 Located near the New York/Pennsylvania border, the city of Elmira is the county seat of Chemung County. This database is a transcription of city directories originally published in 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893. In addition to providing the residents' names, it provides their addresses and occupational information. It includes more than 73,000 names, mostly heads of households. For the researcher of ancestors from south central New York, this can be an extremely valuable collection. Source Information: "Elmira Directory, 1889." Elmira, NY: J.E. Williams,1889. "Elmira Directory, 1890." Elmira, NY: J.E. Williams,1890. "Elmira Directory, 1891." Elmira, NY: J.E. Williams,1891. "Elmira Directory, 1892." Elmira, NY: J.E. Williams,1892. "Elmira Directory, 1893." Elmira, NY: J.E. Williams,1893. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4759.htm This database is also included in the 1890 Census Reconstruction Project and can be searched through its main page at: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/census/1890sub/main.htm ________________________________________________________________ LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY DIRECTORY, 1886 The largest city in Kentucky at the turn of the century, Louisville was home to an estimated 160,000 residents in 1890. Originally published in 1886, this database is a directory of city residents. Each record provides the resident's name, occupation, and other helpful notes. Part of an ongoing project, this database now contains the names of about 10,000 individuals. For persons seeking ancestors who lived in the Louisville area before 1900, this can be a helpful and informative database. Source Information: Cravin, Amy, ed. "1886 Louisville, Kentucky City Directory." [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 2000. Taken from: "Louisville City Directory, 1886." n.p., 1886. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4625.htm ________________________________________________________________ BROOKLINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORY Sharing a boarder with Massachusetts, Brookline, New Hampshire lies in Hillsborough County. The town was previously known as Raby, New Hampshire. This history contains vital record registers for the years prior to 1914. There are also extensive biographical sketches and family genealogies. This data will be useful to those with early New Hampshire and Massachusetts ancestry. Source Information: Parker, Edward Everett. "Brookline, New Hampshire History." [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Parker, Edward Everett. "History of Brookline, Formerly Raby, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, with Tables of Family Records and Genealogies." Gardner, MA: Meals Printing Co., 1914. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4740.htm ________________________________________________________________ HERALD (ROCK HILL, SC), OBITUARIES, 1991-99 Source Information: Bell and Howell Information and Learning Company. "Herald (Rock Hill, SC), Obituaries, 1991-99." [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original electronic data is from the electronic newspaper newsfeed service of the Bell and Howell Information and Learning Company. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3516.htm

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[Only the first part of this message is displayed. The entire message has been turned into a text attachment, which you can retrieve by selecting Download. Once downloaded, open it with a word processor or text editor for reading.] PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to pull together the scant writings on the Louisiana Redbones and to present from those materials an account of their arrival in Louisiana, where they settled and how they lived. A definition of Redbones will be offered and it is hoped that their relationship to the Melungeons of the southeastern United States will be evident. The Melungeons have been called the mystery people, but their mysteriousness pales beside that of the Redbones. In order to properly understand these mystery people it is necessary to look first at the state into which they came. THE STATE To say that Louisiana is culturally diverse is to state the obvious. What is not so obvious is the extent of the diversity. Louisiana has nurtured more cultural and ethnic diversity than perhaps any other state. One usually thinks of Louisiana as having two cultural groups: French Catholics in the south and Protestants in the north. That division is only a fraction of the picture. It omits the Germans, Irish, Spanish, Cubans, Mexicans, Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, Croatians, Canary Islanders (Islenos), Guatemalans, Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese, Laotians, Thais, Vietnamese (largest population of Vietnamese in the U.S.), Africans, Haitians, Jews, Greeks, Romani (Gypsies) and Native Americans. Louisiana has more than thirty Native American groups. Louisiana has had its share of demagogues, discriminatory laws and practices, scandals, and racial and ethnic abuses (especially in regard to African Americans and slavery); but it has fostered, more than most southern states, a milieu in which ethnic groups could survive. The state has avoided large scale massacres, deportations or forced migrations of its ethnic groups such as that which led to the "Trail of Tears." Reasons for this relatively benign treatment of minority groups are varied and speculative. Among these reasons are that the French generally practiced Hi Everyone, This was sent to me from Turtle. Roosweb does not send attachments. If you want a copy please contact Turtle or Bright Star, and it will be sent to you directly. Bright Star