Dick Eastman's newsletter mentioned https://freecen2.freecen.org.uk/ as a site to search free for UK census records in the 1800s. It is really easy to search and best of all FREE! Bette
This is from one of our members here at the library. Sally At the SIG meeting yesterday Shawn told us about plans to let honorably discharged Veterans shop online at the PX. The website is Vetverify.org and this is an excerpt from that site. “Honorably discharged Veterans will soon be eligible to shop all online exchanges.” You can sign up at the website and start shopping 11 Nov 2017. Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Soldiers do not die until they are forgotten." "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”
Those of you working on your DNA matches might find this article interesting. http://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2017/07/26/the-effect-of-phasing-on-reducing-false-distant-matches-or-phasing-a-parent-using-gedmatch/ . The genetic genealogist site puts out a newsletter that is very helpful as well.
Thank you, Jane, for this great site. Typed in "Peleg Standish" and came up with a bunch of stuff. The first one I checked out was a newspaper dated 1858 and it contained an article about Capt Myles Standish of the Mayflower. Haven't had a chance to look at the others yet. Sally Don’t know if I got this from you but, if I didn’t, its fantastic. I’ve actually found, so far, 3 articles pertaining to my people. Or, 2 + 1 that mentions one of my people. One was just a death announcement for a woman for whom I had no dates. Genealogy happy dance….. Here is the website: nyshistgoricnewspapers.org Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Soldiers do not die until they are forgotten." "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”
I especially liked this listing of what my parents' generation lived and experienced. It is something that I cannot ask them about as they are both gone. Thank you for sharing this. On Friday, July 21, 2017 11:40 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: Children of the Greatest Generation This is a powerful Testament to whom we are, what we achieved, how we lived, and how we have expressed our undying belief in ourselves - are we are the last true Americans. Born in the 1930s and early 40s, we exist as a very special age cohort. We are the Silent Generation. We are the smallest number of children born since the early 1900s. We are the last ones. We are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war, which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years. Today's conflicts seem to off elsewhere - not prominent in our lives - but the military are losing their lives & limbs just as they did during WWII! We are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves. We saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans. We hand mixed white stuff with yellow stuff to make fake butter. We saw cars up on blocks because tires weren't available. We can remember milk being delivered to our house early in the morning and placed in the milk box on the porch. We are the last to hear Roosevelt's radio assurances and to see gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors. We can also remember the parades on August 15, 1945, VJ Day. We saw the boys home from the war build their Cape Cod style houses, pouring the cellar, tar papering it over and living there until they could afford the time and money to build it out. We are the last generation who spent childhood without television. Instead, we imagined what we heard on the radio. As we, all like to brag, with no TV, we spent our childhood playing outside until the street lights came on. We did play outside and we did play on our own. There was no Little League. There was no city playground for kids. To play in the water, we turned the fire hydrants on and ran through the spray or ran through the sprinkler hose The lack of television in our early years meant, for most of us, that we had little real understanding of what the world was like. Our Saturday afternoons, if at the movies, gave us newsreels of the war and the Holocaust sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons. Telephones were one to a house; party lines often shared and sometimes hung on the wall. Computers were called calculators and were hand cranked. Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon. The Internet and Google were words that didn't exist. Newspapers and magazines were written for adults. We are the last group who had to find things out for ourselves. As we grew up, the country was exploding with growth. The G.I. Bill gave returning veterans the means to get an education and spurred colleges to grow. VA loans fanned a housing boom. Pent-up demand coupled with new installment payment plans put factories to work. New highways would bring jobs and mobility. The veterans joined civic clubs and became active in politics. In the late 40s and early 50s, the country seemed to lie in the embrace of brisk but quiet order as it gave birth to its new middle class (which became known as Baby Boomers). The radio network expanded from three stations to thousands of stations. The telephone started to become a common method of communications and "Faxes" sent hard copy around the world. Our parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war and they threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never imagined. We weren't neglected but we weren't today's all-consuming family focus. They were glad we played by ourselves until the street lights came on. They were busy discovering the post war world. Most of us had no life plan, but with the unexpected virtue of ignorance and an economic rising tide, we simply stepped into the world and started to find out what the world was about. We entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity, a world where we were welcomed. Based on our naive belief that there was more where this came from, we shaped life as we went. We enjoyed a luxury. We felt secure in our future. Of course, just as today, not all Americans shared in this experience. Depression poverty was deep rooted. Polio was still a crippler. The Korean War was a dark presage in the early 50s, and by mid-decade, schoolchildren were ducking under desks for fear of the Atom bomb. Russia built the Iron Curtain and China became Red China. Eisenhower sent the first advisors to Vietnam, and years later, Johnson invented a war there. Castro set up camp in Cuba and Khrushchev came to power in Russia. We are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland. We came of age in the 40s and early 50s. The war was over and the Cold War, terrorism, Martin Luther King, civil rights, technological upheaval, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with insistent unease. Only our generation can remember both a time of apocalyptic war and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty. We have lived through both. We grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better, not worse. We are the Silent Generation, the last ones. … Author unknown The last of us was born in 1944, more than 99.9% of us are either retired or dead, and all of us believe (or rather KNOW) we grew up in the best of times! Fortunately, I fall into the retired category. Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Soldiers do not die until they are forgotten." "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.” ***************************** If you wish additional information about the Bunker Family Association, please visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Children of the Greatest Generation This is a powerful Testament to whom we are, what we achieved, how we lived, and how we have expressed our undying belief in ourselves - are we are the last true Americans. Born in the 1930s and early 40s, we exist as a very special age cohort. We are the Silent Generation. We are the smallest number of children born since the early 1900s. We are the last ones. We are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war, which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years. Today's conflicts seem to off elsewhere - not prominent in our lives - but the military are losing their lives & limbs just as they did during WWII! We are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves. We saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans. We hand mixed white stuff with yellow stuff to make fake butter. We saw cars up on blocks because tires weren't available. We can remember milk being delivered to our house early in the morning and placed in the milk box on the porch. We are the last to hear Roosevelt's radio assurances and to see gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors. We can also remember the parades on August 15, 1945, VJ Day. We saw the boys home from the war build their Cape Cod style houses, pouring the cellar, tar papering it over and living there until they could afford the time and money to build it out. We are the last generation who spent childhood without television. Instead, we imagined what we heard on the radio. As we, all like to brag, with no TV, we spent our childhood playing outside until the street lights came on. We did play outside and we did play on our own. There was no Little League. There was no city playground for kids. To play in the water, we turned the fire hydrants on and ran through the spray or ran through the sprinkler hose The lack of television in our early years meant, for most of us, that we had little real understanding of what the world was like. Our Saturday afternoons, if at the movies, gave us newsreels of the war and the Holocaust sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons. Telephones were one to a house; party lines often shared and sometimes hung on the wall. Computers were called calculators and were hand cranked. Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon. The Internet and Google were words that didn't exist. Newspapers and magazines were written for adults. We are the last group who had to find things out for ourselves. As we grew up, the country was exploding with growth. The G.I. Bill gave returning veterans the means to get an education and spurred colleges to grow. VA loans fanned a housing boom. Pent-up demand coupled with new installment payment plans put factories to work. New highways would bring jobs and mobility. The veterans joined civic clubs and became active in politics. In the late 40s and early 50s, the country seemed to lie in the embrace of brisk but quiet order as it gave birth to its new middle class (which became known as Baby Boomers). The radio network expanded from three stations to thousands of stations. The telephone started to become a common method of communications and "Faxes" sent hard copy around the world. Our parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war and they threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never imagined. We weren't neglected but we weren't today's all-consuming family focus. They were glad we played by ourselves until the street lights came on. They were busy discovering the post war world. Most of us had no life plan, but with the unexpected virtue of ignorance and an economic rising tide, we simply stepped into the world and started to find out what the world was about. We entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity, a world where we were welcomed. Based on our naive belief that there was more where this came from, we shaped life as we went. We enjoyed a luxury. We felt secure in our future. Of course, just as today, not all Americans shared in this experience. Depression poverty was deep rooted. Polio was still a crippler. The Korean War was a dark presage in the early 50s, and by mid-decade, schoolchildren were ducking under desks for fear of the Atom bomb. Russia built the Iron Curtain and China became Red China. Eisenhower sent the first advisors to Vietnam, and years later, Johnson invented a war there. Castro set up camp in Cuba and Khrushchev came to power in Russia. We are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland. We came of age in the 40s and early 50s. The war was over and the Cold War, terrorism, Martin Luther King, civil rights, technological upheaval, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with insistent unease. Only our generation can remember both a time of apocalyptic war and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty. We have lived through both. We grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better, not worse. We are the Silent Generation, the last ones. … Author unknown The last of us was born in 1944, more than 99.9% of us are either retired or dead, and all of us believe (or rather KNOW) we grew up in the best of times! Fortunately, I fall into the retired category. Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Soldiers do not die until they are forgotten." "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”
The Bunker Family Association has expressed concern about the inclusion of the Bunker Graveyard in the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The reserve, while impressive, also has the potential for additional vandalism to the privately maintained Bunker graveyard. Here's a link to the BFA comments: https://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org/?p=605 The PDF file describing the New Hampshire reserve is at: https://www.greatbay.org/documents/greatbaypassport.pdf The PDF file will also be posted on the Bunker Family Association website.
Hi Bette, I would like to see a copy of the greatbaypassport pdf file, but I cannot get to it. Is it possible you could send me a copy directly? I visited the homestead and cemetery some years ago so am very interested so am very interested is seeing your information. Thank you! On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Bette Bunker Richards <[email protected] > wrote: > The old homestead and cemetery are now part of the Great Bay Estuary. Now > it is a tourist attraction. Not at all something I am happy about. > file:///C:/Users/betterich/Documents/greatbaypassport.pdf and scroll down > to Bunker Creek. > Bette > ***************************** > If you wish additional information about the Bunker Family Association, > please visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
I didn't see anyone else out there when I visited in June. The plant growth to the cemetery was very high. The cemetery looked like it was being maintained. On Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:41 PM, Bette Bunker Richards <[email protected]> wrote: The old homestead and cemetery are now part of the Great Bay Estuary. Now it is a tourist attraction. Not at all something I am happy about. file:///C:/Users/betterich/Documents/greatbaypassport.pdf and scroll down to Bunker Creek. Bette ***************************** If you wish additional information about the Bunker Family Association, please visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
The old homestead and cemetery are now part of the Great Bay Estuary. Now it is a tourist attraction. Not at all something I am happy about. file:///C:/Users/betterich/Documents/greatbaypassport.pdf and scroll down to Bunker Creek. Bette
Dick Eastman in his latest newsletter is again writing about the internet archive and its usefulness in genealogical research. I tried it at https://archive.org/details/genealogy <http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/948986/39039886/5677669_/feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/eogn/~https://archive.org/details/genealogy> and got over 4,000 hits on Bunker. By putting in a first name I whittled it down to a little over 100 hits. Many of those are about military bunkers, golf bunkers and Bunker Hill but you may find this site useful for any of you family members. There are a lot of local histories included and they are searchable so that can be very valuable. Bette
Hope you all have a fun-filled 4th of July. This is a good time to remember what our ancestors fought, and some died for to bring about our independence. This was posted on Ancestry. If you haven't seen it already, you'll really enjoy it. Declaration Descendants - July 4th http://www.ancestry.com/cs/declaration Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Our Soldiers are one of our greatest assets!" "Soldiers do not die until they are forgotten." "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”
Online searchable death indexes on line from Joe Beine and NGS http://www.deathindexes.com/
TODAY IN HISTORY – JUNE 25 1876 : BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN On this day in 1876, Native American forces led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, leaders of the Sioux tribe on the Great Plains strongly resisted the mid-19th-century efforts of the U.S. Government to confine their people to reservations. In 1875, after gold was discovered in South Dakota’s Black Hills, the U.S. Army ignored previous treaty agreements and invaded the region. This betrayal led many Sioux and Cheyenne tribesmen to leave their reservations and join Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Montana By the late spring of 1876, more than 10,000 Native Americans had gathered in a camp along the Little Bighorn River–which they called the Greasy Grass–in defiance of a U.S. War Department order to return to their reservations or risk being attacked. In mid-June, three columns of U.S. Soldiers lined up against the camp and prepared to march. A force of 1,200 Native Americans turned back the first column on June 17. Five days later, General Alfred Terry ordered Custer’s 7th Cavalry to scout ahead for enemy troops. On the morning of June 25, Custer drew near the camp and decided to press on ahead rather than wait for reinforcements. At mid-day, Custer’s 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Among the Native Americans, word quickly spread of the impending attack. The older Sitting Bull rallied the warriors and saw to the safety of the women and children, while Crazy Horse set off with a large force to meet the attackers head on. Despite Custer’s desperate attempts to regroup his men, they were quickly overwhelmed. Custer and some 200 men in his battalion were attacked by as many as 3,000 Native Americans; within an hour, Custer and every last one of his soldier were dead. The Battle of Little Bighorn–also called Custer’s Last Stand–marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The gruesome fate of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty. Meanwhile, the U.S. Government increased its efforts to subdue the tribes. Within five years, almost all of the Sioux and Cheyenne would be confined to reservations. 1950 : KOREAN WAR BEGINS Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years. Korea, a former Japanese possession, had been divided into zones of occupation following World War II. U.S. Forces accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in southern Korea, while Soviet forces did the same in northern Korea. Like in Germany, however, the “temporary” division soon became permanent. The Soviets assisted in the establishment of a communist regime in North Korea, while the United States became the main source of financial and military support for South Korea. On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces surprised the South Korean army (and the small U.S. Force stationed in the country), and quickly headed toward the capital city of Seoul. The United States responded by pushing a resolution through the U.N.’s Security Council calling for military assistance to South Korea. (Russia was not present to veto the action as it was boycotting the Security Council at the time.) With this resolution in hand, President Harry S. Truman rapidly dispatched U.S. Land, air, and sea forces to Korea to engage in what he termed a “police action.” The American intervention turned the tide, and U.S. And South Korean forces marched into North Korea. This action, however, prompted the massive intervention of communist Chinese forces in late 1950. The war in Korea subsequently bogged down into a bloody stalemate. In 1953, the United States and North Korea signed a cease-fire that ended the conflict. The cease-fire agreement also resulted in the continued division of North and South Korea at just about the same geographical point as before the conflict. The Korean War was the first “hot” war of the Cold War. Over 55,000 American troops were killed in the conflict. Korea was the first “limited war,” one in which the U.S. Aim was not the complete and total defeat of the enemy, but rather the “limited” goal of protecting South Korea. For the U.S. Government, such an approach was the only rational option in order to avoid a third world war and to keep from stretching finite American resources too thinly around the globe. It proved to be a frustrating experience for the American people, who were used to the kind of total victory that had been achieved in World War II. The public found the concept of limited war difficult to understand or support and the Korean War never really gained popular support. Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index [Be sure and check out the Archives] "Soldiers do not die until they are forgotten." "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”
Today in History June 18 1812 : WAR OF 1812 BEGINS The day after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to declare war against Great Britain, President James Madison signs the declaration into lawand the War of 1812 begins. The American war declaration, opposed by a sizable minority in Congress, had been called in response to the British economic blockade of France, the induction of American seaman into the British Royal Navy against their will, and the British support of hostile Indian tribes along the Great Lakes frontier. A faction of Congress known as the War Hawks had been advocating war with Britain for several years and had not hidden their hopes that a U.S. Invasion of Canada might result in significant territorial land gains for the United States. In the months after President Madison proclaimed the state of war to be in effect, American forces launched a three-point invasion of Canada, all of which were decisively unsuccessful. In 1814, with Napoleon Bonapartes French Empire collapsing, the British were able to allocate more military resources to the American war, and Washington, D.C., fell to the British in August. In Washington, British troops burned the White House, the Capitol, and other buildings in retaliation for the earlier burning of government buildings in Canada by U.S. Soldiers. In September, the tide of the war turned when Thomas Macdonoughs American naval force won a decisive victory at the Battle of Plattsburg Bay on Lake Champlain. The invading British army was forced to retreat back into Canada. The American victory on Lake Champlain led to the conclusion of U.S.-British peace negotiations in Belgium, and on December 24, 1814, the Treaty of Ghent was signed, formally ending the War of 1812. By the terms of the agreement, all conquered territory was to be returned, and a commission would be established to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada. British forces assailing the Gulf Coast were not informed of the treaty in time, and on January 8, 1815, the U.S. Forces under Andrew Jackson achieved the greatest American victory of the war at the Battle of New Orleans. The American public heard of Jacksons victory and the Treaty of Ghent at approximately the same time, fostering a greater sentiment of self-confidence and shared identity throughout the young republic. ====================================================== THE ANCESTOR HUNT By Kenneth R Marks Mississippi is one of the states that does not have a central online state repository for searching historical newspapers. Several states use the Library of Congress Chronicling America site as their main central online site for searching old newspapers and Mississippi has most of its online newspapers available on that site. Mississippi also has additional newspapers from other websites. Some are free and many require a subscription. Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them. There are over 1,500 newspapers that have been published in the Magnolia State - certainly not all of them are searchable online. But, there are quite a few that are indeed available. So go for it - find your Mississippi ancestors and all the interesting articles that capture the stories of their lives. Check out the list of newspapers at: http://tinyurl.com/yatzfe9w ====================================================== DID YOU KNOW? Fort Leavenworth was the first settlement in Kansas territory, and the oldest active Army post west of the Mississippi River?
How Many of Me Are There in the United States? There are 325,088,401 people in the United States of America. If everyone in the U.S. Lined up single file, the line would stretch around the Earth almost 7 times. That's a lot of people. The U.S. Census Bureau statistics tell us that there are at least 151,671 different last names and 5,163 different first names in common use in the United States. Some names are more common than others. http://howmanyofme.com/ [Would you believe, there is only one Sally Pavia. Guess I really am only one of a kind.] ========================================== Unclaimed Persons Celebrates Ninth Anniversary and Launches New Website Dick Eastmans Online Genealogy Newsletter Dick Eastman · June 15, 2017 Every life is worth remembering, and this month Unclaimed Persons (UP) celebrates its ninth anniversary helping to unite the remains of deceased individuals with their next of kin. Alone in death and tucked away on dark shelves or cold gurneys in morgues across the country, thousands of deceased individuals whose names are known to coroners, medical examiners, and a handful of friends have no known family members to claim their remains. Homelessness, mental illness, long-term estrangement, deaths of all apparent next of kin, and other circumstances have severed familial connections. Ever-increasing caseloads and shrinking budgets make it nearly impossible for many medical examiners, coroners, and investigators to find these individuals relatives without help. Launched in June 2008, UPs online community of volunteer researchers over the past nine years has worked with medical examiners, coroners, and forensic investigators from 55 counties to solve 471 cases. Our members genealogical investigative skills, selflessness, and determination are the reason for UPs success. Their dedication means 471 families no longer wonder what happened to a parent, child, sibling, aunt, uncle, or another relative and many of these formerly unclaimed individuals have found their way home for proper burial. Please join us in celebrating Unclaimed Persons anniversary and success by following us at www.facebook.com/unclaimedpersons. We also hope you will consider becoming a member to help fight the quiet unclaimed epidemic in morgues across the U.S. More information is available at our NEW website, http://www.unclaimed-persons.org
Very interesting report on the salt marsh where the Bunker land and cemetery is located. The expected rise in sea level is likely to flood the Bunker cemetery eventually. A good reason everyone in our family ought to be working against climate change as much as possible. http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/nongame/documents/appendixb-saltmarsh.pdf Oyster River is a tributary of the Piscataqua River and got its name from all its oyster beds that no longer exist. The Bunker Garrison house was located on Oyster River.
I have just been notified again, that something has been added to my family tree on Ancestry.com. I have never submitted a tree to Ancestry. I did not recognize the person who made the addition or any other information about the tree on Ancestry. In addition, the information was incorrect. I don't know where people get the information they put up there but it is not from me. This reminds me to warn you that customer submitted family trees on any of the online genealogy sites are prone to major errors and frequently have not been submitted by anyone mentioned on them. The online genealogy sites have fairly accurate information when they have transcribed records and downloaded them although there are transcription errors in those too. The family trees are not to be trusted at all. More than once I have been told that the Bunker Family Assn. records are totally wrong because some site online had a family tree that said otherwise. No genealogy database is without errors and we have some too but we do make an effort to back up our data with actual records or family group sheets submitted by the people who actually got information from living members of their families. Bette
The Sanborn maps are a great tool but you should know they do NOT list the name of the owner of the property and in many cases the addresses have changed as the town expanded so the same house may have been 123 Main St. in 1880 but in 1900 it is 537 Clark Ave. Even so, they are so much fun. They show all the wells because the water sources needed to be known. They also usually show where the privies were. Using them in conjunction with property deed searches will give you a lot of information about your ancestor's house. On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:22 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > 808. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Now Online > Posted: 31 May 2017 12:10 PM PDT > [If you have been using the great collection of Sanborn/Biast maps for > Indianapolis on the IUPUI website, you will be glad to see the following > collection go live.] > > > Press Contact: Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639 | Jennifer Gavin (202) > 707-1940 > Public Contact: Colleen Cahill (202) 707-8540 > > Website: Sanborn Maps > > The Library of Congress has placed online nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire > Insurance Maps, which depict the structure and use of buildings in U.S. > Cities and towns. Maps will be added monthly until 2020, for a total of > approximately 500,000. > > The online collection now features maps published prior to 1900. The > states > available include Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, > Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, > Wisconsin and Wyoming. Alaska is also online, with maps published through > the early 1960s. By 2020, all the states will be online, showing maps from > the late 1880s through the early 1960s. > > In collaboration with the Library’s Geography and Map Division, Historical > Information Gatherers digitized the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps during a > 16-month period at the Library of Congress. The Library is in the process > of adding metadata and placing the digitized, public-domain maps on its > website. > > The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are a valuable resource for genealogists, > historians, urban planners, teachers or anyone with a personal connection > to > a community, street or building. The maps depict more than 12,000 American > towns and cities. They show the size, shape and construction materials of > dwellings, commercial buildings, factories and other structures. They > indicate both the names and width of streets, and show property boundaries > and how individual buildings were used. House and block numbers are > identified. They also show the location of water mains, fire alarm boxes > and fire hydrants. > > In the 19th century, specialized maps were originally prepared for the > exclusive use of fire insurance companies and underwriters. Those > companies > needed accurate, current and detailed information about the properties they > were insuring. The Sanborn Map Company was created around 1866 in the > United > States in response to this need and began publishing and registering maps > for copyright. The Library of Congress acquired the maps through copyright > deposit, and the collection grew to 700,000 individual sheets. The > insurance > industry eventually phased out use of the maps and Sanborn stopped > producing > updates in the late 1970s. > > The Library’s Geography and Map Division is among the world’s largest map > collections, holding some six million cartographic items in various > languages dating from the 14th century to the present. Some of its most > important collections are available online at loc.gov/maps/collections/. > > Further information about the Geography and Map Division can be found at > loc > gov/RR/geogmap/. > > > > > Sally Rolls Pavia > [email protected] > List Owner: [email protected] > Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index > "Soldiers do not die until they are forgotten." > "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.” > > ***************************** > If you wish additional information about the Bunker Family Association, > please visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
808. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Now Online Posted: 31 May 2017 12:10 PM PDT [If you have been using the great collection of Sanborn/Biast maps for Indianapolis on the IUPUI website, you will be glad to see the following collection go live.] Press Contact: Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639 | Jennifer Gavin (202) 707-1940 Public Contact: Colleen Cahill (202) 707-8540 Website: Sanborn Maps The Library of Congress has placed online nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which depict the structure and use of buildings in U.S. Cities and towns. Maps will be added monthly until 2020, for a total of approximately 500,000. The online collection now features maps published prior to 1900. The states available include Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Alaska is also online, with maps published through the early 1960s. By 2020, all the states will be online, showing maps from the late 1880s through the early 1960s. In collaboration with the Library’s Geography and Map Division, Historical Information Gatherers digitized the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps during a 16-month period at the Library of Congress. The Library is in the process of adding metadata and placing the digitized, public-domain maps on its website. The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are a valuable resource for genealogists, historians, urban planners, teachers or anyone with a personal connection to a community, street or building. The maps depict more than 12,000 American towns and cities. They show the size, shape and construction materials of dwellings, commercial buildings, factories and other structures. They indicate both the names and width of streets, and show property boundaries and how individual buildings were used. House and block numbers are identified. They also show the location of water mains, fire alarm boxes and fire hydrants. In the 19th century, specialized maps were originally prepared for the exclusive use of fire insurance companies and underwriters. Those companies needed accurate, current and detailed information about the properties they were insuring. The Sanborn Map Company was created around 1866 in the United States in response to this need and began publishing and registering maps for copyright. The Library of Congress acquired the maps through copyright deposit, and the collection grew to 700,000 individual sheets. The insurance industry eventually phased out use of the maps and Sanborn stopped producing updates in the late 1970s. The Library’s Geography and Map Division is among the world’s largest map collections, holding some six million cartographic items in various languages dating from the 14th century to the present. Some of its most important collections are available online at loc.gov/maps/collections/. Further information about the Geography and Map Division can be found at loc gov/RR/geogmap/. Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Soldiers do not die until they are forgotten." "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”