Keep Track of Changing County Boundaries By Lisa Alzo, Internet Genealogy and Your Genealogy Today author How can you discover what a county’s boundaries were at a given time? Each county will offer its own resources like historical atlases, county histories, pictorial histories and even city directories. County websites (governmental, genealogical and historical) often describe boundary changes, too. But a reliable go-to source for county boundary changes across the United States is the Newberry Library’s online Atlas of Historical County Boundaries https://www.newberry.org/atlas-historical-county-boundaries From the home page of the Atlas, click on the state in question. That will take you to a “state homepage.” This will help you sort out where to find key court and vital records for your ancestors. ============================================================================= ==== Smithsonian Libraries Free Databases and Collections By Gena Philibert-Ortega, Internet Genealogy and Your Genealogy Today author There’s nothing like the word FREE and this collection of free resources courtesy of the Smithsonian. This site http://library.si edu/free-databases-and-collections has some research tools that normally can only be accessed at a subscribing library. Some of my favorites for genealogy include ProQuest Dissertation Express and ProQuest PQDT Open Access Dissertations for finding, and in the case of Open Access, reading dissertations that give a historical background to your genealogy. ============================================================================= ==== 'London Bridge Is Down': Inside the Death of a Queen Secret plans for Queen's death start with her doctor, end in 10-day funeral By Michael Harthorne, Newser Staff Posted Mar 16, 2017 4:58 PM CDT Updated Mar 17, 2017 6:30 AM CDT (Newser) – One day in the future, the code phrase "London Bridge is down" will be delivered to the prime minister in Britain, and word will have started to leak that the queen is dead. The Guardian has a deep dive into the exhaustive plans and preparations—some of them secret—for the death of Queen Elizabeth. Just how exhaustive? It takes the Guardian more than 8,000 words just to describe them. It's likely the funeral for the queen—who turns 91 in April—will be unlike any Britain has seen in modern history. That's because, as one former BBC head puts it, she's "the only monarch that most of us have ever known." And, the Guardian notes, Elizabeth represents the British people's "last living link with our former greatness." For the rest of this riveting article: http://tinyurl.com/ko6yawz   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.”