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20 May 2013

Horse Thief's Gravestone Recovered in Glasgow, Montana

It’s a story right out of an old Western movie. A stolen horse, a chase, a shootout and a death. The story fairly leaps off the crisp, folded pages of the coroner’s inquest, stored for nearly 100 years in a narrow metal box in the depths of the District Court vault.

But the story would not have come to light again if Clem Lemieux hadn’t torn down a storage shed on May 5. The shed was attached to a garage on his property on Division Street on the south side of U.S. 2. When he removed a corner post, he discovered the cornerstone it was standing on was actually a gravestone.

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World War I Sacrifices of the 'Swansea Pals' Recalled in Newly Digitised Archive Records

Officially, they were men from Swansea and surrounding towns including Neath and Port Talbot who made up the 14th (Service Battalion), The Welsh Regiment, part of the Welsh 38th Division during World War I.

And the 1,200-strong “Swansea Pals” battalion found itself in one of the deadliest battles of the war, Mametz Wood, in which almost 100 of them were killed and 300 more injured.

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Code in Letters Sent Home By British PoW in WWII To Help Allies Is Revealed After 70 Years

The letters sent back home by Sub-Lieutenant John Pryor from a German prison camp seemed innocent enough. They often started with 'My Dear Mummy & Daddy' and talked about mundane things such as gardening and a 'vegetable patch'.

But the British wartime letters actually contained hidden messages, which have only now been deciphered by academics. It is also the first time the captured serviceman's family has been able to understand the secret messages.

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Love Letters From Wartime Affair Published By Daughter

Hundreds of love letters revealing a passionate wartime affair between a doctor and a nurse have been published by their daughter. Swansea-born Brian Thomas, 34, fell in love with Katie Walker, 23, in Austria at the end of World War II.

When Dr Thomas returned to Britain, the pair wrote ardent love letters to each other every day. Publishing the letters, Loraine Fergusson said it was "wonderful to hear their voices again".

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Historic New Zealand Images Sold To US

Fairfax Media - which owns The Whangarei Leader, The Bay Chronicle, The Northern News and The Dargaville and Districts News as well as national and regional newspapers - plans to start shipping its old photos to Rogers Photo Archive next week. Prints will go first with negatives to follow later this year.

The company, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, specialises is restoring, scanning and ''monetising'' photo archives. It will send digital versions of the photos back to New Zealand but will retain the originals.

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Haunting Relic of History, Slave Cabin Gets a Museum Home in Washington

The floors creaked. The walls swayed in a strong breeze. Rot and termites had destroyed parts of the rickety structure built before the Civil War.

But when curators from the Smithsonian’s new African-American history museum in Washington visited this marshy island last year, they found exactly what they were looking for: an antebellum slave cabin that captured the stark life of plantation workers before emancipation.

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Danish Court Sends 2 Men in Prison For Stealing WWII Documents From National Archives

Two Danish men have been sentenced to prison after confessing to stealing World War II documents from Denmark's national archives.

The Copenhagen City Court on Friday gave sentences of two years to one man and 21 months to the other for stealing 1,045 documents between 2009 and their arrests in late 2012.

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Baptism Record That Solved Mystery of Samuel de Champlain’s Birth Arrives in Canada for 400th Anniversary Exhibit

A time-yellowed, 439-year-old baptismal registry from 16th century France, recently found to contain long-sought clues about the birth and family history of the famed New World explorer Samuel de Champlain, has arrived in Canada to help mark a major milestone in this country’s own birth.

The document that appears to solve a centuries-old mystery about when the founder of New France was born is to be publicly displayed for the first time later this month at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que., directly across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill.

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Relatives of Ned Kelly Gather for Family Reunion in County Tipperary, Ireland

The genetic links of one of Australia’s most notorious and controversial outlaws - Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly - is the focus of the Kelly Clan gathering in County Tipperary, Ireland.

Two hundred Kellys from Australia, Britain, America, Ireland and even an eleventh generation Kelly from Guatemala are attending the event in Dundrum House Hotel, Thurles. Guests include Junior Minister, Alan Kelly and former GAA President, Sean Kelly, MEP.

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Archaeologists Discover Revolutionary War Carr's Fort in Georgia

Archaeologists with the LAMAR Institute discovered the location of Carr's Fort, a significant frontier fortification that was attacked on February 10, 1779.

The discovery was funded through grants from the National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program, Kettle Creek Battlefield Association, and The LAMAR Institute.

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Are You Related to Cher?

Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946 in El Centro, California. Her father, John Paul Sarkisian, was Armenian American and worked as a truck driver.

Her mother, Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch in Sharp County, Arkansas on June 9, 1927), an aspiring actress and occasional model, is of Cherokee, English, and French descent.

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GeneaNet: A Personal Family Tree Home Page For Your Family and Relatives

When your family and relatives accept an invitation, they are sent to a personalized home page of your GeneaNet family tree.

If they are in your GeneaNet family tree, the family link will be displayed on the home page.

If there's no family link between you and them, their ancestry will be displayed on the home page.

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13 May 2013

GeneaNet: Have You Uploaded a Picture of the Tombstone of Your Ancestors?

Do you know that GeneaNet offers you to upload and share your pictures of headstones?

On GeneaNet, you can:

- Upload several pictures of the same headstone, for example a general view and some closer views to read the inscription.
- Index the name and date of the persons who appear on it.
- Attach a picture of headstone to any individual in your GeneaNet family tree even if it's not your own picture.
- Search the GeneaNet database for pictures of headstones by name, first name, date and place.

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11 May 2013

The National Archives of the UK: 19th Century Immigrants' Records Released Online

The records of thousands of 19th century immigrants to Britain are now available to search and download online.

The collection, which covers the period 1801 to 1871, includes records relating to more than 7,000 people who applied to become British citizens under the 1844 Naturalisation Act, as well as a small number of papers relating to denization, a form of British citizenship that conferred some but not all the rights of a British subject.

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10 May 2013

15,000-Year-Old Words?

Mother, bark and spit are just three of 23 words that researchers believe date back 15,000 years, making them the oldest known words.

The words, highlighted in a new PNAS paper, all come from seven language families of Europe and Asia. It’s believed that they were part of a linguistic super-family that evolved from a common ancestral language.

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