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From: Shirley <>
Subject: [HS] Making of America
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:59:40 -0800
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This was posted on another list, the author (Cindy Amrhein <>) has
given permission for me to pass along the info. Thanks, Cindy!

I started checking one of my surnames (Smalley) and found an entry in a book
stating a Smalley was in Plymouth Colony in 1644!

shirley
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If you haven't seen this web site by Cornell University Library, you just have to
go there!!!!

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/

It is called The Making of America." There are over 907,000 pages! You can do a
search or browse. If you hit browse you can see their holdings of online
material. I mean not an online directory of where to get stuff, but you can
actually read the articles! I found something on a company I was looking for from
1890s. It was in the "Century in Review" for 1895, the actual page as an image.
I copied the pic and saved it to print. All the listings covered 1815-1926. They
are both books and journals.

For example you can read this whole thing on line:

Author: L. H. Clark
Title: Military history of Wayne County, N.Y.: Military register. Wayne County
in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Lewis H. Clark, Hulett & Gaylord Publication Date: 1883
City: Sodus, N.Y. Pages: 936 page images!!
It is a must see!!!!

Cindy Amrhein
Town of Alabama Historian
Genesee County, NY

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