Word: indexed
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Leaner's plaintive cry was heard by a volunteer researcher, who told Leaner about the Social Security Death Index. That was the breakthrough Leaner needed, allowing her to move out onto the Internet and into libraries, gathering snippets about her heritage. Now, thanks to scores of websites and chat groups, she has traced her great-great-grandparents back to Mississippi, found the cemetery in Hines County where they are buried, obtained a copy of their 1874 marriage license--along with the World War I draft card of a great-grandfather--and in the process, discovered the thrill of cyberrooting...
Like the Internet as a whole, online genealogy information is a chaotic hodgepodge. The scope can be as broad as the U.S. Social Security Death Index, which draws on some 60 million records of those for whom a lump-sum death benefit was paid, mostly between 1963 and 1997; and as specific as the street maps of Eastern Europe on the Shtetlseeker page of the JewishGen website. Click onto Historical Records of Dukes County, Mass., to see who lived on Martha's Vineyard in 1790. Survey the resources of the Trinidad and Tobago National Library on its website. Contact...
...free." My sister once told me that such distributors have to stand on the street until they're rid of their merchandise, so I took a free bible. "See," one man said to the other. "People want them." And, in fact, this bible could prove useful. An index on pages five and six instructs searchers "WHERE TO FIND HELP, When," among other mishaps, "Friends Fail," "Lonely" or "Trouble, In." But the men were gone by four o'clock, and I don't know when they'll be back to offer texts of wisdom to everyone else. I can confidently assert...
...deep-tissue relaxation, only the knuckles will do. Make a fist, keeping your thumb on the outside and raising the knuckles of your middle and index fingers slightly. Use a gentle rocking motion for best results. Tenser muscles might require "double-fisting" with the elbows and knees...
Cline said that the microfilm would be easierto use because of its on-line index, but access tooriginal documents would still be available tothose who need them...