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Unifying the probate court, the land court, the housing court, and the district court...
...oldest living relatives; if possible, tape-record their oral histories (and anecdotes and gossip). Write or interview any other known family members, share notations in family Bibles, business records, scrapbooks; exchange photo albums, diaries, memoirs, letters and official documents such as birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, wills, deeds, land titles, military records. Advertise your search in a genealogical magazine; the most widely circulated is the Genealogical Helper, Everton Publishers, Logan, Utah...
...Visit one of the eleven regional branches of the National Archives (or its parent temple in Washington). This federal service has invaluable census records dating back to 1790, military and pension records from American wars beginning with the Revolutionary, passenger lists of immigrant ships, passport applications, naturalization records, land and bounty claims and much more. The Library of Congress (no branches) has a rich lode of 30,000 American and foreign genealogies. The D.A.R.'s Washington headquarters also has extensive records...
...mass reproduction and film. The "semiautonomous" status of the center, housed in the museum but not under its administrative control, created misgivings; and not everyone felt happy about the idea of a vast personal monument to Annenberg. But the official obstacle was the center's use of public land. Due to restrictions on the Met's expansion into Central Park, the Annenberg Center could only be housed in the museum by using up space-which Hoving had previously announced to be "essential" for exhibitions-inside the not-yet-built southwest wing...
...More than half the Met's collection of Western European arts and European paintings is inaccessible to the public. The new wing would solve this problem, and on that basis New York Parks Administrator August Heckscher in 1971 approved the building plan for the expansion on Central Park land. Now it turned out that three-quarters of the southwest wing would not be used to display works of art at all; occupied by Annenberg's project, it would be closed to the public-a backstage shuffle that Hoving managed to keep secret almost to the last moment...