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On the last blog post Newspapers and Their Dates - Alabama, I talked about the dates on old newspaper and how on some scanned newspapers there are more than one issue under a single date. On one of the blog post screen prints I circles a name on the obit page, Mr Bynum: After I... Continue Reading →
I found an 1855 newspaper Sexton report that has the names and ages of people who died in 1854. I created a screen print of the newspaper item and posted it on the Ancestry dot com Message Board. Link to the newspaper item: Sexton Report I then transcribed the report: Soloman Mann 30 y 8... Continue Reading →
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