Canada's Globe and Mail now Available on ProQuest Historical Newspapers

I have been helping index the Detroit Death Records for familysearch.org. So many of these citizens list their birth place as Canada. Proquest will now include the Globe and Mail Newspaper. You can find this database at many Public Libraries. October 22, 2012 (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) -- ProQuest and The Globe and Mail will streamline research of Canadian life and history by making the complete works of Canada’s “newspaper of record” accessible in the powerful ProQuest digital research environment. As part of ProQuest’s Historical Newspaper collection, the archive of The Globe and Mail will be cross-searchable with a worldwide selection of both major and specialty newspapers – from The New York Times and The Guardian to the Chicago Defender and the Jerusalem Post – significantly enhancing productivity and efficiency of researchers and journalists exploring historical events.

National Digital Newspaper Program

The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. HISTORIC AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS

Townships in Wayne County

Brownstown Charter Township-- Canton Charter Township-- Grosse Ile Township-- Huron Charter Township-- Northville Charter Township-- Plymouth Charter Township-- Redford Charter Township-- Sumpter Township-- Van Buren Charter Township--

Cities in Wayne County

Allen Park, Belleville, Dearborn Heights, Dearborn, Detroit, Ecorse, Flat Rock,--- (partially in Monroe County) Garden City, Gibraltar, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe Park, Grosse Pointe Shores,--- (partially in Macomb County) Grosse Pointe Woods, Hamtramck, Harper Woods, Highland Park, Inkster, Lincoln Park, Livonia, Melvindale, Northville,--- (partially in Oakland County) Plymouth, River Rouge, Riverview, Rockwood, Romulus, Southgate, Taylor, Trenton, Wayne, Westland, Woodhaven, Wyandotte

Google Books

Have you met your brick wall yet? This is the place where you just cannot find any information on an ancestor. Before you give up, try Google Books. Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on GOOGLE BOOKS. If you have any success, we would love to hear about it!

Ancestry.com to be sold for $1.6 billion

Ancestry.com, the online genealogy site, agreed Monday (Oct 22) to be purchased by Permira, a European private equity firm, for $1.6 billion. You can read the whole story here: ANCESTRY SOLD

Detroit City Directory 1929

Looking for a free Detroit City Directory online? There are some on google for the 19th century. If you need something from the 20th century, the only free one available is 1929 available here from the UM: DETROIT CITY DIRECTORY 1929