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POPSThe Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834 The Old Bailey Online site has online transcripts of historical London trials. The site "contains 101,102 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834". There are a multitude of ways to sift through the data - you can search by crime, by punishment, by defendant name, by year and many others.
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POPSNew Jersey: Voting Records May Hold Clues to Your Ancestors Even after the 15th amendment to the Constitution asserted that citizens of any color or race could vote, blacks and Indians were still often thwarted from voting well into the 20th century. Knowing the voting law peculiarities in your ancestor's state will help you in your hunt. North Carolina, for example, passed a voter registration act in the early 1900s known as the Grandfather Clause. Prior to this law, North Carolina voters had to meet certain literacy requirements... Other old records have been transferred to state archives or historical libraries.
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POPSNew Book Announcement: Bible Records of Suffolk and Nansemond County, Virginia In all, more than 1,000 mostly 18th- and 19th-century inhabitants of Suffolk and Nansemond are here rescued from obscurity and further made accessible in the index to Bible records at the back. Nansemond’s genealogical heritage from the records of its surrounding counties—Isle of Wight, Southampton, and Norfolk in Virginia; and Gates County in North Carolina.