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Catholic dioceses still paying for clergy misdeeds
Saturday, March, 14, 2009 - Associated Press - News
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Sunday, February, 01, 2009 - Grand Forks Herald - Community
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In December 1979, more than 10 years after his sensational trial for the murder of two Grand Forks women, James Leroy Iverson sent a neatly typed letter to the judge who presided over the trial and sentenced him to life in prison.
Sunday, October, 05, 2008 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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Sunday, February, 24, 2008 - - News
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So. Once again, visitors have wandered about our prairie home and found it in irreversible decline and ruin. The yard is littered with ghosts, the prospect beyond the yard bleak and empty.
Wednesday, January, 16, 2008 - Herald Staff Writer - News
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Dan Rylance, a Fargo native and longtime student of North Dakota history, has completed a project more than 15 years in the making. This biography of Sen. Quentin Burdick, D-N.D., focuses primarily on the first 52 years of his life, at which point he was first elected to the U.S. Senate after serving two years in the House of Representatives. The 32 years of Burdick's service in the Senate (1960 until his death in 1992) are intentionally given relatively short shrift.
Sunday, January, 13, 2008 - Special to the Herald - News
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It would seem only fitting to take a stroll in downtown Grand Forks and look at the building on the corner of North Fourth Street and First Avenue sometime this month.
Tuesday, September, 11, 2007 - - Opinion
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Car people like to get together and talk. Other people like to gawk and touch and feel vintage cars. So, Sunday afternoon, the sometimes quiet grounds of the Myra Museum at 2405 Belmont Road will come alive with the third annual History Rocks event.
Friday, August, 24, 2007 - - Community
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The late wife of UND alum and benefactor Chester Fritz finished a long trip from Monaco on Thursday to be interred beside her husband in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Grand Forks.
Friday, June, 15, 2007 - Herald Staff Writer - News
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Minnesota Fair: Three additional music acts have been confirmed for the 2007 Toyota Concert Series at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand.
Thursday, May, 31, 2007 - - News
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WASHINGTON - Layne Beaty, a pioneer in farm reporting who oversaw the U. S. Agriculture Department's radio and television broadcasts for more than 25 years, died May 11 at Collington Episcopal Life Care Community in Mitchellville, Md. He had cutaneous lymphoma, complicated by congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 93.
Monday, May, 28, 2007 - The Washington Post - News
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SAN FRANCISCO - It seems like no one wants a piece of Barry Bonds' pursuit of the most hallowed record in sports.
Sunday, May, 27, 2007 - San Jose Mercury News - Sports
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Laura Munski, her brother and sister, have taken their mother's advice to heart and made certain the record of their French immigrant ancestors is well preserved in a way that can be passed around.
Thursday, April, 26, 2007 - Herald Staff Writer - News
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Norman Tutorow is a bad typist - he uses the two-finger hunt-and-peck method. It's hardly an exercise in elegance.
Tuesday, April, 24, 2007 - McClatchy Newspapers - Community
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So if you’re thinking about embarking on a journey through the generations, be prepared to spend a while visiting many sites along the way.
“For many people, gathering their family’s history is a life-long endeavor,” says Sandy Slater, head of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at UND’s Chester Fritz Library. Often people will start researching, stop for some reason, and then begin again.
“I’m always sort of looking for the next little piece,” says Slater, who has done extensive research on her own family’s history. It’s OK to take a break now and then.
“Sometimes when you set it aside and think about it, you might have a flash,” Slater says.
Getting started
One of the best places people can begin the search for their ancestors is in their own homes — with themselves.
“They need to start with themselves and go backwards,” Slater says. Filling out a “pedigree” chart is the simplest way to do that and helps the researcher find out where the “holes” are in the family history, Slater notes.
Family Bibles and records of milestone events such as baptisms, funeral notices and obituaries are helpful resources for filling in the blanks of the chart, Slater says.
“(They are) things that you and I may hold,” she says. If those items aren’t available in your own home, they probably will be in another family member’s.
“There usually is a keeper of the records of the family,” she notes.
Libraries
Once some information has been compiled, libraries that specialize in historic research, such as UND’s Department of Special Collections, have experts who are available to help family historians get started, and have an abundance of information sources available.
The Chester Fritz Library’s Department of Special Collections, for example, has published a directory called a “Guide to Norwegian Bygdeboker.” The guide lists the holdings of the library’s holdings of the more than 1,000 volumes in its Bygdebok Collection.
The library also has school records, marriage and coroner records for Grand Forks County. Another good place to look for information is newspapers, Slater says. Area obituaries printed in North Dakota’s major newspapers are available to researchers who visit her department. Other sources
Meanwhile, there’s also a wealth of information in small-town newspapers, Slater says. The State Historical Society of North Dakota has early copies of those available.
The State Historical Society has issues on hand from Dakota Territory as early as 1864 and many from 1872 to the present, according to the society’s Web site. Newspaper titles may be searched using the Online Dakota Information Network or by going to the society’s Web site and clicking on the county in which it was published, then selecting the city or town, the Web site information says.
The newspapers are arranged alphabetically by title, and the listings include microfilm roll numbers for interlibrary loan requests.
People who are comfortable with using a computer also can conduct research on family history online, Slater says.
“We have three public computers. We can sit with people and instruct them.” A data-based Web site called “WorldCat,” which many public libraries subscribe to, for example, will give researchers information on whether there already has been work published on that particular family’s history.
Collecting information about family history is not an easy job, but it can be rewarding.
“It does take perseverance and persistence.
“When you discover something unexpectedly, it just gives you a little boost and makes it all worthwhile, and gives you motivation to find the next little piece of the puzzle,” Slater says.
Ann Bailey writes for Recollections. Reach her by phone at (701) 787-6753, (800) 477-6572, ext. 753 or e-mail her at abailey@gfherald.com.
Tuesday, April, 10, 2007 - HISTORY: An abundance of information is available to help find your roots - Community
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Initiatives in French Midwest Heritage Day, a project that focuses on understanding the French presence in the Midwest, will be April 27 at UND.
Saturday, April, 07, 2007 - Herald Staff Report - News
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