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    From August Abolins@2:221/360 to All on Sun Mar 17 23:56:31 2019
    Just a heads-up for genealogy folks:

    You may find http://wellandhistory.ca useful in your genealogy research.

    The content is based on the records of people that have lived in the Welland/Niagara region of Ontario, Canada.

    There are over 10,000 images of actual newspaper clippings of births/obits/marriages, many photos, and many re-posts of newspaper articles and stories.

    Enjoy!

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to August Abolins on Tue Mar 19 16:59:17 2019
    Hello August.

    17 Mar 19 23:56, you wrote to All:

    There are over 10,000 images of actual newspaper clippings of births/obits/marriages, many photos, and many re-posts of newspaper articles and stories.

    Sounds interesting. :)

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Sean Dennis on Sat Mar 23 02:31:56 2019
    Sean Dennis : August Abolins wrote:
    There are over 10,000 images of actual newspaper clippings of births/obits/marriages, many photos, and many re-posts of newspaper articles and stories.

    Sounds interesting. :)

    It has a little over 6GB of stored data. Yours truly is responsible for placing all the newspaper clippings and the postings (someone else writes those). Early in the project, I used a photo editor to "straighten" the clippings so that they would look like trapezoids. Lately though, I just post what is given to me.


    .../|ug

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/360 to August Abolins on Sat Mar 23 02:35:17 2019
    August Abolins : Sean Dennis wrote:
    ..I used a photo editor to
    "straighten" the clippings so that they would look like trapezoids.
    Lately though, I just post what is given to me.

    OOPS.. meant to write "so that they would *not* look like trapezoids."

    .../|ug

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