The SSDI (Social Security Death Index) is a database of deceased individuals with social security numbers, and whose deaths were reported to the SSA.

Explore millions of historic aerial photos and help to bring the collection from the 1960s to the early 2000s to life. Order a print of an ancestor's farm or land, comment on photos, and pin locations.

Sources provide information, from which we identify evidence for analysis. A conclusion drawn from sound analysis may then stand as proof. In these two sentences, Elizabeth Shown Mills defines the proper use of sources to come to valid conclusions in historical research. Your Stripped Bare Guide, Mrs. Mills’ latest work on citing and using history sources, is an abbreviated distillation of the evidence analysis she outlines in minute detail in her classic work, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Fourth Edition (2024).

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