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I’m back at it after a short vacation (which involved my first visit to a Civil War battlefield—I’ll show and tell next week) to post this week’s news roundup. Here goes:

• Canadian subscription site Ancestry.ca, in partnership
  with The British Postal Museum and Archive,
  has added a database of Post
  Office Appointment Books, 1737-1969. The 1.5 million records name British
  Post Office employees, including the “femails” who kept the office open during wartimes.
  (These records also
  are on Ancestry.com.) 

• Our local Public Library of Cincinnati
  and Hamilton County has launched a website
  that lets you explore the first panoramic image of an American city (Cincinnati,
  of course). You can zoom way in on the daguerreotype to see remarkable detail of storefronts,
  steamboats, streets and more along two miles of the city’s Ohio Riverfront. Click
  yellow markers on the image for pop-up windows with information about places depicted.

• British genealogy subscription site FindMyPast.co.uk,
  with the Society of Genealogists,
  has added a Business
  Index Collection listing Britain’s shopkeepers, businessmen and women, and
  captains of industry from the early 1890s through 1927.

• The new Black Sea German Research site is
  for those tracing families who migrated from Germany, Alsace, Poland or Hungary to
  the Black Sea region of South Russia (now Ukraine) in the early 1800s. Search a database
  of names, upload your GEDCOM and share historical information at this free, volunteer-run
  site.

• NBC is re-running “Who Do
  You Think You Are?” season 2 episodes Saturday nights this summer. Check your
  local listings if you missed an episode or want to watch your favorite again.