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• Did your ancestor attend Mercer University in Macon, Ga.? Now you can search
  an online archive of the Mercer Cluster, the university’s campus newspaper. 
  The Mercer Cluster
  Archive, a project of the awesome Digital
  Library of Georgia, provides access to papers from 1920 to 1970. 

• The University of Wyoming Lab School’s Tassakooma and Yearling yearbooks
  are now available online for the 1920s, part of the 1930s, and 1953 to 1964. Learn
  more aboutthe yearbooks here. To access the online collection, visit the University
  of Wyoming Libraries catalog and then search for either Tassakooma or Yearling.

• Look for a new blog soon from the Library of Congress: To complement its Civil
  War in America exhibition, the LOC will debut a new blog in November to chronicle
  more than 40 folks from the North and South whose lives were affected by the war.

  Posts will use first-person accounts such as diaries, letters and published memoirs.
  “Bloggers” will include people such as Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton, Stonewall Jackson,
  William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant,  Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Keckley,
  Eugenia Phillips and John F. Chase. You can find the blog starting Nov. 12 at blogs.loc.gov.

• Military records website Fold3 reached a milestone this week when when the
  site exceeded 100,000,000 images of historical records. Read
  more about this achievement on the Fold3 blog. The site, which launched in January
  2007 as Footnote, has worked with partners including the National Archives, Allen
  County Public Library, FamilySearch and others to digitize records. Ancestry.com purchased
  the site in 2010 and last year rebranded it Fold3.com.

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