In discussing the plight of a current organization in New Jersey that helps immigrants, a writer with the journal Nonprofit Quarterly has provided some key details on the immigration experience in earlier times. The institute is located in Jersey City, the second largest city in the state. . . . Jersey City . . . in fact, all of Hudson [...]
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Before the campaign to preserve buildings on Ellis Island made any serious headway, photographs of the incredible condition of the place, in a pathetic state of disrepair and damage, were shot and filed away. Obviously neglected for many years, the effort caught the public’s attention and the place was saved for posterity. ajh
William Tidd’s File at the National Archives
Posted: January 31, 2012 in American Revolution, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, TIDD, United StatesEvery since finding my great-great-great-great-great-great-great uncle’s Revolutionary War pension file on Footnote.com a few years back, I have been meaning to get a hold of it again and then put it somewhere easily accessible. I don’t mean a hard copy, but a digital one. Unfortunately, the document — a Revolutionary War pension file — apparently is only available [...]
