A Beautiful Video of Malta by Charles Muscat

The Maltese Community in Tripoli

TRIPOLI OF BARBARY

CITTA VECCHIA

Our Maltese community, established in Tripoli from the beginning of the 1800s underwent periods of the different dominations from the Turkish to the Italian which was followed by the British, then Gaddafian revolution.

The Maltese Community in Tripoli

Gibraltar and Evacuation

Gibraltar

Gibraltar and Evacuation

When the war broke out in September 1939 it was thought by military experts and politicians that Gibraltar, like in the case during the First World War, was not going to be in the font line of hostilities. However, by May 1940 when Italy entered the war on the German side, it became clear that the war scenario was going to be very different to that of the First World War and that Gibraltar would have to play a major role. Given this, the British Government ordered the evacuation of women, children, the elderly and infirm to French Morocco. The main reason for this was that Gibraltar had to be converted in a fully-fledged fortress, which Hitler was planning to capture with Spanish assistance and if he had succeeded it would have changed completely the outcome of the Second World War.

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1940 US CENSUS is here

As you may have heard, the official USA census for 1940 was released this week, after 72 years of privacy protection. The census covered all 132 million people who lived in the USA in April 1940, and it is the largest and most comprehensive set of American historical records ever released. For each person the census includes the name, age, address, birthplace, members of the household, and a wealth of additional information on some people such as income, house value, number of former marriages and residence in 1935. If your family has any people who lived in 1940 in the USA, you will be able to find them here and learn more about them, and perhaps discover family members you did not previously know about.
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The 1940 Census starts Apr 2, 201 ..

Archives.com and National Archives Announce 1940 Census Website

More great news for the soon-to-be-released 1940 U.S. census. Today Archives.com announced the website where the census images will be available. In the video below, Connie Potter, Archivist, tells us to "please use this URL and no other because this one will direct you to the 1940 census. No other will."

1940census.archives.gov

Read their press release below:
Today Archives.com and the National Archives are revealing the website that will host the 1940 Census beginning April 2, 2012: 1940census.archives.gov. We encourage you to bookmark the website, and watch the video providing a behind-the-scenes look at the preparations made to publish the 1940 Census.



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