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*1. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has outlined how the IRS uses social media in investigations.

2. What's with all the Google anti-trust lawsuits?

*3. The Washington Post reports on why TV reporters have to be  Jacks of All Trades now.

*4. Look at this list of expenses that you might think are tax deductible, but aren't.

5. The number of U.S. millionaires rose 16 percent last year.

6. Find out why there will be a national Eggo waffle shortage until summer.

7. The New York Times explains how women in the work force helped save Social Security.

8. Here are some great databases that newsrooms have created to help connect people with their community.

*9. Watch this online interactive story of the death of journalist Arthur Kasherman.

10. CBS Radio News' Peter King explains how he broadcast from Haiti in the early days after the quake.

11. Find out how healthy your county is.

12. Levelcam lets you stabilize your handheld video.

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Millions of Historical Documents Available Online
Longtime Al's Morning Meeting contributor Jim Sweeney, managing editor of SIGNAL Magazine, flagged this story to me.

The National Archives announced
last week that it has teamed up with Ancestry.com to make millions of historic documents available for free online in celebration of Memorial Day. Here is some background on the initiative:

Since 1998, Ancestry.com has digitized and indexed millions of National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) records to create the largest collection of NARA records online. The collection now includes more than 750 million names and 70 million images in census, immigration and military records, among many others. Click here to see the collections. Search the more than 540 million names included and you could find invaluable information about your ancestors. You may also want to check out the U.S. Federal Census Collection.

Find your family's heroes in the world's largest online collection of military records, which includes more than 80 million NARA records from all major U.S. wars and conflicts.

You can search for: Many more databases are available here.
Posted by Al Tompkins at 12:01 AM on May 22, 2008
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