politics

New York City: the safest major city in America. Mystery Of New York’s Falling Crime Rate Remains Unsolved

January 28, 2021 by Randy Majors

…”In 1990, there were 2,245 murders in the city. Last year the number was 414, the lowest since police began keeping reliable records.” “In one remarkable day, Nov. 26, 2012, there was not a single murder, stabbing or shooting reported in the nation’s largest city, possibly the only time that happened since New York was a small Dutch colony.”… Mystery Of New York’s Falling Crime Rate Remains Unsolved | LiveScience: ‘via Blog this’

New and simple online tool uses Google Maps to show historical county boundaries

January 28, 2021 by Randy Majors

THIS POST CONTAINS UPDATES FROM 06 JUN 2011: Thanks so much for all of the interest in this tool, and for your positive comments and constructive feedback! I’ve incorporated several enhancements into the current version. We all know the importance of county governments for maintaining various types of records that are useful for genealogical research. But how often have you tried searching for an ancestor’s historical records for a given county, only to realize that you were searching in the right place but the wrong county? In fact, according to John H. Long, the director of the Atlas of Historical … Read more