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GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

Life in the Mines

Links to various historic mining resources.

List of Coal-Mining Links

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Fact Sheet 95-8 - Historical Data on Mine Disasters in the United States

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA): Guide to Mining Museums and Monuments

Information about memorials and non-profit museums dedicated to the study and preservation of mining cultures.

Miners' Diseases

By Gareth Williams, a socio-economic history of the Rhondda Valleys (Wales) during the period 1800 to 1950. Ankylostomlasis, Beat Knee, Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema, Nitrous Fumes, Nystagmus, Pneumoconiosis, Respitory Diseases.

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