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Have
you ever looked at a passenger list and noticed scribbles and writing on
it? Most are actually significant and are
not the result of a sloppy clerk or enthusiastic archivist. Learn more about these in A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List
Annotations.
Did an ancestor
have a business in London? Have you
looked to see if there might be an extant archive of its records? If not, check out the London Metropolitan
Archives Collections Guide – A-Z business listing.
I’m
always looking for Galician/Ruthenian resources on the Internet. My father’s family emigrated (1900-1910) from
Finland and Galicia
Meharry
Medical College (Nashville TN
Just
like looking at historic photos overlaid on modern images is neat, the same
goes for overlaying historic maps on modern maps. Check out The Quaint Plans
for American Cities, as We Envisioned Them 200 Years Ago.
This project is based on the Atlas of the
Historical Geography of the United States (1832), which the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab is bringing entirely online and geo-rectifying the maps so they can be viewed atop modern digital maps.
Speaking of
historic photos, how often have you found yourself making faces or hamming it
up so that those you are taking a photo of would stay still (hopefully
mesmerized with a pleasant expression on their face)? Given the length of exposure time in the late
1800s (about 30 seconds), the task to keep an infant still required great
creativity. Check out Victorian parents hiding in pictures
to keep their babies still long enough for a portrait [20 pics] to see how parents were camouflaged
just to get a photo taken.
We love historical
newspapers. You just never know when a
family member will be mentioned and we get a glimpse into their life. Penn Libraries is making it easier for us to
identify what historical newspapers are online via their Historical
Newspapers Online page. The information is grouped by state.
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