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27 October 2017

GenealogyBank – FREE eBooks on Select Research Topics

GenealogyBank – FREE eBooks on Select Research Topics

I love newspapers! They bring so much color to the research I do as well as sometimes provide me with “evidence” that might not be found elsewhere.

I associate GenealogyBank with newspapers. That is a happy association.

Though GenealogyBank is a subscription service, to get you “hooked” on how valuable newspapers can be to your research (really not too much effort needed to get us interested and we all have a budget we have to work to!), they also have produced some eBooks that look at various ways that newspapers might help you with your research.

· Tearing Down Your Brick Walls – Removing Roadblocks in Genealogy Research

· Birth Announcements: Published in Newspapers – A Valuable Genealogy Resource

· Marriage Records Found in Newspapers: Engagement, Marriage, Anniversary and Divorce Records

· Historical Advertising: Missing, For Sale, Wanted & More – Gain Insights Into Your Ancestors’ Lives

It makes me wish I was Thomas Jay Kemp, the author of these eBooks so I could write about the juicy finds contained in newspapers!

What other subscription databases/services also have some FREE resources to benefit family historians?

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20 June 2017

History Unfolded -- US Newspapers and the Holocaust

History Unfolded -- US Newspapers and the Holocaust

From our friends at Newspapers.com … Learn about this newspaper-related project run by the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Make a Difference with History Unfolded!

Looking for an easy way to make a big difference? Newspapers.com invites you to participate in the History Unfolded project run by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum!

What is History Unfolded? History Unfolded is a project that seeks to expand our knowledge of how American newspapers reported on Nazi persecution during the 1930s and '40s so we can better understand what Americans knew about the Holocaust as it was happening.

To help achieve this, the History Unfolded project asks people like you to search local newspapers from the 1930s and '40s for Holocaust-related news and opinions and then submit them online to the museum. The newspaper articles you submit will be used to help shape the museum’s 2018 exhibit on Americans and the Holocaust and related educational materials. The articles will also be made available to scholars, historians, and the public.

Who Can Contribute? Everyone! History buffs, students, teachers . . . All you need is an interest in the Holocaust and access to a newspaper from the 1930s or '40s, either online (using Newspapers.com, for example) or through a physical archive, such as a library. Simply create an account with History Unfolded, and away you go!

How Do I Contribute? History Unfolded has created a list of more than 30 Holocaust-related events to focus on. Choose one of these events to research, then search for content related to that topic in an American newspaper of your choice from the 1930s or '40s. After you find an article related to one of the events, submit it online to the museum through the project's website.

Newspapers.com and History Unfolded You can contribute to this important project whether or not you use Newspapers.com to do so. But using Newspapers.com makes it even easier to submit the articles you find. Simply use Newspapers.com to create a clipping of an article you've found, then submit that clipping through the submission form on the History Unfolded website. The submission form has a special tool created specifically for Newspapers.com users that makes submitting your clipping a snap.

Your help with this project will help shape our understanding of the Holocaust and the lessons it holds for us today. For more information on how to get involved, visit the History Unfolded website.

What projects are you aware of involving a concerted and narrowly defined effort to cull news published in newspapers to learn more about a particular aspect of history?

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27 March 2017

Small Town Newspapers -- a hidden gem!

Small Town Newspapers -- a hidden gem!

So many newspapers, so little time! And, this collection is worth your time.
The other day I was getting ready to contact a library to see if they had a local newspaper (Spring Hope Enterprise) in their holdings. None of the big newspaper sites include it. Then, as I often do, I just did a google under the name of the newspaper + archives. I first came across a modern archive and I needed something from back in the 1980s. I then came across what appeared to be a different archive – I put in my person’s name and voila, next thing to pop up was the newspaper page with his obituary!

You are probably wondering, the source of this success. SmallTownPapers. The link takes you to a listing by state or an alphabetical listing of the newspapers included. With only 6 newspapers found for North Carolina, I was just thrilled that the one I sought is included.

Choose from over 250 small town newspapers you can read free every week!

Browse and search the scanned newspaper archive from 1846 up to the current edition!

SmallTownPapers gives you free access to the people, places and events recorded in real time over the decades or even centuries!

In a bit of serendipity, as I researched further into this “new-to-me” resource, I discovered that Kenneth R. Mark (of The Ancestor Hunt) had just blogged the day before about additions to another collection, really service, that enables small town newspapers to digitize elements of their collections, Search 40 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages for Free!

For the last 3 years I have been tracking the online collections made available by the Advantage Preservation company who has contracted with several hundred libraries across the U.S. to digitize and host their online newspaper collections.

The great majority of these links have been Incorporated in the state collection summaries found in the Newspaper Research Links page on this site. But some are so new that they have not been included as yet. And I have just been made aware of about 150 new collections!

The most recent update of the Advantage Preservation collections now totals 434 from 37 states and is still growing. The total pages now exceed 40 million!

Kenneth actively maintains a list of links to online newspaper archives. Check them out, you may find that a newspaper of interest to you is at your fingertips.

So, in the course of a day I learned about not one and two new-to-me newspaper archives.

Makes me wonder what other newspaper gems I’ve been missing out on!

What are your favorite resources for digitized newspapers?

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19 December 2016

Holiday Gifts to You -- Genealogy Style -- 15 Free and (Relatively) New Family History Resources -- Part 5

Part 5

The holiday season is a period of gift giving. My gift to you is another series of editions of FREE and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, the 2016 Holiday Version ...

Check out Re-cap – 20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, 2016 Version – 5 parts post (March 2016) where I did a recap of the 2015 and early 2016 editions.

IRELAND

1. Irish Famine Eviction Map (1845-1852)

FRANCE

2. Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime (select Le Havre Departing Passenger Lists)

SCOTLAND

3. ScotlandsPlaces

SWEDEN

4. Stockholm Police Photographs 1869-1920

UNITED KINGDOM

5. London Picture Map - Think of the map as Google Street View for vintage London. You can click on the map to view historical images of particular buildings, streets or areas, or search the collection by topic to reveal everything from historic coffee houses to buildings associated with different authors or time periods. (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tour-london-yore-gigantic-new-photo-map-180959955/#bjTHcgZVseAJhfrf.99)

6. Alien Registration Cards (1918-1957)

UNITED STATES

7. Civil War Governors of Kentucky

8. Interactive Mapping – Digital Collection: Beautiful Buffalo (NY) Homes

9. Episcopal Diocese of Utah Database of Indexed Parish Records (no longer functioning parishes) (.xls file) – covers 1870-1975

10. St. Helena Star (Napa, CA) digitized

11. Colored Conventions – Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

12. Staten Island Historical Newspapers

13. Whaling Crew List Database (New Bedford MA)

14. Craighead County (AR) Clerk’s Office – Marriage Records

15. Grand Lodge of Maine – Deceased Members who joined 1820-1995

Editor’s Note: As of today, each of the above links worked. Now, whether the links in any of the identified articles work, I cannot vouch for that. And, armed with the information provided, it should be relatively easy to get to determine where the discussed database currently resides. If you get really stuck, drop me an email and I’ll try to ferret out the recalcitrant link or cross out my entry in the above list!

Editor’s Note: Know of a neat resource that you think might be a hidden gem? Drop an email to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.

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15 December 2016

Holiday Gifts to You -- Genealogy Style -- 15 Free and (Relatively) New Family History Resources -- Part 4

Part 4

The holiday season is a period of gift giving. My gift to you is another series of editions of FREE and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, the 2016 Holiday Version ...

Check out Re-cap – 20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, 2016 Version – 5 parts post (March 2016) where I did a recap of the 2015 and early 2016 editions.

DANISH WEST INDIES

1. Digitized Newspapers -- Danish West Indian newspaper titles being digitized by the Statsbiblioteket include The Bulletin, the Danish West Indian, Lightbourn’s Mail Notes, The Herald, The Royal Danish American Gazette, Danish West Indian Regierings Avis, St. Croix Avis, The Saint Croix Bulletin, The Saint Thomas Gazette, Sanct Thomæ Journal, the Saint Thomas Herald and The West End News.

IRELAND

2. List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers – a colour-coded resource accounting for what survives; where it is; with additional information on copies, transcripts & online indexes.

SWEDEN

3. Historical Maps Collection (Lantmateriet)

UNITED KINGDOM

4. Families in British India Society Database

5. Property Care Association -- Decades of research material documenting the preservation of buildings has been uploaded into a free to view digital archive.

6. British Library Image Collection (on Flickr)

UNITED STATES

7. Montgomery County (TN) Archives

8. The Kansas Mother’s Manual (1917-1944) (via Kansas Government Information (KGI) Online Library)

9. Arkansas GLO Map – original plats from the General Land Office are geo-referenced and then the field notes are linked to each plat. A one stop shop for Arkansas surveyors or others interested in land plat placement.

10. Pawtucket (RI) Library Yearbook Collection (on Flickr)

11. Digitized Alaska Records (via NARA @ Seattle)

12. American Civil War Newspapers (via Virginia Tech)

13. Trinity Wall Street Church Archives (NYC)

14. Mapping West Philadelphia 1777

15. Digital Commonwealth – Massachusetts Collections Online

Editor’s Note: Know of a neat resource that you think might be a hidden gem? Drop an email to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.

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20 September 2016

Alaska, Colorado, Maine, and New Jersey Join the National Digital Newspaper Program (aka Chronicling America)

Alaska, Colorado, Maine, and New Jersey Join the National Digital Newspaper Program (aka Chronicling America)

More news about more digitized content coming our way!

From our friends at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) we learn …

We are happy to announce the addition of four new partners to the National Digital Newspaper Program! NEH has made awards to digitize historic newspapers to the Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums; the Colorado Historical Society; the Maine State Library, and Rutgers University in New Jersey. With forty-three states and one territory now participating in the program, NEH is approaching its goal of representing every state and U.S. territory in Chronicling America, the open access database of historic American newspapers maintained by the Library of Congress.

This year, NEH awards have also been issued to state partners in Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, and Texas to continue their contributions to Chronicling America. You can read more about all of the awards issued by NEH in August’s press release.

The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between NEH, the Library of Congress, and state partners. NEH awards enable state partners to choose and digitize newspapers representing their historical, cultural, and geographic diversity. To date, over 11 million pages of historic newspapers are currently available on Chronicling America, with more being added all the time. State partners also contribute rich essays about each newspaper title and its historical context. NDNP recently expanded its scope to include newspapers published between 1690 and 1963.

Historically, the program focused on newspapers between 1836 and 1922. As you can see, the time period has been expanded to include earlier and later newspapers. Our research will only benefit from this!

When researching your ancestry, this collection of digitized newspapers is a great place to start.

Congratulations to the winners.

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