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I saw a Facebook (FB) post from the Photo Detective about a photo archive (which of course makes sense). Well, when I visited the photo archive, I then “bumped up” a level to the main page where the photo archive was housed and the image above is what was revealed to me.
So, what started as a link to Virginia Military Institute (VMI) cadet images lead me to this wonderful online archive which is not just about VMI and about historical figures and military history.
All it took was a moment to “see” what else might be available ... and see what I found.
Are you doing this whenever you click a link? Are you checking to see what else might be available as part of that institutions online archive?
Please take a moment when you visit any online archive to see if it’s part of a bigger online archive.
Have you stumbled across a really neat online archive in an unexpected place? If so, please do share! I know that there are a
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Showing posts with label Online. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Online. Show all posts
15 June 2015
Many many libraries, archives, institutions and other entities have an online presence! Are you taking advantage?
08 January 2013
The importance of online family trees often lies in their uncertainty
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| Group Gathering -- includes my mum, her best friend, her brothers, her mother and a grandmother and a whole bunch of people not yet identified, c. 1950, Lancashire, England |
There are many reasons why we
construct family trees. Sometimes it’s
to document a well-known past and sometimes it’s to discover a history
previously unknown to us.
My
own personal journey was more about what I did NOT know about my family than
what I did know. When families move away
from their birth places, when many die young, when survivors are mobile in
their quest for finding work, learning the facts is hard enough, never mind
figuring out what colors belong between the lines.
I
think that is why an article
with the above title by Emily Kasriel and published at guardian.co.uk caught my eye since her subtitle is “In creating a
digital family tree from a fragmented past, I learned that accuracy often yields
to the necessity of a personal narrative.”
Too
often we cannot acquire documentation to provide us with the facts of our
ancestor’s lives. Wars, pests, nature
and people have all contributed to the destruction of documents which may have
told us more. Yet, they did live their lives
and we do sometimes have family stories that might give us the color though not
the lines. And, capturing and sharing
those personal narratives does have value.
My
personal history has some lines and a lot of color. And, in a way, not having
so many lines encouraged me to look for more color. Who wants to receive a family binder of only a
few pages, when I could create much more by including information on the towns
where they lived, the ships they traveled on, the churches they attended, the
places where they were employed and much more. None of which helped add more ancestors to my
tree, and yet, left me satisfied that I knew more about their lives than I
would have otherwise.
What was your reaction to what she
shared?
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04 October 2012
National Archives (NARA) Puts More Popular Records Workshops Online
The
National Archives has launched new online videos of its most popular genealogy “how
to” workshops. These videos cover “hot topics” in genealogical research such as
Civil War records, online resources and databases, and more. These workshops
led by National Archives experts are available on the National
Archives YouTube channel .
The
National Archives produced Know Your
Records video
shorts cover the creation, scope, content, and use of National Archives records
for genealogical research. For the first time, researchers and staff voted for
their favorite topics—and the National Archives listened.
Some
recent additions include:
- Access to Archival Databases (AAD) for Genealogists
- Documenting Death in the Civil War
- Let No Man Put Asunder: Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records
- Army Service in the Civil War: An Overview
- Exodus to
- National Archives Records on Ancestry.com
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