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11 March 2016

20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, 2016 Version, Part 4

My present continues ... 20 more FREE (or mostly FREE) resources ...

AUSTRALIA

1. Murderers, prostitutes, mothers and paupers: Victorian female prison registers online for first time

BRAZIL

2. LAMP Digitizes Brazilian Newspaper Diario de Pernambuco (1825-1924)

IRELAND

3. Dublin Gazette (1750s-1790s) (via Oireachtas Library & Research Service)

4. Archives of 53,000 Jews who lived in Ireland made available to the public

LUXEMBOURG

5. Luxembourg family history searches easier thanks to online archive -- More than one million Luxembourg birth certificates from 1600 to 1923 have been made available online thanks to a voluntary project

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

6. 500,000 pages scanned for law library

UNITED KINGDOM

7. Welcome to the Spectator Archives; 180 years of history now online

8. Glasgow Digital Library

9. Was your ancestor a slave owner? A new online database may have the answer

10. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Digitizes Unique Early English Books

11. View the History of Britain from the Air as Bluesky Brings Old Aerial Photos Online

12. Scottish Indexes – Prison Registers, Sheriff Court Paternity Decrees, Kelso Dispensary Patient Records, etc

13. Groam House Museum Out of Print Publications Online [Pictish and Celtic Heritage]

UNITED STATES

14. Landscape of Liberation, the African American Geography of Civil War Tennessee

15. Scroll Through This Online Trove of Old Trade Catalogs

16. Historic maps of Oklahoma go on line for public viewing

17. West Texas Digital Archives

18. Brooklyn Public Library Puts 107 Years of City Directories and Telephone Books Online

19. Providence (RI) House Directories Now Available Online

VATICAN

20. Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online For Free

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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10 March 2016

20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, 2016 Version, Part 3

My present continues ... 20 more FREE (or mostly FREE) resources ...

AUSTRALIA

1. The Ryerson Index -- an index to death notices appearing in Australian newspapers. The date range covered extends from the Sydney Gazette of 1803 up to newspapers published within the last week or so

CUBA

2. “Cuban equivalent” of Ancestry.com a boon to family historians

HUNGARY

3. Portrait of a Forgotten Hungary: Legendary Photographer’s 1500 Turn-of-the Century Pictures Made Public

IRELAND

4. Register of Deeds Index Project Ireland

MEXICO

5. The Historical Archives of Monterrey are Now Online

UNITED KINGDOM

6. Researchers to uncover crimes and forensic secrets hidden in Britain's historic wax seals

7. Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century

8. East Sussex Record Office et al Digital Collections

9. The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed

UNITED STATES

10. Aspiration, Acculturations, and Impact, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 [Harvard]

11. Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Announces 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards

12. Municipal Archives offer rare glimpse into NYC’s nearly 400-year history most people will never know

13. Know Your Digital Storage Media – A guide to the most common types of digital storage media found in archives

14. eGENEe -- a catalog of genealogy and history websites

15. [NC] Civil Rights Movement Digital Collection

16. Freedom on the Move [Cornell]

17. Discover Pittsburgh’s [PA] History online

18. Penny Postcards

19. History Colorado Online Collection

20. Uncle Remus Regional Library System [GA] – Digital Newspaper archive

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 August 2014

Slave and Free States (US) Through History

The title of this post comes from a Wikipedia page by the same name, Slave and free states ...

In United States' history, a slave state was a U.S. state in which slavery was legal at a particular point of time, and a free state was one in which slavery was prohibited at that point of time. The issue of slavery was one of the causes of the American Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States, and the distinction ended.

Obviously, the status of a state was not stagnant. As new territories and then states were created, their identification as a slave or free state initially took place. In most cases, what was a slave territory became a slave state and the same held for free territories.

The most compelling feature of this webpage is the animated map showing the free/slaves status of U.S. states and territories, 1789-1861. I did find it interesting to learn that between 1812 and 1850, there was a concerted effort in the Senate to maintain the balance of free and slave state votes.

If your ancestors were moving westward through time, this gives you some perspective on whether the state they moved to was considered a free or a slave state. This might tell you something about your family – their choice of destination location (territory or state).

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05 March 2013

Some New Slave Databases + a Few Classic Ones for Research

Our inbox has been full of news about exciting databases where we can learn more about slaves – where they are buried, who owned them and much more. Additionally, we have been reminded what a great resource Afrigeneas is – the Facebook page for that organization has been humming recently with news. A few other great resources that jump to mind are then listed.

And, remember, any database about slaves is also, at a certain level, a database about slave owners and vice-versa. Learning about everyone who was involved with slavery benefits all research!

Burial Database Project of Enslaved African American Ancestors (Fordham University) – for this project you can both learn about slave burying grounds and also submit information about such.

Help us identify, document and memorialize burial grounds of enslaved African Americans. Burial grounds of enslaved African Americans are disappearing from the American landscape, taking with them history, heritage and a people's place in the world. You can help us protect these sacred places.

Legacies of British Slave Ownership (University College London)

Colonial slavery shaped modern Britain and we all still live with its legacies. The slave-owners were one very important means by which the fruits of slavery were transmitted to metropolitan Britain. We believe that research and analysis of this group are key to understanding the extent and the limits of slavery's role in shaping British history and leaving lasting legacies that reach into the present. The stories of enslaved men and women, however, are no less important than those of slave-owners, and we hope that the encyclopaedia produced in the first phase of the project, while at present primarily a resource for studying slave-owners, will also provide information of value to those researching enslaved people.

Afrigeneas and Afrigeneas Facebook Page

A site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats

Select slightly older and yet neat databases about slaves and slavery are:

Digital Library on American Slavery
Unknown No Longer (VA Historical Society) (Upfront with NGS post about, http://upfront.ngsgenealogy.org/2011/09/unknown-no-longer-database-of-virginia.html)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress)
Slave Biographies: Atlantic Database Network (Upfront with NGS post about, http://upfront.ngsgenealogy.org/2011/09/exciting-new-project-biographies.html )

Do you know of another recently announced or “classic” African-American research resource? Please do share and post a comment!

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26 December 2012

18th-century French and Spanish records shed new light on United States history

Part of the catalog for the French Superior Council holdings

Artdaily.org posted a neat article about the archives held by the Louisiana Historical Center (New Orleans).

A marathon project is under way in New Orleans to digitize thousands of time-worn 18th-century French and Spanish legal papers that historians say give the first historical accounts of slaves and free blacks in North America. Yellowed page by yellowed page, archivists are scanning the 220,000 manuscript pages from the French Superior Council and Spanish Judiciary between 1714 and 1803 in an effort to digitize, preserve, translate and index Louisiana's colonial past and in the process help re-write American history ... It's at the heart of a wave of research tracing American roots beyond the English colonies and into Spain, France and Africa.

... It wasn't until the early 1900s for serious preservation and translation work to begin. The Works Progress Administration then patched up pages with tape (chemical from the tape is now eating at pages) and wrote English synopses. But past archivists and translators also buried important documents. Entire chunks — most importantly documents dealing with slave trials and women — were conspicuously left out of consideration. In one memorable case, archivists censored a case about a soldier accused of bestiality.

Read the full article.

It is always neat to see articles on non-genealogical blogs and sites regarding material that is relevant to the research we do! I like to think that inside each historian there is a budding genealogist!

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23 March 2012

Patriots of Color Database

This new and growing database at Archives.com reflects research facilitated by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. These records unveil new and invaluable information about some of the men and women of color who fought for American independence in such roles as soldiers, skilled craftsmen, and servants.

“...Over two years of research has focused on verifying the service and complexion of patriots from each of the 13 colonies using primarily original records such as pension and bounty land application files, muster and pay rolls, lists of troops, court records, legislative records, census records, and more.”

Visit the website.

Read the original press release.

Please tell us if you found one of your ancestors in the database!

On a related note, check out this NYT Article “Family Tree’s Startling Roots” which talks about an episode of Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr which airs this Sunday on PBS.

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30 September 2011

Unknown No Longer -- A Database of Virginia Slave Names

This database is the latest step by the Virginia Historical Society (VHS) to increase access to its varied collections relating to Virginians of African descent. Since its founding in 1831, the VHS has collected unpublished manuscripts, a collection that now numbers more than 8 million processed items.

Within these documents are numerous accounts that collectively help tell the stories of African Americans who have lived in the state over the centuries. The database seeks to lift from the obscurity of unpublished historical records as much biographical detail as remains of the enslaved Virginians named in those documents. In some cases there may only be a name on a list; in others more details survive, including family relationships, occupations, and life dates.

Unknown No Longer does not contain names that may appear in published sources at the VHS or in unpublished sources located in repositories other than the VHS. On the other hand, those whose names appear in the database need not have lived their lives solely in Virginia, for our collections contain plantation records, for example, kept by Virginians who moved to other states, taking their slaves with them. In addition, if we know that an individual named in a post-Civil War document had been enslaved before 1865, his or her name will appear in the database.

It will take years to scour the millions of documents likely to contain the names of the enslaved and so Unknown No Longer has been launched as a work in progress. With the launch there are already more than 1,500 slave names in the database.

Editor’s Note: Also check out the VHS Guide to African American Manuscripts, http://www.vahistorical.org/aamcvhs/guide_intro.htm.

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06 September 2011

Exciting new project -- Biographies: The Atlantic Slaves Data Network (ASDN) -- Can you help?

The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded the project, “Biographies: The Atlantic Slaves Data Network” (ASDN). The ASDN will provide a platform for researchers of African slaves in the Atlantic World to upload, analyze, visualize, and utilize data they have collected, and to link it to other datasets, which together will complement each other in such a way as to create a much richer resource than the individual datasets alone. To better understand the vision, do visit the project website.

MATRIX, Michigan State University’s digital humanities center, will create the ASDN website. MATRIX is currently assessing the needs of the ASDN based upon Gwendolyn Midlo Hall’s large dataset for Louisiana and Walter Hawthorne’s smaller dataset for Maranhão,

Brazil

But the more examples of datasets we have the better able we will be to define fields, to work through issues of combining data in different electronic formats, and to cope with other challenges we are bound to face. What we need now is additional scholars to share their database structures to help us create and set the parameters of the ASDN.

The project asks that if know scholars who have databases that might be helpful to the development of the ASDN that you contact the project? The project promises that such “volunteered” databases will not be made public unless permission is granted.

Contacts for the project are:

Gwendolyn Midlo-Hall,

Walter Hawthorne

General Project Information

Editor’s Note: thanks to the Afrigeneas (digest) for letting us know about this exciting new project

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