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Images are always precious, and images of those going off to war are more so. Portraits of Queensland soldiers who fought
in the South African War (1899-1902), known as the Boer War, were published in
the weekly newspaper The Queenslander,
often just prior to their departure for South Africa. An index of just under 3,000
soldiers is now searchable through One
Search, the library catalogue and links directly through to
the digitized page of the newspaper on which the portrait appears.
Speaking
of War, [UK
Gesher
I love this concept: Digital Preservation in a Box. It is a
product of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance’s Outreach Working
Group and is designed as
a toolkit to support outreach activities that introduce the basic concepts of
preserving digital information. As genealogists and family historians, we know
how important digital preservation is for future generations.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) just keeps
growing. 1.7 million titles
from HathiTrust now live on DPLA homepage. This is roughly
half of the almost 3.5 million of HathiTrust’s freely available books,
journals, government documents, and more, which are now accessible on dp.la and through
the DPLA application
programming interface (API).
To
be able to share something about maps and a tool created in my home state of NC
is an opportunity not to be missed. UNC Develops Online Tool For Mapping
History. This easy-to-use website-building
tool puts previously complex digital programming into the hands of historians
and researchers. The new tool, called the Digital
Humanities Toolkit or DH Press, provides a way for historians,
researchers, teachers and others to create interactive websites, virtual tours,
data maps, and multimedia archives with a WordPress platform. 
Have Scottish Ancestors? What to be involved in a crowdsourcing project? If you answered yes, check out Transcribe ScotlandsPlaces. Thousands of volunteers are being
sought to help transcribe information in more than 150,000 pages of historic
archives dating from 1645 to 1880. There are more than 1 million records,
written in Scots, English, and Gaelic, that cover land taxation; taxes clocks,
watches, windows and farm horses; and Ordnance Survey “name books”, which
formed the first official record of Scottish places and place names.
Brooklyn Genealogy Info Site Moves
to a New Home.
Steve Morse is now hosting this wonderful site. Though I mostly do NC/VA and west
to the Mississippi River research, it seems that many 20th century
families, as they looked for work, had someone end up in Brooklyn . I am frequently checking out this page in search
of these elusive individuals.
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