Welcome
to our newest edition of our bi-weekly feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we provide eight tasty
bits of genealogy news that will help give you a deeper byte into your family
history research. Each item is short and sweet. We encourage you to check
out the links to articles, blog posts, resources, and anything genealogical!
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We often talk about using crowdsourcing to make resources available to family history researchers. One such project is
the USGS and The National Map project. Since the beginning of The
National Map Corps crowdsourcing project, more than 25,000 structure or manmade
feature updates have been submitted. If you love maps and/or want to help with
this project, click here.
The Utah Academic
Library Consortium, in conjunction with the Mountain West Digital Library, has
launched Pioneers in Your
Attic, a digital project wherein overland migration (1844-1869) will
be examined from every aspect: transportation, trail and camp life, Indian
depredations or encounters, diseases, medicine and surgery, politics and
government, gold rush, religion, company organization, path finding, and more.
Do
you have Jamaican roots? If you do,
check out Jamaican
Family Search, which now offers Free access to its
entire website. The site contains
transcriptions from various documents including nineteenth century Jamaica
Almanacs (which list property owners and civil and military officials); Jamaica
Directories for 1878, 1891, and 1910; extractions from Jamaican Church
Repositories
of Primary Sources is a worldwide listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
Newspapers,
newspapers, newspapers – always a favorite.
Births, marriages, and deaths from the Ayr (Scotland) Advertiser, 1803-1835, are now available to subscribers.
(Rates are £2-£8 for 7 to 28 days respectively.)
[insert image] Keeping
with newspapers, the Shanghai Library has digitized more than
100 years of print editions from the city’s first English-language newspaper.
The project involved scanning more
than 500,000 pages of the North-China
Daily News and its predecessor, the North-China
Herald, which were published weekly from August 3, 1850 to March 31, 1951.
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