Digging for Genealogy Gold -- New Resources, 2017 Edition -- Part #4

Digging for Genealogy Gold -- New Resources, 2017 Edition

Part #4

My present continued …

AUSTRIA

1. Austrian National Archives (Postcards, Books, Newspapers and more)

AUSTRALIA

1. Convict Records of Australia
2. State Library of South Australia – Old Colonists (men), Old Colonists (women)
3. Red Cross WWII Wounded, Missing and Prisoner of War Cards

CANADA

4. Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada, 1867-1925

IRELAND

5. Photo Archive – Farm Machinery
6. Buried in Fingal

ROMANIA

7. Medieval Documents Database (click on upper right and you can bring up an English-language interface)

UNITED STATES

8. Utah History in Photos (Salt Lake Tribune Negative Collection)
9. National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Patriot & Grave Index
10. Elizabethtown College (PA) Newspaper Database
11. Gulf South Decorative & Fine Arts Database -- The Classical Institute of the South is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying and documenting fine and decorative art objects in the Gulf South and making that information available to all.
12. Archives of the Sons and Daughters of the Soddies (KS)
13. Digitizing Material Culture: Handwritten Recipe Books, 1600-1900 (article) (database)
14. Missionary Research Library Pamphlets
15. Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church
16. MEAD – The Magazine of Early American Datasets -- is an online repository of datasets compiled by historians of early North America
17. The New York Public Library – Maps by Decade
18. Georgia Confederate Muster Rolls

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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Digging for Genealogy Gold -- New Resources, 2017 Edition -- Part #3

Digging for Genealogy Gold -- New Resources, 2017 Edition

Part #3

My present continued …

AUSTRALIA

1. The Prosecution Project -- The Prosecution Project is investigating the history of the criminal trial in Australia. We will start by digitising the registers of Supreme Court cases that are available in most jurisdictions.

CANADA

2. Railway Accident Records at Library and Archives Canada

DENMARK

3. Danish Family Search
4. The Danish West-Indies
5. Copenhagen Police Emigration Protocols (select English from drop-down menu)

IRELAND

6. Bureau of Military History

NETHERLANDS

7.    Portuguese-Jewish Congregation Suriname

POLAND

8. Auschwitz death camp – database of prison guards online (article) (database)

UNITED KINGDOM

9. East India Company Army Recruits 1843-50
10. William Henry Fox Talbot’s Photographs (article) (database)
11. Michelin Archive (article)

UNITED STATES

12. Divinity Archive (Duke)
13. Troop Returns 1747-1893, bulk is Revolutionary War (NC)
14. Smith College (MA) – Smith Alumnae Quarterly (1909-present)
15. Library of Congress – Maps of the First World War: An Illustrated Essay (.pdf)
16. West Philadelphia History
17. New York Philharmonic – Digital Archives (subscribers 1883-1907, selected seasons)
18. Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Archive (PCRA) (USC Digital Library)
19. Argonaut Student Newspaper Digital Archive (University of Idaho) (1898-2010)
20. Virtual Jamestown – 1624/5 Muster Databases

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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Digging for Genealogy Gold -- New Resources, 2017 Edition -- Part #1

Digging for Genealogy Gold -- New Resources, 2017 Edition

Part #1

I have my annual present for you ...

For the last couple of years, I have created, about once per year, multi-part series called “20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources” which followed a series previously called Mini-Bytes.

As I trawl genealogy newsletters, blogs, and elsewhere, I keep an email folder of all the news items that aren’t “big enough” for a full post and yet sound useful for genealogists and family historians.  These range from how-to type information to databases.  There is so much information out there and it’s impossible to fully blog about most of it.

In order that those collected don’t go to waste, I am again creating a few posts where I present you with 20 “relatively” new resources and the associated hyperlink.  That’s it; a very no frills list. If the title doesn’t convey enough info I will add a note about what content caught my eye ...

Some of these may seem familiar to you and being reminded of a great resource is never a bad thing!  Hopefully many more are new to you.

DUTCH CARIBBEAN

1. Dutch Caribbean Digital Platform (article) (database)

FINLAND

2. Military Records [in Finnish, have browser translate]

IRELAND

3. Ireland Valuation Books Translator

4.    Irish Soldiers’ Records

NORWAY

5. 1891 Census

SARAWAK (Malaysia)

6.    Launch of the Brooke Archive Online -- Records representing the first 100 years of Sarawak’s history, previously hidden away at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library

UNITED KINGDOM

7. Staffordshire World War One documents made public (article) (database + check out all the other databases also found on page!)
8.  HEICS – Ships Logs and Journals of the Honorourable East India Company Service

9. The (British) Jewish Chronicle Archive (back to 1841)
10. Criminal Transportation [to Australia]

UNITED STATES

11. Minnesota Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church Online Catalog
12. Maine WPA Cemetery Plans
13. Lexington (KY) Early Marriage Indexes of African Americans Available Online
14. New York Public Library Digitizes 137 Years of New York City Directories
15. The American Legion Digital Archive
16. Westmoreland County (VA) Cohabitation Registers (article) (finding aid with link to records)
17. Houston Herald (MO) Archive (back to 1881)
18. Historic Luzerne County (PA) records available online in new deeds database (article) (database)
19. Queens (NY) Library Archives Go Digital (article) (database)
20. Swedish American Newspapers (English & Swedish)

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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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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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: 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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