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06 July 2017

Internet Archive + HathiTrust + Google Books = Digital Book-apalooza!

Internet Archive + HathiTrust + Google Books = Digital Book-apalooza!

Continuing my nostalgic run through some resources that are part of my genealogy “go to” bag, let’s now talk about digital books (and more) and my three favorite resources – Internet Archive and HathiTrust and Google Books.

I didn’t realize until writing this article that I’ve not previously done a dedicated piece on HathiTrust. Sacre bleu as the French might say! At least I can spread the word about it now.

These are all excellent resources for digitized books. There are many many books of interest to genealogists and family historians that are now in the public domain. Directories, histories of churches, legislative journals and related, abstracted/transcribed records collections, and much more. These websites all make full digital books available.

HathiTrust and Google Books also give some insight into select books that are either incompletely digitized and/or are not digitized though searchable in a limited fashion. This latter option gives you some insight into a book that might interest you and which you’ll then need to get your hands on physically, either via purchase or interlibrary loan (check out OCLC & Worldcat + FamilySearch Catalog = Very Happy Genealogists!).

If you have not yet visited all three of these sites, stop whatever you are doing, grab a drink, settle in, and just explore. Odds are you will find some tidbit about either your family or community that you didn’t know before.

To learn more about these websites (except HathiTrust as already stated), check out …

· Google Books Wins When Court of Appeals Rejected Author Guild's Copyright Infringement Claim (2015)

· Internet Archive -- still a wonderful and free gem for genealogy and family history researchers! (2012)

· Internet Archive -- a FREE gem that just keeps getting better! (2015)

What “go to” resources for digitized books do you use regularly as you research your ancestors?

Editor’s Note: Catch up on my posts about some other favorites – Linkpendium, Archivegrid, Death Online, and Jstor .

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24 January 2017

The Keepers Registry – Who is Ensuring Long-Term Access to Scholarly and Cultural Content?

The Keepers Registry – Who is Ensuring Long-Term Access to Scholarly and Cultural Content?

I didn’t know about The Keepers Registry until I read this piece in The Signal (The Keepers Registry: Ensuring the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record), via The Signal (a blog of The Library of Congress).

The Keepers Registry acts as a global monitor on the archiving arrangements for electronic journals.

The Keepers Registry was developed by EDINA, a centre for digital expertise and online service delivery at the University of Edinburgh, and the ISSN International Centre in Paris. It was first developed as outcome of the Jisc-funded Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS) project, and the beta service first launched in 2011. There is further background information on the PEPRS project website.

The Keepers are the participating archiving agencies acting as stewards of digital content. There are currently twelve participating agencies. Each agency runs a programme for the archiving of e-journals and is making metadata on the journals in their programme available to the Keepers Registry.

Several of the “keepers” are new to me archives.

It’s always great to read about records preservation.

What other projects are you aware of beyond whose goal is to preserve scholarly and cultural content?

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13 October 2016

NYPL Digitizes New York City Directories + Where We Can Find Directories For Other Locales

NYPL Digitizes New York City Directories + Where We Can Find Directories For Other Locales

We love city directories. They can tell us so much about a family – where they lived, their occupation, and sometimes when a person died. The FamilySearch wiki piece, City Directories, shares even more reasons why you might want to consult city directories, assuming you are not already doing so.

The New York Public Library shares …

New York Public Library is digitizing its collection of New York City Directories, 1786 through 1922/3, serving them free through the NYPL Digital Collections portal. The first batch—1849/50 through 1923—have already been scanned, and the 1786–1848/9 directories are right now being scanned …

If you are seeking city directories for where your ancestors lived, besides local resources (such as DigitalNC, North Carolina City Directories, Historic Pittsburgh City Directories, Seattle City Directories, and Indianapolis City Directory Collection), two places that I check are Internet Archive and HathiTrust, both of which have massive city directory collections. Additionally, the Online Historical Directories Website provides links to directories online for Canada, Ireland, Thailand, United Kingdom, and the United States. You will also find city directory collections at Ancestry.com ($) and Fold3 ($). Google Books also has a large collection of directories where it’s easiest to just search it using city directory + locale of interest.

Where else might we find online collections of historic city directories?

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24 April 2015

American Numismatic Society Partners with HathiTrust

Growing up I was a stamp collector. I spent many many hours trying to find inexpensive stamps from around the world for my albums. They were a great way to learn geography and about changing geopolitical lines.

Coins and currency became a part of my consciousness when I heard a talk several years ago about all the different currencies that were used before the Federal Reserve was created and “a” currency resulted. It was one of the best talks I’d ever heard in terms of truly being eye-opening about an element of historical context that I previously just had no awareness of.

The talk was reinforced as I did more and more land research and found deeds where Spanish milled dollars, current money, specie, Virginia currency and many more different types of currency were used in these land transactions.

Basically, it really opened my eyes to the idea of not assuming that just because we have “a” currency (of course, Bitcoin and other purveyors of digital currency are working to change the landscape and that’s a topic for another day), that doesn’t mean it was always that way.

So, a news item “ANS Partners with HathiTrust for Open Access Publications” caught my eye.

In a sweeping effort to make its older and out-of-print publications available to the public as Open Access, The American Numismatic Society has partnered with HathiTrust (http://www.hathitrust.org/about). As a result of this partnership scans of nearly 550 ANS titles – including the American Journal of Numismatics, Numismatic Literature, Numismatic Notes and Monographs, and stand-alone monographs have become fully readable and downloadable to anyone who wants them under a Creative Commons, non-commercial, attribution, share-alike license.

In fact, a search on colonial currency and related terms brings up quite a few resources.

Did any particular article or publication regarding Numismatics catch your eye?

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