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15 December 2016

Holiday Gifts to You -- Genealogy Style -- 15 Free and (Relatively) New Family History Resources -- Part 4

 

Part 4

The holiday season is a period of gift giving.  My gift to you is another series of editions of FREE and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, the 2016 Holiday Version ...

Check out Re-cap – 20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, 2016 Version – 5 parts post (March 2016) where I did a recap of the 2015 and early 2016 editions. 

DANISH WEST INDIES
1.    Digitized Newspapers -- Danish West Indian newspaper titles being digitized by the Statsbiblioteket include The Bulletin, the Danish West Indian, Lightbourn’s Mail Notes, The Herald, The Royal Danish American Gazette, Danish West Indian Regierings Avis, St. Croix Avis, The Saint Croix Bulletin, The Saint Thomas Gazette, Sanct Thomæ Journal, the Saint Thomas Herald and The West End News.

IRELAND
2.    List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers – a colour-coded resource accounting for what survives; where it is; with additional information on copies, transcripts & online indexes.

SWEDEN
3.    Historical Maps Collection (Lantmateriet)

UNITED KINGDOM
5.    Property Care Association -- Decades of research material documenting the preservation of buildings has been uploaded into a free to view digital archive.
6.    British Library Image Collection (on Flickr)

UNITED STATES
8.    The Kansas Mother’s Manual (1917-1944) (via Kansas Government Information (KGI) Online Library)
9.    Arkansas GLO Map – original plats from the General Land Office are geo-referenced and then the field notes are linked to each plat.  A one stop shop for Arkansas surveyors or others interested in land plat placement.
11. Digitized Alaska Records (via NARA @ Seattle)
12. American Civil War Newspapers (via Virginia Tech)
15. Digital Commonwealth – Massachusetts Collections Online









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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14 November 2016

Reclaim the Records -- NYC Marriage Index, 1950-1995 FREE to access


Reclaim the Records -- NYC Marriage Index, 1950-1995 FREE to access

Whereas on Friday we posted about restrictions to death records, particularly the Death Master File (DMF), today, we talk about NEW and FREE access to records.

Reclaim the Records (here’s a link to its FB page) shares …


THE NYC MARRIAGE INDEX, 1950-1995, http://www.nycmarriageindex.com/

This brand new website is the result of our successful Freedom of Information request and lawsuit against the New York City Clerk's Office.  You can search all the data, for free! Our search engine even recognizes soundalike surnames, spelling variants, wildcards (with no minimum number of letters needed), common nicknames, year ranges, borough preferences, and more.  Or you can download all the raw data files in XLS, CSV, or SQL format, and do whatever you want with them

-- also free!

For more information about this database, and to learn how we finally were able to force New York City to give up this data to the public, check out our latest e-mail newsletter.

If you have ancestors who lived in New York City, you have already benefitted directly from the efforts of Brooke Schreier Ganz and her cohorts.  In the future, you might also benefit directly if you live in New York State, New Jersey or Missouri.  See the image above for the current outstanding records requests.

Even if you do not live in those locations, we do all benefit from the efforts of Reclaim the Records.  It shows that genealogists, historians, and other researchers can file Freedom of Information requests (or similar) and use Open Data initiatives, the impetus of Sunshine Week events, and more, to gain access to records that we currently do not have access to.

Catch this video (August 2016) from the recent IAJGS conference where Brooke herself talks about what she’s been doing.



What family history records would you like to gain access to?

What efforts are you and/or local organizations and/or entities you are aware of engaged in to create records access?






Editor’s Note: Read past posts on Upfront with NGS regarding Reclaim the Records here.





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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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16 January 2015

Hart Island -- NYC’s Public Burial Ground -- Over 1 Million Burials -- Trying to Reveal Their Stories



Last year, in Upfront with NGS Mini Bytes, we had a brief blurb about Hart Island ...

Hart Island is NYC’s Public Burial Ground and the Department of Correction has created a database of Hart Island Burial Records. You can search on name, age, date of death, place of death (e.g., which hospital), etc.

I was reminded of this cemetery when a new online interactive project was announced last month, New York's forgotten finally remembered: Forbidden island where over one million 'unknown' people are buried in a mass grave reveals its secrets in online database.  This article is full of images from the facility and there is a video on the page (here’s a link to it) you will want to watch which talks a bit about the island and its history, the lack of access to the island, and The Hart Island Project with its The Traveling Cloud Museum telling the stories of some who are buried there.

Giving voices to those who can no longer (or ever could) is a large part of what we do as family historians.  We also desire the ability to show our respect for our deceased family members by visiting where they are buried – hopefully, someday, that might be true for those who have family buried on Hart Island.

Do you know of other public burial locations where visitors are not allowed?






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05 December 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes -- Michigan, Gaelic Words, Time Magazine, Photogrammar, Netherlands Archives, New York City Archives, Technician, Hebridian Connections

Welcome to our newest edition of our periodic 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!

We hope you found the past editions helpful.  Use your favorite search engine with “Upfront with NGS” “Mini Bytes” or use this Google search link.

Do you have questions, suggestions for future posts, or comments?  Please post a comment or send an e-mail to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.

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Michigan research is now easier.  Digitized versions of Greenville Independent, The Daily Call, The Greenville Daily News, Belding Banner and The Daily News, are now available, some dating back to 1857. Years 1857 - 1923 are available on the internet and can be accessed from any web-capable device. Due to copyright restrictions, the 1924 - 2010 editions are available only at the library. Read more.

An archive of 10 million Scottish Gaelic words has been launched. The Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic (DASG) project is already the most comprehensive publicly accessible reference point for the Gaelic language and culture. The DASG project has two main outputs: 1. Corpas na Gàidhlig is a searchable online database bringing together full texts dating from the Twelfth Century to the present day. 2. The Fieldwork Archive contains over 22,000 headwords taken from speech recorded in Gaelic-speaking Scotland and Nova-Scotia during the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Time Magazine has created an online archive of its editions published since 1923, called The Vault.  You can browse by year or subject or search.  Some content is available for FREE and the rest requires a subscription.

Yale University hosts Photogrammar, a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI). I personally like the map viewing option.

More and more historical documentation centers in the Netherlands are going online.  Check out Waterlands Archief Centrum voor regionaal historisch onderzoek which is the historical documentation center of the region Waterland in the Netherlands (based in Purmerend) and Zeeuws Archief (housed in Middelburg) which is the principal archive for the province of Zeeland, the most south western province of the Netherlands.

New York City Municipal Archives Digitizes Materials From Early Colonial “New Amsterdam” (1647-1674) Collections. Ordinances drawn from the Records of New Amsterdam for the period 1647-1661 and their corresponding translations are now available at archives.nyc
 
First 70 years of the Technician (publication of North Carolina State University) is now available online.

Researching Hebridean ancestors ?  If so, check out the Hebridean Connections web site. On this website you will find thousands of records relating to the genealogy, history, traditions, culture and archaeology of the Western Isles (or Outer Hebrides), a chain of islands off the west coast of Scotland. 






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04 August 2014

Forget-Me-Not Hour radio program interviews 2014 NGS Award of Merit recipients -- Italian Genealogy Group and German Genealogy Group NY Indexing Projects

In Richmond after the award: John Martino, IGG on the left and Don Eckerle, GGG on the right. The people in the background are all members of the either the German Genealogy Group or the Italian Genealogy Group and have been volunteers on the  various projects. Left to right back row: Susan Murphy, Margaret DeAcetis, Joan Koster Morales, Terry Koch-Bostic, Randi Patrick, Marie Scalisi.

Don Eckerle of the German Genealogy Group (GGG) and John Martino of the Italian Genealogy Group (IGG) will join host Jane E. Wilcox on the Forget-Me-Not Hour radio show on Wednesday, 6 August at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. 

Don and John will talk about the mammoth indexing projects their groups took on when they decided to tackle Long Island records and then New York City vital records and then NARA NYC records and then some more. Don and John will discuss what records they have done, what records they intend to do, and what the differences in their groups' databases are. They will also tell us how they manage their indexing projects with more than 2,000 volunteers. They'll share interesting stories from their indexing and tell us about unusual records or people that they came across in the records. 


In May 2014 at the National Genealogical Society's annual family history conference held in Richmond, Virginia, Don, John and their GGG partner Bob Boeckle received the National Genealogical Society's Award of Merit in recognition of exceptional contributions to the field of genealogy. 

For more information about both projects, visit their respective webpages: http://www.germangenealogygroup.com/ and http://www.italiangen.org/




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01 November 2013

The Genealogy Event -- Tomorrow in NYC!



If you live in or will be visiting the NYC metro area tomorrow (2 November 2013), check out The Genealogy Event, now in its second year.

The National Genealogical Society will be represented:

Exhibiting Company in the Exhibition Hall (Spot 205)

Session Space 1
5:45pm - 6:15pm: City Directories: Antiquarian People Finders (NGS Director, Terry Koch-Bostic)
7:15pm - 7:45pm: Misspelled, Misunderstood or Deliberate? Are Your Ancestors' Records Hidden Under a Surname Variation? (NGS Director, Terry Koch-Bostic)

If you attended? What did you find most valuable?


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02 February 2013

The National Archives at New York City Opens MONDAY, 4th February 2013




For those in the NYC metro area and beyond, a moment you have been waiting for!  The NYC branch of NARA is finally re-opening.  According to the announcement ...

The National Archives at New York City is officially opening to the public on Monday, February 4th, at its new location at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at One Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan.

Our hours will be Monday-Friday, 10am to 5pm. We will also be open the first Saturday of the month from 10am to 4pm for microfilm and computer research.

We look forward to greeting our patrons and researchers in our new beautiful space!

Please visit our website for additional information: http://www.archives.gov/nyc/

For those who visit it this coming week, please share your thoughts and reaction to the new facility.




Editor’s Note: Upfront with NGS previously blogged about this new facility and what you will there, http://upfront.ngsgenealogy.org/2012/08/this-fall-nara-opens-new-location-in.html


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