NGS Releases Two New Research in the States Books

 

NGS Releases New Research in the States Books:

New Mexico and Oregon

Two new Research in the States books— Research in New Mexico by Karen Stein Daniel, CG, and Research in Oregon, 3rd Edition, by Connie Miller Lenzen, CG, FNGS—are now available in the NGS store in both PDF and print versions.

In Research in New Mexico, author Karen Stein Daniel discusses where to find records of both indigenous and non-indigenous people. The state is home to three Apache tribes, the Navaho Nation, and nineteen Pueblo tribes. Since 1598, Hispanics including Crypto-Jews have settled in New Mexico. By the late 1860s, Black Americans began to arrive along with French, German, Greek, Italian, and Jewish immigrants; Los Árabes from the Middle East; and South African Boers. Research in New Mexico offers readers an extensive review of genealogical resources of the people who have populated America’s 47th state.

In Research in Oregon, 3rd Edition, Connie Miller Lenzen introduces family historians to a wealth of repositories and other archival resources throughout the state. The book covers both Oregon’s many Native American tribes as well as its non-indigenous population, including White pioneers who settled in Oregon in the 1840s. Chinese began to arrive in the 1850s. They were followed by Japanese. By law, Blacks were excluded from the state until 1868 when the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution was ratified. Ethnic groups from Europe included Basques, Greeks, Irish, Swedes, and Volga Germans. Hispanic and Jewish Americans and later Iranians, Russians, Vietnamese also settled in Oregon. Research in Oregon provides genealogists with a concise guidebook for researching their ancestors.

Research in the States series is edited by Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS.

To purchase, Research in New Mexico and Research in Oregon, 3rd Edition, visit the NGS online store.

Holiday Gifts to You -- Genealogy Style -- 15 Free and (Relatively) New Family History Resources -- Part 2

Part 2

 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. 

CANADA

1.    Canadian National Digital Heritage Index (CNDHI) -- is an index of digitized Canadian heritage collections located at Canadian universities and provincial and territorial libraries

2.    Canadian Digital Census Boundary Files (via Scholars GeoPortal)

IRELAND

3.    Letters of 1916: A Year in the Life

4.    Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Prisoners Books (1905-1918)

NEW ZEALAND

5.    Scattered seeds - He Purapura Marara -- Dunedin Public Libraries project to  digitize 199,000 index cards from 1851-1993 containing information from newspapers and about community groups

UNITED KINGDOM

6.    University of Southhampton Knitting Reference Library

UNITED STATES

7.    California’s Old Series Trademarks -- The explosion of commerce after the Gold Rush also led to California’s first-in-the-nation trademark law and a fascinating collection opens new window of product labels and logos registered with the Secretary of State.

8.    South Carolina Electronic Records Archive (SCERA) – currently includes Birth Certificates (1915), British and Private Records, Local Records, State Records, Constitutional and Organic Papers, and Map Collection

9.    Historic Aerial Photos (Iowa) – historic view of Iowa from the late 1930s.

10. The Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives (University of Pennsylvania)

11. Cherokee Language Online Database

12. New Jersey Death Records, June 1878-June 1895

13. North Carolina World War I Service Cards (via FamilySearch in partnership with State Archives of North Carolina)

14. Genealogical Forum of Oregon (many record collections)

WORLDWIDE

15. Sephardic Ancestry – A resource website for researching Sephardic Jewish Lineages.

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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