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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Holiday Gifts to You -- Genealogy Style -- 15 Free and (Relatively) New Family History Resources -- Part 1

Part 1

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.    Digitization of Canadian Expeditionary Force Service Files

2.    Nova Scotia Records (Halifax Funeral Home, vital stats from “The Colonial Patriot” and more)

IRELAND

3.    Civil Records -- The General Record Office (GRO)  of Ireland has made their civil registers of birth, marriage and death available on the website IrishGenealogy.ie. Currently includes: Births: 1864 to 1915, Marriages: 1882 to 1940, Deaths: 1891 to 1965

4.    Property Losses (Ireland) Committee -- The Property Losses (Ireland) Committee (PLIC) was established in June 1916 to assess claims for damages to buildings and property as a result of the destruction caused by the 1916 Rising.

MALTA

5.    DigiVault (Digital Archives of Malta)

UNITED KINGDOM

6.    Plot your 1945 trip route

UNITED STATES

7.    New Amsterdam Stories (New York City)

8.    The Georgetown Slavery Archives (Washington DC)

9.    Methodist Episcopal Church Congregations and other related collections (Louisiana and East Texas)

10. Early Auto Registrations, 1905-1917 (Florida)

11. Gallatin (MT) County Genealogical Society databases (divorce index, funeral home records, naturalization petitions, obituaries, vital records)

12. Works Progress Administration (WPA) Images and Documents (University of Kentucky)

13. Missouri Death Certificates (1910-1965)

14. Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Library Alliance Digital Collection

15. World War II Secret Mustard Gas Testing -- a database of more than 3,900 American servicemen exposed to mustard gas in secret military experiments during World War II.

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 5

My present continues ... 20 more FREE (or mostly FREE) resources ...

CANADA

1.     Launch of “Immigrants to Canada, Porters and Domestics, 1899–1949” Database

2.     Immigrants from Ukraine (1890-1930)

3.     Launch of “Carleton Papers―Loyalists and British Soldiers, 1772–1784” Database

4.     Launch of “Carleton Papers―Book of Negroes, 1783” Database

5.     Launch of “War of 1812” Database

DENMARK

6.     Dutch Archives

EUROPE

7.     GenTeam -- You will find here databases made by and for genealogists. More than 32.000 user have access to this collection. After registration you may use these databases free of charge. The collection currently contains 12,867,090 entries and will be continually updated.

GEORGIA (country in Eurasia)

8.     Historic Georgian maps digitalised, available on the web

MEXICO

9.     Fondo Colonial Collection Archival Records, 1611-1821 ($)

NORWAY

10. The digitising of the 1891 Census is finished

UNITED STATES

11. Ellis Island portraits (1906-1912)

12. O Say Can you See, Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family

13. Greensboro (NC) City Directories, 1884-1963 & Greensboro Historical Newspapers

14. West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive

15. Waldo County (ME) Vital Records in Town Reports

16. Girl Scout Catalogs (1917 – present)

17. Black Press Research Collective

18. Beinecke Library digitizes papers of Thomas Thistlewood (Yale) -- Jamaican planter and slaveowner

19. Old Time Radio Shows from “The Golden Age of Radio!”

20. 12,000 pages of Dutchess County (NY) documents now available 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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