20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, Part 3

My present continues ... 20 more FREE resources ....

1. Google launches Maps Gallery, a new digital atlas that lets you explore third-party maps
2. PRONI Guide to Northern Irish School Records Holdings
3. Reading old documents (UK Archives) -- online tutorials on Latin and palaeography will help you to read documents from the medieval period and beyond
4. If You Can’t Make It To the Lecture
5. North Carolina Gazetteer is Online Through NCpedia
6. How I Discovered New York City’s Old Typography District
7. Montgomery County [IN] Genealogy Club Digitizes Bible Records
8. Early Records of the Town of Providence [RI]
9. Personal Digital Archiving: The Basics of Scanning
10. Digitised Tasmanian Archive and Heritage resources online (Australia)
11. Tiki-Toki: Online Timeline Creation Tool
12. Similar Site Check -- a free search engine that that finds similar and related Web sites
13. Catholic Cemeteries with Online Burial Databases in the US
14. Town of Morrisville (NC) Public Records Access
15. British Pathé to open up entire film archive of 85K videos to YouTube -- 85,000 videos, contains footage of historic content from both World Wars, interviews with survivors of the Titanic, etc
16. History of the Great Lakes States
17. Archivio di Stato di Torino (Italy) – Digitization projects
18. New Finding Aids Online (Library and Archives of Canada)
19. Yivo Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland
20. Online Digital Map Collections by State

                

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!

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20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, Part 2

My present continues ... 20 more FREE resources ....

1. Marriages, Baptisms, Deaths (St. Columbian, Quebec, Canada)
2. Recorded Cases of Black Female Lynching Victims 1886-1957
3. Native American Nations (Map)
4. Polish Sites -- PGSA's first step to inform and build awareness in the ability of our members to access "Digitized Polish Vital Records" via the internet
5. Two Czechoslovakian websites -- State Regional Archives Litomerice & State Regional Archives Trebon and State District Archives of South Bohemia
6. Mapping Slavery in Detroit
7. 10 great online newspaper archives – world-wide list from British Library
8. Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
9. Map and Dataset Gallery (Place My Past)
10. The Empire That Was Russia
11. Historic maps in the public domain (British Library)
12. Lowcountry [SC] Digital History Initiative
13. Historical Chart of the Causes, Milestones, and Battles of the Revolutionary War
14. Art & Architecture Thesaurus Now Available as Linked Open Data (Getty Research Institute)
15. Almost in America: Portraits from Ellis Island
16. Old Pictures of the US
17. Locating London’s [UK] Past
18. Elks, Shriners, and Masons: How 'old man' frats got their names and symbols
19. Hawaii State Archives Digital Collections
20. How to Trace Your Ancestors in County Monaghan (Ireland)

                

Editor’s Note: Missed the 1^st part of this series?  No worries, click on 20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, Part 1 to see what neat gems were posted last week!

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!

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20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, Part 1

I have a present for you ...

When producing Upfront with NGS Mini Bytes (currently on moratorium), as I trawled genealogy newsletters, blogs, and elsewhere, I kept an email folder of all the news items that caught my eye that I might possibly include.  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.

Well, I’ve decided that I don’t want those collected items to go to waste and so I’m planning to create a few posts over the next few weeks 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 ...

I will be doing this from oldest to youngest in my queue – so, some of these may seem familiar to you (e.g. old news) and probably less familiar as I get to the more recently collected pieces.  And, I've always found that being reminded of resources I knew about is often a good thing and just what my research needs now!

1. Authenticity and your digital files (GHL blog, NC)
2. Finding Your Roots (CNN piece)
3. Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was) (NYPL)
4. Slides from [Ancestry.com] Presentations (2013)
5. A Colonial goldmine (Harvard) -- Two digital projects aim to bring vast numbers of early documents, many unexamined, to light
6. Historical Scene Investigation (LOC et al)
7. Mocavo Announces Major Advance In Handwriting Recognition
8. Google Scholar Library
9. WW1 Scottish Medical Database -- Database contains over 3000 records of Scottish doctors who registered to provide civilian coveror were intending to enter active service
10. The Racial Dot Map (Demographics Research Group) – based on 2010 US census data
11. Online Digital Archives (Louth County, Ireland)
12. Letters of 1916 (Ireland) -- creating a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915 – 31 October 1916)
13. British Library uploads one million public domain images to the net for remix and reuse
14. New version of the Naturalization Records, 1915-1951 database (Library and Archives of Canada)
15. Find Your Ancestors in Historic Jewish American Newspapers
16. Driving Through Time (Blue Ridge Parkway)
17. Historical Maps of Major U.S. Cities and More in New Online Tool
18. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
19. Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images
20. Laws Designed to Disarm Slaves, Freedmen, and African-Americans

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!

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