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12 September 2017

Visualize Chronicling America News via US News Map

Visualize Chronicling America News via US News Map

Chronicling America (via the Library of Congress) is a wonderful FREE historic newspaper (1789-1925) archive with an invaluable US Newspaper Directory (1690-present). We have frequently blogged about Chronicling America.

Sometimes the way the search results are presented can be a bit challenging to interpret (especially if there are many “hits”) as you try to “focus” on the results that you think will be most important to your research. To help with this The Georgia Tech Research Institute and Ehistory.org at the University of Georgia created a means to search on Chronicling American and then visualize the results across space and time via their US News Map portal.

Enter a search term and you can see the found articles located on a map and then you can correlate articles by time using that controller.

Lisa Louise Cooke (Genealogy Gems) has a YouTube video illustrating how to use this website.

Slate, via The Vault article Interactive Map Lets You Track How 19th- and Early-20th-Century American Newspapers Covered Any Topic describes this wonderful new website also.

If visually processing information is for you, do check out this website! If you have not yet visited Chronicling America, you now have no excuse not to.

What result most surprised you?

Editor’s Note: Thanks to the Polish Genealogical Society of America (PGSA) for including a mention of this database and the video from Lisa Louise Cooke in the September 2017 edition of its Genealogy Notebook.

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14 October 2016

Never Too Many Digitized Maps!

Never Too Many Digitized Maps!

As much as we love city directories (yesterday’s blog post), we really really love maps. Part of that is that city directories are a more recent type of publication where maps have been created throughout time.

The Library of Congress understands our obsession with maps so much that there is currently an exhibition, Mapping a Growing Nation From Independence to Statehood which includes an online exhibition component.

If this wasn’t sufficient to wet our appetite for maps, the current edition of the LOC Magazine (Vol 5 No 5 Sept-Oct 2016) is all about maps! Articles include Mapping the New World, Mapping the Imaginary, and Making of the Modern Map. As always, it’s a visually stunning and extremely informative edition.

Best of all, you can access the online exhibition and the LOC Magazine for FREE.

Where else might we find online collections or materials about maps?

Editor’s Note: Past Upfront with NGS blog posts on maps can be found here.

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25 August 2016

The National Map and Its New Mapping Editor for USGS Volunteer Map Editors

The National Map and Its New Mapping Editor for USGS Volunteer Map Editors

Maps are so important to our research – they help establish a context we often cannot get from any other resource. I particularly love historical topographic maps, civil war maps and soil survey maps. They have proven value when I’m doing research.

One source of invaluable maps is The National Map (USGS).

From our friends at the USGS in an email sent to those who have served as volunteer map editors, we learn …

Thanks for being part of our citizen science project. Your hard work and quality edits have led to TNMCorps having an excellent reputation both inside and out of the US Geological Survey.

Also, thank you for your patience as we transition to the new web mapping editor. You’ll find much of the same functionality, some improvements, and you will notice a few things you’d like to see changed or improved. We look forward to your feedback and want to let you know that we also have a list of update requests that we hope will be addressed early in FY17, which begins October 1, 2016.

Perhaps the biggest change is the way the login/registration works. In order to provide a more secure process for logging in we have to moved to OAuth 2.0. In doing so, we are limited to the number of third party applications that you can log in with, although we hope to add more in the future.

Basically it comes down to this….in order to edit you’ll need to register again on the new site. In doing so, it will help a lot if you use your same username so we can tie information from your old account to your new account. If your username changes for whatever reason, please let us know by emailing us at nationalmapcorps@usgs.gov.

You will need a Google (gmail) or Microsoft based email account. If you don’t know if your email will work or not, just try it using either the Google button or the Microsoft button on the login page of the editor. If your email won’t work using Google or Microsoft and you want to KEEP your email address the same, then open a free account on ArcGIS Online, then login with that information.

For you more experienced editors, one of the biggest concerns you might have is that we have not (yet) included your total edits from the previous editor. However, we are still tracking your totals to use for recognition and awards. Also, your roles (Peer Reviewer and/or Advanced Editor) have not been automatically assigned. We are working to update your roles/points as soon as possible. If you use the same username it will help us a lot in tying the old and new accounts together.

Many of you also use the history of a point to help you when editing. In combining databases which will ultimately streamline the time it takes for an edit to become available for integration into The National Map and US Topo Maps, we were unable to keep the history. As part of FY17 enhancements, we will be implementing the ability to see the history of any point. Currently you will only be able to see the history of your own points.

We have started a list of FAQs relating to the new editor, and look forward to your feedback. If you need further help, we are an email or phone call away.

Want to learn more about becoming a USGS Volunteer Map Editor? Check out this article USGS Needs YOU! Help Our National Mapping Efforts ByAdding Your Community’s Landmarks and Buildings. Note: The links have not been verified as all still working.

What are your favorite resources for historic maps?

What single map made “a difference” to your family history research?

Editor’s Note. Enjoyed this post, you might also enjoy these related posts National Atlas Being Combined With National Map (2014) & USGS -- The National Map: Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project (2011)

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14 March 2016

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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11 March 2016

20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, 2016 Version, Part 4

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

AUSTRALIA

1. Murderers, prostitutes, mothers and paupers: Victorian female prison registers online for first time

BRAZIL

2. LAMP Digitizes Brazilian Newspaper Diario de Pernambuco (1825-1924)

IRELAND

3. Dublin Gazette (1750s-1790s) (via Oireachtas Library & Research Service)

4. Archives of 53,000 Jews who lived in Ireland made available to the public

LUXEMBOURG

5. Luxembourg family history searches easier thanks to online archive -- More than one million Luxembourg birth certificates from 1600 to 1923 have been made available online thanks to a voluntary project

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

6. 500,000 pages scanned for law library

UNITED KINGDOM

7. Welcome to the Spectator Archives; 180 years of history now online

8. Glasgow Digital Library

9. Was your ancestor a slave owner? A new online database may have the answer

10. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Digitizes Unique Early English Books

11. View the History of Britain from the Air as Bluesky Brings Old Aerial Photos Online

12. Scottish Indexes – Prison Registers, Sheriff Court Paternity Decrees, Kelso Dispensary Patient Records, etc

13. Groam House Museum Out of Print Publications Online [Pictish and Celtic Heritage]

UNITED STATES

14. Landscape of Liberation, the African American Geography of Civil War Tennessee

15. Scroll Through This Online Trove of Old Trade Catalogs

16. Historic maps of Oklahoma go on line for public viewing

17. West Texas Digital Archives

18. Brooklyn Public Library Puts 107 Years of City Directories and Telephone Books Online

19. Providence (RI) House Directories Now Available Online

VATICAN

20. Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online For Free

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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07 March 2016

20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources - 2016 Version Part 1

I have my annual present for you ... Just over a year ago, I did a multi-part years “20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources” (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7)

As I trawl genealogy newsletters, blogs, and elsewhere, I kept 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 planning to create 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 ...

I will be doing this from oldest to youngest in my queue – so, some of these may seem familiar to you and probably less familiar as I get to the more recently collected pieces.

CANADA

1. Release of an updated version of the Immigrants from China database

2. Canadiana.org -- a coalition of memory institutions dedicated to providing broad access to Canada's documentary heritage.

IRELAND

3. IGP Headstone Project [Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives] – over 85,000 Headstones

4. Index of Townlands, Now Searchable Online [

Ireland

]

5. Kabristan Archive – Ireland, Ceylon and India Gravestone Indexes

6. UCD launches Army Barracks of 18^th-century Ireland

7. National Library of Ireland (NLI) Catholic Parish Registers at NLI

UNITED KINGDOM

8. British Library – Georeferenced Maps

9. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow – Digital Volumes – vaccination registers covering 1801-1831 (fascinating!)

10. Lane’s Masonic Records -- John Lane’s Masonic Records 1717-1894 is an authoritative listing of all the lodges established by the English Grand Lodges from the foundation of the first Grand Lodge in 1717 up until 1894.

11. Last Chance to Read (Free to signup, $ to access pages) (UK &

Ireland

) – over 4000 newspapers

12. Bedlam Burial Ground Register -- register of over 5,000 people buried at the Bedlam Burial Ground at Liverpool Street in the City of London

13. England’s medieval immigrants revealed by universities

UNITED STATES

14. Are Slave Narratives Useful to My Family Tree Research?

15. U.S. Serial Set – Starts 1817 and contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports & American State Papers -- the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838

16. Back Issues of the Quarterly Publication of the State Historical Society of Iowa Available Online free

17. Spotsylvania County (VA) Chancery Causes Online

18. Penn Libraries Launches ‘OPenn’ Digital Resources Online Platform -- Some rare books and manuscripts from Penn Libraries can now be accessed online

19. Congregational Library & Archives, History Matters – Series I: Church Records -- This series contains collections of church records documenting early Puritan, Congregational, and Christian (denomination) history in New England

20. Kalkaska County (MI) Library’s Digital Newspaper Archive

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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