Friday, August 25, 2023

Copyright free images

 This post by the Legal Genealogist talks about the copyright-free photos of Carol Highsmith, which you can use to enhance your blog, newsletter, or family history page: https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2023/08/17/more-than-2000-more/ 

The photos can be found at the Library of Congress website as the Carol M. Highsmith Archive

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Ulster Settlers Database

This article from irishcentral.com talks about the database, which contains information on the English and Scottish who settled in Ulster between 1609 and 1641. It is currently comprised of about 14,500 names and is a work in progress. A link to the database can be found at the end of the article.

Monday, August 7, 2023

"10 Million Names" project

 From prnewswire.com  comes an article about the "10 Million Names Project,  a collaboration between American Ancestors, family historians, African American scholars, and cultural institutions. The project will gather names of millions of persons enslaved in what is now the US from the 1500s to 1865. The data available so far can be found at 10millionnames.org/


Monday, July 31, 2023

New UK military records

Fold3, available 24/7 on the library's website, has added 1/2 million new records from the UK's military.

Details on what's included are here.  This is a link to Fold3.

Friday, July 21, 2023

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

 If any of your English ancestors found themselves on the wrong side of the law, you might be able to find records of their misdeeds at oldbaileyonline.org. The Old Bailey is London's Central Criminal Court, and the Proceedings were published from 1673-1913. They contain records of more than 197, 000 trials held there. There are videos and tutorials to help you navigate through the search process.

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

The Northern Ireland, Valuation Revision Books, 1864-1933

 This index of over 3 million names became available in June at Ancestry. Many census records were lost during the Irish Civil war in the early 1920's, and these land transfer records can help genealogists make family connections back to the 19th century.

Ancestry is acessible at the library only under "Research Tools"  on the library website.


Monday, July 3, 2023

NYC Naturalization Records

 The Queens Public Library and the Office of Court Administration have collaborated to make 400,000 or so naturalization records available online. They include records signed  between 1794 and 1952 in the Queens and the Bronx. You can read the article in the Queens Eagle.  The database is nynaturalizations.com

Ted Talk: How We're Building the World's Largest Family Tree

 From Ted.com in 2018.