From FamilyTreeMagzine.com: Create A Family History Coloring Book
Genealogy@Your Library
News.Notes.Resources
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Friday, July 19, 2024
Monday, July 8, 2024
The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive (archive.org) has a large collection of genealogical materials scanned from books, periodicals, and microfilm, including census records, passenger lists, and vital statistics. You will also find a collection of 4000 books on family histories, and yearbooks from academic institutions. You can start by searching "genealogy" in the search box to the right of the logo, clicking on 'GO",then narrowing your search by checking the boxes on the left.
Thursday, June 27, 2024
New additions at newspapers.com
newspapers.com has added 148 new titles from 13 states and Canada to its collection. This resource is available 24/7 to library card holders. You can find it under "Research Tools" on the library's homepage.
Here is the list of new additions.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
We mentioned this website from the Library of Congress in 2019. It has been updated since. From the Public Domain Review:
"Created for US insurance firms during a period of devastating fires across the 19th and 20th centuries, the Sanborn maps blaze with detail — shops, homes, churches, brothels, and opium dens were equally noted by the company’s cartographers. Tobiah Black explores the history and afterlife of these maps, which have been reclaimed by historians and genealogists seeking proof of the vanished past".
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Revolutionary War Records
Good places to search for your ancestors who served in the Revolution or lived at that time are Ancestry (accessible only in the library) and Fold3 , which is available 24/7 to library card holders.
Ancestry
Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists 1775-1783
Land Grants to Georgia Revolutionary War Veterans
Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia
Maryland Revolutionary Records
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War
New Jersey, Complied Census and Census Substitutes Index
Inhabitants of New Hampshire 1776
North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers 1776-1783
North Carolina Taxpayers 1701-1786
The Rhode Island 1777 Military Census
Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution
Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution
Fold3
Final Payment Vouchers- Delaware
Final Payment Vouchers- Georgia
Final Payment Vouchers Index for Military Pensions 1818-1864 (New York)
Pennsylvania Archives
Virginia Half Pay Pension Application Files
Monday, April 29, 2024
Slave surnames
This article from the theroot.com explains why determining the surname of an enslaved person can be difficult.
Genealogy Coloring Book
From FamilyTreeMagzine.com: Create A Family History Coloring Book
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Sometimes information about our ancestors can come from places where we'd rather not find it, such as arrest and prison records. This ...
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Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the mail moved slowly and some citizens had to travel a good distance to check for mail...
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Newspapers. com, which is available to library card holders from the library's website, has added 450 more papers from 15 states and 3...