Digitizing your old photos

 Wired.com published  this article  on digitizing your old photographs. It discusses a few apps and offers some tips.  

Archdeaconry of York

The University of York and Ancestry worked together to put more than two million records from the
Archdeaconry of York online.   Click here.

You can access Ancestry.com at any of our 4 branches during business hours.

Northeast Slavery Record Index

From the website: "The Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI) is an online searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and enslavers in the states of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey......NESRI indexes census records, slave trade transactions, cemetery records, birth certifications, manumissions, ship inventories, newspaper accounts, private narratives, legal documents and many other sources.."

Click here for the website.

1950 Census

 The 1950 census is now accessible on Ancestry.com.  Ancestry can be accessed in the library only- just click on Research Tools on the homepage.

The History of the Family

 Genealogy is all about family. This is Wikipedia's page about the history of the family.