Wired.com published this article on digitizing your old photographs. It discusses a few apps and offers some tips.
Monday, September 26, 2022
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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.
Archdeaconry of York online. Click here.
You can access Ancestry.com at any of our 4 branches during business hours.
Friday, September 9, 2022
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.
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The History of the Family
Genealogy is all about family. This is Wikipedia's page about the history of the family.
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New titles added to newspapers.com
Newspapers. com, which is available to library card holders from the library's website, has added 450 more papers from 15 states and 3...
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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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Records encountered when doing genealogical research often include abbreviations. Family History Daily published this list of abbreviatio...