New Editions to Digital Newspaper Collections, and Photos of NYC buildings, circa 1940

     Elephind.com , a free historic newspaper archive, has added the Hoosier State Chronicles  collection, containing 137,198 issues(almost 1.2 millions pages) of Indiana newspapers.

     The always growing Georgia Historic Newspaper database will be adding a variety of  new papers in the coming year.

    Beginning in 1939, the city of New York sent photographers around all five Boroughs to take photographs of every building for tax assessment purposes. The photographs were digitized in 2018, but the collection was difficult to navigate. An article, including a  link to the improved database. is here. All the photos were taken between 1939-1941. source: ResearchBuzz

Articles from the National Genealogical Society.

There are some interesting and helpful articles on the National Genealogical Society's website. This is the current collection of complimentary articles. They appear to be targeted at more experienced genealogists.

Fold3

If your ancestor served in any of our country's wars, going back to the Revolution, remember to look at Fold3 in the library's e-resources.

From our homepage, click on "Research Help" and select e-resources for adults.Scroll down until you see the logo for Fold3, and click on it.

DNA testing

Two articles from 2018: in the first, small collections of reference panels (DNA samples from a particular area) are a stumbling block for people researching their non-European Ancestry. The second points out that these samples are estimates of where your roots are.

North Carolina Colonial Court Records, and "Every Name Counts" project.

The No. Carolina State archives is in the process of making accesible these records, some of which cover the years prior to NC's becoming a  state in 1789. Read about it here......and here is an article about "Every Name Counts", a crowdsourcing project to digitize 26 million documents related to victims of Nazi persecution collected by the Allies as Europe was liberated at the end of WW II. The link to the project is in the first paragraph. Learn how you can participate. source: ResearchBuzz

Slave Narratives

During the Great Depression of the 1930's, the Federal Writers Project collected the personal stories of 2000+ former slaves. Beginning in 1972, retired Detroit librarians Ola Mae Spinks and Phillys G. Williams began organizing the material that is now available for viewing at the Library of Congress website. In addition to the type written narratives, click on "Collection Items" to see photographs  of the participants. source: ResearchBuzz

Land Entry Records at the National Archives

Land Entry Case Files  provide details about land transferred from the federal government to private citizens. They are available online at the National Archives website and can contain much information of value to genealogists.There are records available for 30 states; for the others, go to their state archives (see article for details). To print a good copy of the record, click the download button to download it to your computer.