Friday, June 30, 2023

This is an article from Genealogy by Paula about not appropriating somebody else's work as your own. 

Monday, June 19, 2023

Texas Newspapers online

 Historical Texas newspapers from 1855-1930 have been made available thanks to a collaborative effort between the Texas State Library Archives Commission the University of North Texas Libraries. The collection includes close to 10 million pages from 4500 issues.

Friday, June 9, 2023

Web Clearing Houses for Genealogy

 Click on this link to see a video from GenealogyTV on Web Clearing Houses . Learn what they are and how to use them.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

War of 1812 pension files

 Pension files for the War of 1812 are now available at Fold3 on the library's website. 83% of the 7.2 million pages have been added so far.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Yearbooks

The Internet Archive (archive.org) has a collection of  more than 92,000 yearbooks. We didn't find any from Hernando County but you might get lucky and find one helpful for your genealogy research.

Not all are school yearbooks- some are related to professional associations, such as the Yearbook of the City Managers Association 1920. 

 Scroll down just a bit and you will see on the left side of the page a "Search this collection" box.  

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

1931 Census of Canada

The Canadian government will release the 1931 census on June 1st. Read about it here, at newspapers.com, the newest addition to the library's e-resources.

 

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Newspapers.com

 Hernando County Public Library has added newspapers.com to its collection of e-resources. Find it under Research Tools on the library's home page.

Search for obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements, social pages, local sports action, advertisements, news articles, and more in the largest online newspaper archive.

Newspapers.com Library Edition offers full-page images with searchable full text for millions of pages of newspapers dating from the early 1700s into the early 2000s.

Clip, save, and share newspaper articles via social media sites such as Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.

 

 

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

 From Ted.com in 2018.