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New Finds (and some oldies with new content!)
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and
Debates 1774-1875
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/hlawquery.html
Beginning with the Continental Congress America's national legislative
bodies have kept records of their proceedings. Thousands of early Americans
are named through petitions, lawsuits, military service etc.
Chronicling America
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
The Library of Congress has begun their prototype for digitizing historic
newspapers.
also remember to check World Vital Records. It is a
commercial site but many of the papers in their
Small
Town Papers collections are free without subscription.
Family Search Labs
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page has new research guides
http://labs.familysearch.org/
is the site you can search for all the new
information they are indexing at FamilySearch. They have also
added the
STANDARD FINDER which is a great place to find alternative
names of towns or surname variants. Other new additions include
transcriptions of Washington State Death Certificates, some new state
census, Norwegian Parish records and more!
National Archives & Records Service
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=GP21,22,23,24,44
has new databases including Russians to America,
Irish famine immigrants, Italian immigrants etc.
Alabama
Alabama Mosaic
http://www.alabamamosaic.org/
California
USC Library Digital Archives (Southern California)
http://digital-library.csun.edu/SFV/
Connecticut
Colonial Connecticut Records
http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/
Use the Browse A-Z Index and choose the time period to search; an alpha
index will appear.
Georgia
Georgia's Virtual Vault
http://content.sos.state.ga.us/index.php
its been around a while but has added tons of new content!
Illinois
Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive
http://www.umvphotoarchive.org/
primarily Rock Island IL / Davenport IA areas
Illinois Historical Digitization Projects
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/search.html
Indiana
Allen County Indiana History Center Digital Collections
http://acfwhs.lib.ipfw.edu/
has maps, clippings, documents etc.
Iowa
Hoosier Heritage
http://www.hoosierheritage.net/
pulls from small collections all over Indiana
Iowa Digital Library
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
don't miss the maps!
Kansas
Territorial Kansas Online
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php
Kentucky
First American West: the Ohio River Valley [Kentucky, Ohio]
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html
Maryland
[don’t miss the Pennsylvania resources on the
Outstanding State Resources Page and there is also a handout of added
help called Migration Through the
Middle Colonies with more links]
Michigan
Making of Modern Michigan
http://mmm.lib.msu.edu/search/index.cfm
Michigan County Histories and Atlases
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/
many of the maps are full plat maps
Missouri Digital Library
http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umlib;cc=umlib;tpl=home.tpl
has county histories and civil war histories etc.
Online Searchable Databases published by the Western Michigan
Genealogical Society
http://data.wmgs.org/
North Carolina
http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/
Books, maps and much more!
Ohio
Digital Shoebox Collections: Historical Treasures of Southeastern Ohio
http://www.digitalshoebox.org/
Ohio Memory
http://www.ohiomemory.org/
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
http://dpubs.libraries.psu.edu/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=psu.ph
[don’t miss the Pennsylvania resources on the
Outstanding State Resources Page]
New York
New York State Historical Literature (Cornell University)
http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/n/nys/index.html
selection of early history documents, pamphlets, books etc. including early
gazeteers and scrapbooks etc.
South Carolina
South Carolina Department of Archives
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/search.aspx
Tennessee
Shelby Co. Tennessee Courthouse Archives
http://register.shelby.tn.us/index.php
Texas Heritage Online
http://www.thdi.org/
History, genealogy and much more from archives all over Texas.
Vermont
Vermont State Archives: Survey Maps & Lotting Plans Database
http://vermont-archives.org/lottingplans.asp
Virginia
Early Virginia Religious Petitions
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/petitions/
Until the American Revolution the Church of England was the state religion
in Virginia. All "nonconformists" (Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians etc.)
frequently had complaints and issues and believed they were being unfairly
treated. They signed petitions. NOTE: Searching by name seems not to work
very well. For best results: browse by PLACE - when you get the entry for
the petition at the bottom of the page it says Digital ID and there is a web
address. paste that in your address bar and you are sent to the original
document.
Library of Virginia Vital Records Indexes
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/siteindex/index.htm
its not new but they have been adding MANY new wonderful things!
Washington
Washington State Digital Library Portal
http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/
Wisconsin
State of Wisconsin Collection
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/
Wisconsin Heritage Online
http://wisconsinheritage.org/
Immigrants:
Castle Garden Immigrants
http://www.castlegarden.org/
before there was Ellis Island those who came through New York came to Castle
Garden
Harvard University Library - Open Collection Program
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/
has a growing immigration collection.
Canada
Canadian Genealogy Centre (Canadian Archives)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html
Wonderful research guides telling what is out there and how to locate the
records. Find the Databases link on the main page and you will not only get
a search box but a list of the databases they have created.
British Columbia Archive
http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-5E159F9/gbsearch
Europe
British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Digitial library containing primary and secondary sources from the
medieval period onward for the British Isles. Abstracts of deeds, court
records, church records etc. They are constantly adding new materials. There
are many letters and petitions from the colonies to the British government.
After your first search it offers a link to an advanced searc. Use that.
Registration adds benefits like your own bookshelf [mizliv]. You can
subscribe for about 60.00 per year for added earlier content (primarily 16th
& 17th century)
Dansk Demografisk
http://ddd.dda.dk/kiplink_en.htm
has Danish census
Archives of Norway Digital Collection
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=e
Irish Ancestors
http://www.ireland.com/ancestor/
Has all kinds of great content but make certain you try out the Research
Wizard
Ryhiner Map Collection
http://www.stub.unibe.ch/stub/ryhiner/
Scotland's Family
http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/
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