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New Hampshire State Papers in the Archives

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on August 16, 2010 at 8:22am

If your ancestors lived in Colonial New England, or if you suspect that your ancestors lived in New England any time up until 1800, then you must have used the New Hampshire State Papers for your genealogical research. I first came across this wonderful resource years ago (before the internet) at the Portsmouth Atheneum library. Now, when I run across a new name in the family tree, I can go to the NH State Papers online at the website for the State Archives.

The NH State Papers were published in

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Other Collections for Finding Family Stories Online

Posted by tami osmer glatz on December 25, 2009 at 10:31am
The holidays really have me thinking about family stories. With relatives packing the house, there are bound to be a few memories stirred and shared, and these always leave me wanting more. So of course, I turn to the internet, and a few more websites that are making an effort to collect personal memories, and other family history treasures.AMERICAN MEMORY - http://memory.loc.govThe Library of Congress’s American Memory project is another online large scale special collection of US ephemera. The
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Internet Archives - audio, video, texts & more!

Posted by tami osmer glatz on December 24, 2009 at 4:01pm
It’s Christmas eve day, and its snowing here in Dallas, so everyone is just huddled indoors trying to stay warm, and enjoying being in the company of family... which always sets me to thinking about my ancestors and genealogy, of course.Since the presents are all wrapped, and its just a countdown to Santa, I’ll go ahead and write about another site for finding family stories online, and we’ll call it my Christmas present to you :)Internet Archive, at http://www.archive.org is a very large, onlin
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WorldCat and Online Special Collections

Posted by tami osmer glatz on December 24, 2009 at 12:47pm
Every third Thursday I give a presentation in SecondLife. December’s discussion was part two of Finding Your Family Stories Online, with an emphasis on using Special Collections that are available online. While last month’s topic focused on digitized texts, part two focused on finding all sorts of other treasures – photographs, letters, oral histories, sound recordings, videos... the kinds of things that can add color and life to your family history.Special collections can be found in libraries,
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Where to Find Obituaries Online - and hopefully for Free

Posted by tami osmer glatz on October 7, 2009 at 7:02am
Its worth the effort to locate an obituary when you can, and, as always, my favorite place to start looking is online. Ancestry.com has quite an assortment of obituary indexes, as well as newspaper archives available, but not everyone is fortunate enough to have a subscription. So I’ve tried to dig up as many free sources as I can - and I've personally had good luck with several of these sites!Read more...
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Find your ancestors in diaries and journals!

Posted by tami osmer glatz on August 5, 2009 at 10:00pm
Brigham Young University is working on a new website (currently in Beta) called Historic Journals (http://journals.byu.edu) where historic journals are being digitized and posted online. If you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and have registered for the New FamilySearch program, you can sign in to the website, and automatically, your pedigree chart from NewFamilySearch is compared to the names that have been identified in the journals, and if there are any matche
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An Under-Utilized Resource: The Godfrey Memorial Library

Posted by tami osmer glatz on July 15, 2009 at 1:30pm
The Godfrey Memorial Library is a private genealogy library in Connecticut, that has an online subscription website full of great databases and useful links. Memberships are quite reasonable, and if you want to "test drive" the website, you can get full access for free at any LDS Family History Center. The website can be just a bit confusing, but with a brief "tour", you can figure out the resources quite easily, and be navigating with ease in no time.I'd like to start by stating that I'm not af
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Chicago research - on the internet

Posted by tami osmer glatz on July 11, 2009 at 6:00pm
I already told you about the very cool Historical County Map Boundary tool at the website for the Newberry Library. Now to more great stuff available at the Newberry's website!. If you're doing research in Chicago, Cook County, there's no better site than the ChicagoAncestors site from Newberry Library, which you can find in the Genealogy Collection Guides and Research Tools page of the Newberry's site, under the tab "Research Chicago". You can also get there directly by going to www.chicagoance
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Digital Quaker Collection

Posted by tami osmer glatz on July 11, 2009 at 5:30pm
I never cease to be amazed at the great websites for genealogy online! Yesterday I discovered the Digital Quaker Collection at the Earlham School of Religion (a graduate theological school for the Society of Friends). The website states "DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries." Once you enter the site, you can easily search all of the collections, or browse them by title or author. While the default searc
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Where to Write for Vital Records (US, Foreign and even High Seas!)

Posted by tami osmer glatz on July 13, 2009 at 7:30pm
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) has posted online a wonderful guide, alphabetically by state, giving all the information you would need to send away for birth, marriage, death or divorce records located in any of the United States, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, Canal Zone District of Columbia, "Foreign", or those occuring on the High Seas. The listings tell what years are available, and not available, and what all you will need to submit along with your request. Definitely an
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