For the last two months I have been actively monitoring items added to the Texts collection at the Internet Archive (IA). By subscribing to several different RSS feeds, I’m able to check them every few days and see what is being uploaded. For example, I learned that UNC Chapel Hill Library has been adding old […]
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Just a quick post this time, but I’ve had so many connections come out the woodwork this week from sharing family tree information online it’s been crazy. got an email from a possible cousin based on her husband’s lineage from former slaves on the Kemp P. Battle plantation in Edgecombe County, NC where my 4th
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I have an idea. I’m always on the lookout for something that will help me capture information most effectively for my genealogical research and I like to experiment. This morning, I’ve seen a product that I’m interested in trying out – a hand wand portable scanner. This portable hand scanner allows you to scan books,
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Guess what? I’m featured as a guest blogger on the Worldcat.org blog! While I have not yet participated in the 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy series yet this year, I was particularly interested in the goal of Week 5 – to explore Worldcat.org. As a librarian, I’ve been familiar with Worldcat for many years and
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Taking a tip from a blog I follow for professional purposes, I’ve added a new series of icons to the right sidebar of my blog. If you read this through a feed reader, here is an image of it just for you. Through the icons you can follow my RSS feed, get email updates, follow
This Tombstone Tuesday post is not for someone in my family, but rather that of a co-worker. The furthest back I’ve traced her Faith lineage is to the mother of this ancestor, Balthazaar “Balthus” Faith. This image of his tombstone is courtesy of an upload from a FindAGrave volunteer at his gravesite in the Calvary
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Even though it’s many weeks later, I wanted to share what Kalonji got for me as one of my Christmas presents in December, for I think it is a beautiful thing indeed. It is Toni Morrison’s The Black Book. It was first published in 1974, in 2009 they published a 35th anniversary ediiton. You can
Last night I eagerly watched the first episode in the new PBS Series, Faces of America, facilitated by Henry Louis Gates. There’s been a lot of buzz in the genealogy community in anticipation of the show. It comes at the heels of Gates’ popular African-American Lives & African-American Lives 2 series. After the show, I
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Today is my grandfather’s birthday – Herman Robinson. He died in 1986, but had he lived he would have been 84 years old today – born February 5, 1926 to Lewis “Christopher Columbus” Robinson & Lucinda Lennon in New York, New York. Herman was the 7th son of his parents; no children born in between
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As a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I feel urged to share this news as widely as possible – the UNC Libraries are adding old issues of the school yearbook, the Yackety Yack (formerly the Hellenian), online to the Internet Archive. I find some irony in the fact that I
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