It’s Election Day and I just had to do this post. This past weekend, the Reclaim the Records initiative announced their success in releasing the New York List of Registered Voters in 1924 – all of them now available online through the Internet Archive. And, it is absolutely wonderful to have! My own family has New […]
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Approximately two years ago, I created an online site to help me organize all the great books and resources I was finding on the Internet Archive’s website. I call it my Genealogy Digital Bookshelf. I have been posting to it sporadically, but have been using it pretty regularly as my genealogy research takes me from state
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Yesterday, Mocavo.com released a new collection of yearbooks. I was so ecstatic to see this! I enjoy looking through old yearbooks. A couple of years ago I created a yearbook index for the NCGenWeb Project. To date, I’ve indexed more than 30,000 names from close to 500 yearbooks. And where did those yearbooks come
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How familiar really are genealogists with the wealth of materials available on the Internet Archive (IA)? Since RootsTech, I’ve seen more discussion and awareness than I’d seen before then as the IA’s founder, Brewster Kahle was a keynote speaker, but the site is still, in my opinion, vastly under-appreciated. I’ve been using IA extensively for several
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Here is news that I like to hear! The Internet Archive (IA) posted recently that the Montana State Library has made the decision to use IA as their institutional repository in lieu of the contentDM platform. I’m a fan of the Internet Archive; the variety of their offerings is incredible. ContentDM is a popular choice
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Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, is a keynote speaker at the upcoming RootsTech 2011 conference. I’m planning a couple of posts within the next 14 days or so around the Internet Archive, so this seemed especially appropriate to post about him. As he, I too am a librarian, and I am absolutely
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The Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center has added more compiled service records to the Internet Archive. One of the latest additions are the Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 1st through 6th Calvary. There are 107 reels in this collection. For more information about these
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Today on her AnceStories blog, Miriam gave me a shout-out in reference to sharing directories added to the Internet Archive (IA). Thanks Miriam for the mention. It prompted me to write this post to share the fact that I’ve been subscribing to IA feeds for several months now and I find it an easy
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The Allen County Public Genealogy Center crew is doing it up! They’ve started adding another collection of NARA microfilm to the Internet Archive. I’ve already posted about the following two collections Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards 1907-1933 (M850) Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (M881) The
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This is just one of those totally geeky librarian moments you’re about to read about. Two days ago, the Open Library project announced a soft-launch of their new interface. The Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive with a goal to have one page for every book. I am a fan of the
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