One of my favorite local sources for genealogy information is the former black-owned and operated newspaper, The Nashville Globe. It was founded in 1906 and ran until 1960. Over the past several years I’ve extracted data from the paper and posted it on my blog, Black Nashville. Soon after starting that blog, I learned that […]
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I love newspapers. I truly do. Anything I can do to promote their accessibility is one of my passions. I am pleased now to learn that an African-American newspaper of Evansville, Indiana (where my husband’s family is from), is now available in it’s online! The Evansville Argus was published from June 25, 1938 – October
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One of my favorite historical newspaper resources is the Chronicling America site by the National Digital Newspaper Program partnership between the Library of Congress & the National Endowment for the Humanities. The site contains digital images of newspapers from 16 states covering 188-1922 and is a valuable source of information in our genealogical research. The
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Last week I learned that the NC Office of Archives & History was having a sale on some of their publications so I ordered a couple of books. Onslow County: A Brief History by Alan D. Watson — as the county coordinator for Onslow County, NCGenWeb project, I thought it was a good idea to
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This week @ GeneaMusings Randy has asked us to consider what our dream database would be Define one or more genealogy or family history databases, that are not currently online, that would really help you in your research. Where does this database currently reside? What are some of the things people are wishing for?? 1)Randy
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Head on over to my post @ the NCGenWeb project website for more information about the NC State Library’s NC Newspaper Digitization Project. They announced it today and this North Carolinian is too excited!
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I know I shouldn’t be shopping for me, but, an opportunity presented itself to me this afternoon and I could not say no. Background: Last week I emailed a co-worker of mine who has years of photography experience to ask a question. I wanted to know how I could rig a set-up like this. so
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Last week, I was very busy with my family as we took our family vacation. I feel fortunate though in that I was able to work in a number of genealogy-related activities, so the next several posts will be dedicated to sharing my experiences during the vacation. I will also be posting more general items
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With the recent news of Ancestry updating their Online Member Trees I have been thinking over this for a few days now. Randy’s excellent post describing his experiences with the new interface prompted me to go ahead and explore it for myself and I was quite pleased. While the changes they have currently implemented are
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This week I had a short trip to Portland, Oregon for a conference associated with my current degree program. I’ve posted on my main family blog about the trip in general, but I am posting here about a mission I went on at the public library. On my way back from my meeting, I stopped
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