Just a quick post to share our year in review highlight on the North Carolina USGenWeb project website. I’ve now been webmaster for almost exactly one year! The year-in-review highlights some of the milestones in the project this year and should we continue to keep it up, would be a great way to document some […]
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After learning yesterday that the Nashville Metropolitan Archives had a strong yearbook collection, I decided to spend my afternoon there today. I wrote to the email reference of the Archives last night and received a response that they had a print listing of the yearbooks they have available, so I requested this list upon my
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The genealogy vacation extravaganza continues! Today I spent my time at the Nashville Public Library in their Nashville Room. I came to realized I’d seriously underappreciated the resources in the Nashville Room for I learned today much more about their holdings. As with yesterday, everything I gathered today will eventually go to the TNGenWeb &
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Today was the start of my 2 week vacation and you know how I spent it? Like any true genealogist – in the library :-). I visited the Tennessee State Library & Archives to gather information to share on the TNGenWeb & NCGenWeb sites in which I participate/ccordinate. I also pulled a couple of obituaries
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This weekend I traveled to Washington D.C. for a professional conference. My trip was short, but I did get to spend most of the day Friday at the Library of Congress (LOC). I’ve been to LOC before as a visitor/tourist, so I didn’t feel compelled to take many pictures. I’d not been as a user
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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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Well now! Here’s another example of how much penetration genealogy is getting. As I was uploading a document to Scribd.com, I saw that they have now added a designation under their Research category for genealogy! That was not there a few weeks ago when I last uploaded a document and needless to say I
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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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We are just about one month into 2010 and with the new year comes a new design for my blog. If you read my posts through a feed reader, be sure to stop by for a visit and see the new look. My previous design had an Asian theme, but I went for a more
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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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