Last month I posted about the Allen County Public Library adding NARA microfilm records to the Internet Archive. In following my RSS feed, today I saw that they began adding another set — the Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (M881). The Compiled Service Records are available […]
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What can I say? I’m a librarian, these types of announcements make me happy 🙂 Megan Smolenyak posted on her weekly round-up that the back issues of Ancestry Magazine are now available in Google Books. Ancestry announced in January that the magazine would be discontinued, so how great it is now to have access
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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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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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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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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’m in the middle of working on a presentation that I have due tomorrow, but I had to take a break to do this post before I forget about it. So, today I’m in the car on the way home listening to my first Genealogy Guys Podcast. A few minutes into it, I learn from
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It’s been quiet lately here on my blog. My schooling has been full force these past few weeks, so I don’t have a lot of spare time to blog. But, I did want to do a quick post to give a quick tip. Tonight, Randy did a blog post on Eastman’s new GenQueries site. In
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I knew it was a mistake to get back on the computer after I *said* I was going to bed. But, I had to check the email and feed readers “one last time.” Well, now it’s going to cause me to be up long enough to do this blog post, but I couldn’t wait because what
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