Earlier this week I noticed several genealogy patrons looking at city directories. Have you tried finding your ancestor in such a directory? Larger cities often had city directories which contained lists of businesses and residents, sort of like a phone book except that you didn’t have to own a phone to be included in…
There certainly is a lot of overlap in the world of digital book collections. Today’s topic, the Digital Public Library of America, claims to be a site that brings different online collections together into a single platform and portal. Translation: they are a website that points to other sites containing digital collections. How could you…
At our Genealogy Networking Group meeting on September 4, we discussed how to research our female ancestors. Here are some tips, gathered from the book A Genealogist’s Guide to Researching Your Female Ancestors by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.* Find records created BY your female ancestor: letters diaries home sources and artifacts oral history gathered by you…
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