Oct 28, 2007
Published Oct 28, 2007
EPISODE 31 SHOW NOTES
Genealogy Gems: Ultimate Research Strategies. The book has been
discontinued .
A special little Halloween hello from Genealogy
Gems.
Update: iGoogle has been discontinued.
The website is evolving every day with new content, so be sure
and visit regularly at www.genealogygems.com Be
sure to click on the Google Research Gems Link. And
you'll also find lots of other great tips that we've talked about
to make Google work harder for your genealogy research.
Please do let your research friends and your local genealogy
society know about it as a resource for them too, even if they
don't listen to the podcast.
Gem: The Library of Congress
The Irish Jig performed by the National Promenade Band
in 1914 for Edison Records
AMERICAN MEMORY
American Memory provides free and open access through the
Internet to over 9 million items of written and spoken words, sound
recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music
that document the American experience. These materials chronicle
historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape
America.
Browse American Memory
- Advertising 1850-1920
- Architecture and Interior Design 1935-1955
- Baseball Cards 1887-1914
- Broadsides and Printed Ephemera 1600-2000
- Chicago Daily News - Photographs 1902-1933
- 7 different Civil War collections with many, many
photographs
- Daguerreotype Photographs 1839-1864
- Depression Era to World War II FSA/OWI Photographs
1935-1945
- Film, Animated 1900-1921
- There are several Folk Music Collections
- Great Plains Photographs 1880-1920
- Maps and Cartographic Items 1500-Present
- New York City Films 1898-1906
- Nineteenth-Century Books 1850-1877
- Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 1815-1900
- Ohio River Valley 1750-1820
- Panoramic Photographs 1851-1991
- Pearl Harbor and Public Reactions Audio Interviews
1941-1942
- Posters, WPA 1936-1943
- Prairie Settlement, Nebraska Photographs and Letters
1862-1912
- Railroads Maps 1828-1900
- Revolutionary Era Maps 1750-1789
- San Francisco and 1906 Earthquake Films 1897-1916
- Sheet Music 1820-1860 & 1870-1885
- Slave Narratives Audio Interviews 1932-1975
- Small Town Life, Mid-Atlantic Stereoscopic Photographs ~
1850-1920
- Southern U.S. Personal Narratives 1860-1920
- Traveling in America Books ca. 1750-1920
- Turn-of-the-Century America Detroit Publishing Company
Photographs 1880-1920
- Upper Midwest Books ca. 1820-1910
- Utah and Western Migration 1846-1869
- American Variety Stage - Vaudeville 1870-1920
- Western U.S. Photographs 1860-1920
- World War I Military Newspapers 1918-1919
- World War I Rotogravures 1914-1919
- World War II Maps Military Situation Maps 1944-1945
Some of my other favorite areas of the Collections and Programs
are:
- The VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT
- The NATIONAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROGRAM
- CHRONICALING AMERICA â HISTORIC AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
- The PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG
Prints & Photos LOC online
database:
- 20s Fads
- Ellis Island prints &
photos
- WWII women working
- Civil War Soldiers
- Entertainment
- Americana
LOC WEBCASTS
Start by browsing the Biography and History listings.
The library website also offers RSS feeds
and email Subscriptions on a variety of subjects.
The future: the library just signed a World Digital Library
Agreement with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization pledging cooperative efforts to build a World
Digital Library website.
World Digital Library at the Worlddigitallibrary.org.
GEM: Genealogy for the Next
Generation
To get the attention of the next generation for genealogy I
Simposonized myself.
Simpsonize Me is no longer available.