Published Oct 28, 2007

EPISODE 31 SHOW NOTES

Genealogy Gems: Ultimate Research Strategies. Thanks to those of you who have bought the book.  You guys are great. 

A special little Halloween hello from Genealogy Gems. 

Sad news:  The This Week's Genealogy Gems Google Gadget has crashed.   However, I will likely create a new custom gadget in the near future so I'll keep you posted.  To receive the code for the gadget just be sure to sign up for the free Genealogy Gems monthly newsletter because thatâs the email list I use to personally email you the code so you can install it on your iGoogle page.   Newsletter Sign Up & Back issues

The website is evolving every day with new content, so be sure and visit regularly at www.genealogygems.tv  In the Resources section you will find lots of great genealogy research strategies.    Be sure to click on the Google Research Gems Link.  I have a special gadget there that will provide you with a new Google tip every day.  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 donât listen to the podcast.

Gem:  The Library of Congress

The Irish Jig performed by the National Promenade Band in 1914 for Edison Records courtesy of University of Santa Barbara.

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

1. Advertising 1850-1920
2. Architecture and Interior Design 1935-1955
3. Baseball Cards 1887-1914
4. Broadsides and Printed Ephemera 1600-2000
5. Chicago Daily News - Photographs 1902-1933
6. 7 different Civil War collections with many, many photographs
7. Daguerreotype Photographs 1839-1864
8. Depression Era to World War II FSA/OWI Photographs 1935-1945
9. Film, Animated 1900-1921
10. There are several Folk Music Collections
11. Great Plains Photographs 1880-1920
12. Maps and Cartographic Items 1500-Present
13. New York City Films 1898-1906
14. Nineteenth-Century Books 1850-1877
15. Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 1815-1900
16. Ohio River Valley 1750-1820
17. Panoramic Photographs 1851-1991
18. Pearl Harbor and Public Reactions Audio Interviews 1941-1942
19. Posters, WPA 1936-1943
20. Prairie Settlement, Nebraska Photographs and Letters 1862-1912
21. Railroads Maps 1828-1900
22. Revolutionary Era Maps 1750-1789
23. San Francisco and 1906 Earthquake Films 1897-1916
24. Sheet Music 1820-1860 & 1870-1885
25. Slave Narratives Audio Interviews 1932-1975
26. Small Town Life, Mid-Atlantic Stereoscopic Photographs ~ 1850-1920
27. Southern U.S. Personal Narratives 1860-1920
28. Traveling in America Books ca. 1750-1920
29. Turn-of-the-Century America Detroit Publishing Company Photographs 1880-1920
30. Upper Midwest Books ca. 1820-1910
31. Utah and Western Migration 1846-1869
32. American Variety Stage - Vaudeville  1870-1920
33. Western U.S. Photographs 1860-1920
34. World War I Military Newspapers 1918-1919
35. World War I Rotogravures 1914-1919
36. World War II Maps Military Situation Maps 1944-1945

Some of my other favorite areas of the Collections and Programs are:

1. The VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT
2. The NATIONAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROGRAM
3. CHRONICALING AMERICA â HISTORIC AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
4. The PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG

Prints & Photos LOC online database: 

1. 20s Fads
2. Ellis Island prints & photos
3. WWII women working
4. Civil War Soldiers
5. Entertainment
6. 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.  Video

GEM:  Genealogy for the Next Generation

To get the attention of the next generation for genealogy I Simposonized myself.

Genealogy for the Next Generation at Genealogy Gems. 

Simpsonize Me!     It's totally free, and really fun.