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Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
Website for the National Society of the Daughter of the American Revolution. The DAR Genealogical Research System is a combination of several databases created in recent years to organize the large quantity of information that the DAR has collected since its inception in 1890.
www.dar.org
Missouri Digital Heritage
The Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative includes records of enduring historical value from institutions throughout the state of Missouri. These historical resources, including documents, photographs, maps and other materials of interest, are grouped here by general topic. Individual collections are searchable under each topic.
www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/collections.asp
Dibean Michigan Marriage Index
The Dibean's have diligently worked on collecting an index of marriages for Michigan. They are collected from various places and researchers have sent them their marriages over the years. You can enter your Michigan marriages into their database by using the form provided or sending in an e-mail to Jack and Marianne. Remember, their work is an index only and should help you search for the original record
www.mifamilyhistory.org/dibeanindex
Video Editing Tips for Family History Videos
A family history video is a great way to share the fascinating stories and life experiences uncovered through genealogy research. When you present this information as a filmed interview, the audience can connect with your passion for the subject, like hearing stories around the campfire. To create an engaging family history video, it's important to remember that stories are the primary way we communicate with the world. Rather than just listing names and dates, aim to tell stories that captivate your audience.
training.certstaff.com/certstaffix/Video-Editing-Tips-for-Family-History-Videos.asp
The Ships List
TheShipsList website, online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists.We also have immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.
www.theshipslist.com
Westerners International
Westerners International (WI) is a non-profit Foundation, Inc. first organized in 1959 to promote communication and cooperation between Corrals and Posses, and to stimulate interest and research in the history of the American West. The WI "home ranch" is located at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, where Buckskin Bulletin is published quarterly and mailed to Westerners everywhere. WI also assists in the organization of new Corrals and Posses and registers their brands.
www.westerners-international.org
Bible Records
Bible Records Online is a site dedicated to transcribing and digitizing the contents of family records that were written inside family Bibles and in other important documents from as early as the 1500s through today. Often, these were the only written records of births, marriages and deaths of a family, and these remain solid components to proving a family genealogy.
www.biblerecords.com
Washington Historical Map Collection
Maps add a visual element to history. The State Archives and the State Library hold extensive map collections dealing with the Washington State and the surrounding region. Maps for this digital collection will be drawn from state and territorial government records, historic books, federal documents and the Northwest collection.
www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/maps/maps.aspx
Food Timeline
Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? So do we!!! Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts. Some experts say it's impossible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are correct. Most foods are not invented; they evolve. Just click on the "Food Timelines" below.
foodtimeline.org
Civil War Archives
Information related to the U.S. Civil War including Union and Confederate Regimental Histories, Union Corps Histories, Soldier's Letters, Diaries, and a variety of other information including helpful links.
www.civilwararchive.com
American Civil War
From the blood soaked plains of Manassas, to the smoke filled skies of Atlanta, and finally to the tear filled eyes at Appomattox. For four of the bloodiest years in the history of this Republic the war raged. It started as Yanks and Rebs, it ended as "Americans!!"
www.civilwarhome.com
African American Civil War Museum
The Museum, founded in 1997, has an extensive collection of photographs, documents, and information to help us understand the contributions made by African Americans in the conflict. While the site itself does not have a large number of records, there is a resources tab to direct people to other organizations that do have records, online and off.
afroamcivilwar.org
Castle Garden
Castle Garden: Where Immigrants Came Before Ellis Island Everyone knows that immigrants came through Ellis Island to settle in America, but where did they go before that? The answer is Castle Garden, now known as the Castle Clinton National Monument, on the southern tip of Manhattan. Originally a fort, Castle Garden was constructed between 1808 and 1811, and at that time wasn’t even connected to the Island of Manhattan. By 1821, the US Army released the fort to New York City, having seen little military action. The city turned the area into an entertainment center with a restaurant and a theater, and according to the Battery Conservancy, “for $5, ticket holders can promenade around the walls, and sip mint juleps, ginseng, and punch liquor.” Sounds great!
www.nyhistory.org/blogs/castle-garden-where-immigrants-first-came-to-america
BLM Land Patent Index
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation web site provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. They also provide image access to more than three million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908.
glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx
General Land Office Records
GLO Records provides access to historical records, such as: 1. Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. 2. Images of serial patents (land titles issues between 1908 and the mid-1960's). 3. Images related to survey plats and notes, dating back to 1810. 4. Images of Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908).
glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx
Washington Genealogy Guides
Kathleen Allen O'Connor, of Gonzaga University, began a project to produce a Washington State Genealogical Resource Guide. WSGS gave her a grant to help defray the costs of her project. She began gathering information from libraries, archives, societies, etc., for all counties within the state. Charles Hansen has now taken over the project. It is being made available here, as the counties are completed. EWGS member Charles Hansen chairs this project for WSGS.
www.wasgs.org/cpage.php?pt=9
NOAA Historical Map and Chart Project
Now part of the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA), the Office of Coast Survey was founded in 1807. Their collection includes more than 21,000 charts and maps dated between 1747 and 2001. They are in the public domain and available as free downloads.
historicalcharts.noaa.gov
Civil War Archives
Information related to the U.S. Civil War including Union and Confederate Regimental Histories, Union Corps Histories, Soldier's Letters, Diaries, and a variety of other information including helpful links.
www.civilwararchive.com
Inland Northwest Honor Flightr
Inland Northwest Honor Flight's mission is to transport Inland Northwest war veterans to Washington D.C. to visit those memorials dedicated to honor their service and sacrifices. Support for these trips is provided by volunteers and is at no cost to the veterans. Top priority is given to our most senior heroes - survivors of WWII and any veteran with a terminal illness who wishes to visit their memorial. The program will naturally transition to the Korean War, Vietnam War and all other veterans who served, on a chronological basis.
inwhonorflight.org
Feeding America
The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum have partnered to create an online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The goal of this project is to make these materials available to a wider audience. Digital images of the pages of each cookbook are available as well as full-text transcriptions and the ability to search within the books, across the collection, in order to find specific information.
digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/index.html
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
Volunteers have agreed to do a free genealogy research task at least once per month in their local area as an act of kindness. While the volunteers of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) have agreed to donate their time for free, you MUST PAY the volunteer for his/her expenses in fulfilling your request (copies, printing fees, postage, film or video tape, parking fees, etc.). RAOGK is a global volunteer organization. With over 4000 volunteers in every U.S. state and many international locations, we have helped thousands of researchers. Our volunteers take time to do everything from looking up courthouse records to taking pictures of tombstones. All they ask in return is reimbursement for their expenses (never their time) and a thank you.
www.raogk.org
One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse
This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites.
stevemorse.org
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive (CRBEHA)
includes over 1,000 photographs, documents and oral history interviews relating to the history of ethnic groups living in regions of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The dates of materials range from 1860 to the 1980s. In the mid-2000s additional materials from the Clark County Historical Museum were included with documents and photographs from the NAACP Vancouver, Washington Branch collection. Tutorials, lesson plans and historical overviews are archived on the site but are no longer updated.
library.vancouver.wsu.edu/archive/crbeha
Washington Digital Newspapers
Washington Digital Newspapers brings together over 600,000 pages from Washington’s earliest Territorial newspapers to the present day. Freely accessible to the public, this growing collection complements the Washington State Library’s physical collection of more than 6,500 newspaper titles.
washingtondigitalnewspapers.org
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