Advantage Archives is the name of the company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They specialize in microfilming and digitizing various document types for over 1,000 libraries, archives, museums, and other types of institutions across the US and Canada. It is best to use their own words to describe their business. From their website: “We provide […]
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The Internet Archive has been around since 1996 and has a magnificent assortment of genealogical materials in many different categories of interest to genealogy researchers. It is a major resource; not to be missed. Per Wikipedia, “As of December 2021, the Internet Archive holds over 34 million books and texts, 7.4 million movies, videos, and […]
Death Indexes is one of several very useful websites provided by Joe Beine, and probably the most visited. From the Website: “This website is a directory of links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices, and registers, obituaries, wills and probate records, […]
Access Genealogy is an aggregation site, which means that it has a number of genealogy categories for all of the United States. Its primary feature is links to other collections on other websites. Most of these are free, but there are multiple links to subscription databases, such as Ancestry. It does have records on the […]
In a word, the Fulton History (AKA Old Fulton New York Postcards) website is a marvel. Created and maintained by one man, Tom Tryniski, this newspaper database has been in existence since 1999 when Tom began scanning microfilmed newspapers. Currently, his database has over 50 million digitized newspaper pages that are searchable by anyone, anywhere. […]
Genealogy Trails is a set of websites that present transcribed genealogy records and collections for the United States. Each state has its own website, and there are subsites for each county in the state. It is a totally volunteer-based organization. Their principles are (from their website): “In forming the Genealogy Trails Project, it was decided […]
New Horizons Genealogy is a site with links for every state in the US in various genealogy categories. It specializes in New England and New York Colonial American Ancestry. From their website: “New Horizons Genealogy specializes in New England and New York Colonial American Genealogy, Ancestry, and Family History. Our record collections include Vital records, Arnold […]
The USGenWeb Archives, in my opinion, is one of the top 5 free genealogy websites. Its pages are almost all the same, so the user experience is excellent. There are state websites, further divided into county websites. Each county website presents links to collections and records by category. The naming conventions are universal, and it […]
The “I Dream of Genealogy” website is not very well known, but it has a set of its own collections and links to other collections. It started in 1998. From the website: “Here you will find free online genealogy databases, compiled family histories, vital record resources, famous and celebrity family trees, lost and found family heirlooms, genealogy search, and you […]
HathiTrust began in 2008 as a consortium of 12 Mid-West universities that embody the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and 11 universities from the University of California system. In essence, the goal was to create a digital repository of scholarly material and books. Copyright and other factors determine the availability of researchers to view documents in […]