History Hub – A Crowdsourced History and Genealogy Research Platform

Have you checked out History Hub (https://historyhub.history.gov)  to visit their communities and ask questions that could help further your genealogy research? 

History Hub is sponsored by the National Archives and was developed in 2016 as a community crowdsourced support platform where people can ask questions, get help with research, and share their knowledge and information. National Archive staff respond to many of the questions with information about resources found at the National Archives and sometimes include information about other resources. Genealogists, citizen archivists, historians, etc. are also welcome to help answer questions. There are 19 community pages which are listed below. On the community pages, you will find an overview, existing questions, and answers, a place to ask your question, and links to relevant blog posts.

Communities

• African American Records
• Army and Air Force Records
• Census Records
• Citizen Archivists
• Court Records
• CROWD
• Foreign Affairs Records
• Genealogy
• Immigration and Naturalization Records
• Land Records
• Legislative Records
• Military and Civilian Personnel Records
• Military Records
• Native American Records
• Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Records
• Presidential Records
• Researchers Help
• Technical Help and Support
• Women’s Rights and Suffrage

In addition to the communities, there are blog posts and a section for Citizen Archivists where you can ask and answer questions and learn about opportunities to transcribe and tag digitized items for the Library of Congress.

Citizen Archivists

Content (blog posts, polls, videos, discussions)

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