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1. Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: Resources, News & Announcements:
We welcome contributions to this resource page. Please send the information (including the URL, if any) in an email to GSP.techsig@verizon.net (with Timely Res in the Subject Line). Thanks!
The recent GSP Technology SIG election resulted in the following officers for 2006:
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Sandra M. Hewlett |
| Vice Chair: |
Michael W. Freeland |
| Secretary/Treasurer: |
Robert H. Calvert |
Congratulations to these three!
Don Stone is no longer an officer, but he continues as GSP webmaster.
2. Genealogical Resources (by type):
Biographical Records:
Pennsylvania biographies.
http://www.historicpa.net/bios/index.html
Census Records (local population, agricultural, manufacturing, mortality):
1930 Census of Merchant Seamen. ($)
http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8851&offerid=0%3a679%3a0
Church Records (see Religious Records )
Hospital Records (private/public health & welfare facilities):
Delaware State Hospital for the Insane.
http://www.blacksheepancestors.com/usa/delaware_insane.shtml
http://www.blacksheepancestors.com/usa/delaware_insane2.shtml Instructions in Genealogical Research:
Research in the Philadelphia Area.
http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2005/0511/0511ann6.cfm
Local and County Histories:
The First American West: the Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html Military & Veterans' Records (service records, pension records, soldiers' bonus records, draft registration, grave registries):
Alternative service records.
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=10742
Unionists and the Civil War Experience In the Shenandoah Valley. The families included in this 3-volume series are indexed online (37 families in vol. I, 32 in vol. II, and 57 in vol. III).
http://www.vbmhc.org/vra/vrasales.shtml#volIclaimants
Names, Surnames:
Naming patterns.
http://genealogy.about.com/od/naming_patterns/?nl=1
Photographs; Portraits; Private Motion Pictures:
Photos, scrapbooking, and family memorabilia.
http://genealogy.about.com/od/photos/
Reference Works:
Librarian’s index to the internet – history.
http://lii.org/pub/topic/history 3. Other (non-GSP) Non-profit and Governmental Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements:
New York City Archivists Round Table.
http://www.nycarchivists.org/
Delaware Valley Archivist Group.
http://www.dvarchivists.org/
Council of State Archivists.
http://www.statearchivists.org/
Organizations serving archivists.
http://www.statearchivists.org/connections/archivalassns.htm 4. Commercial Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements:
5. Technology:
Data Formats and Organization -- General:
Organizing digital genealogy files.
http://genealogy.about.com/od/organization/a/digital.htm
Genealogical (and Other) Software:
Best freeware utilities.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm Internet:
Where to put your family tree online.
http://genealogy.about.com/od/publishing/tp/web_sites.htm?nl=1http://genealogy.about.com/od/publishing/a/online.htm?nl=1
How WiFi works.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wire-lessnetwork.htm
Locating WiFi hot spots.
http://www.wifi411.com/
Security issues for computers in general and WiFi specifics.
Click on “best practices”
at the left for a list of steps to reduce your vulnerability to cyber threats.
http://www.secureflorida.org/
6. Miscellaneous:
Categories
Use the following topic list to jump to the respective section above (the links have no effect if there are no items of the specified type):
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Biographical Records |
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Birth Records (official) |
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Cemetery/Funeral Director Records |
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Census Records (local population, agricultural, manufacturing, mortality) |
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Church Records (see Religious Records ) |
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Correctional Facilities/Prison Records |
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Court Records (civil/criminal case files, justice of the peace and magistrate BUT NOT death or probate records; see those categories below) |
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Death Records (official) |
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Directories (business, city, professional, rural, telephone) |
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Ethnic Genealogy |
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Family Histories (incl.genealogy charts) |
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Genetics and DNA |
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Hereditary Societies |
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Hospital Records (private/public health & welfare facilities) |
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Immigration Records (alien registration, naturalization, ship passenger lists, etc.) |
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Instructions in Genealogical Research |
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Land and Property Records (land grants, patents, deeds, property tax lists/rolls, etc.) |
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Local and County Histories |
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Maps & Gazetteers; Migration Routes |
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Marriage and Divorce Records (official) |
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Military & Veterans' Records (service records, pension records, soldiers' bonus records, draft registration, grave registries) |
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Names, Surnames |
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Obituaries/Death Notices (published) |
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Oral History |
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Organization Records (business, labor, fraternal/patriotic, other non-business) |
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Photographs; Portraits; Private Motion Pictures |
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Private Papers (diaries/journals, correspondence, unpublished autobiographies, Bibles, etc.) |
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Probate Records (incl. wills and related estate settlement papers) |
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Published Histories and Genealogical Works |
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Publishing (incl. self-publishing, publishing on CDs and the Web) |
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Reference Works |
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Religious Records (church membership registries, histories, baptismal, marriage and funeral records) |
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School Records (private, public & religious educational institutions) |
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Timelines |
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Tours |
| 3. Other (non-GSP) Non-profit and Governmental Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements |
| 4. Commercial Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements |
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Genealogical Data Formats |
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Data Formats and Organization -- General |
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CD-ROMs |
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Digital Cameras, Scanners; Digitization of Records |
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Genealogical Software |
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Internet |
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