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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!
2. Genealogical Resources (by type):
Directories (business, city, professional, rural, telephone):
1890 Philadelphia City Directory.
http://olddirectorysearch.com/Philadelphia__Pennsylvania_1890/ Ethnic Genealogy:
New Jersey State Archives is proud to announce the addition of the first imaged manuscript collection to our website.
The online presentation contains nearly 300 images selected from the Archives' service files of New Jersey's black soldiers enlisted in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War. Included are muster and service certificates, letters from family members, and other records relating to the soldier's service. Not all documents have been scanned, as many are brief notations, etc., by the Adjutant General's Office. However, the image collection is rich, and we believe it will be an important genealogical resource as well as a celebration of an important aspect of Black History in our state.
http://www.njarchives.org/links/guides/sdea4015.html Land and Property Records (land grants, patents, deeds, property tax lists/rolls, etc.):
Deeds in Cuyahoga County, Ohio can be searched
on-line. Every deed recorded since the county was founded in 1810 has been
microfilmed. The images have been digitized and keyed to a searchable index.
[I believe that this searchable deed database may be among the very few to
have remote access. Any others that people know about?]
http://recorder.cuyahogacounty.us/, then click on "Search Database" and
select "General Search." Marriage and Divorce Records (official):
The State of New Jersey began collecting marriage records on May, 1 1848. The
Secretary of State has now computerized the records for May 1848 through May 31,
1867 and has placed the index online where it is available to everyone.
Data entry from the 1848-1867 hardcopy indexes for most of the counties has been
completed and has been verified against the original returns. Index data for the
following counties is currently being checked and should be considered
preliminary and possibly incomplete: Middlesex, Ocean, Salem, Somerset, Union and Warren. The index may be searched by the name of the groom and/or bride, county of registration, and/or the year of marriage.
This database joins two previously released databases: one that indexes New Jersey State Archives marriage records, 1666-1799, and one that indexes plaintiffs and defendants in New Jersey Supreme
Court cases heard between 1704 and 1844. The archives plans to issue several
more databases this year as well. All of these databases can be viewed at
http://www.njarchives.org/links/databases.html.
Publishing (incl. self-publishing, publishing on CDs and the Web):
Brigham Young University is spearheading a project to make the complete text
of books available online for free to those researching their family’s
history. Participating libraries include the Harold B. Lee Library at
Brigham Young University, BYU Hawaii, BYU Idaho, LDS Business College,
Family History Library, and the Church History Library of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Over 5,000 volumes have now been digitized and made available through the
Family History Archive website. The volumes are fully searchable, with both
basic and advanced searching options available. Images of the original pages
of the books display on the screen in PDF form. Users can save images in a
My Favorites folder or print out the pages on their home computer.
Images from the books are also now linked to titles in the Family History
Library Catalog of the Family History Library. Look in the Notes field of
the entry for any book. If the book has been digitized and made available
through BYU, there will be a link that says: To view a digital version of
this book click here.
http://lib.byu.edu/fhc.
Religious Records (church membership registries, histories, baptismal, marriage and funeral records):
Baltimore City Church Register Transcriptions.The Maryland Genealogical Society has made available on its website
transcriptions from four churches in Baltimore. Tips for using these files
are provided on the main database page.
http://www.mdgensoc.org/database%20transcriptions/transcriptions.html 3. Other (non-GSP) Non-profit and Governmental Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements:
Newspaper Databases in the Penn State Digital Library.
The Digitized Collections at Penn State include three searchable newspaper
databases, which may be of interest to individuals researching their
Pennsylvania ancestors. These collections may be accessed from links on the
Digitized Collections homepage. In addition to these databases you may want
to check out the digital maps collections or the Eighth Air Force Archive.
Two of these databases use ActivePaper Reader software. You must choose the
appropriate Internet connection speed before beginning your search with
ActivePaper. You can search the newspapers by keyword or browse through the
newspaper images page-by-page. There are links from the databases’ main
pages to Search Tips and Archive Guide/Help pages should you need
assistance.
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Historical Digital Collegian. Pennsylvania State University’s student newspaper, The Daily Collegian, was
known by different names during its nearly 120-year history—Free Lance,
State Collegian, and Penn State Collegian. If your ancestor attended Penn
State between April, 1887, and August 2, 1940, you might find mention of
this individual in one of these papers. Issues published after 1940 have not
yet been digitized.
2.
Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers. This collection contains 17 newspapers from the following Pennsylvania
communities: Bellefonte, Chambersburg, Columbia, Erie, Gettysburg,
Huntingdon, Philadelphia, Reading, Waynesboro, and Wellsboro. The dates of
the newspapers in this digital collection cover the period from July 17,
1847, to December 31, 1874, with most falling between 1855 and 1871. You can
view articles, photographs, and advertisements. As noted on the website,
newspapers played an important role by mobilizing public opinion about the
war, providing information to the public about battles, and documenting
political life back home. In addition to military and political news there
are standard types of articles like those on travel, the arts, sports and
local events.
3.
Pennsylvania County Historic Newspapers. The Historical Newspaper database is one of the resources found in the
Pennsylvania Center for the Book at Penn State. This database contains
newspapers published between 1700 and 1870. There are two ways in which to
search this database. You can search by keyword or by selecting one or more
of the following fields: county, category, and time period. The available
categories include advertising; local, national, and international news;
entertainment, and sports. Search results data fields include the newspaper
name, article title, county, category, date and article word count,
keywords, and a short summary of the article. Click on the View Article link
to bring up an image of the article.
http://apps.libraries.psu.edu/digital/index.cfm 4. Commercial Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements:
5. Technology:
6. Miscellaneous:
Categories
Use the following topic list to jump to the respective section above:
| 1. Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: Resources, News & Announcements |
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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 |
| 5. Technology |
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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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