Santa Claus can be found the census. Michael John Neill has several census images posted at his website - all for Santa in Missouri - 1900 through 1930.
1900 Santa Claus
1910 Santa Claus
1930 Santa Claus
I blogged GenealogyBank’s launch about six weeks ago. As you know, I’m a great supporter of what they are doing and have attempted to list the offerings at the site on this blog - as they are posted at GenealogyBank (Click here) and (Click here).
The site is rather spendy at $19.95 (and worth it, I […]
I see that Ancestry.com has extended their offer of free access to their massive passenger list collection - through the end of the year. If you haven’t done a thorough search for your ancestor’s passenger list entries, now would be a good time. I just located the list for my great-grandmother’s immigration in 1849 on […]
This week, my friend Illya D’ Addezio, added 358 images to his Registry of War Ration Books. Included in this batch are 40 Canadian ration books, and three books from Native Americans living on a reservation in upstate New York.
Following are surnames found in the new items:
ALLISON
ANDERSON
ANNAND
AUSTIN
BALLENT
BARRONER
BECK
BENNEDSEN
BLACK
BONSALL
BROWN
BRUCE
BUQUO
CAMPBELL
CARPENTER
CHANNELL
CLARK
COLLINGS
COLLINS
COOPER
CURRAN
CUSTER
DALEY
DEMKO
EAGLE
ELLIOTT
ELLIS
ELLWOOD
EVANS
FISH
FOLEY
FORNEY
FRAZIER
GATES
GAUVIN
GIPPLE
GRANT
GRIFFIN
HARMS
HARWOOD
HEATH
HENSON
HIELAND
HINCKS
HOLMAN
HORST
HUDSON
JOHNSON
JOHNSTON
KEATHLEY
KNIFFLIN
KNUTSON
KOCH
LANDON
LEWIS
LINDSTROM
LITZ
MCLAGREN
MEYERS
MILLER
MUNDY
MURRAY
NELSON
NESTOR
NICHOLS
OHMAN
OLSON
OTT
PARISEN
PEARCE
PETERSEN
POWERS
PRATHER
PRESSLEY
REDMOND
RIDDLE
RUSNAK
SAHMS
SCHEMPEK
SCHILLING
SCHOTTELKOTTE
SHOREY
SING
SMITH
SPINNEY
SPRINKEL
STEGMAN
SUCK
SUNDOWN
SURRETTE
THOMPSON
TOULOUSE
TYNER
WALKER
WARK
WILLEY
WILSON
WINDHAM
WOLCOTT
YARBER
YOUNG
YUNG
To view the images, visit the Index of Ration […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. –As prospectors poured west in the 1840s to find riches during the California gold rush, they turned to a valuable map that depicted the gold fields in yellow and the best routes to get there in blue.
In another continent more than 75 years later, a tourism map replete with swastikas was used in […]
London’s Daily Mirror has announced that it will make it’s newspapers from 1903 available on the Internet - starting in January. They will be searchable, and will most likely have a fee of some kind, although not a subscription.
The Mirror will make over 100 years of archived content available to the public online in […]
Google Earth has added 16 historic maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Once you’ve downloaded the program, click on “Featured Content.” “Rumsey Historical Maps” is currently the first item listed. Click on the little circle to the left of the map name you’re interested in - and then fly over the world as it […]
Ancestry.com has announced that it has added to its online service all readily available U.S. passenger lists from 1820 to 1960. Wow! This is a lot of data. I’m not surprised, as I spent days reviewing the immigration digital data sites at Ancestry.com for the Sept-Oct issue of the Net Family History section in the […]
I just got the following note from my good friend, Illya D’Addezio, at Genealogy Today. Illya posts the stuff that the “corporations” overlook. The business card database is just the latest in an ever-growing list of small resources for the Genealogist.
This week we added 350 images to our Business Card Collection database.
Included is an unbelievable […]
I blogged about the new GenealogyBank site a few weeks ago. Tom Kemp just sent me the following list of papers launched on the site during October. This is in addition to the 1300 titles they already had up! Amazing…
State Title Dates Collection
AK Peninsula Clarion 8/18/2006 to Current America’s Obituaries
CA Evening News 7/1/1914 to 12/30/1916 Historical Newspapers
CA San Jose Mercury News 5/1/1902 to 12/31/1916 Historical Newspapers
DC Catholic Standard 5/9/2002 […]
Over the weekend, I had the privilage and opportunity to try out the new GenealogyBank.com. In the process I searched many early newspapers, historic books, documents, and other resources.
Along with numerous other items, I found a letter written by my third great grandfather, William Canfield - the first thing I’ve ever seen written by […]
It has just been announced that the Wisconsin Historical Society Library will be one of the libraries in which Google will scan and digitize books and “genealogy materials.” This is important to genealogists, because this library has one of the premier genealogy collections in the country. The following excerpt has details.
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — […]
I blogged a few days ago about WWII Ration Books and Illya D’Addezio’s ration book database. Following is an item that Illya just posted on Roots-L.
This week I added 94 images to the Registry of War Ration Books, which include several user contributions. This is a new project involving an interesting source of genealogical information […]
The Institute of Museum and Library Services recently awarded Carroll County Historical Society Museum a grant of $12,295 to be used for wages to staff a special project.
The goal of the Historical Documents and Records Preservation Project is to digitize photographs, documents and records of historical significance and make them accessible to the public through […]
With microfilm copies of The Barnstable Patriot dating back to the newspapers founding in 1830, the Sturgis Library welcomes visitors from all over who are tracking genealogical, shipping or other information from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Next year, it will no longer be necessary to travel down the Old Kings Highway to Barnstable village and […]
Indiana University is undertaking two important digitizing projects - the first to be the digitization of the complete run of the Indiana Magazine of History. The following excerpt from an Indiana University Press release gives details.
The IU Digital Library Program will digitize the full run of the Indiana Magazine of History, a highly popular and […]
Prompted by an item on Juliana Smith’s Ancestry Weekly Journal, I stopped and took a look at some of the new resources posted by Ancestry.com in the last few days. It seems that on August 24, Ancestry.com posted 301 new items, including many books that I’m familiar with. In running through the list, I […]
My friend, Jean Nudd, Archivst at the NARA Northeast Region in Pittsfield, gave me a heads-up on two groups of digital online records for all 50 States that deal with WWII casualties. As I noted in my blog a few days ago, there must be more of the WWII casuaty booklets available. Sure enough, the […]
Google has added another partner to its controversial library-book scanning project–the University of California, which is also working with a team led by Yahoo, Microsoft and the Internet Archive.
Google will be scanning and digitizing millions of books from the University of California’s more than 100 libraries across its 10 campuses and making those titles fully […]
In the winter of 1085, William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey to discover the resources and taxable values of all the boroughs and manors in England. If he was going to do a thorough job of taxation, he needed to know what there was to be taxed, and who owned it. As King, […]