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Complete alphabetical listing of all Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory pages.

Site search page

This link takes you to the search page to find locations - with contact information - for Family History Centers in the location you request.

"The California Digital Newspaper Collection offers over 200,000 pages of California newspapers spanning the years 1849-191l: the Alta California, 1849-1891; the San Francisco Call, 1893-1910; the Amador Ledger, 1900-1911; the Imperial Valley Press, 1901-1911; the Sacramento Record-Union, 1859-1890; and the Los Angeles Herald, 1905-1907. Additional years are forthcoming, as are other early California newspapers: the Californian; the California Star; the California Star and Californian; the Sacramento Transcript; the Placer Times; and the Pacific Rural Press."

A useful idea for saving and sharing bookmarked pages and text.

A great research tool for every family historian.  Use Diigo's online bookmarking system with the ability to highlight specific content on a page and add your own notes related to the content.  Later, you can compile these highlights and notes from various sites onto one screen which you can then email to yourself - or others - or even post to your blog.  It can't get much easier!

Search for surname distribution throughout the U.S. or narrow your focus to individual name, address and phone listings in a particular state.

Genea-sleuths, dig up the live ones for a change! Put in a surname, search "All States" to see the nationwide distribution, then pick a state that interests you. At the bottom of that state's page, there's a link that will bring up all the individual listings in that state. Sure, there are more direct ways to look up a phone number, but they won't take you on an interesting surname odyssey like this will.

Here is a very good service if you are unable to travel to a location to do reseach this group will
do the foot work for you at a low cost to you. This is for the US and other countries.
When you get to the 1st page page down and click on the link FAQ's to request

"This website is an illustrated searchable online catalog of historical information viewed through the filter of roadside and other permanent outdoor markers, monuments, and plaques. It contains photographs, inscription transcriptions, marker locations, maps, additional information and commentary, and links to more information. Anyone can add new markers to the database and update existing marker pages with new photographs, links, information and commentary."

An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives.

In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.

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The Flickr profile page for the LOC.

Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone! This is an Open project - the software is open, the data is open, the documentation is open, and the site is open. Now it's your turn! Everyone can participate in this project, whether you're a programmer who wants to build on top of this data, a librarian who wants to add records of digitized books to her local catalog, or a lover of books who wants to make sure his favorites are well represented. Follow the links below to find out more about participating, or just start browsing around and add some book information!

From site: "One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a brand new database infrastructure for handling huge amounts of dynamic information, a wiki interface, multi-language support, and people who are willing to contribute their time, effort, and book data. To date, we have gathered about 30 million records (20 million are available through the site now), and more are on the way. We have built the database infrastructure and the wiki interface, and you can search millions of book records, narrow results by facet, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library

Photo set of cover pages from the New York Tribune illustrated supplements beginning with the year 1909.

1928-1929 (see page 5 for title and publication info)

Downloadable e-book from the Project Gutenberg page on Scribd

Robyn Smith, of the "Reclaiming Kin" blog, has awarded the African-American Genealogy Examiner with the "Kreativ Blogger" award. This award was created by Hulda Husfrue, a Norwegian arts & crafts blogger on 5 May 2008. [Please note that her site is in Norwegian but you can translate the page using Google Translate.] From these humble beginnings the award has spread like wildfire, and the Geneablogger community regularly recognizes their favorite peers with this award.

Cambridge Historical Association - Cambridge, Iowa This is their page on Scribd where they are posting their association newsletters.

"The village by village contact site for anybody researching family history, genealogy and local history in the UK and Ireland. Every UK county, town and village has a page for family history, local history, surname and genealogy enquiries. Use the search box to find your village or town." CuriousFox was created in August 2002. The aim was to provide a resource for finding and identifying the myriad of UK villages, and allow genealogists, family history and local history researchers to make contact and share knowledge at a village level.