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The Michigan County Histories and Atlases Digitization Project is comprised of 428 digitized titles (many composed of multiple volumes) published before 1923. The collection offers all members of the community free keyword searching and page-by-page access to digitized reproductions of Michigan county histories and atlases as a resource for historical and genealogical research.

Switching from 'image' view to 'PDF' view enables much better results with Detroit City Directory 1928-29, which has very fine print.

Books from the University of Michigan collection, scanned for preservation purposes. At present, there are 28,378 volumes in the General Collection. Collection includes 1899 Business and Professional Directory for Detroit and surrounding communities, and 1928-29 Detroit City Directory.

The Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives is the special collections and archives department of the North Dakota State University Libraries. It acquires, preserves and makes accessible rare, valuable and unique materials in support of the research and teaching missions of North Dakota State University. It also serves the citizens of North Dakota and scholars throughout the world.

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

The DAR Genealogical Research System is a combination of several databases created in recent years to organize the large quantity of information that the DAR has collected since its inception in 1890.

The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia. Reviewed in the Dec/Jan 2010 issue of Internet Genealogy by Diane L. Richard

The Digital Library on American Slavery offers data on race and slavery extracted from eighteenth and nineteenth-century documents and processed over a period of eighteen years. The Digital Library contains detailed information on about 150,000 individuals, including slaves, free people of color, and whites. These data have been painstakingly extracted from 2,975 legislative petitions and 14,512 county court petitions, and from a wide range of related documents, including wills, inventories, deeds, bills of sale, depositions, court proceedings, amended petitions, among others. Buried in these documents are the names and other data on roughly 80,000 individual slaves, 8,000 free people of color, and 62,000 whites, both slave owners and non-slave owners

Document images from Halsted Mortuary, San Francisco

The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC, area; Regional Archives; and Presidential Libraries. ARC is a work in progress; currently over 63% of our records are described in ARC at the series level. ARC contains many descriptions of records of interest to genealogists and family historians, including: * applications for enrollment in Native American tribes * court records * fugitive slave cases * land records * military personnel records * naturalization records

The UK National Archives' collection is one of the largest in the world, with 11 million records, from Domesday Book to modern government papers. Our collection includes paper and parchment records, electronic records and websites, photographs, posters and drawings. We also have an estimated six million maps covering not only the British Isles but also many countries and regions of the world.

"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.