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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Brian DeGraaf

Brian DeGraaf

Waymarking - A scavenger hunt for unique and interesting locations in the world - 0 views

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    A History/Culture category is included.
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    "Waymarking is a way to mark unique locations on the planet and give them a voice. While GPS technology allows us to pinpoint any location on the planet, mark the location, and share it with others, Waymarking is the toolset for categorizing and adding unique information for that location. Groundspeak's slogan is "The Language of Location" and our goal is to give people the tools to help others share and discover unique and interesting locations on the planet. We invite you to share your part of the world with us through Waymarking.com."
Brian DeGraaf

LookBackMaps - 1 views

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    "Lookbackmaps is a network of neighborhood historians, historical photo enthusiasts, historians, book publishers and others who collaborate to map history.\n\nThrough the online digitization of high-resolution public photo collections and geotagging technology, Lookbackmaps creates collaborative, standardized views into the past.\n\n \n\nThere's something in being human that wonders what was here before us-who occupied this space, how did they live, what did they leave behind? By mapping the millions of historical photos available through public libraries and private collections on the web, we start to piece together the puzzle."
Brian DeGraaf

Ancestral Atlas - Family Tree Maps - Genealogy Software - 0 views

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    From site: " Our vision is to provide an enjoyable and informative website that allows you to add your ancestors' life events where they happened and to be able to share that knowledge in a secure and collaborative environment. Over time, as more and more people add their data, Ancestral Atlas will be a site for not only creating a visual data base of your family tree maps (your own Ancestral Atlas) but also a primary source for continued research into your family's history."
Brian DeGraaf

Historical Markers and Historic Landmarks at Markeroni - 0 views

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    "Markeroni: A friendly, informal and light-hearted online community where history fans, treasure hunters and travelers log their visits to historical markers and historic landmarks. "
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    If you sign up please tell them GeoGenealogy sent you. They keep track of who brings people to the site this way.
Brian DeGraaf

The Historical Marker Database - 0 views

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    "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."
Brian DeGraaf

Open Library - 0 views

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    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
Brian DeGraaf

Gravestone Photo Project - 0 views

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    Lists the sites that are currently using a version of the Gravestone Photo Project software. These sites (organized by state) share pictures of gravestones.
Brian DeGraaf

Quick guide describing how to navigate Diigo Groups - 14 views

diigo diigo groups help guide Family Matters
started by Brian DeGraaf on 24 Jul 09 no follow-up yet
Brian DeGraaf

Michigan State Library - Michigan History, Arts, Libraries - Genealogy - 0 views

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    From site: "This Web page has information about conducting genealogy research and using the Library and Historical Center, as well as links to online research tools you may use from anywhere with an Internet connection. Please explore the links in the left rail or below"
Brian DeGraaf

Genealogy Trails - Finding Ancestors wherever their trails led - 0 views

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    "Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We've just completed our THIRD YEAR of providing data for states other than Illinois and we're very grateful for the wonderful words of encouragement we've received from researchers. We are also pleased to welcome our new hosts, who have joined our original Illinois volunteers in bringing free transcribed data for you to view on our websites. ll counties within all the states are now online with websites of their own, and we will be working hard to start filling those sites with newly transcribed data."
Brian DeGraaf

FIRP Home - 0 views

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    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.
Brian DeGraaf

California Digital Newspaper Collection - 0 views

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    "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."
Brian DeGraaf

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - 0 views

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    From site: "The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 20,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens, and manuscript maps. Some examples are United States map, maps New York, California map, Arizona map, America map, New York City map, Chicago map, and Colorado map. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history. "
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