Friday, November 30, 2012

Hyphens in OCR Searches

If you are looking for a search term that could be hypenated, determine how the site handles words that end up being hyphenated on the printed page. Some sites "catch" the hypen, delete it, so that searches are not impacted. Others don't as in this illustration on my Rootdig blog.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Directory Of Online Newspapers

This site has links to free and not-so-free online newspapers in the United States--United States Online Historical Newspapers.

Don't forget about the online newspapers at the Library of Congress.

Organizing Genealogical Information: Short Course-January 2013

I was asked to give people a little advance notice about our next offering of "Organizing Your Genealogical Information."

Our next series of classes and follow up sessions will begin in January 2013. More details are here.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Decimal Problems at Ancestry's Illinois Land Database

If you've got Illinois ancestors, you might want to look at this blog post on the Illinois Public Land Sales 1800-1990 database at  Ancestry.com .

http://rootdig.blogspot.com/2012/11/does-ancestrycom-know-about-decimals.html

Online Historical Newspapers

Looking to see if there are online historical newspapers for your area or city of interest?

This blog ("Online Historical Newspapers) has links to quite a few. Be certain to check out the Library of Congress site ("Chronicling America") as well.

Digital Copies of Out Of Print Books


Try these sites in your search for a free digital copy of that out-of-copyright book:

Local libraries may have copies as well.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving

Here is wishing a "Happy Thanksgiving" to our readers regardless of their location. Don't neglect your living relatives while searching for the deceased ones.

When you need a break from your holiday activities, check out some of the blogs and posts:





Tuesday, November 20, 2012

War of 1812 Service Records on Archive.org


National Archives Publication M602 contains compiled service records from the War of 1812--234 rolls of film. These rolls have been digitized and are available on Archive.org at no charge. This chart lists the roll numbers, what range of names they contain and has a direct link to the digital film on Archive.org

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