Northern New York Historical Newspapers

From their website about "Northern New York Historical Newspapers" contains 2.3 million images and is::

"Created and maintained by the Northern New York Library Network, the online collection contains historical newspapers from counties that include Clinton, Essex, Oswego, and St. Lawrence."

Check it out here:

http://news.nnyln.net/

Michigan County Histories Online

From their website:

The Michigan County Histories and Atlases Digitization Project is comprised of 428 digitized titles (many composed of multiple volumes) published before 1923.

Give it a try here http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/

Papers of the United States Founding Fathers

If there is any chance your relative interacted with one of the United States' earliest presidents, check out the website  http://founders.archives.gov/ which contains papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 119,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative, federally funded Founding Fathers Papers projects.

Master Title Plat Abbreviations--Helps with GLO Tract Books

For those who use the GLO Tract books, here is a link to a webpage with quite a few abbreviations used in those books.

Organizing Genealogical Information-Summer 2013 Course

There is information on our Summer 2013 "Organizing Genealogical Information" on our sister website. Check it out.