Episode 31 - Free Access to Historic Media & Next Generation Genealogy

Published Oct 28, 2007 EPISODE 31 SHOW NOTES Genealogy Gems: Ultimate Research Strategies. The book has been discontinued . A special little .  Update: iGoogle has been discontinued. The website is evolving every day with new content, so be sure and visit regularly at   Be sure to click on the Link.  And you'll also find lots of other great tips that we've talked about to make Google work harder for your genealogy research. Please do let your research friends and your local genealogy society know about it as a resource for them too, even if they don't listen to the podcast. Gem:  The Irish Jig performed by the National Promenade Band in 1914 for Edison Records  American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to over 9 million items of written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. These materials chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America. Advertising 1850-1920 Architecture and Interior Design 1935-1955 Baseball Cards 1887-1914 Broadsides and Printed Ephemera 1600-2000 Chicago Daily News - Photographs 1902-1933 7 different Civil War collections with many, many photographs Daguerreotype Photographs 1839-1864 Depression Era to World War II FSA/OWI Photographs 1935-1945 Film, Animated 1900-1921 There are several Folk Music Collections Great Plains Photographs 1880-1920 Maps and Cartographic Items 1500-Present New York City Films 1898-1906 Nineteenth-Century Books 1850-1877 Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 1815-1900 Ohio River Valley 1750-1820 Panoramic Photographs 1851-1991 Pearl Harbor and Public Reactions Audio Interviews 1941-1942 Posters, WPA 1936-1943 Prairie Settlement, Nebraska Photographs and Letters 1862-1912 Railroads Maps 1828-1900 Revolutionary Era Maps 1750-1789 San Francisco and 1906 Earthquake Films 1897-1916 Sheet Music 1820-1860 & 1870-1885 Slave Narratives Audio Interviews 1932-1975 Small Town Life, Mid-Atlantic Stereoscopic Photographs ~ 1850-1920 Southern U.S. Personal Narratives 1860-1920 Traveling in America Books ca. 1750-1920 Turn-of-the-Century America Detroit Publishing Company Photographs 1880-1920 Upper Midwest Books ca. 1820-1910 Utah and Western Migration 1846-1869 American Variety Stage - Vaudeville  1870-1920 Western U.S. Photographs 1860-1920 World War I Military Newspapers 1918-1919 World War I Rotogravures 1914-1919 World War II Maps Military Situation Maps 1944-1945 Some of my other favorite areas of the Collections and Programs are: The VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT The NATIONAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROGRAM CHRONICALING AMERICA â HISTORIC AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS The PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG :  LOC WEBCASTS Start by browsing the Biography and History listings. The library website also offers on a variety of subjects. The future: the library just signed a World Digital Library Agreement with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization pledging cooperative efforts to build a World Digital Library website.  World Digital Library at the . GEM:  Genealogy for the Next Generation To get the attention of the next generation for genealogy I Simposonized myself. Simpsonize Me is no longer available.