internet resources

Just found a terrific way to access old books over the internet.

http://www.genealogybooklinks.com/default.htm

.. simplies searching for our ancestors by identifying and linking to the freely available digitized American biographies, genealogies and history books ...

Contributing sources include the Internet Archives, Google Books, Library of Congress, US Gen Net, and Hathitrust.

http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/index.html

From their introduction:

One of the major drawbacks of traditional printed-on-paper peerages such as Burke's Peerage or Debrett's Peerage is that they quickly become out of date, especially when published once every few years or so.

We hope to avoid this with Cracroft's Peerage by issuing several updates each year, containing not only updated information but also new and additional information.

Would love feedback on the accuracy of the site from people.

Today I was over at the Lynnfield Gen. Room. Turns out the Gen. Soc. was having there monthly meeting and this was the subject they were going to be speaking on. Unfortunately I had to head home so I couldn't go. Gona see if I can get a copy of what was discused. Haven't joined yet but they don't care if you join or not. You can just come. Must remember when the next meeting is and go and join.

Maybe they can send you email reminders of the meetings? That would be great Judith. You know what -- we should start a new discussion about "evaluating sources."

EH - re: Cracroft site -- MUCH harder to navigate than thepeerage.com. To find someone on Cracroft you have to know their title. To find someone on thepeerage.com, you need a surname, it has a easy to use index to search by surname. Both are updated frequently. I have seen a great number of 2010 rev. dates on thepeerage.

I did a couple side-by-sides to compare information. thepeerage.com puts its sources at the end of each entry. Cracrot's are buried. Both sites hyperlink to others mentioned in the profile if the site has further information on that person.

One interesting and useful features of Cracroft is a list all Prime Ministers from 1721 to today. EH, it's a project waiting for you!

All in all, I will continue to rely on thepeerage.com as my first choice, and use Cracroft if I know someone's title, as an additional source.

I'm glad you detailed the differences.

1. The Peerage is good for individual name search
2. Cracroft is good for searching by title / honor held

I'm not doing Prime Ministers of England, they're not my ancestors. I will leave that to someone English. :) I am involved in PRIOR to 1721 English / Irish / Scots.

I did start Projects for the office holders of High Sheriff of Lancaster and High Sheriff of Cheshire to 1850, as I have ancestors among them.

I'm hoping others will start similar projects for their ancestors in the other counties.

That's a good idea. I always forget about the meetings. Then when I'm heading to cousin's house in Lynnfield I always say wonder when that meeting gona be. I'll double check in the Gen. room,it's always posted there,the next time I'm over there. Hopefully they'll be next Friday. love that gen. Room! The one in Wakefield is nice too. Neither one of them make you sign in or show an ID. In Saugus they they practically make you give them your 1st born for colloidal! But they are not as bad as Kittery. They take everything away from you and give you a little piece of paper. Can't even have a note book.! Then when you finally get into it there's hardly anything there. Plymouth , Mass is another nice one. So isn't Portsmouth,N.H. and the one in Rye is good too, not too big but it's nice. Same thing with the Fed Vitals and State Vitals in Mass. Fed. ones are nice to go to. Been too a lot of them over the years. You do have to leave everything in a locker but you can take paper and pencil in with you. State ones much more expensive and rude. beleave it or not the gentleman there ,who gets the books made me cry, if you can beleave that. Never went back. Probably will have to give in and go back some time. Judy

I'm going to try to take a trip over to Lynnfield and pick up the Hist. Soc. phone number and call them. See if there's a meeting in Dec. Might not because of the holidays!I have to get my membership in.They are nice group.

EH, I am currently working on a Cheshire family. I think one may have been a sheriff. I"ll take a peek at your project and let you know.

"The final rolls of citizens and freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes" is a book published by the United States Commission to the Five Tribes.

I found it on Google but it is available on Amazon.com. It's not out of copyright, so I couldn't download a pdf. The original 1907 version has a $2000 price tag. Hopefully some of the libraries with good genealogy departments will also have it. There have been several recent reprints that sell for $125.

The book gives the name, age in 1902, sex, degree of Indian blood and census reference for each entry. The Five Tribes are Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek.

I will add this book as a resource to the various Native American project that cover the Five Tribes.

An online index can be found here:
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/finalindex.php
The index will return the roll and page # as well as the tribal designation.

The Family History Library in Salt Lake looks like it has book and a microfilm copy.

Here is a link for the call # for the film: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframese...++

See also:
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Five_Civilized_Tribes

--Randy

Monasticon Anglicanum: a History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, published in 1825.
Available as pdf from Google books - http://books.google.com/books?id=VvpAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA45&lpg=P....

This is a useful tool for Medieval English research as it verifies which knights and other nobles supported which monasteries, abbeys, hospitals, etc., with years that they gave support. People may move but institutions do not. You can trace where the knights took up residence by the support they gave to these institutions.

http://www.wargs.com/political/
Family trees of US Politicians

@ Erica, What about a discussion to name Genealogical Societies of people on here, the name, place, and date they meet. Membership dues, etc. I am the Chairman of the membership committee for one. I think I will start a new discussion!

Barbara Jean Shepard@barbara
I think that would be great if you had the links broken down by state.

Barbara Jean Shepard@barb
PS Don't forget the free ones

I started the discussion off with the Plymouth County Genealogy Society that I belong to. I'm hoping others go on that discussion and add any other clubs, much like this discussion lists internet sources. I don't know of any other clubs or free clubs either.

Cool, Barbara, thank you!

I saw this website advertised on Facebook, it's like FindAGrave called Gravestone Spotter:
http://gravestonespotter.com/

http://www.eneclann.ie/

Irish resources

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http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx

Allen County Library, Ft. Wayne Indiana

http://www.irishorigins.com/
Extensive Irish resources (requires subscription)

Just got back from Essex Soc. Gen., Inc. , over in Lynnfield. they meet at the Cong. Church. Last time they discussed inter net sites, but I wasn't able to go. Asked if i could get a copy of that meeting. They said it will appear in their magazine in a couple of months and since I officially joined today I will be getting the magazines , which I beleave come out every two or three months. When I get them I will post hem and you can all read them. Maybe something will help someone out.

I've found a terrific biographical resource:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

You can get emails of "lives of the week." Such fun! I'm going to go read about Benedictine Monk Matthew Paris now, maybe update his profile:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/2.html

I am going to split this one off and start a thread just for eBooks. I got another great one on early VA genealogy.

I didn't notice this in the list

http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/login/barcod...

Its Heritage Quest online

You must have a Bar code (my number is on my library card) to use it

http://www.archontology.org/

Archontology:
About This Website

The origins of Archontology.org date back to 1999 when the National Politics Web Guide was set up at a free web host <http://lego70.tripod.com&gt; to accommodate the records on a limited number of political entities. You may refer to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to see how it looked at that time.

The Web Guide ceased to function in September 2004 when Archontology.org was introduced to serve as a home for the study of historical offices. As of early 2010, Archontology.org hosts more than 2,300 entries on political entities, including about 800 biographies.

http://www.nedcc.org/resources/family.php

Ways to preserve old documents. Website recommended by librarian at Library of Congress.

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