internet resources

I need to take a trip back to NY soon. Though very nice, our little local library in the Texas Hill Country just doesn't compare. If you need Texas history info, I can find a lot about The Alamo.

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We need to do that as a Project sometime ... Don't forget and bring it up in a couple of weeks maybe.

Oh, that's very cool. What American Indian tribes do they cover? We have projects going for Cherokee, Sioux and Lakota so far ....

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bmuwgw/seaventure.htm
The Sea Venture was one of the early ship taking settlers to Virgina. This page has a list of all known passengers.

yeah, EH, I know -- Project!

That's a series! Oh my goodness, so important: the emigration event.

And I just realized that we don't have it recorded in the Geni ID's as an "event" on their timeline. Is a field available for that?

(answering own question)

Yes, an emigration event *is* available in the source tab, and then it fills in on the timeline.

So yes, we have to do a series of ship passenger Projects for those early ships.

And then we'll build up to Ellis Island. :)

I looked at the Texas State Library database called "Bibliography of Native American Indians". Not having a specific topic to search, I checked what they had on Quanah Parker, a famous Comanche Indian chief in Texas whose mother was a white woman ,Cynthia Ann Parker, captured by the Comanches when she was 9 years old. It had some great full text articles and references for his biography. Some of my cousin's say their grandmother told them she was related to Quanah, and I've been trying to find a link for them. She grew up in Quanah, Texas. My uncle's wife had beautiful high cheekbones and dark hair.

If you have specific questions on Indian tribes, let me know what you are looking for and I'll check it out.

Note for Texas history: If you ever read the book "True Women" or saw the mini-series with Dana Delaney and Annabeth Gish, a good friend of mine is a direct descendent of Dr. Woods and his wife Georgia. Her cousin wrote the book. I can probably get a lot of good information from them. Dr. Woods and Georgia are buried in San Marcos TX, a few miles from me. It's an insightful look into the hard life of the Texas women pioneers in the mid-1800s.

Take a look at this overview/Resource page on the Geni Wiki:
http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Resources

Please add (and sort) links here - it will be much easier to find them when we need them :-)

EH --
http://www.geni.com/projects/The+Sea+Venture

It's live!

http://genealogytrails.com/ill/carroll/index.html
One of the pioneer counties of Illinois has an excellent genealogy website. Midwestern migrations often went across Illinois as new lands opened westward.

We talked about a military project, they have a link for that.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

EH, that is one cool source. Most of my ancestors in the early part of this country's history came through the South. I have already found ancestors on the 1790 census!

I found the motherlode of digital content collections! All free online.

http://www.hathitrust.org/faq

HathiTrust makes the digitized collections of some of the nation’s great research libraries available for all. HathiTrust was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections. ....

Currently Digitized
6,990,835 total volumes
4,012,467 book titles
165,648 serial titles
2,446,792,250 pages
260 terabytes
83 miles
5,680 tons
1,603,903 volumes (~23% of total)
in the public domain

EH -- you scored! Some of my favorite "Eureka" finds have been from UVA or William & Mary. The Eureka method has drawbacks, so I'll be check this out as soon as I can.

Brilliant, Erica!! In there now, tracking down Scottish ancestors!! :))

Lynne BTW I'm going to open a "House of Douglas and Angus" Project shortly. I do hope you join us as a collaborator. I need to find out more about my treasonous witch, Janet Douglas; Archibald "Bell the Cat" Boyd; and other colorful characters of these related families.

If you have a chance to start a discussion to collect resources for us? I'm downloading Cockagne's "Peerage of Scotland ...." from archivestream, for instance. Gotten a little lost between volumes 3 and 6 I'm afraid.

USGenWeb Genealogical Site for the County of Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Settled 1637 — Incorporated 1685

Very helpful in looking into Pilgrims.

http://www.plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/

genlias.com and its related sites for all your Dutch stuff!!

Barbara Shephard mentioned this source in another discussion:

http://www.donslist.net/PGHLookups/DirM.htm

DIRECTORIES -- Almanacs, Businesses, Registers, Street Guides

Ireland resources:

In case anyone isn't aware, the church in Ireland has put their records online. It's a wealth of information. Many people, including my great grandmother, were born at home, so the only record of birth comes from the church.

http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/index.html

The National Archives is also a great place for records, like census records
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/

Has anyone seen this site?
http://www.tolatsga.org/wampa.html

The author's mission statement -- "This is a single part of what will be, by my classification, about 240 compact tribal histories (contact to 1900). It is limited to the lower 48 states of the U.S. but also includes those First Nations from Canada and Mexico that had important roles (Huron, Micmac, Assiniboine, etc.).
"This history's content and style are representative. The normal process at this point is to circulate an almost finished product among a peer group for comment and criticism. At the end of this History you will find links to those Nations referred to in the History of the Wampanoag."

BTW, I used the **NEW** discussion search feature to find this particular discussion. AWESOMENESS, indeed. Got it on the first try!

Maria, Can you be sure and add the resource to our American Indian projects? It's a great find.

Now I have to go find the "search discussions" button.

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: A project of the William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at The Newberry Library in Chicago

http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/

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http://www.rootsireland.ie/index.php?id=links

Great list of Ireland resources

Would anyone have any free sites for Italian research?

http://www.italiangen.org/Default.htm

Here's a group in NYC. I've found numerous dates for my husband's family (who are not Italian) but live in NYC. They can probably tell you about other resources. Mary

http://www.italiangen.org/Linksnew.stm

List of links on the same Italian website