Showing posts with label county histories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label county histories. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Danville genealogy group to discuss county histories
The Danville Public Library will present a session by Monique Howell from the Indiana State Library on Monday, August 13 at 1:30 pm about how to make the most of county histories. County histories can include biographical sketches of your ancestors as well as information on local history. The session will be part of the library's Genealogy Nuts group monthly meeting, which is held in the library's program room on the ground floor. Visitors are welcome - for more information, contact the library - phone (317) 745-2604.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
RESEARCH TIP: Digital Books
A reader recently reminded me of one of the most promising avenues for genealogy researchers - the digitizing of books and putting them online, often with no cost to access. Two of the best-funded of these digitization efforts are Google Books and the Texts section of Internet Archive.
Both of these projects are focusing a lot of their attention on older books, which are not as likely to be subject to any copyright issues. For genealogy researchers, that means they are digitizing of a lot of the county histories, directories and official government reports that can contain nuggets of information about our ancestors and the communities they lived in. Some of these books have even had OCR (Optical Character Recognition) done during the digitizing process, so that you can easily search the pages for a particular word or name.
Libraries around the globe are participating in these digitizing efforts, including the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne. Among the items of interest to Hendricks County researchers are copies of the 1885, 1895 and 1914 histories of the county, as well as the 1904 atlas.
Internet Archive also is adding copies of the censuses - the 1860, 1870, 1900, 1910 and 1930 Hendricks County population schedules are among the Indiana items I found in their collection. You have to browse through these censuses - OCR could not be done on them to make them searchable - but it's free!
Both of these projects are focusing a lot of their attention on older books, which are not as likely to be subject to any copyright issues. For genealogy researchers, that means they are digitizing of a lot of the county histories, directories and official government reports that can contain nuggets of information about our ancestors and the communities they lived in. Some of these books have even had OCR (Optical Character Recognition) done during the digitizing process, so that you can easily search the pages for a particular word or name.
Libraries around the globe are participating in these digitizing efforts, including the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne. Among the items of interest to Hendricks County researchers are copies of the 1885, 1895 and 1914 histories of the county, as well as the 1904 atlas.
Internet Archive also is adding copies of the censuses - the 1860, 1870, 1900, 1910 and 1930 Hendricks County population schedules are among the Indiana items I found in their collection. You have to browse through these censuses - OCR could not be done on them to make them searchable - but it's free!
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