Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Blog posts about finding and using archives and archival collections for genealogy research, including help with access to primary sources.
Today's post is about digitizing records behind the scenes in libraries and archives. In a recent presentation on using manuscript collections, I mentioned the relatively low rates of digitization of manuscript collections. Like most issues [...]
Using yellow as contrast for faded handwriting is today’s tip. It's simple but effective. When we encountered faded or difficult-to-read documents in the archives, it could be a challenge to photocopy or even read [...]
The U.S. National Archives website redesign is great. The revamped NARA website is now available, featuring a new home page and features suggested by the public. NARA launched the process for the third redesign of Archives.gov [...]
Today NARA releases Alien files held in Kansas City. For the first time, more than 300,000 case files on alien residents of the U.S. who were born before 1909 are now open to the [...]
