The First Friday Genealogy November 2015 issue comes out tomorrow. My free newsletter is sent out (you guessed it) the first Friday of the month. It contains tips and tricks for your family history research from the perspective of an archivist and librarian.
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This month’s issue is about archives websites to help your family history research.
Lots of attention in the genealogical research world goes to commercial (for-profit) digital collection sites like Ancestry or MyHeritage.
But there are many, many non-profit libraries, archives, and museums that are working hard to digitize and deliver their collections directly to users, usually for free. In these collections are genealogically rich materials such as yearbooks and oral history transcripts.
One of these sites is OCLC’s ContentDM. Their Collection of Collections site features digital collections from a host of libraries and archives that use CONTENTdm‘s software to deliver digital collections to researchers.
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