On 10 July, I gave an evening presentation for the Tazewell County Genealogical Society in Pekin, Illinois. There were some links that were discussed in the presentation that were not in the handout. Those links are: Family History Card Catalog https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search Family History Library Records Databases https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list Genealogy Tip of the Day on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogytipoftheday/ Genealogy Translations on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogytranslation/ Archive.org www.archive.org Hathitrust.org www.hathitrust.org BYU digital books https://books.familysearch.org/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=FHD_PUBLIC Google Books — http://books.google.com American Memory at Library of Congress https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Wikipedia has a large list of free and paid digital newspaper sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_ne They may seem random here, but they had a purpose in the presentation. And one can spend lots of time on them. Thanks to the group in Pekin, Illinois, for asking me to speak tonight.
Hathitrust.org allows researchers to perform full-text searches of millions of pages of scanned texts. Users can view full images of out-of-copyright books and perform searches of some books still within copyright. There are a variety of ways to interact with and save the images. Some of this material is on other sites, but it is possible that a key word or phrase has been read differently or that a book was available for digitization here that is not on other sites. From their website–they currently have digitized: 16,431,171 total volumes 8,003,093 book titles 441,256 serial titles 5,750,909,850 pages 736 terabytes 194 miles 13,350 tons
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