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August 28, 2007

Tuesday’s Treasure

Looks like we missed the Elgin National Road Race by a few days here…ha, ha, more like nearly 100 years… Anyway, enjoy the card from the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin.

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August 23, 2007

Ancestry.com Search Webinar

Straight from Dick Eastman’s blog, Suzanne Adams, Accredited Genealogist, will be showing how to search Ancestry.com like a pro on August 29th. Space is limited so signup today! Here’s the full post: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/08/ancestrycom-sea.html

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August 21, 2007

Tuesday’s Treasure

Whoa, this is something I had no idea we had anything even similar to – a postcard portrait of Johann Strauss from 1937! From the Lake County Discovery Museum.

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August 16, 2007

Genealogy/Digitization News

Apparently good things are coming out of the FGS Conference. The Allen County Public Library (ACPL), Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library, and FamilySearch’s Family History Library announced a joint digitization project. It appears to be city and county histories as well as published family histories. All 100,000 or so items will be available at: http://www.familyhistoryarchive.byu.edu.

For the full story…

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August 14, 2007

Tuesday’s Treasure

How about some letter reading!? We have Alexander McDaniel’s notes written August 14, 1886 concerning his first arrival in Wilmette August 14, 1836 from the Wilmette Public Library District. Be sure to select “Page & Text” (and then hit go) from the pull-down menu so you read the transcription!

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August 7, 2007

Tuesday’s Treasure

So today, how about we think about flowers. My daylilies are nearing the end of their season, except for the late ones, but I found this nice drawing of Ludwig Schmitt’s Carnation Greenhouse from the Skokie Public Library’s collection.

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August 6, 2007

Holocaust Records to be Sent to Washington & Jerusalem

Last week the New York Times ran a story about the International Tracing Service, which is administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross and located in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Later in August, about the Tracing Service will transfer about 10 million documents to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and to the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem. The files include information from over 51 concentration camps & prisons, and include transportation lists, medical reports, entry documents and Gestapo prison records.

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More Polish Goodies from Steve’s Genealogy Blog

For those of us tasked with finding our way through Polish roots, Steve’s Genealogy Blog is a gold mine. In the feeds today, I ran across his post about Online Gazetteers of Poland – very very useful! He even tells you how to navigate them. Folks, if you aren’t reading his blog and you’re doing Polish research, you really should. There’s a lot of great info on it…

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Using Flickr with Your Digitization Project

A co-worker mentioned the National Library of New Zealand’s Flickr site to me today (thanks, Ian!). They are posting images from their collections of maps/photos/illustrations. They make it very clear that permission must be granted before reuse is possible and they also post a comment directing people to their website. This is a really neat new approach to making things more available and to showcase your digital collections. I think we’ll see a lot more of this type of thing in the months/years to come.

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