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Libraries and Archives
Allen County Public Library LibDex Library of Congress Making of America National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Find news and reviews on more great Web sites in the August 2003 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
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www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy
Search the catalog of the world's second-largest genealogy library (after only the Family History Library in Salt Lake City), in Fort Wayne, Ind., or consult the guides to getting started. (Note that although this is the home of PERSI, the Periodical Source Index to genealogy journals, you can't search it here; PERSI is, however, part of Ancestry's US Records Collection.)
www.libdex.com
Looking for a library? You'll find it in this easy-to-use index to 18,000 libraries worldwide, library home pages, Web-based library catalogs, Friends of the Library pages and library e-commerce affiliates.
www.loc.gov
The "nation's library" can indeed be that for genealogists who know how to mine it. Besides the Library of Congress' online catalog to pretty much everything ever printed, this site is home to the American Memory project. Here, you can find images ranging from a map of your ancestor's hometown to a photo of the railroad he worked on, and the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, NUCMC (say "nuck-muck") for short, the first stop for finding family mentions in old documents. (Only post-1986 catalogs are covered in the online NUCMC.)
moa.umdl.umich.edu and moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa
Split over two sites (and, yes, you must actually search them separately), this online archive puts digitized books from the 19th century only a mouse click away. The Michigan-based part of the collection contains some 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles; the Cornell section covers 267 monograph volumes and more than 100,000 journal articles, and is home to a complete online version of the "OR-Navy," the government's Official Record of naval action in the Civil War. (You can find the Army equivalent at eHistory.com, at right.) Read more about Making of America in the August 2002 Family Tree Magazine.
www.archives.gov
The new site of the "nation's attic" still contains helpful guides to genealogy and to obtaining immigration, military and other records from NARA. But now it also hosts the Archival Research Catalog (ARC), which so far covers about 20 percent of the archives' holdings nationwide. ARC includes 124,000 digitized photos, maps and documents. For a review, see the April 2003 Family Tree Magazine. NARA recently launched a new resource that catalogs electronic records, called Access to Archival Databases.
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