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Connecting Genealogy and the World Wide Web


Connecting Genealogy and the World Wide Web

June 16, 2023 - 10am - 12noon

Lincoln Preparatory School - Grambling, LA


Surnames Survey - Please Complete
( https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Surnames )


LINCOLN PARISH LIBRARY:  Lincoln Parish Library  

Lincoln Parish History    Lincoln Parish History


CENSUS RECORDS:

•        Family Search (free): Select Search, then select Records ‐ Family Search

Conference Videos (select Watch Videos) –  RootsTech     PLEASE CORRECT,  https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/home 

•        Discover Your Roots – The Freedmen’s Bureau Project (searchable) Freedmen's Bureau


MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS AND PENSIONS:

•        Veteran’s Service Records – National Archives  Veteran's Service Records

•        Search for Civil War Veterans ‐ (select soldiers or sailors or regiments, etc.) Civil War Veteran's Search



CENSUS RECORDS:

•        Ancestry ($ home; free library): Select Search, then select All Collections ‐ Ancestry.com/


NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, JOURNALS & PERIODICALS:

•        Library of Congress ‐ Chronicling America ‐ Historic American Newspapers  

Chronicling America Historical Newspapers

•        PERSI - PERiodical Source Index - Newsletters, Journals, and other periodicals provided by historical and genealogical societies and others PERSI

•        Newspapers.com (fee) - Newspapers.com/


GET INVOLVED ‐ SHARE, NETWORK, LEARN!

Workshops, Presentations, Conferences, Webinars, Organizations, Lineage Societies, Facebook, Blogs, TV Shows, YouTube, and more

  • Afro-‐American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago  AAGHSC

•        Midwest African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI) MAAGI

•        Almost Disappeared Blog – Alvin Blakes  Almost Disappeared

•        Roots Revealed Blog – Melvin Collier  Roots Revealed

•        Choctaw Freedmen History & Legacy Blog – Angela Y. Walton-Raji Choctaw Freedmen Legacy    

•        Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP)  SDUSMP

•        BlackProGen LIVE! – Nicka Smith   BlackProGenLive

•        FamilyTreeWebinars.com (several free videos) - Family Tree Webinars



ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

•        Louisiana Library Connection (has limited free resources, LA library card is required for some records)   LA Library Connection                                                        


•        Sanborn Maps  Historical Maps


 •        Bureau of Land Management – General Land Office (select Land Patents) Land Records


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