Year: 2014

Juneteenth, dating back to June 19th, 1865, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and many communities across the nation hold special celebrations.  In observance of this day, FamilySearch has announced the release of additional online Freedmen’s Bureau Records.  The new additions are currently viewable as digital images but the data will become searchable…

  The Library of Congress, the Boston Public Library, and other virtual repositories have a series of detailed maps showing British operations on the upper Delmarva Peninsula, during the summer of 1777.  Several of these detailed products show the camps, movement, and engagements, as well as the general topographic nature of the region at that point.  Here are some…

Researchers have an almost unimaginable quantity of online resources to help with local and family history studies, these days.  And the historical materials grow rapidly with each passing year, creating treasure-troves of sources waiting to be harvested by inquiring types. This information revolution makes volumes of virtual records easily findable, sharable, and accessible.  But this data explosion,…

I often need to access historical maps produced by the Office of the U.S. Coast Survey.  The agency started drawing charts in 1807 once President Thomas Jefferson created the division.  Over time the agency, now a part of NOAA, produced an enormous quantity of highly technical maps, including products that aren’t typically thought of as being part of this work.  As…