{"id":1557,"date":"2014-08-11T02:12:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T02:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2024-06-06T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T01:21:49","slug":"links-to-high-quality-digital-content-for-local-family-history-research-on-delmarva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/links-to-high-quality-digital-content-for-local-family-history-research-on-delmarva\/","title":{"rendered":"Links to High Quality Digital Content for Local &#038; Family History Research on Delmarva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since there is an enormous, rapidly growing body of research information available on the web, there is a need for a curated landing page, a place in the public commons on the net, to help someone digging into the past.\u00a0 This opportunity to help researchers is something I encounter often during public lectures and\u00a0courses as I get questions about how to find quality e-content.\u00a0 As a result, I have\u00a0tested some curated social media products and apps, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnist.com\/\">www.learnist.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liiist.com\/\">www.liiist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Based on that experience, I\u00a0decided that the best way to point someone to valuable e-resources is to simply create a series of web pages.\u00a0 Thus I have created this series, which focuses on linking to quality family and local history research collections\u00a0related to the Delmarva Peninsula.\u00a0 This section of my website provides links to digital repositories, which have richly organized information and provide access to collections of quality resources for family and local history resources.<\/p>\n<p>Divided into major regions on the Peninsula, select your region of interest and on the page you will find topical headings to direct you to rich content.\u00a0 The pages will concentrate on linking to high quality digital repositories of online data to help local and family history researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this helps you\u00a0with your study of the past.\u00a0 If you have suggestions for additions or how to improve the product, email me.\u00a0 I will continue to monitor the web and e-news outlets for developments, which should be added to the pages and add them as they come up, in order to help all of us with research in the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dixo85.wix.com\/mikedixon\">Click here to go to curated links site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1558\" style=\"width: 987px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-10_16-52-43.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1558\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-10_16-52-43.png?resize=640%2C551&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"This curated site links to rich content digital sites, which help with family and local history research on Delmarva.\" width=\"640\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-10_16-52-43.png?w=987&amp;ssl=1 987w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-10_16-52-43.png?resize=300%2C258&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-10_16-52-43.png?resize=800%2C688&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This curated site links to rich content digital sites, which help with family and local history research on Delmarva.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since there is an enormous, rapidly growing body of research information available on the web, there is a need for a curated landing page, a place in the public commons on the net, to help someone digging into the past.\u00a0 This opportunity to help researchers is something I encounter often during public lectures and\u00a0courses as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Links to High Quality Digital Content for Local &amp; 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