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• Ancestry.com - Historical Newspaper Collection

  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription.

• Anti-Annexation Petitions

  Ku`e: the Hui Aloha `Aina anti-annexation petitions, 1897-1898 compiled by Nalani Minton and Noenoe K.Silva.

• Arapahoe County (Includes City of Denver) Marriages 1861-1868

  Colorado. Scanned images indexed by surname of bride and groom.

• Archive of Primary Sources at DoHistory

  Graphic images of primary source material focusing on early American history. Transcriptions for some of the sources are also provided.

• Archives Records Information Access System (ARIAS)

  Scanned images of over 200,000 original records from the Pennsylvania State Archives.

  • ARIAS Instructions

  • Record Details

    • Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File

      Abstract card file contains transcriptions of data extracted from original records in the custody of the State Archives concerning Revolutionary War service in the Pennsylvania Militia, Pennsylvania Line, and the Navy.

    • Spanish American War Veterans' Card File of United States Volunteers

      Card file of veterans who participated in the Spanish-American War was created by the Office of the Adjutant General in 1941 from information taken from the official records of the United States War Department.

    • World War I Service Medal Application Cards

      Cards were originally submitted by veterans and their survivors who applied for service medals in accordance with the Act of April 21, 1937.

• Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates

  Online searchable database of scanned images for birth records 1887-1928 & death records 1878-1953.

• Ayrshire Rifle Volunteers - Maybole Company Muster Roll

  Scotland. Online scans of the original muster roll.

• Bethlehem Digital History Project

  Pennsylvania. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was founded in 1741 by a group of Moravians. For over one hundred years Bethlehem was exclusively Moravian. This project provides digitization and web publication of specific primary source materials relating to the early history of Bethlehem

  • Community Records

    Provides both digital images of the source documents and transcriptions.

    • Bethlehem Diary

    • Bills of Sale/Manumissions

    • Choir Catalogs/Diaries

    • Registers

      Transcriptions of church registers for selected years.

      • Baptisms

      • Deaths

      • Marriages

• Digital History Initiative

  Middletown, New York.

• Digital Interlibrary Loan

  From the Library of Congress. Small items that are too fragile to circulate on interlibrary loan are usually supplied through a photocopy. But photocopying often shortens the life of the original. Recently, the Library of Congress Loan Division began digitizing this type of material and delivering the images over the Internet. This makes the items widely accessible for current and future requests and contributes to the preservation of the original.

• Hillsborough County, Florida Marriage Records - Index

  Records online from January 1878 through December 1893, including a scanned photo of the original document.

• Historic Records Imaging Project

  Centre County, Pennsylvania. Online searchable index and scanned images.

  • Naturalization Records 1802-1929

  • Revolutionary War Declarations 1820-1835

  • Slave Records 1803-1820

• Incorporating Primary Sources in the Classroom

  From the National Archives and Records Adminstration.

• Internet Library of Early Journals

  Scanned images of substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals from the United Kingdom.

• Kentucky Secretary of State Land Office

  Describes the land office process and includes historical images of the records involved.

  • Searchable Databases and Related Articles

• Land Records: Ingalls Homestead File

  Scanned images of 24 original documents pertaining to the DeSmet, South Dakota homestead of the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder. A terrific example from the National Archives and Records Administration.

• NARA Archival Research Catalog

  A pilot database of selected holdings with digital copies of selected textual documents, photographs, maps, and sound recordings.

• NICHE - Networking Information and Collected History Electronically

  Albany & Rensselaer Counties, New York. Provides scanned images of select local history collections from 29 member libraries in update New York.

• Northumberland Communities

  England. Includes selected scanned photographs, manuscripts, Ordnance maps, census information & other documents for over 75 communities in Northumberland.

• Our Future, Our Past - Alberta Heritage Digitization Project

  Images and text of Alberta folklore, architectual drawings, art, aerial photographs, maps, early Alberta newspapers, homestead files, and local Alberta histories.