The North Carolina Digital Collections contain over 90,000 historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts, and other resources on topics related to North Carolina. The Collections are free and full-text searchable, and bring together content from the State Archives of North Carolina and the State Library of North Carolina.
Submitted by Lois Lang
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The Local History Room specializes in the Upper Allegheny Valley (Tarentum, East Deer, Harrison, Freeport area, New Kensington area). Our collection has a number of items that are unique to our area. Submitted by Louise Stanzione.
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This guide to preserving your "stuff" is from the American Library Association's Preservation Week. It highlights caring for textiles, LP records, photographs, artifacts, books, and paper.
Submitted by Cecelia Schreiber
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Behind the Name is a website for learning about all aspects of given names. Its scope is broad: all given names from all cultures and periods are eligible to be included in the main name database. Names from mythology and fiction are also eligible. There are currently 21100 names in the database, a fraction of what the scope entails. There's still much work to be done.
Submitted by Michelle Witsch
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"Geneteka was created by Jacek MÅ‚ochowski in 2006, before the founding of the Polish Genealogical Society as the realization of two passions. IT administrator of the Polish support site of CMS postnuke and genealogical user of a forum which does not exist today on the GenPol portal. The Inspiration was the National Index of Marriage until 1899 - Marek Minakowski's project"
submitted by Michelle Witsch
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Sister site to geneteka.genealodzy.pl
Submitted by Michelle Witsch
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Penn Pilot, a project sponsored by the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, is an online library of digital historical aerial photography for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Using the interactive map provided on this website, you can browse, view, and download thousands of photos covering the Commonwealth from 1937 to 1942 and 1967 to 1972.
Submitted by Doug Drumheller
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