Veronica Voigt's List: Resources

Links to online newspapers archives, arranged by state. Also includes date ranges and pricing information.

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Guidelines and advice to creating your own plan to preserve your genealogy during emergencies.

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Roy Blackmore is applying to the Guiness Book of World Records for largest documented family tree, mostly compiled before the birth of the internet.

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news on 2008-07-14

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articles on 2008-07-07

Index of obituaries compiled by volunteers. Updates available in email newsletter format with an average of 2500 new entries daily.

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A large collection of Amish and Mennonite obituaries collected from the following: The Herald of Truth (1864-1908), the Gospel Witness (1905-1908), the Gospel Herald (1908-1998), The Mennonite (1998-), as well as a few from the Mennonite Weekly Review.

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Covers a large selection of newspapers dating from the 1810s to the present.

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Includes the following newspapers: Coshocton Tribune, Holmes County Journal, Loudenville Advocate, Loudenville Democrat, Loudonville Times, Massillon Independent, and The Holmes County Hub.

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index:obituary favorites state:ohio on 2008-07-05

Collection of links to death-related records for the state of Ohio. Lists some very good resources.

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Features include Universal Power Search, a global search (multiple languages), and power refinement (clustering of results and ability to exclude results seen before). Does not store personal information.

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Suggests keywords to add/ignore based on search results. Also available in a flash version, which is harder to use. Compiles results from: Voila, AllTheWeb, Altavista, MSN/LiveSearch, Yahoo, Wisenut, Hotbot, Lycos, Nomade, ToileDuQuebec, Exalead, Dmoz, Teoma, and Exactseek.

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"KoolTorch’s taxonomy overlay takes traditional search engine results and displays them in a useful and intuitive Graphical User Interface." Good for general searches and for seeing large amounts of results on one screen, but not useful for researching individual people.

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"Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms." Good for general searches and quality results, but not useful for researching individual people.

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Groups results into clusters by topic. Compiles results from AP, New York Times, Wikipedia, Open Directory, MSN/LiveSearch, Gigablast, WiseNut, Ask/Jeeves, and others. Does not store any personal information.

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Includes links to helpful resources, including a research guide.

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genealogy societies on 2008-07-02

Some resources on how to get more out of internet research by finding information not indexed by search engines.

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A 5-step search strategy to efficiently find relevant internet results.

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Genealogy wiki including pages for aticles, people, families, images, places, sources, personal sources, and user pages.

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Free family history and genealogy classes available online. Classes do not count towards college credits.

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