Genealogy

Big news - New York Times Online for Free, 1851-1922; 1981-1987 : http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html Both the US and English governments are committing to digitizing old newspapers now! US project: http://www.loc.gov/preserv/ndnp.html (millions of pages, 1836-1922, first images ready by 2006). Update: more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published 1900-1910 : http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ . England: http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html (2 million pages, 1800-1900) British Library Online Newspaper Archive: http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/ (HORRIBLE interface, not accessible with Firefox, my browser of choice). US and world current newspapers : http://newslink.org/metnews.html , http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html , http://www.onlinenewspapers.com FREE, $$$ Newspaper Archives , most 1990+: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/int...

Online Searchable Death Indexes USA : http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/deathrecords.html The Virtual Cemetery : http://www.genealogy.com/vcem_welcome.html Find A Grave : http://www.findagrave.com Interment.net - Cemetery Transcription Library: http://www.interment.net/ US Genweb Tombstone Transcription Project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/ Obituaries & Biographies : http://genealogy.about.com/cs/obituaries/ Obituary Daily Times : http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/ $$$ GenealogyBank is digitizing the U.S. Congressional Serial Set , which contains obituaries of naval personnel who passed away in the previous year: http://genlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/07/obituaries-they-arent-just-in.html Farber Gravestone Collection : http://www.davidrumsey.com/farber/ Over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. The late Daniel Farber of Worcester, Massachusetts, and his w...