Saturday, March 23, 2013

Rootstech 2013

I loved the fact that I can watch live sessions from the Rootstech conference. I especially enjoyed Syd Lieberman's keynote. He had such a wonderful way of weaving the story about his family into an interesting story. My next favorite of the streaming sessions was Laura Prescott's Researching Ancestors Online. She introduced me to some great sites I have never considered. And of course the always funny David Pogue. Thanks all for such a great show.

Here are some great links

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid - One stop shop for searching and locating historical archives.

http://www.linkpendium.com - I think I can seen this one before but I think I need to use it more often.

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic - Great government website for finding long lost places.

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc - This looks great. I will definitely be checking this one out.

http://www.davidrumsey.com - A fantastic map collection. I checked this one out and will be going back often.

EIU's Digital collections - I already knew that Eastern Illinois University held many collections but I didn't realize how many of the collections are online. Thanks so much Laura Prescott for the great tip!

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx - Another great link thanks to Laura Prescott.