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Hidden Treasures At Internet Archive


Internet Archive has been around for a while, but have you taken advantage of this resource for your research? There is the "Wayback Machine" which the site is well-known for but have you looked around to see what's actually there. There are over 10,000 items in their Genealogy Collection, just select "Texts" and "Additional Collections" and you will find a page of several collections.

"The Archive's ever-expanding collection of genealogy resources includes items from the Allen County Public Lib…

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Ancestry.com Charges For Free Resources

There are quite a few resources at Ancestry by subscription that can be had for free if you just know where to look. Internet Archive is an underused resource with such treasures as the Winslow Papers, Edgerton Ryerson's Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Upper Canada where the old loyalist list is located, History of Plimouth Plantation (from William Bradford's book), all sorts of town records, military records, muster rolls, history books, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, genea…

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