Wouldn’t it be nice if we could take the most useful aspects of each of our favorite research places and combine them so that each place would have all that we love? (Yes, I know about reality, but I can dream, can’t I?) My ideal library, archive, and historical society would have: Copy cards so […]
The April 17th issue of the Pittsburg, Kansas Morning Sun has an article that is one of my favorite types. It tells about an old record book being turned over to an institution for preservation. In this case, it’s a 1923 jail register for Crawford County, Kansas that has been sent to the Special Collections […]
While I sit here watching the figure skating at the 2010 Olympics, I decided to check out the World Figure Skating Musuem and Hall of Fame. There is an Archives! I figured there would be as they exist for many sports. From the website: The photograph collection of nearly 20,000 images includes many early tintype […]
The Catholic News Agency recently distributed a story with that title about the Diocese of St. Augustine in Florida. The opening paragraph stated “The oldest extant European documents written in U.S. continental territory are now hosted at the Archives of the Diocese of St. Augustine.” The story also said “One of the earliest documents, dated […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 13, 2009 DAVID FERRIERO SWORN IN AS 10TH ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES Washington, DC. . . David Ferriero, the former Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and a leader in the field of research librarianship, was sworn in today as the tenth Archivist of the United […]
Among many other valuable and some strange designations, October is Archives Month, Family History Month, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Archives MonthVisit a local, state, national, religious, ethnic or other archive this month. Thank the archivists for taking care of historical records. Tell then you appreciate all that they do to preserve them. Acknowledge that […]
Is there a place in your family’s ancestral county in Minnesota that has information that might be helpful in your family history search? Is there a university library special collections department back in Massachusetts that might hold some old family papers? How about a college archive that holds old student records? Is there a separate […]
I love it when things grow by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, this time it isn’t something to love. Historical societies, archives, state libraries, public libraries, and other places where family historians do their research are floundering. The number of those floundering due to drastic budget and staffing cuts in today’s economy is what is growing […]
When I got home from work today, I read the news headlines that I receive each day via Google. A headline from Spiegel Online International chilled me: “History in Ruins: Archive Collapse Disaster for Historians.” The building housing the city archive of Cologne, Germany literally collapsed. This archive is the largest municipal archive in Germany […]
I wish I could be in the Lost Angeles area this Saturday, October 25th. The 3rd annual L.A. As Subject archives bazaar, Archives Live!, will be held at the University of Southern California Davidson Conference Center. It is a full day devoted to showing off Los Angeles history “whether they are working on a scholarly […]