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November 05, 2004HomeTownLocator Community Profiles
A while ago I covered the HomeTown Gazetteer ( http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001287.shtml ). That site allowed you to get location information based on place search or zip code search. Now the same folks have released HomeTownLocator Community Profiles at http://www.HomeTownLocator.com . Information...
August 09, 2004National Archives are Going Digital?
A PC World Story reports that the National Archives are going to offer an Electronic Records Archives, scheduled to open by 2007. However, it won't be complete; the archives are not expected to be finished until 2011, when they will...
December 01, 2003Location Information at the HomeTown Gazetteer
Whether you're looking for location information based on town name, county name, or zip code, you'll find it at the HomeTown Gazetter ( http://Gazetteer.HomeTownLocator.com ). This site provides several search forms for finding location information. You can start with a...
Continue reading "Location Information at the HomeTown Gazetteer" » November 05, 2003The Charles Cushman Photo Collection -- American Life 1938-1969
The Indiana University Archives and the Digital Library Program are now offering a site for the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, which features 14,500 color images of life in America between 1938 and 1969. The site's at http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/ . You...
Continue reading "The Charles Cushman Photo Collection -- American Life 1938-1969" » October 18, 2003LOC Announces American Notes: Travels In America
The Library of Congress recently announced a new exhibit, American Notes: Travels in America 1750-1920, at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml . There are two sections to the exhibit. There's a set of over 250 narratives by Americans and foreign visitors about their travels...
Continue reading "LOC Announces American Notes: Travels In America" » January 07, 2003US History Though Family Papers
Smith College has put up a new online collection, "Across the Generations: Exploring U.S. History through Family Papers," at http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/atg/introduction.htm . This site contains materials from four family collections (Bodman, Dunham, Garrison, and Hale) that are used to track four...
November 28, 2002LOC Updates American Time Capsule
The Library of Congress has updated its online ephemera collection, An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera. In its first release it contained more than 7,000 items, and an additional 3,000 items have been added....
May 28, 2002Counties in the United States
Didja know there were over 3,000 counties in the United States? Me neither. You can get information on them at http://www.naco.org/counties/counties/index.cfm , a page maintained by the National Association of Counties. Pick a state from the drop-down menu or use...
April 30, 2002Meta-Directory for State Information
StateGuide ( http://www.stateguide.com/ ) an information guide to the United States, is not the most beautiful site I've ever seen. But it does contain a lot of information integrated from lots of different resources. From the front page, pick a...
February 08, 2001University of Michigan Library Adds 7,000 Volumes
The University of Michigan University Library has announced that it's added over 7,000 volumes to its Making of America Collection. Making of America is an online collection focusing on 19th century American publications. The majority of the materials they have...
Continue reading "University of Michigan Library Adds 7,000 Volumes" » January 04, 2001The Eastern States Waterfall Guide
You may be saying to yourself, "Man, ResearchBuzz has had some offbeat entries lately." That's because I have a huge list of pending sites -- sites I see or hear about and drop into a text file to look at...
April 11, 200050states.com Clever Directory for US Information
One of the problems with Subject directories is that any directory structure is inherently subjective. Someone might think that your categories don't make sense, while they're perfectly sensible to you. One of the benefits of niche directories is that you...
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