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Historical Photos

* Angel Island Immigration Photographic Collection http://emints.more.net/ethemes/resources/S00000996.shtml
This site is about Angel Island, a former immigration station in
San Francisco Bay. It includes information on the experience of
early Asian immigrants who came through this station. There are photos
and videos of early immigration.


* Images of Kansas City
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/images/PICS.HTML
Images are valuable resources for research. Among the subject areas
are cities and towns of Kansas, sod houses, aviation, and Western scenes.

* Small Town America
www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nyplhtml/dennhome.html
12,000 photographs of the Mid-Atlantic states including New York,
New Jersey, and Connecticut from the 1850s to the 1910s, from the
Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views at the New York
Public Library. The views show buildings and street scenes in cities,
towns, and villages as well as natural landscapes. They also depict
agriculture, industry, transportation, homes, businesses, local
celebrations, natural disasters, people, and costumes.


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Immigration

* Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild –  http://www.immigrantships.net
We are a group of volunteers dedicated to making our ancestors'
immigration records easy and convenient to find. Our mission is to
make ships' passenger lists available online, at no cost to the
researcher. Traditional methods of research in immigration records
are time-consuming and expensive, so we created the Immigrant
Ships Transcribers Guild to provide a forum for volunteers to present
transcriptions of passenger lists and related materials. So far, beginning
in September 1998, we have transcribed more than 5,000 ships' passenger
lists, citing over 1/2 million passenger arrivals.

* Immigrants to Canada
http://www.dcs.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html
The information on these pages has been extracted from various
government records, as well as the odd shipping record (mostly
from the Allan Line). It contains, voyage accounts, emigration
information, lists of ships sailing to Canada, information on the ports,
and on the people. Many of these lists give the name of the ship, Master,
Port of Departure, Port of Arrival and other such information.


* Immigration History Research Center, The – www.umn.edu/ihrc
Located at the University of Minnesota, this facility has the best
collection of foreign and ethnic newspapers. Many of the newspapers
on microfilm may be obtained through interlibrary loan.

* Immigrations Records – www.nara.gov/genealogy
The National Archives is a treasure trove of materials that can be used
to trace your family lineage.
 

* Ellis Island Records – www.ellisislandrecords.org or www.ellisisland.org
From 1892 to 1924, more than 22 million immigrants, passengers, and
crew members came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York.
The ship companies that transported these passengers kept detailed
passenger lists, called "ship manifests." Now, thanks to the generous
efforts of volunteers of The Church of Jesus Christ of  Latter-day Saints,
these manifests have been transcribed into a vast electronic archive,
which you can easily search to find an individual passenger.


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Lineage Societies

* Children of the American Revolution - http://www.nscar.org
The National Society of the Children of the American Revolution,
founded in 1895, is the oldest patriotic organization for youths in
our country. Membership is open to descendents of patriots of the
American Revolution.

* Daughters of the American Revolution – www.dar.org
If you haven't looked at the DAR lately, then you haven't
experienced the new DAR!  We proudly announce the new
DAR Web site. Our site has been redesigned for easier navigation
and better visual appeal. We hope that you will find the new site more
informative regarding DAR and its many contributions to communities
across America. From scholarships to historic restorations to community
volunteer projects, DAR is helping to keep America strong.

* General Society of Colonial Wars – http://www.gscw.org
The first Society of Colonial Wars was established in 1892, and
became the General Society of Colonial Wars in 1893. It charters
individual State Societies, and it is in one or more of the State
Societies that an individual holds membership. The aggregate of the
State Societies constitutes the General Society. At the present time
there are Societies in six states and the British Isles.
 

* General Society of the War of 1812 – www.societyofthewarof1812.org
The objectives of the Society are the collection and preservation of rolls,
records, books, and other documents relating to the War of 1812; the
encouragement of research and the preservation of historical data,
including memorials to patriots of that era in our national history;
the caring for the graves of veterans of the War of 1812; the cherishing,
maintenance and extension of the institutions of American freedom; the
fostering of true patriotism - love of country.
 

* Mayflower Society – www.mayflower.org
More than one hundred years ago, a group of descendants of the
Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, saw the need for a
national society to honor their memory. The intention was to
remember these Pilgrims who established Plymouth Colony, in what
was then called the northern part of Virginia. Today there are
tens-of-millions of individuals descended from these brave souls.
It is the goal of The Mayflower Society to join together people who share
this heritage and to carry on the memory of our Pilgrim ancestors.

* Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS)
http://www.suvcw.org/mollus/mollus.htm
The principal objectives of MOLLUS are to foster military and naval
science, promote allegiance to the United States government,
perpetuate the memory of those who fought to preserve the unity
and indivisibility of the Republic and to honor the memory and promote
the ideals of President Abraham Lincoln.

* National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution  http://www.sar.org/geneal/lineage.htm
The SAR is a historical, educational, and patriotic non-profit,
United States 501(c)3, corporation that seeks to maintain and
extend: the institutions of American freedom, an appreciation for
true patriotism, a respect for our national symbols, the value of
American citizenship, the unifying force of e pluribus unum that has
created, from the people of many nations, one nation and one people.

* Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters
http://www.ancientplanters.org
The term "Ancient Planter" is applied to those persons who arrived in
Virginia before 1616, remained for a period of three years, and paid
their passage. They received the first patents of land in the new world
as authorized by Sir Thomas Dale in 1618 for their personal adventure.
Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters is an incorporated non-profit
society whose purpose is to honor and perpetuate the memory of the
Ancient Planters; to promote historical and genealogical research; to
inspire patriotism; and to enhance fellowship among those of similar
interests.

* Order of Founders and Patriots of America
http://www.founderspatriots.org
We are a group of men who through our activities promote
patriotism and respect for the founders and patriots of America.
We encourage you to join our Order, which has been preserving
patriotism for over 100 years. Our standards for membership are rigid
and they should be, as they represent the unique heritage of Founder
and Patriot lineage.

* Sons Of Colonial  New England - http://www.nsscne.org
The Sons of Colonial New England seeks to collect and preserve
records and relics of the history and genealogy of New England
prior to July 4, 1776;  to prepare and distribute publications of all
kinds relating to the history and genealogy of New England prior to
July 4, 1776; to commemorate and celebrate events in the history of
New England; to study the meaning of our colonial New England
heritage as related to the problems of our day; and to engage in other
related educational, historical, genealogical, patriotic, literary and
social activities related to colonial New England. 

* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War – http://suvcw.org
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War is a patriotic and
educational organization, similar to the Grand Army of the Republic.
It was founded on November 12, 1881 and incorporated by Act of
Congress August 20, 1954. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
is the legal heir to and representative of the Grand Army of Republic.

* Sons of the Confederate Veterans of the Civil War - www.scv.org
The SCV is the direct heir of the United Confederate Veterans, and
the oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate
soldiers. Organized at Richmond, Virginia in 1896, the SCV continues to
serve as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated
to insuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved.

* The Jamestowne Society - http://www.jamestowne.org
The Jamestowne Society was organized for educational, historical,
and patriotic purposes, and to that end: to discover and record the
names of all living descendants of those early settlers who made the
great sacrifice to establish our English-speaking Nation and to unite these
descendants to honor the memory of our settler ancestors; to record their
deeds and to do homage to the birthplace of Virginia and the Nation;
to associate those descendants as members of the corporation; to bring
the members into closer association through activities revolving around
matters of common historical and genealogical interest; to promote the
restoration of historical records, documents, objects, and edifices which
are of lasting cultural value to the people of Virginia and of the Nation;
to assist in the organization of state companies, reminiscent of the
London and Virginia Company, in states where membership and interest
justify them.

* United Daughters of the Confederacy - http://www.hqudc.org
The United Daughters of the Confederacy is the outgrowth of many
local memorial, monument, and Confederate home associations and
auxiliaries to camps of United Confederate Veterans that were
organized after the War Between the States. It is the oldest patriotic
organization in our country because of its connection with two statewide
organizations that came into existence as early as 1890 -- the Daughters
of the Confederacy (DOC) in Missouri and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Confederate Soldiers Home in Tennessee.


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Maps

* Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of
Georgia maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning
nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth
century. The collection provides a graphic resource upon which scholars
can draw in re-discovering the minds and movements of early American
explorers, revolutionary statesmen, cultural figures and politicians
represented by the library's book and manuscript collections.
 

* Library of Congress Map Collection  www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
You’ll find historical maps galore on this site. The LOC has separated
its digital map collection into 7 categories: Cities and Towns, Cultural
Landscapes, Military Battles and Campaigns, Conservation and the
Environment, Discovery and Exploration, Transportation and
Communication and General Maps. Almost all the maps can be
downloaded.   

* Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps
Online maps of current interest. This site acts as a historical
collection as well as a current collection. For example, we
archive multiple editions of maps published by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency. These older editions are of interest to researchers,
and are not available anywhere else online.