inter-library loan requests and online digitization
brenda kellow
october 20, 2013
When you need a new source for your research and it is not in the library, often you can bring it in through the Interlibrary Loan Librarian (ILL) whether it is a book, audio, video, photocopies of articles from magazines and newspapers not owned by the library. The Plano ILL address is www.plano.gov/index.aspx?nid=1633. There you will find detailed instructions on how to request the item from your home computer. Acquiring the item requires $2.50 for each ILL requested and received. There is no charge if the item cannot be acquired. You must have a library card and submit the request electronically. A librarian will verify the information given them and will search databases of more than 6,000 institutions nationwide.
THE GENEALOGY CENTER: This is the new name of the Plano genealogy library. The website has not caught up with the new name, but it will shortly. You can access the Genealogy Center electronically at www.plano.gov/index.aspx?NID=907.
TENNESSEE DIGITIZING HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS: Tennessee State Library and Archives in corporation with the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America will digitize one million pages of historical newspapers from Greeneville, Jonesborough, Memphis, Sweetwater and Winchester dating from the 1850s to about 1900. Tennessee State Library and Archives site is at www.tennessee.gov/tsla/resources/index.htm. The Library of Congress’ Chronicling America site closed due to the government shutdown but will reopen soon.
MISSISSIPPI DIGITIZES NEWSPAPERS: The Mississippi Department of Archives received a grant to digitize newspapers from 1836-1922. They will partner with the Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections to complete the project. The Archives has complete collections dating 1866 to 1922 for Natchez, Liberty, Jackson, Raymond, Lexington, Macon, Sardis, Vicksburg, and Woodville according to GulfLive.com. Read more about their holdings at http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2013/09/mississippi_department_of_arch.html.
RHODE ISLAND STATE ARCHIVES ONLINE CATALOG: Rhode Island launches their online catalog on October 17 at 8:30 a.m. I am preparing a list of Rhode Island ancestors to search on this new site, www.genealogyblog.com/?p=28895.
AN ONLINE MAP FOR ENGLISH JURISDICTIONS, 1851: While looking in St. Teath Parrish in Cornwall, England, I found a reference to the FamilySearch free research tool displaying 40 counties in England. It does not include Ireland, Scotland or Wales. I opened the site at http://maps.familysearch.org/. Not knowing how it worked, I hit “Don’t know how to search? Find out here.” I clicked on it and up popped detailed instructions on how to use the map to search for my Cornish ancestors.
ANCESTRY.COM ACQUIRES FIND-A-GRAVE: Ancestry just bought Find-A-Grave. At the rate Ancestry is going, soon most of our sites will be owned by Ancestry. Find-A-Grave is being incorporated into Ancestry’s search field. It will remain a free site.
FUNDS STOPPED FOR KING RICHARD III’s TOMB: King Richard III died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1885. After archaeologists unearthed his remains in September a year ago from under a council car park in Leicester, the Richard III Society and the church are having a bit of a row about his re-entombment and what his memorial will look like. It seems it is too modern and they fear it will not last. Recently, the group of distant relatives of the warrior king, the Plantagenet Alliance, complicated the matter with a legal challenge. Read more about this fiasco at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2429916/Richard-IIIs-tomb-plans-pulled-proposed-modern-design-doesnt-befit-warrior-king.html#ixzz2gPrpiqBo.
Brenda Kellow has a bachelor's degree in history, teaches, and lectures on genealogy. Before retiring to publish her family’s histories in 2007, Brenda held certification as a Certified Genealogist and as a Certified Genealogical Instructor. Send reunion announcements, books to review, and genealogy queries to: [email protected].
THE GENEALOGY CENTER: This is the new name of the Plano genealogy library. The website has not caught up with the new name, but it will shortly. You can access the Genealogy Center electronically at www.plano.gov/index.aspx?NID=907.
TENNESSEE DIGITIZING HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS: Tennessee State Library and Archives in corporation with the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America will digitize one million pages of historical newspapers from Greeneville, Jonesborough, Memphis, Sweetwater and Winchester dating from the 1850s to about 1900. Tennessee State Library and Archives site is at www.tennessee.gov/tsla/resources/index.htm. The Library of Congress’ Chronicling America site closed due to the government shutdown but will reopen soon.
MISSISSIPPI DIGITIZES NEWSPAPERS: The Mississippi Department of Archives received a grant to digitize newspapers from 1836-1922. They will partner with the Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections to complete the project. The Archives has complete collections dating 1866 to 1922 for Natchez, Liberty, Jackson, Raymond, Lexington, Macon, Sardis, Vicksburg, and Woodville according to GulfLive.com. Read more about their holdings at http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2013/09/mississippi_department_of_arch.html.
RHODE ISLAND STATE ARCHIVES ONLINE CATALOG: Rhode Island launches their online catalog on October 17 at 8:30 a.m. I am preparing a list of Rhode Island ancestors to search on this new site, www.genealogyblog.com/?p=28895.
AN ONLINE MAP FOR ENGLISH JURISDICTIONS, 1851: While looking in St. Teath Parrish in Cornwall, England, I found a reference to the FamilySearch free research tool displaying 40 counties in England. It does not include Ireland, Scotland or Wales. I opened the site at http://maps.familysearch.org/. Not knowing how it worked, I hit “Don’t know how to search? Find out here.” I clicked on it and up popped detailed instructions on how to use the map to search for my Cornish ancestors.
ANCESTRY.COM ACQUIRES FIND-A-GRAVE: Ancestry just bought Find-A-Grave. At the rate Ancestry is going, soon most of our sites will be owned by Ancestry. Find-A-Grave is being incorporated into Ancestry’s search field. It will remain a free site.
FUNDS STOPPED FOR KING RICHARD III’s TOMB: King Richard III died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1885. After archaeologists unearthed his remains in September a year ago from under a council car park in Leicester, the Richard III Society and the church are having a bit of a row about his re-entombment and what his memorial will look like. It seems it is too modern and they fear it will not last. Recently, the group of distant relatives of the warrior king, the Plantagenet Alliance, complicated the matter with a legal challenge. Read more about this fiasco at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2429916/Richard-IIIs-tomb-plans-pulled-proposed-modern-design-doesnt-befit-warrior-king.html#ixzz2gPrpiqBo.
Brenda Kellow has a bachelor's degree in history, teaches, and lectures on genealogy. Before retiring to publish her family’s histories in 2007, Brenda held certification as a Certified Genealogist and as a Certified Genealogical Instructor. Send reunion announcements, books to review, and genealogy queries to: [email protected].
