The Open Collections Program from Harvard features “Immigration to the United States”, a web-based collection of selected historical information and resources on immigration to the US from 1789-1930.
The collection includes information on immigration records from Harvard’s’ libraries, archives, and museums. According to the website, the historical records include “approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well [...]

Genealogy Today reports that more images that have been added to the Registry of World War II Ration Books. War Ration Books are actually of great benefit to genealogists.
Genealogists are always in search of new record sources when confronted with a brick wall. Well, can you think of a resource that not only gives you [...]

I don’t think I have any ancestors from Bukovina, but the The Bukovina Society of the Americas caught my attention.
Where, and what, is Bukovina?
From 1775 to 1918, the easternmost crown land of the Austrian Empire; now divided between Romania and Ukraine. As a multi-ethnic province, its name has several spellings: Bukowina or Buchenland in [...]

Genealogy Today reports the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution are publishing a book of bible and family records collected over the past several years.
In addition to Bible records, we have added several pages of family records, plus a complete roster of all chapter members since it was organized in 1896. This listing [...]

I recently wrote about Google Book Search, and recently they announced that they’ve improved the process of browsing their book collection. Here are some highlights of the improvements.
* Zoom in on text and images. Here’s a cool full-page sketch of a ship from an 1898 book on steam navigation. Looking for something less dated? Perhaps [...]

Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter has helped me again with “Placed in Canada”, helping all of us researching online maps of towns and communities in Canada find them.
Have you looked for online maps of towns or other named places in Canada? You may have found that the most popular Canadian mapping site, “Geographical Names of Canada,” [...]

Eastman Genealogy Newsletter announces that the “Richmond Civil War Newspaper Now Online”, and can be found at the Richmond Civil War Newspaper.
This will hopefully be a great resource for facts and insights into the American Civil War, especially for genealogists looking for a mention of their relatives or a better understanding of what went [...]

I recently wrote about exploring ethnic grocery stores to uncover your ancestor’s food preferences and habits, so why not also explore even further back than your great-grandmother’s favorite ethnic holiday meal and go back to the times circa 900-1500, known as the Medieval Times of Europe.
Medieval Cookery is a site dedicated to recipes and [...]

I’m learning so much about the various ways people can research their family’s history and was stunned to find out that there is a Historical Business Card Collection that can be researched by name to find out which businesses your ancestors may have worked with.
The Genealogy Blog says:
I just got the following note from my [...]

The The Regional History Project of the Central Coast of California is a project by the University of California at Santa Cruz and includes a vast list of online oral histories about the area.
If you have family or ancestors from the Santa Cruz and Central Coastal area of California, you can learn more about their [...]