Genealogical and Local History Research Tools
HathiTrust Digital Library
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It is amazing what you can find out about your family in old books. Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.
National Genealogical Society Learning Center
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The National Genealogical Society (frequently referred to as NGS) is here to help individuals learn about their family history. We are a non-profit organization headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. For the past 118 years, we have been the leader in the field in teaching genealogical research skills and providing a pathway to scholarly work.
New Orleans City Archives and Special Collections
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The City Archives & Special Collections is the official repository of the records of the Municipal Government of the City of New Orleans. The Archives were originally established in 1773 by the Spanish Government. The mandate to collect city records is included in the 1954 Home Rule Charter, under which current City Government operates. In addition, the City Archives & Special Collections also preserves collections important to understanding the history of the City and how it has impacted local government. The department’s extensive Genealogy Collection contains books, periodicals and microfilms with emphasis on New Orleans, Louisiana, the Southeast United States, Nova Scotia, France, and Spain.
Early records from the City Archives Department include catalogs of collection volumes, newspapers, and ordinances. Once the New Orleans Public Library took control of the archives collection and established the City Archives & Special Collections department in the 1950s, department records are inventoried with those of the Library. The timeline below shows the creation and movement of the Archives from the Spanish Cabildo to its current home at the New Orleans Public Library.
Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War
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The Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War is a broad collection of documents which deals with everyday life on plantations in the antebellum South. The series is on 35mm microfilm. Each series in this collection are from different libraries or institutions. We also expect this series to house a wealth of African American genealogical information.