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Individual States K - MKansasKanasas State Historical Society This link will take you to the main page where you can choose from several databases, including those below. http://www.kshs.org/ Territorial Kansas Explore the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas." Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery. http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php This is a list of sources in the Center for Historical Research's collections that are useful for filling in the histories of individuals and their families. It includes many online indexes and databases. http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/individuals/index.htm Kansas Collection History of the State of Kansas, first published in 1883 http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/ Kansas Archives, Libraries and Historical Societies A long list of local archives and databases. http://www.kansasgenealogy.com/archives.htm-Kansas Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/kansas/index.html KentuckyThe Kentuckiana Digital Library is your gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. These digital collections are built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning. http://kdl.kyvl.org/ Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections For over
one hundred years the Kentucky Historical Society has been collecting, preserving,
and sharing information, memories, and materials from Kentucky's past. The
KHS collections of cultural and historical artifacts, oral history, and library
and archival materials represent an overview of Kentucky and Kentuckians from
prehistory to the present. The KHS Digital Collections database
provides Web access to thousands of items from all KHS collections areas http://205.204.134.47:2005/ Centre College Special Collections Digital Archives includes documents http://www.centre.edu/web/library/sc/digital.html Kentucky Land Office. This page provides instant access to all Kentucky Land Office databases. To learn more of the structure and history of the databases included on this site visit the individual pages for each database. http://sos.ky.gov/land/search/ The Kentucky Cities database includes information on city filings submitted to the Kentucky Secretary of State's Office. This database also includes various listings of Kentucky cities, population information, and contact information for city and county government, if available. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/cities/ Access information on 4748 Revolutionary War Warrants issued to Virginia veterans or their assigns prior to 1792 on the Revolutionary War Warrants database. View color images from the Warrants Register and all Kentucky patent files authorized by Revolutionary War Warrants.http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/military/revwar/ Research and view color images of 242 patents in the Jackson Purchase authorized by warrants issued to Virginia Revolutionary War veterans or their assigns on the West of Tennessee River Military Patents database. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/military/tnriver/ Access information regarding Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants issued to Kentucky's earliest settlers on the Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants database. View color images of patent files as they are linked to the "Authorized Patents" field on a daily basis. Digitized images of the Certificates of Settlement and Commissioners' Authorizations for Preemption Warrants may be available by clicking the Preemption Warrant Number field. With the permission of The Library of Virginia, the Kentucky Department for Libraries & Archives is digitizing microfilm of the Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrant Approvals. Records are added to the "Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants database" on a regular basis. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/settlements/ Access over 23,200 entries in the Virginia Treasury Warrants Register, Volumes I & II, for information regarding early Kentucky land patents. This database includes the names of persons who purchased Treasury Warrants, immediate assignees, warrant number, acreage authorized for patenting under the warrant number, amount of money paid, and the date the warrant was issued. The "Authorized" field on the Virginia Treasury Warrants Database, identifies patent numbers associated with the usage of the Treasury Warrants. Many link to colorscanned images of patent files in the Virginia Series and Old Kentucky Series of Kentucky land patents housed in the Kentucky Secretary of State's Land Office. This database includes warrant information for 300 Treasury Warrants issued to George Rogers Clark for recruiting his battalions in lieu of a bounty of $750. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/LandOfficeVTW/ Research 4763 Entries filed with the Lincoln County Surveyor's Office when Lincoln County comprised one-third of Kentucky on the Lincoln Entries database. (Military Entries in southwestern Kentucky are not included on this database.) Link to scanned images of each Entry.http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/lincoln/ Research 70239 patents filed with the County Court Order Series dating from 1835 to the present on the County Court Order Patents database. Search by patent number, grant book & page, or perform an advanced search to access information by grantee, survey name, county, watercourse, survey year or grant year. Images of all documents filed with patent numbers 0001 - 08241 are linked to the database. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/patentseries/cocourtorders/ Jackson Purchase , the only area in Kentucky mapped by the public land system mapping method used by the federal government. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/jacksonpurchase/ Research the complete text of all Acts establishing Kentucky's 120 counties on the County Formations database. Acts pertaining to Kentucky County, Virginia, Fincastle County, Virginia, and Beckham County, Kentucky are also included. Acts regarding boundary changes are added as they are identified. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/coformations/ Online Kentucky Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/kentucky/index.html LouisianaLSU Digital Library The LOUISiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of over 84,000 digital materials about Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Louisiana's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories in the state electronically accessible to Louisiana residents and to students, researchers, and the general public in other states and countries. The LOUISiana Digital Library contains photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more that document Louisiana's history and culture. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/ Louisiana State Museum’s
Digital Collections Louisiana Digital Maps Many early maps are included on this RootsWeb site, including a 1743 French map of the Mississippi River Valley from Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico and as far east as Mobile. It includes interior streams, routes, European communities, and Native American settlements, nations, and fortifications. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/louisiana/ Louisiana State Land Office Online Documents : Land Grants; all severance documents of U.S. and State public lands - which lists the first private owner; all U.S. Official Township Survey plats and field notes; the U.S. and State Tract Books - which are an index of all the other documents mentioned; Section 16 School Lands; State Patents. http://1webfn.doa.la.gov/slodocs/SLO/home.asp
http://www.deathindexes.com/louisiana/index.html MaineThe Maine Memory Network is a statewide digital museum that provides access to over 12,000 historical items from over 180 museums, historical societies, libraries, and other organizations from every corner of Maine. http://www.mainememory.net/ Link to a page with all collections: http://www.mainememory.net/exhibits_archive.shtml The Maine Gateway to Digital Collections provides online access to thousands of selected, digitized materials in all formats ---- full text, image, sound, video,and finding aids. The materials are among the special collections made available by the UMS Libraries, in collaboration with other campus units, and in partnership with other cultural institutions in Maine. http://libraries.maine.edu/gateway/ ETD Electronic
Theses and Dissertations Maine Music Box
William
P. Palmer III Collection Robert Venn
Carr, Jr. Collection Windows on Maine
William
S. Cohen Papers Manuscript Finding Aids Maine Government Documents Listening
Center Online Online Maine Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/maine/index.html MarylandThe Maryland State Archives is the historical agency for Maryland and serves as the central depository for government records of permanent value. Records date from the founding of the colony in 1634 to the present. Included in the Archives' holdings are colonial and state executive, legislative, and judicial records; county probate, land and court records; church records; business records; publications and reports of state, county and municipal governments; and special collections of private papers, maps, photographs, and newspapers. http://www.msa.md.gov/ The ongoing Maryland State Archives publication series, Archives of Maryland Online, currently provides access to over 471,000 historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government. http://aomol.net/html/index.html Maryland State Archives Vital Records Indexing Project. The first group of indexes encompasses all twenty-three counties for 1898-1944. Indexes for later years are scheduled for in the future. (Baltimore City is a separate entity, with indexes to be available in the future.) http://mdvitalrec.net/cfm/index.cfm The Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland Program seeks to preserve and promote the vast universe of experiences that have shaped the lives of Maryland's African American population. From the day that Mathias de Sousa and Francisco landed in St. Mary's county aboard the Ark and the Dove in 1634, Black Marylanders have made significant contributions to both the state and nation in the political, economic, agricultural, legal, and domestic arenas. http://www.mdslavery.net/ Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage is a collaborative, statewide digitization program headquartered at the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center in downtown Baltimore. This program brings together the stories of Maryland's cultural heritage by providing free access to such artifacts and records of history as paintings, letters, photographs and books left behind by previous generations. http://www.mdch.org/ Sailor - Maryland's Public Information Network Sailor is a project of Maryland Public Libraries that leverages Internet technology to facilitate Maryland resident access to information anywhere, anytime at no charge. http://www.sailor.lib.md.us/MD_topics/sci/_dig.html Online Maryland Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/maryland/index.html MassachusettsWomen Working 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images. From Harvard University Libraries http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/index.html New England Ancestors http://www.newenglandancestors.org/libraries/manuscripts/ Center for Lowell History http://library.uml.edu/clh/ Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives http://dca.tufts.edu/ Boston Streets http://dca.tufts.edu/features/bostonstreets/ Search city directories http://bcd.lib.tufts.edu/ A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of the American Republic. http://dca.tufts.edu/features/aas/ State Library of Massachusetts has a small but growing collection of digitized items, including broadsides from 1763 and the HMS Bounty manuscripts http://www.mass.gov/lib/collections.htm - digital Massachusetts Historical Society Online Exhibits
Witchcraft in Salem
Village The Northeast Massachusetts Digital Library or "NMDL" is a project to enhance access to an ever-growing digital collection of items located in or items related to northeast Massachusetts, defined as the 54 towns within the service area of the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS). http://www.nmrls.org/nmdl/ The aim of this website is to serve the research community by providing free access to original source documents and databases, as well as to provide a vehicle for the publication of original primary research by high school students. Collections of local history documents such as the Beverly Educational Archives, and Historic Postcards of Beverly are presented on this website free of charge. http://www.primaryresearch.org/ Online Massachusetts Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/massachusetts/index.html MichiganThe Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials, and much more. http://mmm.lib.msu.edu/search/index.cfm Archives of Michigan digital collections The Archives of Michigan has close to 1,400 Civil War photographs in its collections. The majority of the images are of soldiers taken during the years of the Civil War. Also included are reproductions of sheet music, broadsides and group photographs. http://haldigitalcollections.cdmhost.com/ Archives of Michigan Naturalization
Record Indexes http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17449_18635_20684---,00.html University of Michigan Brown vs Board of Education Archives http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/ Michigan Death Index 1867-1897 at the Michigan Dept of Health http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/osr/gendisx/search2.htm Online Michigan Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/michigan/index.html MinnesotaMinnesota Historical Society Death Certificate index http://people.mnhs.org/dci/ Minnesota Historical Society Birth Certificate index http://people.mnhs.org/bci/ Minnesota Historical
Society Photograph Database Minnesota Maps
Online Minnesota Reflections is the first online project of the Minnesota Digital Library Coalition. It is a collection of nearly 20,000 images and documents depicting the history of Minnesota prior to 1950. More than 75 institutions including historical societies, public libraries, special archives, universities and colleges have shared their original materials with the Minnesota Digital Library. You can search, or browse by collection, topic, or region. http://reflections.mndigital.org/ University of Minnesota Digital collections - Most of the following collections are searchable but not browseable. This link takes you to the main page where you may choose one of the following databases. http://digital.lib.umn.edu/ ü
African-American
Literature Cover Art ü Bell Museum (of Natural History)Images ü Burroughs Corporation Image Database ü Immigration History Research Center ü Kautz Family YMCA Archives The YMCA, founded in London in 1844, is the oldest and largest social institution in the United States, where it has been active since 1851. The Kautz Family YMCA Archives collects the historical records of its national organization, the YMCA of the USA and also holds records of the Minneapolis and Greater New York YMCAs, as well as those of Y's Men International, a service club in partnership with the YMCA. The collections document the evolution of the YMCA from its Protestant evangelical origins, including its contributions to Civil War relief, the invention of basketball and volleyball, public health campaigns in China, rural reconstruction in India and Korea, teaching English as a second language, and much more. http://special.lib.umn.edu/ymca/yimages/ ü Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station funds faculty researchers in five colleges at the University of Minnesota, as well as research at Research and Outreach Centers across the state. This research supports Minnesota's natural resources and agricultural industries, as well as improving the quality of life of Minnesotans through research on food, human nutrition, and family and community development. http://www.extension.umn.edu/ext_image_lib/ ü
Northwest Architectural
Archives With the increasing attention being devoted to historic
preservation, architectural records have taken on greater importance. The
Northwest Architectural Archives was begun in 1970. The archives collects
the records of architects, engineers, contractors, landscape architects, and
interior designers from a region which includes Minnesota, western Wisconsin,
northern Iowa, and the eastern Dakotas. Every type of document generated
by these individuals and firms is collected: drawings of all kinds, specifications,
job files, and photographs are chiefly sought. The collections span nearly
130 years of work by many notable practitioners. This link takes you to the
main page where you may choose a collection. http://special.lib.umn.edu/manuscripts/architect.html ü
Scenery Collections Database ü
Social Hygiene
Posters The social hygiene movement
of the early twentieth century combined moral indignation and public health
methods in an attempt to combat prostitution and venereal disease. Especially
during the two world wars, civilian and military authorities produced many
posters to educate armed forces personnel on how to remain disease-free and
“fit to fight.” The U.S. Public Health Service and the American Social Hygiene
Association prepared elaborate poster displays during the 1920s as part of
a campaign to eradicate what we now call sexually transmitted diseases. http://special.lib.umn.edu/swha/exhibits/hygiene/index.htm ü
United States Government
Manual 1935 - 1951 As the official
handbook of the Federal Government, The United States Government Manual provides
comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and
executive branches. The Manual also includes information on quasi-official
agencies; international organizations in which the United States participates;
and boards, commissions, and committees. A typical agency description includes
a list of principal officials, a summary statement of the agency's purpose
and role in the Federal Government, a brief history of the agency, including
its legislative or executive authority, and a description of its programs
and activities. http://digital.lib.umn.edu/Ebind/docs/govmans.phtml ü
World War I & II
Posters two of the most significant collections in the world of
posters from World War I and World War II are located within close physical
proximity, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The University of Minnesota Libraries
owns six thousand items and the Minneapolis Public Library's collection consists
of nearly two thousand posters. Both collections contain posters from government,
commercial, and charitable organizations. These collections are multi-national
in scope and cover veterans' benefits, war bonds and loans, military recruitment
and morale, civil defense, industrial production, freedom and loyalty campaigns,
international welfare organizations, prices and rationing, transportation,
health and safety, labor organizations, films and theatre, food production,
sports and leisure, recruiting of women in military and non-combatant organizations,
special events, anti-war movements, and other topics. Three-fourths of the
combined total from both collections, over five thousand posters, were digitized
and described for this online collection. http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html Online Minnesota Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/minnesota/index.html MississippiMississippi Department of Archives and History http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/index.html Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was the only president of the Confederate States of America. He spent most of his life in Mississippi and lived his final eleven years in Harrison County on the Gulf Coast. The complete Jefferson Davis will and probate file is available here in forty-eight scans of the original documents. The files may also be searched by category or personal name. http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/jeffdavis/index.php Moncrief Photograph Collection Winfred Moncrief, an award-winning newspaper photographer from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, donated his collection of photographs to MDAH in 1994. The collection of nearly 900 black-and-white photographs made between 1952 and 1968 features significant people – civil rights activists Charles Evers and Aaron Henry, Mississippi governors Ross Barnett and Paul B. Johnson Jr., and Alabama governor George Wallace, among others – and events – such as the 1953 Vicksburg tornado, nuclear testing in Lamar County, Mississippi, voter registration, a Ku Klux Klan rally, and the murder of civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer. The images in this online collection are scans from Mr. Moncrief's original negatives. The collection may be browsed by thumbnails or searched by subject. http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/moncrief/ Oral History Interviews with Sam H. Bowers, Jr. Audio recordings and transcripts of three MDAH interviews with Samuel Holloway Bowers, Jr., recorded October 1983-November 1984. Also included is a handwritten manuscript in which Bowers clarifies and supplements answers given in the third interview. Bowers died November 6, 2006 in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, where he was serving a life sentence received in 1998 for his role in the 1966 murder of Mississippi civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer. http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/bowers/ The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was the state's official counter civil rights agency from 1956-1973. The files in this online collection comprise the scanned originals with court-approved redactions requested by individuals named in the records along with additional information submitted by individuals named in the records who chose to file a rebuttal. The collection also includes the court-specified personal name index and links between rebuttal records and Commission records in which rebuttal submitters are mentioned. The files may be searched by personal name, folder title and number, or rebuttal respondent. http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/sovcom/ Mississippi Digital Library http://www.msdiglib.net/ ü "Civil Rights in Mississippi" archive ü "Center for oral history and cultural heritage" Mississippi Digital Map Library http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/mississippi/ Online Mississippi Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/mississippi/index.html MissouriMissouri State Archives http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/ This link will take you to a list of all the online resources and databases listed below. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/ordb.asp
Missouri Digital Heritage The purpose of the Missouri Digitization Planning Project (MDPP) is to coordinate access to digital collections and exhibits created by the cultural and scientific heritage institutions of Missouri. The project brings together representatives from the archives, historical society, library, and museum communities to achieve this goal. This is a rich site with many pages of links to digitized collections. http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/ Founded in 2001, the University of Missouri Digital Library provides a repository for digitized items on behalf of the UM Libraries. Over 20 text collections, and 23 image collections, have been added, including collections from 15 libraries around the state of Missouri. UM provides negotiated free storage for digital objects and metadata, as well as a search interface, at no charge to any Missouri library, museum, or historical society. This link will take you to the home page, where you may choose any of the following collections. http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/ Text Collections
Image Collections
Other University of Missouri Digital Collections may be accessed from this page:http://lso.umsystem.edu/digital.library/other_collections/umsystem
Univesity of Missouri at Kansas City - This link will take you to the main page - http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/diglib/dex
Missouri's County Courthouses: Photographs and History http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mogeneal/court/courthouses.htm Springfield-Greene County Library Digital Collections Twelve distinct collections including Greene County Records, Full text Ozarks Periodicals, Black families of the Ozarks, and much more. http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/collections.cfm Missouri Valley Special Collections Digital Gallery is a great source for images and information about Kansas City. Other subjects here include African Americans, border warfare and the Civil War, cowboys and Indians, explorers and the Western expansion, the Mormons, outlaws and lawmen, and railroads. http://www.kchistory.org/ St. Louis County Public Library Special Collections Index to Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865. The 5,500+ entries can be browsed either by recruits’ names or by slave owners’ names. http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/jkh/usctmo/usctmosoldiers.htm St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records As of February 2006, over 9300 images from 292 freedom suits, 70 cases relating to the St. Louis fur trade, 32 cases involving references to Native Americans, and 98 cases relating to Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, or members of the Corps of Discovery, all previously unknown to history, are available online through the St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project website. http://www.stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu/index.php Online Missouri Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/missouri/index.html Montana
Montana Historical Society Online http://montanahistoricalsociety.org/research/library/onlineexhibits.asp Montana Library Network Newspaper Index - This is an index with brief abstracts only - no images are available online. .http://montanalibraries.org/MKIndexPublic/MKFrameSetPublic.asp Montana Digital Atlas http://maps2.nris.state.mt.us/mapper/ The University of Montana Libraries—Missoula
http://www.lib.umt.edu/research/digitalcollections/ Digital photos of Montana history http://www.lib.umt.edu/research/digitalcollections/digital_photo.htm Online Montana Death Indexes from Joel Beine |
Primary Sources compiled by Carolyn
Paul Branch Callaway County Public Library A Service Center of the Daniel Boone Regional Library 710 Court Street, Fulton, MO 65251 |