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Virginia

Jamestown and the Virginia Experiment: The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." Jamestown Interactive highlights some of the newest project development at Virtual Jamestown. For example, using John Smith's maps and records as a guide, they have put together Flash maps of the Chesapeake area, allowing users to interact with Smith's voyages in a new way. http://www.virtualjamestown.org/

An African American Album
"An African American Album, the Black Experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County was published by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in 1992. The book, now out of print, is made up of photographs donated by community members. These compelling images reflect African-American Life in the years before 1950." http://www.cmstory.org/african/album/volume1/default.htm

Early Virginia Religious Petitions
Images of more than 400 petitions presented to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 dealing with "the historic debate over the separation of church and state championed by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, the rights of dissenters such as Quakers and Baptists, the sale and division of property in the established church, and the dissolution of unpopular vestries." Part of American Memory. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/petitions/

Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs
Searchable collection of photographs by Virginia educator, Davis. Most of the photographs depict Virginia and the South during the first half of the 20th century. The site also includes a brief biography and transcriptions of Davis's 1911 and 1913 diaries.  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/collections/jdavis/

Library of Virginia Digital Collections
Collections include birth, death, marriage, estate records, photographs and colonial documents. http://www.lva.lib.va.us/

The Virginia Center for Digital History at The University of Virginia   promotes the study of American history and culture, and the teaching of both subjects in schools. http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/ 

Virtual Jamestown  is a collaboration of several prestigious organizations and has won several awards. In addition to extensive information on the colonists, you can search records of more than 15,000 indentured servants.     http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/interactive.html

Center for History and New Media at George Mason University  

This Website serves as the gateway to more than two dozen digital projects on a variety of topics concerning history and culture. The topics range from September 11 to the French Revolution to the Jamestown settlement. The site also provides links to a long list of affiliated projects covering U.S. and world history. http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php

"The Countryside Transformed: The Railroad and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1870-1935" is a digital archive of maps, photographs, manuscripts, newspapers, public documents, and other media. "The Countryside Transformed" shows how the coming in 1884 of the railroad to the counties of Accomack and Northampton profoundly changed the physical and mental landscapes in which the people of the region lived, worked, and traveled. http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/eshore/

Washington

Washington State Digital Archives  This site has thousands of fully searchable records. There is a global search page to search all records, or you can choose to search specific counties. The search results page gives name and date information.  But in order to view the digital images, a DJVU plugin from Lizard Technologies must be downloaded. This free software allows you to display high-resolution (high-quality) images on a web site with useful tools, such as the ability to zoom in and out, pan, adjust color, etc.  http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/

Marriage Records - Includes conveyances, security documents, marriage, and misc. documents.

» Naturalization Records  Various types of naturalization-related records, including declarations of intentions, delayed birth files, naturalization affidavits, notifications of application for admission to US citizenship, orders fixing naturalization terms, petitions and records, petitions, receipts for certificates of citizenship, record of final decrees of citizenship and record of petitions dockets. Depending on the county, records range from 1854-1988

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» Census Records  Historic census records contain county demographic information from Washington State from 1847 through 1910. As each census was conducted independently, the data fields vary widely from one census to another.

» Death Records  Death Records is a collection of historic records containing listings from cemeteries, death indexes, and burial permits.

» Birth Records  1890 – 1923

» Military Records  Military Records is a collection of records regarding Washington citizens who served in the armed forces. Within this series is a listing of residents at the Veterans Home in Restil from 1910 to 1977, veterans housed at the Washington Soldier's Home from 1890 to 1970 and WWI serviceman cards.

» Institution Records Collection of prisoner records from various institutions across Washington State.

Miscellaneous Historical Records

Washington Territory Donation Land Claims 1852-1855,

Thurstoneer Certificate Applications 1852-1902,

Japanese Evacuee Resettlement,

Island County Miscellaneous Death Records 1833-2006,

Island County Miscellaneous Birth Records 1841-2000

Washing State Digital Collections - from the State Library Site. Links to eighteen different digital collections from all parts of the state. http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/wscollections.htm

• Ellensburg Public Library - Kittitas County Archive
• Ellensburg Public Library - Through Open Eyes: 95 years of Black History in Roslyn, WA
• Everett Public Library - The Everett Massacre
• Gonzaga University - Foley Library - Language of the Kalispel
• Pacific Lutheran University - Scandinavian Immigrant Experience
• Port Townsend Public Library - Morning Leader Newspaper
• Stevens County Rural Library District - Loon Lake, Washington
• Tacoma Public Library - Magnificent Views and Vistas
• Tacoma Public Library - Photography Archive
• Tacoma and Pierce County Building Index
• UW - Suzzallo/Allen Library - American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection
• University of Washington, list of all digital collections
• Washington State Library - Governors of Washington State
• Washington State Library - Thurston County Pioneers: Before 1870
• WSU - Holland Library - Frank S. Matsura Image Collection
• WSU - Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
• WSU - Early Washington Maps Database
• Yakima Valley Regional Library & Yakima Valley Museum - Yakima Memory

Online Washington Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/washington/index.html

West Virginia

West Virginia History Online Digital Collections From West Virginia University  http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvconline/digitalcollections.html

ü      Roy Bird Cook Collection. 31st Virginia Regiment (CSA). Documents, A&M 1561. A collection of more than 3000 documents relating to the 31st Virginia Regiment of the Confederate Army. The regiment was primarily composed of western Virginia volunteers and served in many major conflicts during the course of the Civil War. Included are orders, accounts, muster rolls, and correspondence, as well as a history of the regiment by James Dell Cooke.

ü      West Virginia History OnView: Photographs From the West Virginia & Regional History Collection.   Presented in this website is a group of more than 6,000 images which is growing daily. In addition to offering convenient on-site and remote access to these photographs, the image records offer extensive catalog and subject data which makes this resource highly searchable and user friendly.

ü      Patrick Ward Gainer. Child Ballads of West Virginia. A professor of English specializing in West Virginia folklore, Patrick Ward Gainer (1904-1981) performs a selection of British folksongs cataloged in Francis James Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads as discovered in Appalachia.

ü      Drawings of David Hunter Strother. A&M 2894. Artist, author, soldier and statesman, David Hunter Strother (1816-1888) was a native of Martinsburg. During the 1850s he rose to national prominence as artist/author of an extended series of illustrated travelogues which appeared in the nation's most popular magazine, Harper's Monthly. . Included here is a portfolio of more than 600 sketches made by Strother throughout his life, including both published and unpublished works.

West Virginia Historical Photographs
Collection of more than 20,000 photographs depicting West Virginia history.
 http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=wvcp

The Vital Research Records Project is a collaborative venture between the West Virginia State Archives and the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) to place online via the West Virginia Archives and History Web site selected West Virginia county birth, death and marriage records, and statewide death records in a viewable, downloadable and searchable format accessible at http://www.wvculture.org/vrr.

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Includes West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. (From American Memory) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html

Online West Virginia Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/westvirginia/index.html

Wisconsin

State of Wisconsin Collection     http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/

Ö         Wisconsin Pioneer Experience  The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century.

Ö        Great Lakes Maritime History Project  This collection contains over 7,000 files on ships that sailed since 1679 and some that sail on the Great Lakes today. Vessels included are diesel-powered, sailing ships, barges, cargo vessels, passenger boats, military vessels, and pleasure craft.

Ö         Ada James Papers and Correspondence  Ada James (1876-1952) was a leading a social reformer, humanitarian, and pacifist from Richland Center, Wisconsin and daughter of state senator David G. James. The Ada James papers document the grass roots organizing and politics required to promote and guarantee the passage of women's suffrage in Wisconsin and beyond.

Wisconsin Historical Society   

 http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Ö        Wisconsin Genealogy Index. Search 1,000,000 births, 400,000 deaths and 1,000,000 marriages registered before September 1907. The index gives name, date, and county with a link to buy the actual record or certificate. ($15.00) http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/

Ö        Historic Images provides a rich pictorial view of Wisconsin and United States history. The collection consists of 19th and 20th century photographs, paintings, posters, advertising material, ephemera, and political cartoons.    http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/

Ö        Wisconsin local history and Biography articles (searchable newspaper clippings from 1860 -1940) http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/

Ö        1,000 articles, memoirs, interviews, and essays on Wisconsin history and archaeology first published 1855-1915. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whc/

Online Wisconsin Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/wisconsin/index.html

Wyoming

University of Wyoming Digital Initiative http://digital.uwyo.edu/

Wyoming Memory brings the histories of Wyoming to life through a virtual gateway to the state's rich collections of manuscripts, books, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. These sources document Wyoming's past from prehistory through the present.  http://www.wyomingmemory.org/

Wyoming Western Trails http://www-wsl.state.wy.us/trails/exhibits/index.html

Wyoming Online Historic Map Collection  http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/mapphotos/maps.htm

Wyoming Newspaper Project   http://www.wyonewspapers.org/

Online Wyoming Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/wyoming/index.html