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Using Newspapers Effectively
Using Newspapers Effectively
If newspaper research seems difficult, or at least time consuming, it is often made that way because of errors found in the newspaper itself or by the researcher who may have noted the wrong date or location, causing a great deal of wasted time looking in the wrong place. In addition, some researchers confine their searches to only one newspaper, thereby neglecting additional data that may be found in other articles on the same subject.
#Newspapers-About
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Using Newspapers Effectively
In Search of Criminal Records
In Search of Criminal Records
Legal and Court systems are complicated and their records vary depending on the time and place of the event. In the 19th century, the investigation into a crime and its outcome would most likely have been handled differently than for one which occurred in the twentieth or twenty-rst centuries, although it may have been handled similarly depending on the crime. Criminal and court records were recorded based on the needs, format, and technology of the pertinent era.
#Crime#How-Do-I-Find...?#Police-Prison
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In Search of Criminal Records
Analyzing City Directories
Analyzing City Directories
City directories are similar to telephone directories. If used skillfully, however, they can reveal a great deal more.
#How-Do-I-Find...?
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Analyzing City Directories
North American Slave Narratives
North American Slave Narratives
Books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920.
#Slave Narratives
·docsouth.unc.edu·
North American Slave Narratives
Genealogy Bank - Newspapers
Genealogy Bank - Newspapers
Includes several Upstate & Western NY newspapers. You get only a citation for the article unless you are a paid member. But with that citation, you can see if the local library has the local paper on microfilm and get a copy that way.
#Newspapers-Online
·genealogybank.com·
Genealogy Bank - Newspapers
New York Passenger Lists, 1892-1924
New York Passenger Lists, 1892-1924
Name index to lists of 25 million people (not just immigrants) who arrived at Ellis Island, Port of New York, 1892-1924. In addition, includes a link to images of arrival lists at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Web site. Brought to you be FamilySearch.org.
#Immigrants-Immigration
·pilot.familysearch.org·
New York Passenger Lists, 1892-1924
St. Albans Lists, Buffalo
St. Albans Lists, Buffalo
These are records of people who entered Buffalo from Canada, scanned from microfilm in the National Archives. Date range is possibly 1895-1956.
#Immigrants-Immigration
·archive.org·
St. Albans Lists, Buffalo
Wilbur H. Siebert Collection of Underground Railroad Papers
Wilbur H. Siebert Collection of Underground Railroad Papers
By 1893, Siebert was actively collecting material on the Underground Railroad with his students. In 1898, Siebert's first book on the anti-slavery movement, The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom, was published. The Buffalo History Museum has the New York State portion of his papers on microfilm. This is a detailed inventory of his entire collection.
#Underground Railroad-Abolitionism
·ohiohistory.org·
Wilbur H. Siebert Collection of Underground Railroad Papers