Friday Finds – 08/16/13

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

New-to-Me Blogs

• Ascending the Stairs, Rachelle
• Tangled Roots and Trees, Schalene Dagutis
• The PhillyHistory Blog

Online Articles

• Border Jumping: Researching Across State & County Borders, Archives.com
• Genealogy Research in a New Locality, About Genealogy
• Favorite Records: Vertical Files, Begin With Craft
• On the Value of Information, Genealogical or Otherwise, Digging in the Roots
• Kitty Cooper’s Chromosome Mapping Tool Released, DNA eXplained
• Chromosome Mapper by Kitty Cooper – First Look, Haplogroup
• Evernote for Genealogy: Quick Tip #3, Tonia’s Roots
• The Letters on eBay, Life From the Roots
• America’ Most Devastating Conflict: King Philip’s War, Connecticut History
• Tuesday’s Tip: More Ten-Minute Genealogist Ideas, Climbing My Family Tree

Websites & Resources

• Portland (Oregon) Street Name Changes – Listing of street name changes for Portland, Oregon. Opens an Excel file.
• PhillyHistory – “Find historical photos and maps by date, neighborhood, address, and/or keyword in a collection of over 90,000 records “
• Philadelphia Historic Streets Index – “This index was compiled from the original road records, docket books, jury decisions, and surveys held by the Philadelphia City Archives. From these sources the Philadelphia Department of Streets developed and maintains its comprehensive survey of official road records for the City. Changes to the names of certain streets, alleys, and courts were first effected by an ordinance dated September 1, 1858. A provision of this ordinance was an alphabetical index of former names, together with the location of the street and the new name given to it. By an ordinance of February 23, 1897 names of intermediate streets were indexed by old name, location and new name. Both indexes are held by the Philadelphia City Archives under Record Group 90.47.” [Thanks, Randy!]
• Arizona Digital Newspaper Program – Various digitized newspapers in the state of Arizona. [Thanks, Kenneth!]
• Historical Postcard Collections – All free on Ancestry.
  • US
  • Canada
  • Germany & Austria
  • UK & Ireland
  • Italy
• xtimeline – “xtimeline is a free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos.”

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