{"id":409,"date":"2013-01-11T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/genealogy-by-the-states-week-1-delaware\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T21:40:15","slug":"genealogy-by-the-states-week-1-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/genealogy-by-the-states-week-1-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy By the States \u2013 Week 1 \u2013 Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The closest I get to Delaware are towns and counties of the same name.\u00a0 Not one event in my database took place in the state of Delaware.\u00a0 That being the case, I decided to head over to my Diigo bookmark page for Delaware<\/a> to see what online resource I could explore.\u00a0 Until today, there were only two links: one for the Delaware archives<\/a> and one for the University of Delaware\u2019s digital collection<\/a>.\u00a0 I decided to explore the UD digital collections.<\/p>\n

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In some cases you are not able to access any of the images without a logon if you chose the \u201cFull Collection\u201d option.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes you can view thumbnails and details about an image, by choosing the \u201cOpen Access\u201d option.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t find a way to look at a larger version of the image or download a copy, so for some collections, like the 1868 atlas, it was kind of a letdown.<\/p>\n

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Other times, a collection was available as PDF files.\u00a0 For example, the American Civil War Digital Collections: Pierce Family Papers<\/em> has 48 documents in the collection that are digitized and available as PDF files.<\/p>\n

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When you choose \u201cBrowse the Collection\u201d you will see a list of all the artifacts that are in the collection.\u00a0 Please note that there may be several pages of results so be sure to look for the \u201cNext Page\u201d link at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n

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When you click on the link for an item of interest, you come to a page that has some more details, as well as a link to view the PDF file.<\/p>\n

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Clicking on the PDF file link will open the file.\u00a0 Below is a partial shot of a two-page letter.<\/p>\n

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I also explored the library\u2019s main website and found that they had some research guides<\/a>.\u00a0 Their Genealogy<\/a> guide has some useful information about conducting genealogy research not only at the UD library, but for the state of Delaware in general. Links and references outside of the UD library are also mentioned throughout the guide.\u00a0 It is especially important to check out the tabs near the top of the page for subtopics.<\/p>\n

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And even though I clearly do not research in the state of Delaware at present, I thought it would be a good idea to beef up my Diigo links for Delaware<\/a> just in case I should ever need them.\u00a0 In Jim\u2019s post for Delaware<\/a>, he mentions a few links that I do not have and I also consulted Red Book<\/em> (Ancestry Publishing: 2004) for some ideas.\u00a0 Sadly, I didn\u2019t have the genealogical nor historical societies, which is pretty bad considering I tried to get those for each state.\u00a0 But now they\u2019re there, along with some other helpful links.<\/p>\n

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Genealogy By the States<\/em><\/a> is a theme created by Jim Sanders over at the <\/em>Hidden Genealogy Nuggets<\/em><\/a> blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The closest I get to Delaware are towns and counties of the same name.\u00a0 Not one event in my database took place in the state of Delaware.\u00a0 That being the case, I decided to head over to my Diigo bookmark page for Delaware to see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,25,300],"tags":[351],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","category-resources-genblog","tag-genealogy-by-the-states","cat-27-id","cat-25-id","cat-300-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-6B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}