{"id":462,"date":"2012-09-03T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/link-collection-to-various-genealogy-history-resources-online\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:24:41","slug":"link-collection-to-various-genealogy-history-resources-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/link-collection-to-various-genealogy-history-resources-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Collection to Various Genealogy & History Resources Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"link\" I spent the better part of last week reorganizing my link collection on Diigo<\/a>.\u00a0 Diigo is a free social bookmarking website that allows you to save your bookmarks and access them anywhere.\u00a0 You can also share your bookmarks with others, organize them into lists, tag them, provide a description, and annotate or highlight passages on the website.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been using Diigo since 2008 and was \u201csort of\u201d organized, but as I\u2019ve gotten back into my research lately, I noticed that the links were not as organized as I thought.\u00a0 Now, I have a list for each state, a few other miscellaneous lists, and my tags are all consistent now.\u00a0 You are welcome to take a look at my collection by visiting the link here<\/a>, or using the link that is now in the menu bar of this blog.<\/p>\n

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While this is my own personal library of online resources, I\u2019m sure there are plenty that could help you with your own research.\u00a0 Want to find resources for genealogy research in Illinois?\u00a0 There\u2019s a list for that<\/a>!\u00a0 How about Luxembourg?\u00a0 There\u2019s a list for that<\/a> too!\u00a0 Some list are more robust than others and I will continue to add resources as I find them.\u00a0 Be aware, not all of these links contain actual records or indexes.\u00a0 While some of them do, many of them also serve as references to find offline materials, including library and archives catalogs, descriptive inventories, finding aids, etc.<\/p>\n

In addition to sorting all my links using lists, I also fixed all of my tags so they were consistent and there wouldn\u2019t be three different tags saying essentially the same thing.\u00a0 I literally had this done two weeks ago, and then I came across an interesting post by Lori Thornton about tagging items in LibraryThing<\/a>.\u00a0 Lori writes about a tip she learned from Jeff Haines and it inspired me to change the format of some tags, specifically places names and family names.\u00a0 So, for example, if you were looking for everything tagged with Chicago, it\u2019s actually under a tag labeled IL:Chicago.\u00a0 This way, the state is identified (helpful with those pesky repeated town and county names) and they fall in alphabetical order by state.\u00a0 Family names are similar in that they are tagged as family:Miller, for example.\u00a0 (A big thanks to Lori and Jeff for this tip\u2026it could not have come at a better time!!)<\/p>\n

I chose Diigo as my social bookmarking tool because of its many features, including the ability to create lists and tags for better organization.\u00a0 But I think the best features are the highlighting and annotating capabilities.\u00a0 For example, I have a link to a church history book available on Internet Archive.\u00a0 Months from now, I may not remember why the heck I bookmarked it, so I created an annotation (a little note to myself, and maybe even other researchers) that it was the church that my third great-grandparents were married in.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the annotation appears in my list of links.\u00a0 In addition, when I am on the website and open my Diigo toolbar<\/a> (downloadable browser add-on to quickly save links), there is a note icon that appears and when I click on it, the annotation is displayed.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s another example.\u00a0 On the New York State Comptroller’s Office Revolutionary War Accounts and Claims page of the New York State Archives website, I have highlighted three passages and made an annotation.\u00a0 From my link list, you can see all of my references.\u00a0 Then, on the actual website, again using my Diigo toolbar, I can see where the note is located (clicking on it will expand the details) and see each of my highlights.<\/p>\n

\"annotation2\"<\/p>\n

\"annotation3\"<\/p>\n

Another feature that I like is the ability to make a bookmark or a list private.\u00a0 I do have a few links that are private.\u00a0 For example, I had a link to a website about the batillion my great-grandfather served in during WWII.\u00a0 However, when I was cleaning up my links, I noticed that the website was down.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why it\u2019s down, but I didn\u2019t want to lose the link, especially since I have used the website as a source in my research.\u00a0 So I made it private for now.\u00a0 Some other links that are private are simply because of the extensive annotations and\/or highlights that I don\u2019t want to share right now.\u00a0 I also have a list called Personal Research, which I have made private.\u00a0 Other than that, everything else is open for anyone to see.<\/p>\n

As you can see, not only does Diigo serve as a link collecting tool, it can be used as a powerful research tool, and best of all, it\u2019s free!\u00a0 If you\u2019re looking for a way to organize your online library, I encourage you to check out Diigo<\/a>.\u00a0 And be sure to check out my link library<\/a> to learn about various resources I\u2019ve found over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the better part of last week reorganizing my link collection on Diigo.\u00a0 Diigo is a free social bookmarking website that allows you to save your bookmarks and access them anywhere.\u00a0 You can also share your bookmarks with others, organize them into lists, tag […]<\/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":[25,356,39,300],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-news","category-news-events","category-resources-genblog","tag-tools-tech-diigo","cat-25-id","cat-356-id","cat-39-id","cat-300-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-7s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}