Footnote.com has been added to our online database collection, and we have eliminated the little-used America’s Obituaries and Death Notices. (Most of the information in the latter is available in other sources that we own, and our current budget situation does not allow the luxury of having both.) Footnote debuted in 2007, and like other databases, digitizes more content each day. It has partnered with the National Archives, and highlights include:
Revolutionary War service records, pensions, and bounty-land applications
Naturalization files for many courts
Passport applications
Civil War widow’s pensions
Historic newspapers
It also allows genealogists and historians to create content and network with each other, is organized by timelines, and has a wonderful image viewer. It is available at Main Library only, stop by the second floor genealogy section and try it out!
A few examples of things I found:
- the above page from the San Francisco Chronicle, which Footnote allowed me to crop and save so I could just get the part about my grandmother, top left
- my great-grandmother's Oath of Allegiance (above center)
- friends' Nebraska homesteading records (not pictured)
Below is the whole article from the Chronicle:
-Barb Smith
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Sure, I'll comment on my own post-while searching today, found out Footnote has City Directories from Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh from 1861-1923, to name just a few cities. Genealogists are already using them.
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