THe SCR Genealogy Group
December 2007

Happy New Year! We wish you many “great finds” in your family history this year. The three websites listed below should help some of you.  Happy “cyber digging”! 

The next genealogy meeting is on Wednesday, January 2, at 1:00 pm, in the Cedar Room. Bring special information and or artifacts about your family to share at the meeting. Plan to limit your presentation to 5 minutes so we can accommodate all.

Historic and Genealogical archives from CSU Chico now Available and Growing

The Meriam Library of CSU Chico has begun to digitalize their collection of over 18,000 historical photographs. About 2900 of these are now available for viewing. If you are researching the Northern California area, give this site a look. Go to:

http://www.csuchico.edu/lbib/spc/netpages/home.html

Some highlights of the CSU Chico website are

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)

Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690 - present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/index.html

Finding Information on Relatives who Were in Political Life

The Political Graveyard presently has transcribed records of 138,150 politicians, judges, and diplomats. The coverage of the site includes many federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.

This web site is much more than a listing of cemeteries. It has extensive lists of political figures, many of them with mini-biographies or else links to more detailed information about the individuals listed. Such information usually includes states and places of birth and sometimes includes the names of the politician's parents. Of course, with the word "Graveyard" in the site's name, you can also expect to find the place of interment of most of these individuals.

Website: http://politicalgraveyard.com/

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