Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Free Access to Gale Databases to Celebrate National Library Week
In honor of 2011 National Library Week, Gale, one of the major international information purveyors, is allowing free access to several of its online resources from April 10-24. The primary database of interest to genealogists will be Gale NewsVault, which includes 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals: Empire, Times Digital Archive, and Illustrated London Times Historical Archive. Other databases available free until April 24 include Powerspeak Languages and Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive.
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