familytreemagazine.com 25into African-American and Native American
records. Don’t miss the military collection and
Surname File, too.
Library of Congress
Our own national library has plenty for genealo-
gists, from its all-encompassing catalog of print-
ed works to digital collections including photos,
Sanborn fi re insurance maps, and local history.
National Library of Ireland
The key attraction here is a collection of 373,000
searchable images of Catholic parish records.
But you’ll also fi nd old photos, a newspaper data-
base, and more than 180,000 catalog records for
Irish manuscripts and articles.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Explore some 840,000 digitized items, with
new materials added every day, including
prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts and
streaming video.
Newberry Library
<www.newberry.org/
genealogy-and-local-history>
Once you’ve used the interactive Atlas of His-
torical County Boundaries <www.newberry.org/
atlas-historical-county-boundaries> to see where
your ancestors were when, check out the gene-
alogy guides, Chicago and Freedmen’s Bureau
resources, and other digital collections.
WorldCat
Use the site or download the app to search more
than 2 billion items from the catalogs of 10,000
of the world’s libraries. Then WorldCat locates
your fi nds at a library near you. Free registra-
tion allows you to track your research with lists
and bibliographies.PORING OVER MAPS
AfricaMap
<worldmap.harvard.edu/africamap>
Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis maps
the slave trade in stunning detail with historical
overlays and geographical data.Atlas of the Historical Geography
of the United States
<dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas>
This digital edition reproduces all of the classic
1932 atlas’s nearly 700 maps, many of which are
enhanced to show change over time or to allow
data overlays.Bureau of Land Management
General Land Offi ce Records
<www.glorecords.blm.gov>
Uncle Sam serves up searchable images of more
than 5 million federal land title records issued
beginning in 1788, plus images of survey plats
and fi eld notes, land status records, and control
document index records.David Rumsey Map Collection
<www.davidrumsey.com>
Explore more than 90,000 historical maps and
related images from around the world with your
choice of viewer, including Google Earth, LUNA
Viewer, and GeoReferencer.$ Historic Map Works
<www.historicmapworks.com>
Find your ancestors’ places in these 1.6 million
historical maps and images, more than halfSites such as FamilySearch, Rootsweb,
USGenWeb, Heritage Quest and Ancestry
have continued to evolve, adding data and
becoming evermore relevant for research.