24 FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019
LOOKING BACK AT SLAVERY
Digital Library on American Slavery
<library.uncg.edu/slavery>
A new project at this University of North
Carolina-Greensboro site is collecting and
indexing slavery records from not only North
Carolina but other sites covering slaveholding
states and Washington, DC.*Freedmen’s Bureau Project
<www.discoverfreedmen.org>
This FamilySearch project is indexing digitized
records from the Freedmen’s Bureau, created
after the Civil War to assist 4 million formerly
enslaved African Americans.International African American
Museum Center for Family History
<www.cfh.iaamuseum.org>
With a website this good—handsomely pre-
sented and packed with helpful blog posts,
digital collections, videos and photos—it’s easy
to get excited about the physical museum’s
opening in 2020.Slavery in America and the World:
History, Culture & Law
<home.heinonline.org/content/Slavery-in-
America-and-the-World-History-Culture--Law>
Register here for free to access more than 1 mil-
lion pages from 11,000 volumes about slavery,
courtesy of HeinOnline, a leading online legal
library service.SKIMMING THE NEWSPAPER
$ British Newspaper Archive
<www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk>
Already topping 31 million pages dating from
as far back as the 1700s, this rapidly expanding
site presents periodicals published in England,
Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Powerful search
tools let you zoom in on your kin, or browse by
date, country, region, county, place or recently
added titles. Pay as you go, or get a year for
about $100.California Digital Newspaper Collection
<cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc>
A new look and powerful search tools make thiscollection—now up to 359,000 issues comprising
4.4 million pages and 25 million articles—a gold
mine for researching California kin.Chronicling America
<chroniclingamerica.loc.gov>
What makes this Library of Congress project
merit its own listing? How about 15 million
digitized pages and counting from newspapers
spanning 1789 to 1963?Elephind
<www.elephind.com>
Deceptively simple, the powerful search engine
here scours 187 million digitized items from
3,700 newspaper titles. It’s especially strong on
titles from Australia, Texas and Virginia.GenDisasters.com
<www.gendisasters.com>
We confess to a perverse fondness for this off -
beat newspaper collection, which reproduces
news of disasters past (train wreck, fi re, fl ood,
shipwreck, tornado, etc.). Search for unlucky
ancestors by state, year or type of disaster.$ GenealogyBank
<www.genealogybank.com>
Though not just newspapers, this subscrip-
tion site (roughly $69.95 annually) off ers 9,000
titles from all 50 states and obituaries from 1690
forward—95 percent of which are not available
elsewhere online.$ Newspapers.com
<www.newspapers.com>
Another Ancestry-owned site, this searchable
newspaper archive boasts more than 490 mil-
lion pages. You can access 150 million of them
for $7.95 per month, or shell out $19.90 per
month to also access the Publisher Extra pro-
gram (millions of additional pages licensed from
publishers).LIBRARY LOOKUPS
Allen County Public Library
<www.genealogycenter.info>
Second only to the Family History Library, this
Indiana genealogy resource has much more
than Hoosier collections. Gateways help you get