Jacob Riis' How
the Other Half Lives (1890) |
This link takes you directly to the chapter on Bohemian cigar makers. The setting is the tenements of New York, rather than the row houses of 18th century Reading Pennsylvania. | |
| Has an online card catalog of their holdings, very extensive on Penna and Phila history. About 3/4 of my information has been gathered in visits to the HSP. | ||
| Includes searchable online access to SSDI and International Genealogical Index, and makes available by order extensive international records on microfilm at LDS Family History Libraries worldwide. | ||
| Including pictures and history of Reading Pennsylvania | ||
| Has a library and museum | ||
| Extensive holdings in German Language, documenting German-immigrant life in Pennsylvania from the beginning. | ||
| Has an online catalog that is searchable | ||
| Great Pictures and little-known history about Philadelphia, the Revolution, etc. FUN |
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| The fee-based service is worthwhile, though net traffic can slow searches | ||
| Photos taken about the time the Fords and Cowleys were packing to leave. They would have known some of these places, and they would have remembered them just like this. | ||
| See contemporary pictures of places some of our ancestors knew around Castleconor, Kilglass, Easky. Very eerie. | ||
| This company sells repros of old photos of places in Ireland, including a couple of Sligo, prob. around 1900. View online. | ||
| A searchable catalog of their collections--photographs, church records, etc. Looks like a fine place to visit. | ||
| An extensive set of links to sites of archaeological interest in Ireland, and full of historical detail. Kinda cool. | ||
| If you want to track down non-wealthy Catholics in Ireland, find their church, not civil, parish. Also more on local parish histories. | ||
| A list of microfilmed parish registers with the years covered at the National Library of Ireland | ||
| Links to transcriptions of many of the registers of baptisms and marriages at Castleconor RC parish (Anthony Ford & Mary Walsh) | ||
| Trascriptions of a portion of Easky Parish registers (Martin Cowley & Mary O'Brien, 4 children) | ||
| Transcriptions of a portion of the 1901 Census in Co. Sligo. | ||
| Transcriptions of the 1901 Census for townlands in the eastern part of Co. Mayo (Fords & Walshes) | ||
| Transcriptions of portions of 1901 Census for several counties in western Ireland. Searchable by surname. | ||
| Defunct, sorry. A crime. (Seriously great, with links to full-text articles about Irish history, including nationalism, rebellion, emigration, etc. Searchable by keyword. Look up "1798" or "ribbonmen", for example) | ||
| The link points to a feature on the IRB, or Irish Republican Brotherhood, but the whole series is worth seeing | ||
| An organization that promotes the history and culture of the German people who lived in the border region between Germany and Bohemia, now the Czech Republic | ||
| A picture tour of the land of castles from medieval times to Mad King Ludwig | ||
| Satirical antique illustrations, including one of your standard "Mick" hod carrier. | ||
| More about antique occupations, a glossary of terms | ||
| Phone books long before there were phones, and even then, ads, ads, ads. But the ads can also be a good source for quaint commercial graphics and type styles. |