USF Africana Heritage Project

USF Africana Heritage Project looks like a super site for anyone with African American ancestors. Quoted from their site:

"About the Project:

The USF Africana Heritage Project is an all-volunteer research project and website sponsored by the Africana Studies department at the University of South Florida.

About Our Research:

Our research mission is to rediscover records that document the names and lives of slaves, freedpersons and their descendants, and share those records on our free Internet site. Access to all of the content on this website is, and always will be, 100% free.

We believe that each person's heritage is their anchor in this world. Our goal is to reclaim African American heritage one family at a time by gathering and preserving records of African American genealogy and history.

We encourage readers to share documents. Each record that we gather is a stone added to the pile, and as the pile grows, our website will become an invaluable resource for those researching African American ancestry and cultural heritage. We also provide lesson plans for using the information on our website as a teaching tool."

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Hidden Lives Revealed

Hidden Lives Revealed provides an intriguing encounter with children who were in the care of The Children's Society in late Victorian and early 20th Century Britain.

The Photographs section has about 200 photographs that show the kind of background many of the children came from - and how different that was from daily life in the homes.

About 22,500 children were looked after by the Waifs and Strays' Society between 1882 - 1918. You can search through summaries and transcriptions of a selection of these children's case files here - or browse through them by subject keyword in the Case Files Section

The Waifs and Strays' Society operated nearly 175 children's homes up to 1918 - although not all at once. Browse or search through their stories here.

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New Canadian Data Base Searches

The Canadian Genealogy Centre develops databases on various aspects of the population of Canada and hosts other databases created by their partners. Each database includes a comprehensive online help page, which contains helpful information about the records, the database and how to consult the actual records.

Try the new Ancestor Search

That's my family
A single tool to search multiple databases in various provinces.

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Archive CD Books Project

From the Lambton, Ontario mailing list:

Rod Neep, Founder of the Archive CD Books Project, Retires. International digitizing project continues through other partner companies

The International Archive CD Books Project -- 1 October 2007 --

Effective immediately, Rod Neep, the founder of the Archive CD Books project, is retiring and closing the doors of "Archive CD Books, Ltd.," the British partner company in the international digitization project. The remaining partner companies in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United States carry on with the project, however, and will continue to add to the project's large inventory of digital
reproductions of old and rare books that are of interest to family historians.

Mr. Neep started the Archive CD Books Project in 2000 as a result of recognizing a need to make certain old and rare documents more readily available to genealogy researchers and family historians. The growth of his business was explosive and within three years he had made more than 1,500 valuable titles available through his company web site. At about the same time, he was instrumental in setting up two new independent partner companies in Australia and Canada. Since then he has added two more companies in the USA and Ireland. Thus the International Archive CD Books Project took shape and continues to develop its inventory of valuable reproductions.

As always, each of the partner companies will continue to provide access to the Archive CD Books international inventory through its own web site while focusing on the digitization of additional works that were originally published in the local country. Each remaining partner company also has plans to make digital reproductions of some material that was originally published in Great Britain, continuing the good work of the project's founder.

Rod Neep said "I am really happy that the concept of the Archive CD Books project will be continuing in the safe hands of the international partners, and I wish them all the best of success in the future".

"We wish Rod every happiness and success as he moves on to take up new interests, many of which we understand will involve a golf course," said a spokesman for the other partner companies. "We are already in the process of making sure that Rod's customers will be looked after and we have plans for some exciting announcements in the near future," he said.

The principals in the remaining partner companies are Alan & Stephen Phillips (Australia), Chris and Malcolm Moody (Canada), Brian Donovan (Ireland), and Bob Velke (USA).

About the Project: The Archive CD Books Project exists to make digital reproductions of old books and other materials available to the public, to donate original publications to libraries and other institutions, and to cooperate with these repositories to preserve their existing collections for future generations.

Contact:
Archive CD Books Australia - www.ArchiveCDBooks.com.au
Archive CD Books Canada - www.ArchiveCDBooks.ca
Archive CD Books Ireland - www.ArchiveCDBooks.ie
Archive CD Books USA - www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Looking for information about a relative who served in the North-West Mounted Police ? The Royal Northwest Mounted Police ? Or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ? Looking for photographs ? Please see Archives for further information and instructions.

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