Discovering Your Family in Digital Libraries

Photographs, manuscripts, newspapers, oral histories, and other items relating to our ancestors are stored within many different libraries, archives, and museums around the world. During this session, tips and tricks for finding these resources will be shared to help discover more information about your family’s past. While some of these collections may be difficult to view without visiting the library in person, there are many options for gaining access to this type of information through digital libraries and other online methods so you don't have to always travel to remote locations. This session will discuss some of the options for discovering this information about our ancestors through portals such as the Digital Public Library of America, Chronicling America, Mountain West Digital Library, and other free online resources. We will also look at different options for discovering and getting access to archival content about our ancestors that is not currently available online.