Free Online Genealogy Fair

Would you like to research you family history? You can learn lots of tips by watching the 2014 Virtual Genealogy Fair, which was hosted by The National Archives on October 28, 29, and 30. Experts from National Archives' facilities nationwide, the historian from the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, and representatives from Ancestry and FamilySearch were the speakers for this free event. These presentations should be useful for both beginning and more experienced genealogists. You can read the presentation schedule and handouts for each session here. The presentations are available online at Youtube.com. See below for videos from all three days.
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Happy Fourth of July!

We hope you have a wonderful Fourth of July.  In celebration of our country's founding, here are some interesting online historical exhibits:

The U.S. National Archive "Documented Rights" Exhibit states that "Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, our rights as citizens of the United States have been debated, contested, amended, and documented."  You can view this exhibit online here. Also, there are related photographs in the U. S. National Archives' Flickr photo collections.  Two of these photos are shown below:

Photograph of Suffrage Parade 1913

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a Civil Rights March -1963

You can find other historical collections online at the U. S. National Archives here. 

Other collections include:

•  Eyewitness - eyewitness accounts of dramatic moments in U. S. history.
• Treasures of Congress
• American Women - information about over 100 significant women in American History.
• A People at War - Americans who served their country in World War II.