[Genealib] Footnote.com

[Nancy Miller]

For those of you mentioning that you use the Pennsylvania Archives on Footnote.com, you might want to look at the Pennsylvania Archives website at:

http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/

Nancy


Nancy M. Miller, MSLS
Collection Development Librarian
Virginia Beach Public Library
4100 Virginia Beach Blvd.
Virginia Beach, VA 23452-1767
757-385-0163
757-431-3741 FAX
nmiller at vbgov.com<mailto:nmiller at vbgov.com>
vbgov.com/libraries

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From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu [mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of lapiu.bella1 at verizon.net
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:08 PM
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Footnote.com

I have a personal subscription to Footnote.com
I'm not aware of institutional subscriptions. I'm sure their marketing dept could answer that.
I have been using it most particularly for the set of Pennsylvania Naturalizations that it has (broken down into Eastern, Middle, Western PA). Those records are great for the PA Naturalizations for the infux of immigrants in the 1880-1920 time frame.
I have found that the site is cumbersome in that when you click on Original Documents, it loads them ALL. I have given comments to the site suggesting that they whittle those down into categories in much the same way that Ancestry does, ie. Military, Naturalizations, Historic Newspapers sorted by State,etc.
Their search engine is hard to use as well. Compared to Ancestry and the www.newspaperarchive.com search engine, Footnote's is more difficult. Thus, searching their free access to "The Pennsylvania Archives" (PA State official archives, from Revolutionary and post-Rev era) is difficult. But when you get a "good hit", it makes it worthwhile.
I use my subscription to help local history/genealogy patrons to our local library on days when I'm working/volunteering there. I always make it clear that it is my own personal subscription.
Bella
in Western PA



Jan 15, 2009 10:25:57 AM, genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu<mailto:genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu> wrote:
Is anyone on the list using Footnote.com?  If so, what do you think of it?

Is there an institutional subscription available?  Or just personal subscriptions?

Thanks.

Nancy

Nancy M. Miller, MSLS
Collection Development Librarian
Virginia Beach Public Library
4100 Virginia Beach Blvd.
Virginia Beach, VA 23452-1767
757-385-0163
757-431-3741 FAX
<mailto:nmiller at vbgov.com>nmiller at vbgov.com<mailto:nmiller at vbgov.com>
vbgov.com/libraries



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