Resources in Editing and Publishing Family Manuscripts

         The Clarke Historical Library has an extensive section on preserving family materials in the Online Resources section of its website at http://www.lib.cmich.edu/clarke/.  The Newberry Library Conservation Department gives good advice on preserving manuscripts and books.  It is available on the Internet at http://newberry.org  or http://newberry.org/conser/isc185.htm.

         The number of web sites involving genealogy and family history is very large.  Helpful sites are:

• http://www.Cyndislist.com
• The National Genealogical Society,  http://www.genealogy.org/~ngs
• The Genealogy Home Page, an in-depth genealogist’s web, http://www.genhomepage.com/full.html
• The Genealogy Resource Page (information about the U.S. Census and the Social Security Index) at http://www.pacificnet.net/~reunions
• Online Genealogy Database Index at http://www.gentree.com
• USF Genealogy Collection at http://www.lib.usf.edu/spcoll/genea.html
• Genealogy Helplist (a group of volunteers who will help others with research at institutions near the volunteer) at http://www.concentric.net/~Mikerice/helplist.shtml

        The Chicago Historical Society has an outstanding online exhibit, “Just the Arti-Facts’, including a teenage girl’s scrapbook, a Civil War prisoner’s diary, and notes and letters from Abraham Lincoln and John Brown, among others, at http://www.chicagohistory.org/AOTM/jta.html.
 

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