Challenge #2
PERSI is the indexing tool for genealogical periodicals. The genius people at Allen County Library, Fort Wayne, Ind thought this up, and maintain the list, which is available online through Heritage Quest (limited), or Find My Past (total), a finding aide which is available through many libraries.
(yes, gen club folk... Forest Park Library has some of PERSI through Heritage Quest, which you can see at home!!)
What this resource offers is access to the items written, over many years by many people (and yes, of differing abilities) on so many many subjects for the periodicals, monthly newsletters, quarterlies, yearly journals.
So..should you be researching blacksmiths in Pennsylvania in the 1850's, you can see if anyone wrote an article about this.
NOTE: PERSI doesn't carry the article, but Allen County Library has the periodical! Road trip for many; for few, talk to your friendly local library's reference librarian.
Grow, learn, be brilliant !!
look at one new data base (online) that is not Ancestry: newspapers, PERSI, Fold 3 (military & city directories a specialty)
Chicago folk have access to Chicago Trib Historical through their Chg public library card. Suburban libraries that co-operate/courtesy card to Chg Public give many more access -- and that's from home!
Chicago folk have access to Chicago Trib Historical through their Chg public library card. Suburban libraries that co-operate/courtesy card to Chg Public give many more access -- and that's from home!
PERSI is the indexing tool for genealogical periodicals. The genius people at Allen County Library, Fort Wayne, Ind thought this up, and maintain the list, which is available online through Heritage Quest (limited), or Find My Past (total), a finding aide which is available through many libraries.
(yes, gen club folk... Forest Park Library has some of PERSI through Heritage Quest, which you can see at home!!)
What this resource offers is access to the items written, over many years by many people (and yes, of differing abilities) on so many many subjects for the periodicals, monthly newsletters, quarterlies, yearly journals.
So..should you be researching blacksmiths in Pennsylvania in the 1850's, you can see if anyone wrote an article about this.
NOTE: PERSI doesn't carry the article, but Allen County Library has the periodical! Road trip for many; for few, talk to your friendly local library's reference librarian.
Grow, learn, be brilliant !!