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50 State-Level Digitized Memory Platforms You Don’t Want to Miss!

Diane L. Richard
Feb 7, 2025
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About this webinar

Many states now have so-called Memory or Digital Archives platforms, which contain a ton of material relevant to genealogists, whether original documents, historical context, images, and more often covering from the state’s founding to now. Examples include Indiana Memory, Portal to Texas History, North Carolina Digital Collections, Virginia Memory, etc.

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About the speaker

Diane L. Richard
Diane L Richard, MEng & MBA, Mosaic Research and Project Management (MosaicRPM), www.mosaicrpm.com, has been doing genealogy research since 1987 and, since 2004, professiona
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    Lola Weber
    3 weeks ago

    Alot of good informatio.

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    Cheryl Villigan
    3 weeks ago

    Diane always delivers! The syllabus for this webinar will have be clicking for hours.

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    Vickie Cook
    3 weeks ago

    Another informative presentation by Diane!

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    Vicki Hilb
    3 weeks ago

    Very informative and helpful

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    Susan Johnson
    3 weeks ago

    Amazing amount of useful information! Great class!!

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    Sylvia Giordano
    3 weeks ago

    Another great presentation by Ms. Richard!!!

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    Peggy A Kehoe
    3 weeks ago

    Great webinar that will save time for any family history researcher. Thank you so much!

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    Janice Fisher
    3 weeks ago

    Important to have as broad as possible a list of websites, so very good info. There are hundreds of great genealogical sites & state-specific groups of genealogists. More to add – 1) https://wvculture.org/vital-records-interactive/. 2) https://virginia.staterecords.org/ 3) US National Archives. 4) Reclaimtherecords.org. 5) https://www.mdhistory.org/. 6) https://www.obitsarchive.com/ssdi – Soc Sec Death Indx.

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