Earlier this year I read that a number of B Horror Movies were available on the Internet Archive.
For those of you who don’t know, the Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that offers free and permanent access to historical collections in digital format.
I love those old B Horror Movies, so I checked out the site and was pleased to see a number of movies that I had enjoyed years ago now available for free online.
But what does this have to do with stuff about genealogy?
After checking out the movies and classic television programs, I ran a search on the Internet Archive for “genealogy” and found that the site also has much of interest to family historians.
Among its texts (books), audio and video files, software, and archived web pages are family histories, county histories, and podcasts (audio files) focusing on “how-to” techniques and other information about genealogy research.
For example, when searching on the term “genealogy” in the “text” area the more than 1,500 returns include family histories, such as William Bird Wylie’s Bird Genealogy (1903) or Helen Morrill Guilford’s Guilford Genealogy (1918).
There are county and state histories, such as Myers’ History of West Virginia (1915) or Oren Frederic Morton’s A History of Preston County, West Virginia (1914).
Among the audio files are several podcasts of DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour, such as the one from 20 June 2006 that focuses on www.Genline.com, the premier website for Swedish Church Records.
Books and maps can be viewed online or downloaded for later use; similarly, podcasts and videos can be used online or downloaded.
So whether you’re looking for B Horror movies or digital books or something else entirely, check out the Internet Archive.
You might be surprised at what you find.
