Found History

by Tom Scheinfeldt

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Entries Tagged as 'Genealogy'

Privatizing Holocaust History?

October 3rd, 2009 · 14 Comments

For the past few years, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has undertaken a series of public-private digitization partnerships, especially with a company called Footnote.com. These partnerships provide NARA with free digitization services, and visitors to NARA’s reading rooms with access to the products, but allow Footnote.com and NARA’s other private partners to charge [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Genealogy · Memory · Open Access · Public History · Twitter

Briefly Noted for February 22, 2008

February 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

(my) History of Technology by Verie Sandborg. A retiree’s recollections of a lifetime with personal technology. Roots Television. User-generated genealogy videos. Interesting, but too many ads. Technica. An archive of lego history, including early advertisements, a numbered set listing, and an extensive timeline.

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Tags: Artifacts · Biography · Briefly Noted · Genealogy · History of Technology · Hobbies · Memory · Timelines · Video

Geni

January 16th, 2007 · No Comments

The tech blogs are buzzing about Geni, a new genealogy application launched by former Paypal executive David Sacks (see Valleywag and TechCrunch for example). Billing itself as “a unique approach to solving the problem of genealogy,” Geni “lets you create a family tree through [its] fun simple interface”: When you add a relative’s email address, [...]

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Tags: Genealogy · Tools · Visualizations

Family History

June 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Found on the floor of the United States Senate: James Inhofe (R-OK) explores his family history.

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Tags: Biography · Genealogy · Politics · Video

MemoryWiki and The Remembering Site

January 24th, 2006 · No Comments

I just had an interesting meeting with Marshall Poe, historian, author, and founder of MemoryWiki, a MediaWiki-powered site that allows visitors to store personal memories. Last week, I had lunch with Sarah McCue, who launched The Remembering Site to help people record their family histories. MemoryWiki and The Remembering Site represent two different approaches to [...]

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Tags: Biography · Genealogy · Memory