Genealogical Gems from the Internet Archive

Collected by John Blythe Dobson

In the course of managing my genealogy site (where contact details for me can be found), I frequently find that valuable fulltext sources and finding aids I have cited have completely disappeared from the Web, and I have had to change the link to point to the copy in the Internet Archive (with which the present site has no official connection). Relatively little of the content of the Archive is currently searchable, and a document can generally only be found if its old address is known. Because these addresses cannot be found in a general-purpose Internet search engine such as Google, I have decided to preserve some of my personal favorites by linking to the archival copies, in their most recent versions. Suggestions which are in keeping with the subject matter of this page are welcome.

If I discover, or am informed, that a page listed here is actually still available on the web, or that it has been withdrawn from the Internet Archive itself, I will immediately delete the link. Anyone wishing to request the removal of a link for any other reason is asked to read my policy page before contacting me.

All links below will open in a new window. Some are PDF files, which require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing. Please note that some of the files are large, and may take a while to download.

• Diaries of Rev. Timothy Walker, the First and Only Minister of Concord, N.H., from his ordination November 18, 1730, to September 1, 1782, edited and annotated by JOseph B. Walker (Concord, 1889), facsimile edition [PDF]

  (80 pp.) Link added 9 March 2004.

• Genealogical Periodical Annual Index: Key to the Genealogical Literature, Vol. 39, 2000, electronic edition [PDF]

  952K; 303 pp. Link added 9 March 2004.

• 1850 Erin Squatters List, Wellington Co., Ontario, transcribed by Sandra McLellan [HTML]

  Small file. Link added 21 March 2004.

Gems from the Internet Archive, collected by John Blythe Dobson
URL = cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/gems/
This page first appeared 9 March 2004