A Beginner’s Guide to Archives

A Beginner's Guide to Archives is a guest blog post by Alistair McGowan, professional genealogist and owner of bespokeGenealogy.com. Originally from the UK, Alistair now lives in Ontario, Canada, where he runs his genealogy business & research services. Alistair is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and has a Postgraduate Certificate in Genealogical, Paleographic and Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.  If you have any UK ancestry, be sure to follow Alistair on Pinterest, where we connected. His images are beautiful and his posts are filled with useful family history resources, travel tips, and such detail it's hard to believe he spends any time in Canada. His blog and Pinterest images have inspired me to plan a Heritage trip to the UK!  My thanks in advance to Alistair for his willingness to share his knowledge. Now, on to his guest post, A Beginner's Guide to Archives.   It used to be that the only way you coul…
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Family History Month Day 23 – Archives Portal Europe

  Archives Portal Europe allows users to search across archival collections throughout Europe or to specifically locate an archive within a European country. It's a helpful site for genealogists and family historians looking to find archival records or an archive's website. Archives Portal Europe is part of a cooperative effort with Europeana to make archival material searchable. "We are an important strategic partner of Europeana and are working with them to develop a common digital infrastructure for cultural heritage across Europe." Archives Portal Europe is "working to create a one-stop web service to make European archives as accessible as possible. ...Archives Portal Europe enables them [users] to find information more efficiently from millions of archival materials stored in hundreds of archival institutions. This is the first time European archives have collaborated on this scale, and the potential that these connections provide is enormous for both archival prof…
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