Dan Curtis ~ Professional Personal Historian

It’s Monday and time again for a roundup of some of the past week’s intriguing personal and oral history links.

• The Canadian Headstone Photo Project: “The mission of this project is to capture digital images of  headstones of our ancestors…By archiving the images, we can help save these important records and also assist researchers using this valuable resource.”

• The Welshman who struck gold in Suffolk! “A Suffolk village is hanging out the bunting and banging the drum, literally and figuratively, to honour one of its most famous adopted sons – the father of oral history, no less.”

• Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project: “Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century…On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.”

• Who are these people? “Four out of five people say they’ve attended a ‘miserable’ family reunion. But while many balk at spending dough to visit distant relatives in the Facebook age, Adriana Barton reports that there’s nothing like face-time to provide a real sense of connection.”

• Living Cultural Storybases: “…helps minority communities build evolving digital repositories in their own language of their cultural narratives and knowledge…”

• Pasadena’s Living Legacy: “…a new exhibit at the Pasadena Museum of History traces the lines of six families that have represented common experiences for that community.“Family Stories: Sharing a Community’s Legacy” chronicles the histories of multi-generational families from some of the city’s largest ethnic groups, whose lives replay as a living history of the City of the Roses.”

• Rosie the Riveter: Women Working During World War II: “The National Park Service’s first on-line exhibit of artifacts, photos and stories of the American World War II Home Front. This exhibit is a small sample from thousands of items donated to us from across the country.”

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