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    1. Website - Info on collections in archives, museums, etc.
    2. Hi all ~ I'm sending this to a couple different lists, sorry if you get it more than once. I received an email regarding a website I've never seen or heard about.  (I could be the only one who hasn't heard of it, that's been known to happen!) In part, the email reads, "RedLightGreen has started an excellent site called ArchiveGrid, to aggregate information about collections in archives, museums, etc. It's free through May 31, possibly longer.  You can try it at http://archivegrid.org.   Almost a million collection descriptions are available through this site's search engine."  I have only tried it a couple of times so far, to see what I would get.  For example, I entered a search for "Pennsylvania" and received 82,133 hits!  So I entered Lancaster and got 1015 hits.  I added Quaker to that search and it narrowed it to 53 hits.  It is information on collections etc and where to find them - it is not the actual info.  You might find something interesting here.  I clicked on one of the hits, "Account Books of Little Britain general store 1796-1807".  It tells where to find it as well as contact information, and "the records consist of three account books documenting what is apparently a general store located near Brown's mills, in which Brown was partially a partner. The first volume is a Daybook or Journal ... "It goes into more detail but I didn't type it all here.  I didn't do a search for Chester County yet, but I plan on it, as well as browsing more on Lancaster County.  Looks like a decent site.  Hope it can help someone! Wanda in Lancaster County "A Volunteer for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.raogk.org/"

    04/06/2006 03:50:55