thanks, Scott :) On 11/14/06, Scott Burow <sburow@swbell.net> wrote: > > > Forwarded mail of interest. You may want to pass this along to your CC's. > I did a couple of quick searches on specific points of interest to me and > found it a very useful source of information. > > Scott Burow > NC - USGenWeb Project > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: BEVPEV@aol.com > To: sburow@swbell.net > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 5:12 PM > Subject: Civil War Years > > > As a student of the Civil War and an avid geneologist I was thrilled to > find > the following website obtained from a Quilt History list I subscribe > to. I > just wanted to share this with as many other geneologists as possible. I > would very much like to find other newspapers that have been digitized, > especially one as searchable as this one. > > Thank you for your efforts on behalf of geneologists and historians. > > Beverly Pevarnick > > http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/index.html > > Below is the content and source of the original posting: > > Through support from an IMLS grant and in collaboration with Project > Perseus at Tufts University, the University of Richmond has digitized > the Richmond Daily Dispatch newspaper for the Civil War years. The > project is not yet complete. However the newspaper is now available for > use and exploration. Please bring it to the attention of faculty who > study or teach about the Civil War era at your school or college. We > welcome your comments and feedback on this work in progress; just click > on the survey link on the newspaper's homepage at > http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/index.html. We hope this will be useful > to a broad audience encompassing scholars, students, genealogists, Civil > War buffs, re-enactors, and more. Please feel free to bring it to the > attention of other librarians and interested parties. > > Jim Rettig > University Librarian > Boatwright Memorial Library > University of Richmond > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > STATE-COORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.5/533 - Release Date: > 11/13/2006 8:56 PM > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WVGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >