World History

How I Organize My Family History Photos and Documents — A Genealogist’s Step-by-Step System

How I Organize My Family History Photos and Documents — A Genealogist's Step-by-Step System Tired of messy genealogy ...

Capturing the Oral History of Our Families Before It's Too Late

There has never been a greater interest in genealogy. It's a billion-dollar interest that has spawned websites, television shows, ...

How to Find the Original Sources for Genealogy Records

You always want to search for the original record. Believe it or not, Ancestry, FamilySearch, and MyHeritage do not have the ...

Roanoke Public Libraries-Finding Vital Records on Family Search

Finding Vital Records on FamilySearch #genealogy #FamilyHistory Part of our ongoing series for Genealogy for Beginners Learn ...

Can You Be TOO PROFESSIONAL When Interviewing Family Members?

Choose the right interview format to make interviewing relatives about family history an enjoyable activity for you and your loved ...

Preserving Family Photos & Documents: A Museum How-to

How do you save your family treasures? In this installment of our series, Museum Director Mike Hudson will answer the question, ...

Ten Tips for Transcribing Handwritten Script

Here at the Anderson County Museum, we handle many handwritten historical documents. Listen to Jamie Hansen and Josh ...

SpecColl: Reading 19th century manuscripts

Practice reading a 19th-century letter by Mary Shelley (the author of Frankenstein, as well as other novels, short stories, essays ...

Can Gen-AI transcribe old handwriting? I compare the models

I tested four top AI models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot — using a handwritten will from 1853. These generative AI ...

The Peoples Archive: How to Research

Please contact us for assistance at peoplesarchive@dc.gov or 202-727-1213 The People's Archive encompasses Black Studies ...

Researching Local History Through Newspapers

Nick Saunders, Chairman of the Milton Heritage Society, explains reasons why newspapers, both national and local, can be ...

Library of Congress: Local History and Genealogy Research Orientation

Local History & Genealogy Research at the Library of Congress (Recorded presentation to Greene County, Pennsylvania ...

How to identify FAKE Ancient Coins - Cast Fakes

Today, we are looking at the most common counterfeiting technique for faking ancient coins: Casting. For a better understanding ...

How to tell if a ancient coin is fake

How to Idenfity and AVOID FAKE Ancient Coins

Ancient Coin collecting is a wonderful hobby, but even the best communities have its bad apples, some forgeries are out there, but ...

Museum conservationist - How to store heirloom garments at home

Keira Miller a textile conservationist with the Victoria and Albert museum discusses how to store heirloom garments such as ...

Preserving Family Heirlooms

Sharon Historical Society Lecture Series - Preserving Family Heirlooms with Kate Jacus.

Preserve family heirlooms

Keeping pictures safe.

AI Just Decoded Texts No One Could Read — What's Next?

Imagine a lost language coming back to life in minutes — not decades. For centuries, ancient texts have remained locked in ...

THE VIRGIN CONTROVERSY: Decoding Language Through History | Investigative Origins

Welcome to Episode 2 of Investigative Origins! In this deep dive, we explore one of the most intensely debated linguistic and ...

Impacts of the Industrial Revolution - Video Infographic

There were several main impacts of the Industrial Revolution. More specifically, the Industrial Revolution is one of the most ...

The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course European History #24

We've talked about a lot of revolutions in 19th Century Europe, and today we're moving on to a less warlike revolution, the ...

How to Use Online Archives and Libraries for Genealogy

How to Use Online Archives and Libraries for Genealogy Unlock hidden family history treasures with online archives and digital ...

Analyzing Primary Sources

This video is about learning how to analyze Primary Sources.

How To Analyze Primary Source Documents For World History? - The Storytellers Room

How To Analyze Primary Source Documents For World History? In this informative video, we'll guide you through the process of ...

How to Analyze Primary Sources and Secondary Sources

Have you ever wanted to learn how to read and analyze historical documents or sources? This video will walk you step by step ...

Tips for Archival Preservation

Learn how to best care for your photos and documents at home using these tips from Northumberland County Archives.

Preservation Tips: Caring for Documents and Papers

Do you have historic or heirloom paper materials you want to preserve? Here are some quick tips for handling and storing them.

How to Archive Your Family History Documents, Photos, & Artifacts

Learn how to archive your family history documents, photos, and artifacts from the Archive Lady herself, Melissa Barker. In this ...

12 Step Process for Researching Your Family History: Checklist

Here is a 12 step process, a checklist, you can follow for each ancestor you are researching in a methodical order. This will help ...

How to conduct an oral history interview with a family member

Quick Guide: How to conduct an oral history interview with a family member. * * * #camrbridge #cambridgelibrary #archivist ...

Oral History at Home — Five Easy Steps

Smithsonian Institution Archives historian Hannah Byrne runs through five easy steps to help you get started doing oral history at ...

Conducting an Oral History Interview

FREE - Build a Family Tree and Research Your Family History Totally for Free

In this video learn how to trace your family tree for free online. You can use free family tree searches to access genealogy records.

How to Research Your Genealogy & Family Tree

Watch more How to Find Public Records & Legal Documents videos: ...

7 FREE Genealogy Websites You're Overlooking

These 7 FREE genealogy websites will help break you out of your family history research routine! (Because if you keep going ...

How to Preserve Old Photos and Scrapbooks: The Archive Lady - Melissa Barker

Learn from The Archive Lady, Melissa Barker, how to archive photos and scrapbooks. Plus she has tips on digitizing and donating ...

How to Archive Family Photos: 3 Steps to Preserve Old Pictures Forever

I found this Spanish-American War soldier's photo abandoned in an antique shop for a couple of bucks. With proper archiving ...

The Home Archive Starter Kit - the perfect way to get started storing your photos and documents

We all have photos, right? Quite likely hundreds. Some of you may even have thousands. Holidays, birthdays, Christmas, visits to ...

SpecColl: Reading 18th century manuscripts

Practice reading an 18th-century letter from Henry Liddell (who reported on events during the Jacobite rising). This short film will ...