{"id":8197,"date":"2014-09-10T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2022-03-18T14:28:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:28:34","slug":"top-genealogy-websites-update-internet-archive-book-images-flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/top-genealogy-websites-update-internet-archive-book-images-flickr.html","title":{"rendered":"Top Genealogy Websites Update: Internet Archive Book Images + Flickr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I wrote about Internet Archive<\/a>, spiking it out as one of the top genealogy websites online.<\/p>\n

Recently there has been a new development that I wanted to alert you to.<\/p>\n

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Source: Internet Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kalev H. Leetaru, the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence of International Values, Communications Technology, has used his position to mine the old images and photos in the Internet Archive<\/a> and is putting them on Flickr<\/a>, making it easy for us to find illustrations and photographs published in books over the last 200 years.<\/p>\n

He has uploaded over 2.6 million images from the Internet Archive<\/a> of old published books and put them online.<\/p>\n

Why is this important to genealogists?<\/p>\n

This new Flickr search feature lets you quickly find images, etchings, photographs, etc., of your ancestors that were published in books.<\/p>\n

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Source: Flickr \u2013 Internet Archive Book Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n

In this example I am searching for illustrations pertaining to the Starbird family.<\/p>\n

Looking at the results, I selected the image on the right.<\/p>\n

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Source: Flickr \u2013 Internet Archive Book Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clicking on the image brings up the details about the book it was originally published in.<\/p>\n

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Source: Flickr \u2013 Internet Archive Book Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This image was published in:<\/p>\n

History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania<\/em>. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: R. T. Peck & co., 1886. Page 760.<\/p>\n

Clicking on the \u201cView Book Page\u201d hyperlink, I can then see the image as it appeared in the original book.<\/p>\n

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Source: Internet Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The image is the portrait of Irvin Starbird (1842-1897) of Preston, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Along with his portrait, I was able to read his biography which contained extensive genealogical details about the family.<\/p>\n

The Internet Archive Book Images site has put more than 2.6 million of these old images on Flckr.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t already, make sure to check out our \u201cTop Genealogy Websites\u201d post series to learn more about the best online resources for your ancestry research:<\/p>\n