• Vintage School Room
    ManyRoads

    Library Update!

    Do you want to learn more about where and when your ancestors lived? Are you looking to uncover ‘lost family histories’? Would like to see where your ancestors lived? Do you want to hear and see what they may have seen and heard? If  you want to find more than birth, marriage, and death information, our libraries are a good place to begin that quest. I have spent more than ten years gathering the images, sounds, texts, and films housed in the ManyRoads’ libraries. As of this writing, our holdings have reached  ‘new levels’.  Currently, our libraries house: ~11,000 Texts, Books, Documents ~1500 Photos & Images ~100 Videos & Audios…

  • Reuben Gold Thwaites
    Education

    Early western (US) travels, 1748-1846

    If you are attempting to better understand what the United States may have looked like when your early European ancestors were moving westward, this set of texts can help you visualize and better understand those by-gone days. This collection is deemed to be among the best genealogical and historical works available. Title Early western travels, 1748-1846 : a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement Contributor Names Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913, ed. Created / Published Cleveland, Ohio : The Arthur H.…

  • Research
    Services

    ManyRoads’ Libraries and Research Support- UPDATE

    ManyRoads is pleased to announce a considerable expansion in our available, and reserved, libraries. These include not only our online and offline text libraries, and German address books, but also, our cartographic and video libraries. By the beginning of May 2017, our libraries will contain some: 10,000 genealogical and regional history books, as well as old German address books Materials in English, German, and French, spanning Europe and North America. Most of our digitized texts were originally published in the 1600 to mid-1900s. 500+ maps in our Cartographic areas (from about 800- 2000) 1200+ ‘historical’ photographic images (mostly from 1900- 1950) 100+ vintage WW1-WW2 era videos (mostly from the 1910 to…

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