Officially launched July 17, the new social networking site GenealogyWise already has shown rapid growth of members and interesting content.
The ability to create groups, start forum discussions and invite friends provides the structure for users to communicate topics like surname studies and specific locations, European, African, Asian or Jewish ancestry, proof standards, software and computer problems.
One can leave comments, embed Twitter feeds and blog posts, upload and share genealogy-related documents, podcasts, fotos and videos.
The archivist, writer and filmmakerRick Prelinger founded the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002. Prelinger has partnered with the Internet Archive to make 1,970 films available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse.
Wikisource like Wikipedia is an on-line project of the Wikimedia Foundation which is based on the MediaWiki-Software. Texts, pictures, audio recordings stored and jointly edited there are free of copyright, either because this has expired or because the text has been released under a free license. Wikisource is splitted up into language domains, e.g. English, German, French, Hebrew (ויקיטקסט), Polish (Wikiźródła) and Russian (Викитека).
The Illustration above depicting medieval Rome is from the Nuremberg Chronicle, a current project of German Wikisource.
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