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How can use 'cloud computing' to aid your family history research. Think of the volume of data you have stored about the history of your family. Are you sure your data is backed up and retrievable in … [more]
HGS Open Day was a lively and engaging event, we were demonstrating this new and evolving project as an example of the tools, resources, techniques and approach we are taking to our workshops, project… [more]
Will the TNA JISC funded Mapping the Blitz Project help those of us that funded it with our hard earn't tax payers money we do hope so.... [more]
Do you want to use the best FREE tools for the job of managing saving curating collecting and organising lots of data and disparate resources? Whatever your history project, the net and some great too… [more]
Free and Open Access Unique Portal for Searching Across a Significant library of Online Texts about Art History by the Getty Institute a great resource [more]
Have you spotted new capabilities quietly released into your version of Google+? See article and pic for the one we have noticed today in May 2012.... [more]
Explore the Google World Wonders Project and connect with significant historical sites from around the world [more]
Fabulous example of how to do it all better. An ancient text rediscovered, new human knowledge revealed and all the data and joy from the discovery share and open with a Creative Commons Licence acros… [more]
Roman Masterpiece Map the only one from this ancient period to survive,(transcribed as a medieval copy, referenced and featured as a copy in BBC History of Britain here you can access the full maps on… [more]
Map warping, layering historical and modern maps, open access at New York Public Library [more]
See this good example of just using google and images with simple captions to narrate a history project and projection of the future. Here is the challenge can looking at your history through the imag… [more]
The great thing about new technology is not always about the technology itself, it’s also the applications that can be found for it. Facial recognition software, used to identify criminals, is g… [more]
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Map your history, make new connections and gain new insights into your project, a free web service for family social and local historians, just a click away... [more]