Here is a master list of digital libraries you can access without cost (unlike online newspaper article collections, many of which charge per article):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_di ... y_projects
Many of the library sites (but not all, drat) allow searching with key terms, made by using quotation marks. Sometimes using only "ireland" as a search word results in articles that are very enlightening, e.g., the below Christian Bowman article on Palatines who left Ireland (not mentioned in the article: most would have been from Limerick) and settled in the Hudson Valley of New York, with further re-settlement in inland Pennsylvania and Virginia, all by 1732.
The McNamara song (screenshot shown) is found with all verses at this locationi:
http://collections.mdch.org/cdm4/item_v ... OX=1&REC=1
More selections are shown below. These are just a small number of all that can be accessed at the University of Indiana, one of many institutions with online collections. Note that these collections include manuscripts (diaries, letters, written genealogies, etc.) and magazine articles, some from genealogy publications. You can now reach decades of material previously acquired only by traveling to a library.
posted by Sharon Carberry
Lilly Library, U of IN
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL FILES
Date: June 1914
Source: Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 10, Issue 2, pp 84-92
"The death of Patrick H. McCormick, occured at Danville, Indiana, March 20, 1914. He was superintending the erection of the new Hendricks county courthouse at the time. Mr. McCormick was a native of Ireland, born near Limerick, county Clare, March 27, 1842. At the age of six he came to America, settling at Nashville where his parents lived the remainder of their lives. He became a mason by trade, working for the Federal government on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad during the war.
In 1867 he came to Indiana and made Columbus his home. He became a general contractor and as such erected many public buildings in Indiana and surrounding states. Among these are the Rose Polytechnic building, at least ten county courthouses, the insane asylum buildings at Logansport and Evansville, the Indiana University Library building at Bloomington, the Pennsylvania bridge over the Ohio river at Louisville, the government locks at Nashville.
In 1880 he represented his county in the State General Assembly, and was reelected. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In 1888 he was a candidate for State Treasurer but was defeated in the convention. He served his city as mayor, a number of terms. A good biography appears in the Columbus Republican of March 20."
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/imh/vie ... esultRange:[101:150]
The Wyndham mss., 1813-1841, consist of letters from Charles Wyndham, 1796-1866, army officer, to his father, Sir George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd earl of Egremont, 1751-1837, patron of art; to his siter Charlotte Wyndham, 1795- ; and his wife Hon. Elizabeth Anne (Hugh) Wyndham, -1873. Included are also letters from his father and August Meade.
The letters written to his father between 1813 and 1816 relate to the British army in Spain and France with a description of encounters against the French. The letter of August Meade, 1814, comments on the Battle of Toulouse, 1814, and gives a detailed account of how Charles was wounded near Toulouse. The letters written in 1822 to his father and sister give an excellent description of his hazardous journey to join his regiment in India. Between 1839 and 1841 five letters to his wife discuss family matters. One letter deals with village sports which ended with a donkey race. Seven letters written by Lord Egremont to Charles in 1828 and 1829, when he was stationed with his regiment in Ireland, are concerned with Charles's proposal to leave the army which his father urges him not to do, and about a dispute Charles had with a Roman Catholic priest which came to the attention of Daniel O'Connell and received some publicity.
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/ ... ndham.html
Title: The Christian Bowman Family
Author: George W. Bowman
Date: March 1938
Source: Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 34, Issue 1, pp 123-127
"In July, 1710, about 3,000 Palatines, having migrated to Ireland, were sent to New York as bond servants of the crown under Governor Robert Hunter. They settled at Livingston Manor [Rhinebeck NY] and on the opposite side of the Hudson [River] at Saugerities [Saugerties NY] or Schoharie [farther north, near Albany], a tract voluntarily presented to Queen Anne by Indian sachems [chiefs] for the homeless Palatines. Because of their condition of servitude at the first two places mentioned and because of refusal to let them leave, some fifty families fled to Schorie
[sic, Schoharie] in the fall of 1712 and the rest followed in March, 1713. ...[T]hey again found themselves in trouble with the 'Gentleman in Albany .'...[D]espairing of justice in 1722, a large number accepted offers from Pennsylvania to settle there.
About two-thirds of the Schoharie people were not willing to buy land or settle on the Mohawk [River, the site of the Erie Canal of the early 1800s] at the Governor's pleasure, so they started for Pennsylvania. From Schoharie they cut through the forests to the head waters of the Susquehana [sic], working down the river to...Tulpehocken [Berks Co.], where they settled. This was then the most remote outpost of white colonization in Pennsylvania . During this period many other Palatines sailed directly from Rotterdam and Amsterdam or came on ships touching these ports en route from England and bound for New York, Boston, or Philadelphia...
Jost (Joist) Hite (Heydt), setting out from Strassburg, the principal town of Alsace in 1710, landed at New York with sixteen families in Brigatine Swift and Schooner Friendship, ships built or purchased by Hite for this journey. They then went to Kingston [NY, next to Saugerties]. In 1716 or 1717 Hite and the families with him settled at Germantown, near Philadelphia [now central Philly]. Becoming angry with the Governor of the province, partly because he would not give protection from the Indians, Hite purchased land in 1731...in Virginia, and,in 1732, he with his family...for the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia — sixteen family groups in all."
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/imh/vie ... esultRange:[51:100]
Review Notices
Date: September 1987
Source: Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 83, Issue 3, pp 299-299
Marion County , Indiana: Records Miscellanea. Compiled by Jane E. Darlington. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1986. Pp. [545]. Illustration, index. $45.00.) This book should be of great interest and assistance to the family historian needing Marion County genealogical information. In one book Jane E. Darlington has compiled copies of little used government records that provide a base for searching genealogical data. The book is divided into seven parts: Naturalizations Filed 1832–1903; Naturalizations Filed 1904–1906; Delinquent Tax Returns for 1842; Probate Court Re-cord A 1822–1832; Hack Licenses 1865–1871. The entire book is a useful compendium. The first section in particular is fascinating. A sample entry (p. 8a) reads:
BARRETT, Patrick
b. 20 May 1793 in Ireland ; sailed from Sligo, Ireland, on 12 April 1840; arrived in the U.S. ca. Oct. 1840 Owes allegiance to Victoria, Queen of Great Britain Sworn and subscribed on 22 May 1843; filed same date
The book is highly recommended for its intended purpose. Lois Leamon, Hilton U. Brown Library, Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Title: Genealogical Material in the Indiana State Library
Author: Anna Poucher
Date: September 1943
Source: Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 39, Issue 3, pp 309-314
"Family histories, naturally, are in large proportion to other specific material. Within the last few months, over two hundred of these have been received in book, pamphlet, manuscript, and chart form. These range from manuscripts of only a few pages to large and extensive volumes, and have been acquired through donation and through purchase. It has been found that the average compiler of a genealogy is more than willing to place a copy of his work in a library where proper attention will be given to its use and preservation. Through solicitation on the part of the order librarian of the Indiana State Library, who is on the alert for new publications, a number of family histories, some of which might otherwise have been prohibitive, have been added to the collection. These have come from twenty-eight states, aside from Indiana...The library has obtained a number of outstanding genealogies through purchase; and by consulting book catalogues and book
sales, it has been able to secure many of these at reduced rates."
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- McNamara song, in MD digital library
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