Information needed: online historical records about a particular subject, person, place.
 

online		historical		record(s)
digital		history		catalog(s)		library, libraries		finding aid(s)
digitized		archive(s)		database(s)		museum (s)		index
digitization		primary resource(s)		exhibit(s)		project(s)		list

Other terms: document, facsimile, letter, manuscript, image, photo, photograph, picture

Combine these terms with subject terms in search engines and subject guides. Use quotes for phrases. Examples:

"digitization project" "gerrit smith"

"photo archive" "erie canal"

"erie county" clerk records

Here's a few search engines:

Altavista - http://www.altavista.com/

Google - http://www.google.com/

subject guides:

Open Directory - http://dmoz.org/

Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/

and librarian sites:

Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/ (look under exhibits or online texts)

Librarians' Index to the Internet - http://lii.org/

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