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6. Archive.org is an awesome site!

I originally found it through their stash of old needlework magazines and books. Then I discovered that a lot of local histories and old genealogies are available there. Some of the books my mother had to request through inter-library loans and wait for months to see are there and can be downloaded - a few that my grandmother had brochures for but could never afford to order are also there.

I found early copies of Bird Lore magazine that had been bound for university libraries and scanned for Archive.org - my husband's great grandfather was an early contributor to Bird Lore which later became Audobon magazine. He was asked to write an article on photographing birds for the first issue and contributed to the magazine for decades afterwards.

And that is just a small slice of the digital versions of the printed material. They have lots of audio and video that I haven't even looked at!