Footnote keeps adding more and more scanned images to the site. Best of all, Footnote.com now contains more than one million documents available for free. The following titles are a sample of what is now free at Footnote:
- Japanese Air Targets Analyses (WWII)
- Gorrell’s History of AEF Air Service (WWI)
- Hesse Crown Jewels Court Martial Case - a $2.5 million heist by American officers in 1945
- Naval Press Clippings
- Brady Civil War Photographs
- WWII - Japanese Photographs
- Fine Arts Commission Photographs
- Harry S Truman Photographs
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Photographs
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Photographs
- Calvin Coolidge Photographs
- George A. Custer’s Court Martial
- Foreign Letters of the Continental Congress
- Ratified Amendments to the US Constitution
- Amistad Court Records
- American Colonization Society
- VA Town Records - City of South Boston (that is not a misprint, there is a city named "South Boston" in the Commonwealth of Virginia)
- Domestic Letters of the Department of State
The Original Documents page provides a longer and more complete list of available titles, including free and non-free collections.
You also might be interested in the Footnote All-Access Trial. This free trial provides access to all the information on Footnote for seven days. You will have to create a user account but you do not get charged for the free trial. You can sign up for the free trial at http://www.footnote.com/freetrial.php?xid=47.
We stock car racing fans are well acquainted with South Boston.
Posted by: Don Lama | February 14, 2008 at 09:03 PM
Unless I'm missing something, the documents on Footnote.com are nice to read, they certainly do not help most with genealogy searches.
Posted by: Karen | February 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Footnote is primarily a history site, not necessarily a genealogy site, and as such has a broader target audience that simply those of us researching our families. They're not building indexes of billions of names just to use as a marketing gimmick. Their primary aim is to put history in front of the rest of us (while making a buck), rather than having it all sitting in vaults of microfilm in various archives far away.
Posted by: Jason Presley | February 15, 2008 at 03:39 PM
If you don't know the history, your genealogy research is not complete.
Families don't exist in isolation from what is going on around them.
Posted by: Chim | February 15, 2008 at 04:36 PM