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These websites are invaluable to knuckleheads like me who are doing family history research with almost no financial resources. I simply can't afford to pay hundreds of dollars a year to subscribe to a website that may only have one or two documents that I need. I've actually gotten more help at no cost from the Frick Photoarchive and the MHS website than from other well-known sites that charge a fee.
I'll never know how my 5th great-grandfather's 1st Lieutenant commission ended up in John Adams' possession, but I'm grateful that the people at the Adams Family Papers sent me a scan of it, even though it wasn't available electronically!
I think these important bits of our personal and national history should be freely accessible to all Americans.
Jun 17, 2013, 12:26:56 PM