BYU-Pathway Library: Family History & Genealogy Research: Life in those Days

Life in those Days

Working Americans 1880-2015 - Volume V: Americans at War
The lives of Americans during wartime. Includes personal profiles for each decade with stories of civilians, soldiers, and officers.
Working Americans, 1880-1999. Volume II, The middle class
Working Americans, 1880-2006. Volume VII, Social movements
The Value of a Dollar: Colonial to Civil War 1600-1865
This handbook provides records of the actual price of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Colonial Era to the Civil War.
The Value of a Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States, 1860-2004
This handbook provides records of the actual prices of thousands of items that consumers purchased from 1860 to 2004.
Inflation Calculator
S. Morgan Friedman's Inflation Calculator can convert a U.S. dollar amount for any year from 1800 through 2008 into the equivalent amount, adjusted for inflation, in any other year of that range.

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In other words, if you find that your ancestor purchased land for $400 in 1805, the Inflation Calculator will tell you that the money he spent is equivalent to a purchase of $5667.99 in 2008.
London Lives
A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.

American History in Video
American history historical events film documentaries civil rights politics war, civil world I II, Vietnam Cold Korean conflict space race new deal Kennedy Obama Nixon Abraham Lincoln racial profiling

Colonial North American Project at Harvard University
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. Each item is connected to countless stories—of lives lived quietly and extravagantly, of encounters peaceful and volatile, and of places near and far – providing an opportunity to travel back in time, to rethink familiar stories, and to discover new ones.
Salem Witch Trials Documentary - Archive and Transcription Project
The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project; consisting of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.
Maintained by the University of Virginia.
Salem Witchcraft Papers - Transcripts
Verbatim Transcriptions of the Court Records
In three volumes
Edited by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
Da Capo Press: New York, 1977.
© 2003, Benjamin C. Ray and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.
Includes feature to search all names and all papers.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop—a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles amounting to over 32 million fully-searchable pages.*

Nineteenth Century Collection Online
History, Dance, Government, Language, Literature, European, British, Politics, Society, asia, politics, theatre, music, literature, children, colonialism, maps, travel, religion, reform, science, technology, medicine,