Sandpoint and Bonner County, Idaho

 this is a work in progress

Keep Bonner County Rural

https://www.facebook.com/groups/288649129586209/

Bonner County Emergency Management

https://www.facebook.com/7BEMG

Sandpoint Local Forum - 13.1k members - this is the go-to forum for questions by residents

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1420267048266764

Sandpoint Bulletin Board Online

https://www.facebook.com/groups/560813910745116

North Idaho Life Snow Angels - if you need help moving snow

https://www.facebook.com/groups/northidaholifesnowangels/

Facebook - News

North Idaho News

https://www.facebook.com/NorthIdahoNews

North Idaho Firewatch

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2814822468803543

HAZARDOUS WASTE at Bonner County Solid Waste

GARDENING

local gardening links see my blog post

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2024/03/sandpoint-gardening.html

HUNTING and FISHING

Backcountry

https://www.backcountryhunters.org/

Fishing Lake Pend Oreille

https://www.facebook.com/groups/283202202024804/

Lake Pend Oreille Boaters Club

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LPOBoaters

Crime

You can look up court dates and history at this link

https://icourt.idaho.gov/

TRAFFIC & ROADS

https://idahostatepolice.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/BCEMS Bonner County EMS

AVALANCHE

Friends of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center

https://www.facebook.com/friendsofipac

MISC

https://www.city-data.com/city/Sandpoint-Idaho.html

COMMUNITY

https://www.facebook.com/CRECIdaho.EnVisionCenter

Contact Catherine dee Auvil - memory.industries

Newspaper Search for Genealogy

Public domain image

Loc.gov 1770-1963 free

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Newspapers.com (requires subscription) 24,400+ newspapers

https://www.newspapers.com/

Ancestry.com (requires subscription)

https://www.ancestry.com/search/categor

ies/np_newspapers/

Newspaper Archive (free trial)

https://newspaperarchive.com/search/location/

Search Google News

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YPNY0knpFBYC&dat=19010927&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

https://news.google.com/newspapers? list of newspapers

https://books.google.com/books?uid=100282698000471329560&hl=en

Cyndi's List

https://www.cyndislist.com/newspapers/

The Ancestry Hunt list of newspaper links

https://theancestorhunt.com/newspaper-research-links.html

Library of Virginia

https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=p&p=home&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------

The British Newspaper Archive

https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

How to upscale, resize, enhance, increase resolution in Photoshop 2023

 

Finally figured this out so sharing it here:

Open your image. The image I chose resolution of 72.

Change the resolution to whatever you like. Here I chose 300. Next to "Resample", from the drop down menu choose Preserve Details.

You can also choose Noise Reduction if you like. Here I chose 85.

This is the final product at 100% without "Preserve Details".

This is the final product at 100% with "Preserve Details".

UPDATE 2024: I see that Leonardo.ai and Canva both have an upscale feature

Maps for Genealogy

David Ramsey Map Collection

https://www.davidrumsey.com/

Old Maps Online

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

Cyndi's List Maps

https://www.cyndislist.com/maps/

The University of Alabama Map Library

https://maplibrary.ua.edu/

American Battlefield Trust

https://www.battlefields.org/

Sanborn maps at LOC

https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/?st=gallery

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Map Porn

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/

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Germany Maps at meyersgaz.org

https://www.meyersgaz.org/

5 Expert Tips for Using Meyers Gazetteer for Your German Genealogy - Lisa Louise Cooke

https://lisalouisecooke.com/2017/08/02/meyers-gazetteer/

MeyersGaz.org German Genealogy Website: A Quick Tour on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2aLSvE_upY

Σmaps

Auvil, Nikitie & Appalachia

 

Our forums for discussing Auvil, Nikitie & Appalachia have changed up too often so I am going to make this one permanent page where you can go to find the current locations.

Auvil

The old Auvil Facebook Group is defunct. I have moved on to the Appalachian Heritage Group on Facebook.

Boards at Ancestry:

• https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.auvil
• https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.auble
• https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.abel
• https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.hovatter
• https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.hovater
• https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.cronise

Nikitie

The Nikitie group was on Yahoo and they closed shop. We have moved to the Appalachian Heritage Group on Facebook

Appalachia

The Yahoo Appalachia group was closed by Yahoo and they have moved to Appalachia Heritage Group on Facebook

Image Archives Online

I hope all these images are in the public domain but inclusion here does not verify that. Please independently verify the licensing status and attribution information before reusing the content.

Openverse Search Engine

https://openverse.org/

Archive.org

4.7 million photos

 https://archive.org/

British Library

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary

The Conway Library

contains almost 1 million photographs of world architecture, architectural drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and manuscripts. 

https://photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/menu-item1/conway-library

David Rumsey Map Collection

https://www.davidrumsey.com/

Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/search/?license=2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C9

Graphics Fairy

https://thegraphicsfairy.com/

Library of Congress

holds more than 15 million items

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/

Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections

9,000 vintage images

https://www.flickr.com/people/31033598@N03/

Chicago's Newberry Library

Over one million digital items

https://digcoll.newberry.org/#/

New York Public Library Digital Collections

Explore 935,562 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

Old Book Illustrations

https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/

Rhode Island School of Design

https://library.risd.edu/

Smithsonian Open Access

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

USDA

https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/images/image-gallery/

Wikimedia Commons

a collection of 92,558,076 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

Museum Collections

• Getty Open Content Program – 10,000 images from the Getty Museum Collection
• The Met Collection- The Metropolitan Museum of Art's online gallery includes public domain images of artwork. Choose "open access" search option.
• The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) – American art catalog compiled by the Smithsonian Institution. It has many reproductions of American paintings. However, it is known to have a number of factual errors, so it should be used with great care.

Washington State

Evergreen

(Omeka S)

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

https://www.northwestmuseum.org/collections/research-archives/

https://ferrisarchives.northwestmuseum.org/Collection/View/4  Palmer

University of Washington

https://content.lib.washington.edu/

https://content.lib.washington.edu/wastateweb/index.html

https://content.lib.washington.edu/childrensweb/index.html

(utilizes OCLC's CONTENTdm Software Suite, which was developed at the University of Washington by the Center for Information Systems Optimization)

Washington State Digital Archive

https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/

Washington State Historical Society

83,000 artifacts, 600,000 photographs, 65,000 pieces of ephemera, and over 8 million documents

https://www.washingtonhistory.org/research/image-services/

Asahel Curtis Collection

https://www.washingtonhistory.org/join-support/asahelcurtis/

Washington State University

https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/custom/collections

(CONTENTdm)

Montana

Montana State Library

https://www.mtmemory.org/

F Jay Haynes

https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/112995

Idaho

Museum of North Idaho

https://museumni.org/

(Past Perfect?)

Idaho State Archives / Idaho State Historical Society

https://idahohistory.contentdm.oclc.org/

(OPENdm)

OF INTEREST TO GENEALOGISTS

https://www.familytreasuresfound.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1419339481432739/

https://deadfred.com/

https://www.facebook.com/deadfredphotos/

Native North American Indian - Old Photos

483K followers

Currently, there are 56,177 old photos in 294 albums, organized by Tribe or Nation. To view the albums, click on 'Photos' at the top of the page. Then click 'Albums.' Then scroll down to see the album of the Tribe you're looking for and click on the album name.

https://www.facebook.com/NNAIOP

The Photo Angel

https://www.facebook.com/groups/531012871224823

ART

Wikiart

https://www.wikiart.org/

.

Relevant Blogs:

Public Domain Review

https://publicdomainreview.org/

Open Culture

https://www.openculture.com/

Galleries

University of Arizona

https://cspace.arts.arizona.edu/search