Virginia & West Virginia History Resources

 Note: Virginia Historical Society (is now Virginia Museum of History and Culture), and Virginia State Library (is now the Library of Virginia)

Virginia Genealogical Society

https://www.vgs.org/

Virginia researchers for hire

https://www.vgs.org/va_researchers/

Library of Virginia

https://www.lva.virginia.gov/

https://www.facebook.com/LibraryofVA

Search Virginia Newspapers - Virginia Chronicle - (Library of Virginia)

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

Research Guides and Indexes

https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/#_guides-VirginiaLandOfficePatentsandGrants

Search Virginia Land Patents

https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/land-grants

Library of Virginia

Resources on Virginia Indians at the Library of Virginia

link to pdf

researchers to hire

https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/proresearchers.pdf

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The Chancery Records Index (CRI) is a result of archival processing and indexing projects overseen by the Library of Virginia (LVA) and funded, in part, by the Virginia Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP).

https://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/chancery/

Virginia Museum of History and Culture

https://virginiahistory.org/

https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaHistory

University of Virginia Library

https://library.virginia.edu/

William & Mary

https://libraries.wm.edu/spaces/special-collections-research-center

Virginia Colonial Records

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Virginia_Colonial_Records

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FACEBOOK

Virginia Genealogy Network 14k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/219540584747499

Virginia Genealogy 8k

Virginia Genealogy Facebook Group 4k

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Spotsylvania County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia_Compiled_Genealogies

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West Virginia Vital Records - online

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Virginia

Linkpendium

Cyndi's List

familysearch.org

The Ancestor Hunt

West Virginia

Linkpendium

Cyndi's List

familysearch.org

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FamilySearch Virginia is now Southern States Research

https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/202-virginia-research-is-now-southern-states-research

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Virginia_Online_Genealogy_Records

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Virginia_Indigenous_Peoples

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1932510

Idaho History resources

Idaho State Archives

https://history.idaho.gov/archives/

Idaho State Historical Society

Idaho State Museum   610 Julia Davis Dr, Boise, ID

https://history.idaho.gov/

https://www.facebook.com/IdahoStateMuseum/

Museum of Idaho

https://museumofidaho.org/ 200 N Eastern Ave, Idaho Falls

Museum of North Idaho

https://museumni.org/

List of Museums in Idaho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Idaho

University of Idaho digital collection

https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/

https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/archivalidaho/browse.html

RICE

 While trying to find out the best way to preserve rice, I stumbled on this video, Which Rice Is The Healthiest? It's Not What You Think. by Dr. Liu. Her YouTube channel is Healthy Immune Doc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wCtPZ1bK9Y

She covers everything!

VIDEO TOPICS: ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 00:00 Introduction 01:14 Glycemic Index 01:37 Lower The Glycemic Index of Rice 02:18 Amylose vs amylopectin 02:43 Retrogradation & resistant starch 02:59 Storage 03:37 Which Rice Is Healthier: Long or Short Grained? 04:56 Blood Sugar & Hemoglobin A1c 06:40 Diabetes & Rice 07:44 Insulin & Insulin Resistance 11:05 Lose weight with rice? 12:46 Fat 13:53 Which is Healthier: White or Brown Rice? 15:39 Beri Beri & White Rice 16:10 Vitamin B1, thiamine 17:48 Arsenic 18:25 Which Country Has the Highest Arsenic In Their Rice? 19:05 How To Remove Arsenic

Preserving

I'm still trying to find out the best way to preserve rice. I did not know that canning and preserving is a highly controversial right now! I did learn, for a fact, that you can't, so far, preserve brown rice because the oils in it will just make it go rancid quickly. Damn! If I find the best way to preserve rice I will post it here.

Rice: Types and Storage by RedRose Homestaead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8mf0EDIhLM

Dr Liu talks about this at 02:59 but here is more detailed information at Foodnetwork:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/healthy-tips/2020/04/is-it-safe-to-eat-leftover-rice

misc links Ethnobotany and herbalism

 I'm working through a couple pages of gazillion links

https://www.henriettes-herb.com/goodlink.html

Michael Moore's legacy page

https://www.swsbm.com/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html

https://www.swsbm.com/ManualsOther/ManOther.html

Master list of botanical archives

https://moplants.com/master-list-of-botanical-archives/

Castenea

Books about Ethnobotany, botanical illustration, herbalism

Peonies (this is a direct link to purchase from Amazon)

I was really surprised at how many books on the subjects are available at archive.org

https://archive.org/details/books?query=ethnobotany

https://archive.org/search?query=%28botanical%20illustration%29

https://archive.org/details/books?query=herbal

found this link and it is daunting, will have to do some research to figure out what is really there

Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.

http://www.botanicus.org/browse/titles

You can borrow this book on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/treasuresofbotan0000sher

https://dp.la/search?q=herbal

https://dp.la/search?q=ethnobotany

https://dp.la/search?q=botanical+illustration

Herbariums

 

A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbarium

The Royal Horticultural Society in London, UK

https://collections.rhs.org.uk/

Emily Dickinson Herbarium at Harvard

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4184689$1i

The largest herbaria in the world (list from Wikipedia), in approximate order of decreasing size, are:

• Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P) (Paris, France)
• New York Botanical Garden (NY) (Bronx, New York, US)
• Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Royal Botanic Gardens (K) (Kew, England, UK)
• Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) (St. Louis, Missouri, US)
• Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G) (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland) (AMD, L, U, WAG) (Leiden, Netherlands)
• The Natural History Museum (BM) (London, England, UK)
• Harvard University (HUH) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)
• Museum of Natural History of Vienna (W) (Vienna, Austria)
• Swedish Museum of Natural History (S) (Stockholm, Sweden)
• United States National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institution) (US) (Washington, DC, US)
• Université Montpellier (MPU) (Montpellier, France)
• Université Claude Bernard (LY) (Villeurbanne, France)
• Herbarium Universitatis Florentinae (FI) (Florence, Italy)
• National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR) (Meise, Belgium)
• University of Helsinki (H) (Helsinki, Finland)
• Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin (B) (Berlin, Germany)
• The Field Museum (F) (Chicago, Illinois, US)
• University of Copenhagen (C) (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Chinese National Herbarium, (Chinese Academy of Sciences) (PE) (Beijing, People's Republic of China)
• University and Jepson Herbaria (UC/JEPS) (Berkeley, California, US)
• Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (E) (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
• Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) (Bogor, West Java, Indonesia)
• Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden (Central National Herbarium (CAL), Howrah, India)
• Herbarium Hamburgense (HBG) (Hamburg, Germany)

This is mind blowing. The New York Botanical Gardens has a map of all known herbariums

https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/

Society of Herbarium Curators

https://www.herbariumcurators.org/

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LOCAL TO ME

list from the Idaho Native Plant Society (link)

Regional Herbaria

• Ray J. Davis Herbarium, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
• Stillinger Herbarium, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
• Harold M. Tucker Herbarium, College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho
• Snake River Plains Herbarium, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
• The Lewis & Clark Herbarium
• The Intermountain Herbarium
• Rocky Mountain Herbarium
• Oregon State University Herbarium, Corvallis, Oregon
• University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley
• The Marion Ownbey Herbarium, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
• University of Washington Herbarium, Seattle
• Whitman College Herbarium, Walla Walla, WA

Ethnobotany and Botany Databases

This is really daunting because there are so many online databases. What I am going to try to list here is the most comprehensive databases. Wish me luck.

The World Flora Online (WFO)

World Flora Online is the international initiative to achieve Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and provides a global overview of the diversity of plant species. It is the essential tool for conservation planners, policymakers and practitioners at all levels.

https://www.worldfloraonline.org/

https://about.worldfloraonline.org/who-we-are

The USDA Database

https://plants.usda.gov/home

International Plant Names Index

The nomenclatural data and name registration provided by IPNI is produced by a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria and The Australian National Herbarium hosted by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

https://www.ipni.org/

Plants of the World Online

Royal Botanic Gardens KEW.

https://powo.science.kew.org/

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

https://www.wildflower.org/plants/

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ETHNOBOTANY

Native American Ethnobotany

A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants.

http://naeb.brit.org/

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases at USDA

https://phytochem.nal.usda.gov/

HERBALISM

HerbMed

Access to the entire database is available as a benefit of membership in the American Botanical Council at the Academic level and above.

https://www.herbmed.org/