Digital State Archives

Thank you to Bobbi Harrison and Descendants of Nicholas Saum for this information!


Many states now hold a Digital Archives online.   Here is a link that can help you find out if the state you are looking for holds such a collection; I am also going to post the links below.

http://www.digitalstatearchives.com/


It looks like there are only 14 states who currently do not.

These states have an online collection available for searching:



Alabama   http://www.archives.state.al.us/

Alaska   http://www.archives.state.ak.us/

Arizona   http://azmemory.lib.az.us/index.php

Arkansas   http://www.ark-ives.com/

California   http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

Colorado   http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/

Connecticut   http://www.cslib.org/archives/

Delaware   http://archives.delaware.gov/

Florida   http://www.floridamemory.com/

Georgia   http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php

Hawaii   http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/cgi-bin/library

Idaho   http://www.digitalarchives.idaho.gov/default.aspx

Illinois   http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archi
ves.html

Indiana   http://www.indianadigitalarchives.org/

Iowa   http://www.iowahistory.org/libraries/index.html

Kansas   http://www.kansasmemory.org/

Kentucky   http://kdla.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx

Louisiana   http://www.sos.la.gov/tabid/53/Default.aspx

Maine   http://www.maine.gov/sos/arc/

Maryland   http://aomol.net/html/index.html

Massachusetts   http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcidx.htm

Michigan   http://www.digitalstatearchives.com/michigan

Minnesota   http://www.mnhs.org/index.htm

Mississippi   http://mdah.state.ms.us/

Missouri   http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/

Montana   http://mtmemory.org/cdm/

Nebraska   http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/index.shtml

Nevada   http://nevadadigitalarchives.org/

New Hampshire   http://www.sos.nh.gov/archives/default.html

New Jersey   http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/archives.html

New Mexico   http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/

New York   http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml

North Carolina   http://genealogy.about.com/od/north_carolina/tp/nc_online.ht
m
(About.com provdes several good databases for North Carolina)

North Dakota   http://history.nd.gov/archives/genealogy.html (few items available online; most must be done in-person); also http://dlsd.sdln.net/   and http://library.ndsu.edu/archives/digital-collections

Ohio     http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/archlib/index.html

Oklahoma   http://www.odl.state.ok.us/oar/

Oregon   http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/vital.html

Pennsylvania   http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/

Rhode Island   None

South Carolina   http://archives.sc.gov/onlineresearch/Pages/default.aspx

South Dakota   None

Tennessee   http://www.tn.gov/tsla/resources/index.htm

Texas   https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/

Utah   http://www.archives.state.ut.us/

Vermont   http://vermont-archives.org/

Virginia   (by the Library of Virginia) http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/collections_a_to_z

Washington   http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/

West Virginia   http://www.wvculture.org/history/archivesindex.aspx

Wisconsin   (Wisconsin Historical Society)   http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy/

Wyoming   None