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* [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/tornadoes/index.php Alabama Tornado Occurrences 1819-2006] via National Weather Service
* [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/tornadoes/index.php Alabama Tornado Occurrences 1819-2006] via National Weather Service
* [http://bpldb.bplonline.org/db/obituaries Birmingham Obituaries 1960-1976] via Birmingham Public Library
* [http://bpldb.bplonline.org/db/obituaries Birmingham Obituaries 1960-1976] via Birmingham Public Library
* [http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ Social Security Death Index] - searchable index of birth and death dates of the deceased
* [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693 Social Security Death Index] - searchable index of birth and death dates of the deceased
* [http://bpldb.bplonline.org/db/biographies WPA Index to Alabama Biography] via Birmingham Public Library
* [http://bpldb.bplonline.org/db/biographies WPA Index to Alabama Biography] via Birmingham Public Library


Revision as of 18:35, 1 April 2013

This is a list of useful references for BhamWiki editors:

Local references

Newspapers

  • News Library Birmingham News archives accessible free with JCLC card (subscription cancelled due to funding cuts)

Other

Images

Magic City Flickr Group

  • The Magic City Flickr Group is a great resource for photographic images for BhamWiki. Photos that are published under a compatible Creative Commons license (Attribution, Attribution-ShareAlike, Attribution-NoDerivs) can be used under the terms of those licenses. For other photographs, you can ask the creator to change the license or to grant permission. In the latter case, all credit and restrictions should be fully explained on the image page, and the "{{Permission}}" template should be applied.

Dave's Place

  • Dave Sibley of Dave's Place has kindly granted us permission to use photos from his site. The images should not be altered or cropped (but can be resized). The image page should include proper attribution, a link back to the page the photo was taken from, and the template "{{Dave911}}". --Dystopos 11:11, 12 September 2007 (PDT)

Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections

  • Melinda Shelton of the Birmingham Public Library has clarified that the images and documents published as part of their Digital Collections can be used on BhamWiki. Image captions should include this credit line: "Courtesy Birmingham Public Library Archives" and have a link back to the permanent URL of the original. The image page should contain the same credit and link, along with the "{{BPL permission}}" template. --Dystopos 13:57, 25 September 2007 (PDT)

Carol M. Highsmith Archive

  • Photographer Carol M. Highsmith has donated her photographs, restriction free, to the Library of Congress. There are 3,948 images from Alabama in the archive (link) Credit "George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division" ("{{Highsmith}}") --Dystopos 12:46, 6 March 2011 (PST)

Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection

The Boston Public Library archives has posted 99 Alabama linen postcards to Flickr under the CC BY 2.0 license. (link) --Dystopos 10:33, 20 January 2013 (PST)

Databases

Maps

Books

  • Lots of books are available for searching, and some with full text, on Google Books. Here's a link to some I've found useful.
  • Birmingham-Southern College's year books have been digitized and made available at archive.org (good for portraits, buildings, and advertisements) - link
  • See also Category:Bhamwiki references for bibliographic citations to various helpful reference books.

General references

Other city wikis

Local encyclopedias

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