Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Do You Have a Digital Genealogy Library?

 From Randy Seaver's series Saturday Night Genealogy Fun comes these two prompts:

1)  Do you have a digital genealogy library? If so, what titles are in it. If not, why not?

2) Tell us about your digital genealogy library in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook Status  post.  Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.

 

As a former librarian, I am ashamed to say that I had not thought in terms of "digital genealogy library."  I have this and that and the other thing scattered throughout the subdirectories of my Genealogy directory on my computer.  Some old books that had been digitized, mainly having to do with early New England settlers, of which my paternal eighth great-grandfather was one.  Lots of tipsheets and "Quick Sheets."  Some articles and other miscellania.  I haven't organized it into a separate "library" of any sort.

I suppose that could be a project, but I have at least three rather large projects in the works for 2025.  

As to specific titles, I have a transcription of A History of North Bridgewater, being a history of the area in which my eighth great-grandfather lived in Massachusetts in the 1600s, published in 1866.  I have a digitized copy of Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, published in 1891.  This work has several pages of enlistees and officers with the surname Packard, my paternal surname, including my fourth great-grandfather Richards Packard (who is listed as Richard).  I have some parts of other publications, such as the Massachusetts Tax Valuation from the 1790s, mentioning some of my paternal kin, including one whose landlord was Elbridge Gerry, to whom we give credit (or condemnation) for the invention of the gerrymander.

I have parts of other works, such as some pages from a work called By the Mark 20, which is a "mug book" of my father's class at the U.S. Naval Academy, that of 1934.  The book was published in 1954, hence the title, and is a compendium of the lives of the class members since graduation.  Later on, I was able finally -- after 60+ years of searching -- to acquire an actual copy of the book.

I don't think much in terms of digital publications.  I have a Kindle which I hardly use.  My preference, even when doing research, is to curl up on the couch with our cat and a cup of coffee and read or research in a real book, with a legal pad and pen for note-taking.  I suppose I could update my thinking.  But that will have to wait as I work on my projects that are staring me in the face in 2025.