Genealogy on the Internet Archive

 

Genealogy on the Internet Archive

Archive.org or the Internet Archive should be on every genealogist's list of important genealogy websites. Over the past few years, the Internet Archive has grown almost exponentially in its content and many of the resources available on this website are unique. Here is an idea of what is available. 

Here are what the icons mean:

• About 527 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine
• About 28 million texts including ebooks
• About 6.5 million videos
• About 15 million audio files
• About 2.2 million TV programs
• About 628,000 software programs
• About 3.8 million images
• About 224,000 music concerts
• About 998,000 collections of the rest of the stuff

This whole website calls to mind the image of Smaug the Dragon sitting on his huge pile of gold. How do you even begin to comprehend what is on this one website? Ignoring the Internet Archive is like ignoring all of the online genealogy websites combined.