This page lists digital collections available for online research. Most are open and freely available. Please remember that these are only some of the records that a site may offer for research. Most institutions cannot put everything they have in their holdings online. When you find digitized items of interest, you might wish to contact the site for more information and to see if there are additional holdings relating to what you are viewing.
This database documents the personal experience of immigrants to Canada and the United States over more than two centuries. In addition to letters, diaries and oral histories, there are a limited number of other sources, including immigration guides and cartoons. Indexing that allows users to search by place of birth, place of entry, occupation and gender.
Oral History Online is an index to free oral history information on the Web. Working with archives, repositories and individuals, it indexes oral histories held by organizations around the world.
Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 53,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Registration is required for new users.