GENEALOGY RESOURCES 
Public Domain Images

Don’t despair if you have no pictures of your ancestors’ home towns. Look for photographs on Wikipedia pages that reference the cities where they lived, click on the pictures, and use them to add interest to your genealogy.

post card: Hartford, Connecticut 1914 illustration on Wikipedia

The example above is an image in the Public Domain. It is available on the Wikipedia entry for Hartford, Connecticut. A map of Hartford, published in 1877, is also on that same Wikipedia page.

RESEARCH TIP: Be careful—not every image on a Wikipedia page is licensed for free use in the Public Domain. Different types of licenses require different ways of sourcing this material. Always click on the blue “More Details” button (it’s on the lower right-hand side of the image rollout) to find a description of the license as well as the usage requirements involved.