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• This weekend concludes National Park Week, when you can visit the
  397 sites in the US National Park System for free. That includes plenty of history-themed
  parks, including Dayton (Ohio) Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, the Homestead
  National Monument of America near Beatrice, Neb., San Antonio Missions National Historical
  Park in Texas, and Fort Point National Historic Site in San Francisco. Visit
  the National Parks Week website to get more details and download a pocket guide.

  Start planning now for the next National Park freebie day, June 9 (in honor of Get
  Outdoors Day).

• New York City’s Department of Records has debuted
  a photo database with 870,000 historical images of New York and its municipal
  operations.

  The pictures come from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million
  images. Most in the online gallery are color photos of every city building in the
  mid-1980s, but you’ll also find crime scene images from the police department, and
  more than 1,300 Depression-era images taken by photographers of the Works Progress
  Administration. (Note the gallery doesn’t include the 720,000 photographs of city
  buildings taken from 1939 to 1941.) Read
  more about the collection and see a sampling of images here.

• Registration is open for the Illinois State Genealogy Society’s (ISGS) Fall Conference,
  Oct. 19 and 20 in Rockford, Ill. Nine genealogy experts will lead more than 15 workshops
  on topics such as “Breaking Through Brick Walls” and “Discovering the Real Story of
  Your Immigrant Ancestors.” Friday will also feature youth workshops. Visit
  the ISGS website for more details or to register.