Ancestry Library Edition makes family research easy for beginners while still providing in-depth tools for even the most advanced genealogists.

The ProQuest Obituaries collection is a premier resource for genealogical and historical research. You can use the collection to search obituaries and death notices from prominent newspapers, such as The New York Times (dating back to 1851).The collection includes both famous and lesser-known individuals and can be searched by name or by keywords appearing in the body of the article.

ProQuest African American Heritage is offered through libraries and other institutions.

Heritage Quest Online

Use Heritage Quest Online to find your ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

Provides over 25,000 family and local history books, the complete U.S. Federal Census 1790-1930, PERSI (the Periodical Source Index), a subject index to over 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals and Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. Users can search the material in a number of different ways.


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