Books

Microfilm

Major Microfilm Collections

The 19th Century British Library Newspapers digital archive

This fully searchable database of the British Library’s newspaper holdings, provides a complete run of 48 national and regional Victorian British newspapers for the 19th century from 1800 to 1900. These support the study of colonial history, genealogical research, politics, urban studies and media courses.

Access Newspaper Archives

Newspaper Archive.com is the world’s largest online newspaper archive. Featuring billions of articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world, Newspaper Archive makes exploring history and genealogy easy and fun. Discover fascinating news in archived newspapers hundreds of years old - including obituaries, birth announcements, sports articles, comics, and more - to fill in the life stories you are interested in. And share those stories with others through our community at OurNewspaper Archive. All of our historical newspapers are full-page and fully searchable.

Alexander Street Press - American Civil War

Research Data: Contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs.

Letters and Diaries: Contains approximately 100,000 indexed pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs, including 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts, such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland planter William Claytor.

Images, Photographs, Posters,, and Ephemera: Provides a vivid history of the American Civil War with over 1,400 images.

Ancestry.com - Ancestry gives you access to thousands of collections of records from around the world including immigration, census, voter, vital, and military records, newspapers & periodicals, family trees, photos & images, directories, maps, court, land, wills & financial records, stories, memories & histories, and detailed records about births, marriages, deaths, land ownership and much more. It is the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world.

Fold3 (formerly Footnote) - View original historical documents and photos online. Collections feature documents relating to the Revolutionary War. Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents. This is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past.

The Genealogist - English Parish Records, directories, census, civil registration, surname mapping and selected Army and Navy lists.

ArkivDigital Online - Arkiv digital is the largest private provider of Swedish Church Records and other Historical Records online! All images are newly photographed color images of the original documents.

Heritage Quest Online - Heritage Quest Online is a collection of material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700’s. Researchers can use Heritage Quest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled. Searches include: Census: find ancestors in the complete set of U.S.Federal Census images from 1790-1930 including name indexes for many years. Books: Find information on people and places described in over 24,000 family and local histories. PERSI Periodical Source Index™: Find information about people and places from this index of over 2.) million genealogy and local history articles updated annually. Revolutionary War: Search selected records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Warrants Application Files.

Historic Map Works Library Edition - Historic Map Works is one of the most extensive digital map collections available, with over 470,000 high-resolution, full color historic and antique maps. The core of the collection consists of cadastral maps (property, land boundaries and ownership) illustrating the geographic and development history of the United States and also includes illustrations, city directories, and more! This unique content allows genealogists, historians, and academic researchers to track the “residential genealogy” of families and locations. This site allows you to compare the now to then. See what a map looked like at the time your ancestor was living

Paper Trail - 19th Century westward American migration documents. The Oregon-California Trail Association established a committee to create a computer database from information in original emigrant writings of the overland trails experience. Information on names, location, Indian encounters, mode of travel, routes and other interesting details.

World Vital Records - Access to birth, marriage and death records, Social Security Death Index family trees, census records, immigration records, court, land, and probate records, military records, directory lists, newspapers, family histories, reference materials, biographies, wills, gravestone photos, ship manifests, map collections, and yearbook collections.

May 2 - Mocavo.com - Linda Todd
Have you tried using Mocavo to search for your family history?  Mocavo is a search engine that only searches genealogy specific blogs and websites.  Come learn how to use this genealogy search engine and possible locate some of your missing information.

May 9 - Understanding the Basics of Cloud Computing for Genealogists - Marian Kile
Cloud computing is using the Internet for functions that we used to do on our local computer.  Marian will explain more of Cloud Computing, its terms, advantages and drawbacks.  She will cover a number of different types of Cloud Computing so we can decide which one might work best for us.

May 16 - Irish Research - Part 1 - Ron McDowell


May 23 - Irish Research - Part 2 - Ron McDowell