Genealogy

Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

The largest historic newspaper source online containing tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s.

The largest electronic collection of biographical information on African Americans from 1790 to1950.

Online resource for researching the soldiers, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War contains indexed, searchable information on over four million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with fifteen thousand photographs.

One of the largest collections of family history data online. Ancestry Library Edition is the Ancestry.com database with a interface from Proquest.

Directory of manuscript and primary source material across the United States. It contains the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) from 1959 to the present.

Index to millions of biographical sketches in thousands of reference books.

Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.

Directory of selected names in cemeteries around the United States and other countries.

Full page view of the Chicago Defender from 1905-1975.

Search and read newspapers fron 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers from 1690-present.

Houston Public Library's Genealogical Collection.

List of genealogical resources on the Web.

Searchable archive of the Dallas Morning News.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint's links to genealogical resources on the web.

Pointers to a variety of genealogy sites, sponsored by Family Treemaker Online.

Swedish Church Records from the 16th – 20th century. To access this database please minimize your browser and click on the “GenLine Family Finder 2” icon on the computer desktop.

U. S. Federal census records and other research materials for tracing family lineages.

Houston Public Library's catalog on the Web. Search for titles and place holds.

Genealogical data from the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Full page view of the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 through 2002.

Many sources and links for genealogical researchers.

National database of death records.

Sanborn maps are large scale plans of a city drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property.

Network of volunteers working to create a center for genealogical research for every county in the United States.

Catalog of library materials owned by libraries around the world.