Genealogy

African American Heritage provides access to various records and documents intended for genealogical research of African American families. The user-friendly but powerful interface helps novice and advanced genealogical researchers find:

• Census records
• Vital records
• Church records
• Legal records
• Emancipation and slavery related records, and more.

America's Obituaries & Death Notices, now called HeritageHub, includes records from more than 3,900 newspapers nationwide, available in one fully searchable database. This comprehensive resource features nearly 63 million listings - about 90% of all recent obituaries and death notices published in the United States. Search cities, states, regions, or the entire country with a map-based interface.

Discover the history of you with Ancestry Library Edition, the largest online family history resource. It documents lineages of individuals from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more.

Using Ancestry Library Edition, you'll discover millions on unique, full-text primary sources and enhanced images including:

• Census records from the US, the UK, Australia, and Germany
• Canadian Census (1851 - 1911)
• Birth, marriage, and death records for the US, Canada, and the UK
• Canadian Genealogy Index (1600s - 1900s)
• US military records (back to the 1600s)
• Immigration, emigration, passport, and naturalization records
• Jewish family history records
• Court, land, tax, and probate records

Hosted by the Library of Congress, Chronicling America is a nationwide historic newspaper digitization project that hosts digitized and full-text searchable newspapers from 1789 - 1963. Also available is a directory of American newspapers published between 1690 - present.

Fold3 is the premier collection of historical military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served from the Revolutionary War through recent conflicts. It contains millions of records from world-class archives, many of which are exclusively available in Fold3 Library Edition.

Search for ancestors in the U.S. Federal Census, family and local histories and city directories, Revolutionary War records, Freedman's Bank records, genealogical periodicals and selected congressional documents and reports from the American State Papers and U.S. Serial Set.

Access the historical issues of the Las Vegas Review-Journal in this searchable digital collection spanning from 1929 to 2018. Each page is a complete digital facsimile that contains every original image - every photograph, illustration, cartoon, and display advertisement.

• Uncover previously unknown aspects of family lineage from obituaries and other news items, including society columns, casualty reports, sports stories, and more.
• Discover timely answers to an array of local questions.
• Spend hours uncovering lost details about local people, places, and events. 

Billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos, and other resources in thousands of databases that span the past five centuries. Content includes

• More than 6 billion historical records from the United States, Europe, Latin America, and other regions.
• The full USA federal census (1790 - 1940) with images.
• Census of England and Wales (1891 - 1901) with images.
• 2 billion exclusive family tree profiles from My Heritage and Geni.
• 816 million US public records.
• Hundreds of millions of European records.
• More than 100 million gravestone photos.
• Military records, immigration records, and passenger lists.
• Citizenship and naturalization records.
• Government, land, and court records.

Search for historical and genealogical information. The archive spans over 400 years of family history, small-town events, world news, and contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date.