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Genealogy Article Databases
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Books In Print
Bibliographic information for books, audios and videos.
FirstSearch
Provides access to several databases: Article First, ECO, GPO, Medline, WorldCat (look for items to request through interlibrary loan), Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia, World Almanac, and WorldCatDissertations.
EBSCOhost
Multi-database search including MAS Ultra, Geo-Ref, Health Source(s), and Professional Development Collection.
ProQuest Research Library
Humanities, social sciences and sciences. Peer-reviewed articles, constructs bibliography in MLA or APA style.
New York Times Historical Newspaper
Articles from the New York Times from 1851 to 2006.
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LexisNexis
Regional, national & international news including broadcast transcripts, campus newspapers and court cases.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (access through FirstSearch)
Over 25,000 records, covering a variety of subject areas for student research needs.
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, the PDC consists of more than 550 journal titles (over 350 peer-reviewed) as well as 200 educational reports.
Encyclopædia Britannica
An authoritative information source with articles, images, videos and links to reviewed websites.
Genealogy Web Links
American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island
Located in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and on the World Wide Web, the American Family Immigration History Center (AFIHC) allows visitors to explore the extraordinary collection of immigrant arrival records stored in the Ellis Island Archives.
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Sponsored by the National Park Service, the site indexes some 6.3 million military service records representing about 3.5 million Union and Confederate soldiers; also regiments and battles.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
Cyndi Howell's index to genealogically related sites on the Internet identifies useful sites in more than 180 separate categories, including special areas such as adoption and heraldry.
Family History Library
Site of the largest genealogical society in the world, providing online access to the library's catalog and key databases along with hundreds of finding aids and research papers.
Genealogy Home Page
General index to genealogy related sites, with over fifteen categories of links, including those with help and guides for conducting a genealogical search.
Genealogy Online
Free Ancestry Family Tree Genealogy Software. 3,000 Genealogy Databases. Discover Your Family History and Build Your Family Tree.
Genealogy Toolbox
Includes a list of over 70 thousand Internet links to genealogical resources.
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
A comprehensive resource on all aspects of adoption.
National Archives and Records Administration
NARA's national and regional archives are a depository for federal records, such as census, immigration and military files. Click on Research Room and then Genealogy and Family History.
National Portrait Gallery
Searchable by artist or sitter, this catalog could help locate a relative's picture.
RootsWeb
RootsWeb.com is the oldest and largest free online community for genealogists. The site contains extensive interactive guides and numerous research tools for tracing family histories.
Sharlot Hall Archives
The Sharlot Hall Archives provides the documentary history of Yavapai County and the surrounding region. It is also a repository for information on cowboy lore, Yavapai County genealogy, the Rough Riders of Arizona, mining history, Western women's literary history and the life and works of Sharlot M. Hall.
SUTRO Library
Research your family using San Francisco's Sutro Library of the California State Library System, the largest genealogical library west of Salt Lake City, Utah, containing a total book count of over 150,000 and more than 65,000 microforms.
U.S. Genealogical Web Project
A great collection of local web sites, grouped by state. The sites vary but many contain a tremendous amount of local history and information.
Vital Chek
VitalChek Network has an internet, voice and fax network setup to help people get a certified copy of a birth certificate, death certificate, marriage certificate and other vital records.
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