Last Updated:June, 2006

We have access to two genealogy databases online: HeritageQuest and Ancestry Library Edition. HeritageQuest can be used either from home or inside the library. Ancestry Library Edition is only to be used on Library computers. To use HeritageQuest from home, please visit the library to pick up the remote access username and password. If you have trouble logging on, don't hesitate to ask a staff member for assistance. (to print out our genealogy resources brochure, click here. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.)

HeritageQuest: for home or library use
Includes:

• ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History collection
• Complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930
• PERSI - the PERiodical Source Index.

Ancestry Library Edition: for library use only
Includes:

• U.S Federal Census collection: 1790-1930 and includes every-name indexes and original images
• U.K. and Ireland Census collection: includes name indexes and original images for the U.K. Census (1871, 1891 and 1901) and the England and Wales Civil Registration Index (1837-Present)
• Birth, Marriage and Death REcords collection: consists of the Social Security Death Index, the England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales Parish and Probate Records (1500s-1837)
• Immigration collection: has original images of passenger and immigration lists from New York (1851-1891), New Orleans (1820-1850) and San Francisco (1893-1953), plus the New York Petitions for Naturalization Index (1792-1906) and the Wuerttemberg Emigration Index.
• Military Records collection: features the WWI Draft Registration Cards with original images, the Civil War Service REcords, and the WWII and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas.
• Family and Local History collection: contains the 200-volume American Genealogical-Biographical Index, the Federal Writers Project Slave Narratives, the Dawes Commission Index (1898-1914), and the Daughters of American Revolution Lineage Books.

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