Research your family history

Library version of Ancestry.com. Access billions of names in many genealogical databases, including Census Records, Passenger Lists, and the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Ireland records.

Blackpast.org provides a wealth of knowledge on Black history in one central location online. It includes an online encyclopedia, full-text speeches and other primary documents dating from 1789-2016, bibliographies and timelines, links to digital archive collections, museums and research centers, genealogical websites, and other website resources.

Find an obituary or death notice by a person's name, the name of a family member or a school attended, or by a location. Coverage varies with each newspaper, mainly from the 1990s to now.

Heritage Quest online is a collection of research materials for tracing family histories and researching places in the United States. It includes resources like the federal census records from 1790-1930, local history books and genealogies going back to the 1700s, as well as Revolutionary War and Freedman’s Bank records. These items are keyword searchable and can be downloaded.