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Databases
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America's Obituaries & Death Notices
Each day, America’s Obituaries & Death Notices collects records from more than 3,100 newspapers nationwide, making them available through one fully searchable database. This comprehensive resource features more than 45 million listings—this is about two-thirds of all recent obituaries and death notices published in the United States.
Ancestry Library Edition
Census records and indexes, vital, church, military, and many other types of records. (in library use only)
Fold3 History & Genealogy Archives
Census records, state records, city directories and historical primary source documents from pre-U.S. Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War.
HeritageQuest Online
A great resource for census data, family records, local histories and Revolutionary War pension records.
Newspapers.com - World Collection
Historical newspapers archive from the 1700s-2000s 3,000+ news titles from the U.S. and around the world.
Springfield News-Leader
Index and full-text of the Springfield News-Leader since 1999.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Historical
Coverage: 1874 - 1922. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Worldcat
Search for family and local history books owned by libraries worldwide.