Genealogy Research Online
Come to the library to use Ancestry/Library Edition, the free version of Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource.
It has:
- federal and state censuses
- records of births, marriages, deaths, immigration, military and more
- Heritage Quest (outside or inside the library) has federal census records and local histories
- Newspapers are great sources, too.
- We’ve got The New York Times (1851-2009) (outside or inside the library)
- The Philadelphia Historical Archive(1830-1922) in PDF format.
- See the newspapers as they appeared in print.
