Libraries: Portals To Your Ancestral Past

Family History on TV

-African American Lives PBS
-Faces of America PBS
-The Generations Project BYU TV
-Who Do You Think You Are? NBS
-Ancestors (Not running but available online) / http:www.byub.org/ancestors

Social Media Fuels Family History Interest

-GenealogyWise

-Release of 1940 Census sparked interest

Public Library Resources

-Newspapers
-Local Historical Events
-Centennial & Bicentennial memorabilia
-City/State Directories
-Historic Maps & Photos
-Historic Audio & Video Records
-Access to Online Databasses
-Pathfinders/Library Guides

Patrons Know What Resources are Available?

-film
-fiche
-in-house-collections
-online through library website
-online to public

Additional Newspapers Resources

Access to http://access.newspaperarchive.com
Internet Archives: http://www.archive.org
Various ProQuest databases:
http://www.genealogybank.com
http://www.smalltownpapers.com
Wikipedia’s Online Newspapers Listing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives

Access to Online Databases

FamilySearch: http://familysearch.org
RootsWeb: http://rootsweb.com
Internet Archives: http://archive.org
Mortality Schedules: http://mortalityschedules.com
Ancestry: http://ancestry.com  ($)
Heritage Quest from ProQuest: ($):http://www.heritagequestonline.com
World Vital Records: ($) http://www.worldvitalrecords.com

Create Library Guides of your resources

Pathfinders of your resources

Collaboration Through their Library with other Libraries
-Interlibrary loans-books
-Interlibrary loans-films
-WorldCat
-University Libraries
-Businesses

Online Research Communities

-Skype Research Communities
-Facebook Research Genealogical Communities

by Claire V Brisson-Banks

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