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Ancestry Library -
ProQuest
Provides coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. Includes over 1,000 maps, 4,000 databases and two billion names.
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Heritage Quest Online -
ProQuest
Contains digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records, the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection, and other genealogical content. Coverage dates back to the late 1700s.
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Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 -
ProQuest
The Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. This digital collection contains Sanborn maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
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Burke's Peerage and Gentry -
OMS Services
The definitive guide to the genealogical history of the major royal, aristocratic and historical families of the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States of America.
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Origins Network -
OMS Services
Features British and Irish genealogical record collections dating back to the 13th century, as well as rare and unique photos and books to browse. Click on "login" for access.
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ArchiveGrid -
FirstSearch (OCLC)
 . Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.
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Daily Life Online -
Greenwood Publishing
 Combines Daily Life through History, Daily Life Premium, and World Folklore and Folklife databases to
provide full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures,
and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present. Teacher resources available.
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In the First Person -
Alexander Street Press
Indexes oral histories in English from thousands of web repositories and archives, and includes full text links for licensed Alexander Street Press databases.
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories -
Alexander Street Press
Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories describing what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries -
Alexander Street Press
Provides personal experiences of hundreds of women over 300 years - approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database.
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OAIster -
FirstSearch (OCLC)
Catalogs more than 19 million digital resources from over 1,000 organizations including digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets.
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