Genealogy Resources
Ancestry Library Edition
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HeritageQuest Online - Login at home - Dracut cardholders only
More about HeritageQuest Online...
ProQuest has partnered with MyFamily.com to create Ancestry® Library Edition. The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000 databases including key collections such as U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200 volumes); Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes); The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630; Social Security Death Index (updated monthly); WWI Draft Registration Cards; Federal Slave Narratives; and a strong Civil War collection.
Ancestry Library Edition is available on the library's Internet stations located in the Dracut Library. Once connected to Ancestry Library Edition, you'll find a friendly opening screen that asks for the name of the person to be searched. Key in the name, click on "Search" and Ancestry Library Edition scans its vast selection of U.S. census data, birth, marriage, and death records, World War I draft registration information, Social Security death records, and immigration lists. It also includes an extensive collection of information from the U.K., including images from English and Welsh census records, and civil registrations. Additionally probate records dating back to the 1500s are included from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.; Whether you're using HeritageQuest Online or Ancestry Library Edition, the information you find are pieces of a puzzle that you'll assemble. Records have "clues" to the past - places where ancestors lived, names of relatives, birth or death dates, etc - that lead to more information. Names can be added to form the "tree" or searched to find more clues.
Logging on to HeritageQuest Online at home (or in the library if you choose) you'll find several paths to information - the U.S. Federal Census collection, over 20,000 family and local history books, an index to nearly 2 million magazine articles with genealogical information, or a database of Revolutionary War era records. Select a path and enter a name to be searched. HeritageQuest Online instantly searches for matches and returns the results. Click on a name and an image of the matching record appears. For example, when a name is searched in the census collection, the particular page from the census where the name is listed will be displayed on the screen.
This page was last updated on 02/18/2010
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