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Databases for Genealogy
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Census
- Ancestry Library Edition
Among other collections, Ancestry Library Edition includes digital images of original census manuscript pages. Note: Ancestry Library works best with the Internet Explorer browser.
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- American National Biography
Comprehensive biographical source. Effectively replaces The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB). The online version is updated quarterly. The ANB Online also includes illustrations and links to selected Web sites. - Biography and Genealogy Master Index
An index to a large number of current and retrospective biographical compilations. By searching BGMI you can determine which publication to consult for biographical information. - Biography Reference Bank
Contains the full text of the biographies from more than 100 print volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson. Provides indexing for selected periodicals and books. - Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. - Britannica Online
- Biography.com
- In the First Person
Indexes (Searching for Articles)
- America: History and Life
Indexes historical journals, dissertations, and book reviews. Covers the United States and Canada. Scope of coverage: materials published 1954 to present. Includes indexing to the journal Delaware History, covering articles published from 1963 to present. - American Periodicals 1700-1899
Provides access to individual articles in the microfilm sets American Periodical Series, Eighteenth Century (APS I) (Microfilm S 10), American Periodical Series, 1800-1850 (APS II) (Microfilm S 10), and American Periodical Series, 1850-1900 (APS III) (Microfilm S 10.5). See also APS Online. - Historical Abstracts
Indexes historical journals, dissertations, and book reviews. Covers the world, excluding the United States and Canada. Scope of coverage: materials published 1954 to present. - Historical Newspapers Online
Includes The Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-1923, Palmer's Index to the Times [London], 1790-1905, and The Official Index to the Times [London], 1906-1980. The current release of The Historical Index to The New York Times contains data from the years 1863 to 1905, and 1913 to September 1922. - LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text information from newspapers, the legal literature, and other sources on a variety of topics. - LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History
Online finding aids for selected microfilm collections published by University Publications of America. These finding aids provide a description of the collection and contain a reel index. Note: The University of Delaware Library has not acquired all of the microfilm collections included in LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History/History Universe. Check DELCAT for availability. - Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Multiple indexes of nineteenth century materials, including periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents. One component is W.F. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906. - UnCover Plus / Ingenta
Indexes articles from more than 18,000 multidisciplinary journals. Includes indexing of The American Genealogist and other state and regional genealogy magazines.
Digital Collections
These collections contain facsimiles or texts of primary sources. These sources are useful for information about a time period, social life and customs, and famous events or people.
- Accessible Archives
Consists of six collections: Godey's Lady's Book; The Pennsylvania Gazette; The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective; African American Newspapers: The 19th Century; The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County; and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County. - African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
- American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
- American County Histories to 1900
Contains the full text of J. Thomas Scharf, History of Delaware: 1609-1888. - American Memory
Historical Collections of the Library of Congress National Digital Library. - America’s Historical Newspapers
- APS (American Periodical Series) Online
Seachable page images of selected magazines and newspapers from the 18th and 19th centuries. - Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975
African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. - British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress)
- Chronicling America: Delaware newspapers
- Digital Sanborn Maps: Delaware
- Ethnic NewsWatch
A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. - The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online
- HarpWeek
Seachable page images of Harper's Weekly, the leading illustrated American periodical of the last half of the nineteenth century. - Making of America (UMich) and Making of America (Cornell)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection contains approximately 5,000 books and journal volumes with 19th century imprints. - New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers, 1851-3 years ago)
- The Nineteenth Century in Print
Easy access to the books and periodicals digitized for the Making of America project. - North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial - 1950
- Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Other Libraries
- WorldCat (free Internet resource) or WorldCat Local (profiled specifically for the University of Delaware)
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
Access to National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) Online Cataloging from 1986/1987 to date, via the RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) AMC (Archives and Mixed Collections) file. The RLIN AMC file contains nearly 500,000 records for archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies located throughout North America. - ArchiveGrid
