We have recently added 1,570 Surname files to our existing collection of 2,600 files.

Thanks to local researcher Teresa Martin Klaiber with her recent donation of nearly 1,600 files.  Take a look at the link below and see if any of the new files can help in your research.

http://thebookplace.org/?wpfb_dl=250

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Ancestry Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more.

Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. It’s an unprecedented online collection of individuals from North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more.

Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist, or historian—inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.

And, with ongoing updates and new content always being added, you’ll keep coming back to discover more. Popular and recently added collections include:

U.S. collections deliver hundreds of millions of names from sources such as federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.

Canadian collections provide nearly 60 million records from the Census of Canada; and key vital records, such as the Drouin Collection (1621-1967), which includes nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec.

U.K. collections offer censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and Scotland, with nearly 200 million records; Births and Baptisms (1834-1906), Marriage Licenses (1521-1869), Deaths and Burials (1834-1934), and Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London; and more.

Other international collections continue to grow with more than 46 million records from German census, vital records, emigration indexes, ship lists, phone directories, and more; Chinese surnames in the large and growing Jiapu Collection of Chinese lineage books; Jewish family history records from Eastern Europe and Russia; and more.

Military collections deliver over 150 million records containing information often not found elsewhere; and includes records from the colonial to the Vietnam era.

Multimedia collections deliver millions of files ranging from family and gravestone photos to postcards and newsreels.

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*Contact Genealogy for username and password

Sanborn fire insurance maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Seven or eight different editions represent some areas.

Textual information on construction details (for example, steel beams or reinforced walls) is often given on the plans while shading indicates different building materials. Extensive information on building use is given, ranging from symbols for generic terms such as stable, garage, and warehouse to names of owners of factories and details on what was manufactured in them. In the case of large factories or commercial buildings, even individual rooms and the uses to which they were put are recorded on the maps. Other features shown include pipelines, railroads, wells, dumps, and heavy machinery. Click here to access a key provided by the Sanborn Map Company. (Note: Because the key is a detailed file, it must be large so that you can view it completed. As a result, it may take a while for the key to load onto your computer screen.)

Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. To order individual maps directly from the Sanborn Map Company (now owned by Environmental Data Resources, Inc. (EDR)) please call 1-800-352-0050 or visit their website at http://www.edrnet.com/

For Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) click here

Note: The Library provides access to Kentucky Maps only

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HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids.

18th Century or 20th Century. European or Native American. Farm or Factory. East Coast or West Coast. Where does your American past begin?

Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.

The collection consists of six core data sets:

U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1930, with name indexes for many decades. In total the collection covers more than 140 million names.

Genealogy and local history books deliver more than 7 million digitized page images from over 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books. Titles have been digitized from our own renowned microform collections, as well from the American Antiquarian Society via an exclusive partnership.

Periodical Source Index (PERSI), published by the Allen County Public Library, is recognized as the most comprehensive index genealogy and local history periodicals. It contains more than 2 million records covering titles published around the world since 1800.

Revolutionary War records contains original images from pension and bounty land warrant application files help to identify more than 80,000 American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era.

Freedman’s Bank Records, with more than 480,000 names of bank applicants, their dependents, and heirs from 1865–1874, offers valuable data that can provide important clues to tracing African American ancestors prior to and immediately after the Civil War.

LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set records the memorials, petitions, private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress back to 1789, with a total of more than 480,000 pages of information.

 

Guided Video Tutorials:

• Census Search
• Census Results
• State Maps
• Image Viewer Tools
• Notebook
• Search History

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America’s GenealogyBank provides Web-based access to millions of the United States’ core genealogical records from 1652 to the present day. Through basic name search and advanced search options, genealogists can easily find and browse digital images of American historical genealogies, obituaries, marriage notices, birth announcements, casualty lists, military and government documents and other essential primary sources. It also provides the full text of modern U.S. newspaper obituaries and enhanced Social Security Death Index (SSDI) records. Significantly, each of America’s GenealogyBank’s five historical or modern collections is updated with new content on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

Articles, obituaries and more from Historical Newspapers
By searching approximately 700,000 complete issues of over 2,800 historical U.S. newspapers, researchers can quickly find their ancestors in millions of articles, obituaries, marriage notices, birth announcements and other items. Digitized in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society and other institutions, this exclusive collection includes titles published between 1690 and 1977.

America’s Obituaries and the Social Security Death Index
America’s GenealogyBank offers the full text of more than 34 million obituaries and death notices published in over 2,300 newspapers from all 50 states between 1977 and the present day. There are millions more obituaries in the historical newspapers, as well. Genealogists can cross-reference these obituaries with over 87.5 million and growing weekly Social Security Death Index (SSDI) records, which have been enhanced with exact age and city, county and state information that genealogists can easily copy and save to their files.

Digital facsimiles of printed items from Historical Books
The Historical Books collection includes digitized versions of all available books, pamphlets and other publications printed in America from 1801 to 1900. This makes it easy to search rare, fragile genealogies, local histories, cards, charts and other printed items online.

A variety of essential records from Historical Documents
The Historical Documents collection features the entire American State Papers (1789-1838) and all items of genealogical value—over 40% of the publications—from the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1984). Genealogists can research government and military records, casualty lists, widows’ claims, military pension requests, bounty land warrant actions, dispute resolutions, land grant applications, orphans’ petitions and much more.

Download a comprehensive search tutorial (Powerpoint format)

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Search current and archived coverage of issues, events, people, government, sports and more with the largest collection of full-text U.S. newspapers.  Includes staff-written articles, obituaries, editorials, announcements, real estate and other sections.  This comprehensive resource offers tens of millions of current and archived full-text articles from news sources nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database. It includes the complete electronic editions of more than 1,890 U.S. news sources and news video clips.

• Ability to search a single newspaper, a select group of titles or the entire collection
• An intuitive, map-based interface and powerful, user-friendly search options
• Complete electronic editions of more than 1,890 full-text newspapers nationwide and searchable news video clips
• Comprehensive news coverage at the local, state, regional and national levels
• Provides 24/7 online access to tens of millions of fully searchable current and archived articles
• New content added daily
• New enhancements to explore timelines and maximize results

Download a comprehensive search tutorial (Powerpoint format)

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Fold3^™ History and Genealogy Archives combines original historical documents and personal histories to create a unique historical and genealogical resource. These digital images of records, preserved in the National Archives and other regional archives, represent a growing collection of historic documents—most never before available on the Internet. The collection features millions of records available from a content partnership with The National Archives.

Fold3 History and Genealogy Archives features:

• More than 50 million pages of historical documents
• Census records from 1860 and 1930
• Documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, and U.S. Presidents
• Historical newspapers
• Naturalization documents
• Matthew Brady collection of Civil War photos
• UFO documents from 1947 – 1969
• State Records
• City Directories
• And much more…

Title Lists: 

Front page of the Washington Post for June 29, 1914 View Sample

Petitions for Naturalization View Sample

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Access Newspaper Archive is the world’s largest online newspaper archive. Featuring billions of articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world, NewspaperARCHIVE makes exploring history and genealogy easy and fun. Discover fascinating news in archived newspapers hundreds of years old – including obituaries, birth announcements, sports articles, comics, and more – to fill in the life stories you are interested in. And share those stories with others through our community at OurNewspaperARCHIVE. All of the historical newspapers are full-page and fully searchable!

Access NewspaperARCHIVE allows students and library patrons to browse, view, save and print over 100 millions of newspaper pages dating from 1750 to 1977.

• Convenient online access to full-page historical newspapers from across the US, along with papers in the United Kingdom, Canada, Jamaica and other countries
• Over 100 millions of newspaper pages are available in the online database
• Powerful browse tools allow researchers to easily look through newspaper pages by date or location
• New content added monthly – approximately two million pages per month

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AtoZ in the USA is a database dedicated to anything and everything about the 50 states!

You’ll find antique maps, state flags, facts, figures – even where you can find farmer’s markets for each state.

More than just your standard state facts, you’ll also find recipes, image collections, information on sports, recreation, and demographics.

A great resource for students of all ages – AtoZ in the USA provides quality information in an easy to navigate format – simply select a state and pick your subject area.

Here’s a few quick facts on Kentucky taken from AtoZ:

State Name: Kentucky

State Nickname: The Bluegrass State

State Motto: United we stand, divided we fall.

Name for Residents: Kentuckian

Abbreviation: KY

Time Zone:
Eastern half: Eastern, GMT/UTC -5 / -4 (Daylight Savings Time)
Western half: Central, GMT/UTC -6 / -5 (Daylight Savings Time)

Capital City: Frankfort

Date of Statehood: June 1, 1792

Statehood Rank: 15th State

Area: 40,409 square miles (104,659 km²)

1784 Map of Kentucky

	Isaac Shelby
	Governor #: 1 Term Start: June 4, 1792 Term End: June 7, 1796 Number of Terms: 1 Party: Democratic-Republican Lt. Governor(s): None	Born: December 11, 1750 Birth (place): Hagerstown, Maryland Died: July 18, 1826 Died (place): Lincoln County, Kentucky Spouse(s): Susannah Hart Profession: Soldier, Farmer Religion: Presbyterian