Biography and Genealogy

Library Exclusive Sites
Quality information sources accessible with the number on the back of your library card
      Ancestry (in library use only)

More than 450,000 fulltext biographies.
       
     

More than 450,000 full-text biographies.

       
     
Fold3 (formerly called Footnote)

History and genealogy archives with social networking and interactive features

       
     

HeritageQuest combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy and Local History book collection

       
     

American Ancestors (in library use only)

Access millions of names in about the databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

       
      Suffolk Historic Newspapers
A growing, searcheable collection of different suffolk newspapers.

       
     

Birth, marriage, death, military, census, and parish records online.

       
     

The entire historical run of The New York Times from 1851-2006. Each article is in PDF format and includes images. Find obituaries and death notices back to 1851.

       
     
New York Amsterdam News became one of the nation’s leading black newspapers and one of New York’s most influential black-owned institutions.