Subject Guide: Genealogy

Databases

The Alvin Sherman Library provides its' patrons access to several prominent genealogy databases that are essential to most modern-day genealogical research. These databases are accessible through the library's on-site computer terminals and, in some instances, can be accessed remotely from home. To log in to the Library's database gateway now, click HERE (login required with an NSU ID or Sherman Library card).
Be sure to select "Genealogy" from the "Browse by Subject" list or "Obituaries" from the "Browse by Material Type" list. If you don't currently have login privileges but would like to, click HERE to apply for a card.

• Ancestry Library Edition
  Provides searchable digital images of the entire series of the U.S. Federal Census vital, church, court, and immigration records; city directories; military records including WWI draft registration cards; and the Social Security Death Index. Also covers records from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada. Includes over 1,000 maps, 4,000 databases and two billion names.


• Heritage Quest
  Contains digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records, the digitized version of the popular UMI© Genealogy & Local History collection, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), the Freedman's Bank Records, and Revolutionary War Era pension and bound-land warrants. Coverage dates back to the late 1700s.


• ProQuest Obituaries
  Offers more than 10.5 million searchable obituaries and death notices in full-image format from historical archives of key top newspapers including the Atlantic Journal Constitution, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Dates from 1851.


• North American Immigrant Diaries and Oral Histories
  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.