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Ancestry.com
(accessible only from PCLC
libraries)
With more than
10 billion historical records,
ancestry.com has been the worlds
largest online resource for family
history for the last 20 years, and
contains handwritten historical
documents, information from
national, state, and local
govenrment archives,historical
societies, religious institutions,
and private collections. Members
have created more than 38 million
family trees and uploaded over 136
million photos, documents. and
written stories to the database.
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Current
Biography
Current
Biography Illustrated offers the
content of the printed monthly
magazine Current Biography,
produced by the H.W. Wilson Company,
in searchable, electronic format.
Readers will be able to find accurate,
up-to-date biographies drawing
information from newspaper articles,
magazine articles, and books. Students
and patrons can search by name,
profession, place of origin, gender,
ethnicity, birth/death dates, titles
of works and key words for more than
25,000 articles and obituaries.
In addition, profiles
maintained in this database feature
more than 19,500 images, and offer the
subject's own views, attitudes and
commentary as well as the commentaries
of other journalists and colleagues.
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Heritage
Quest
HeritageQuest® Online is
a comprehensive treasury of American
genealogical sources—rich in unique primary
sources, local and family histories, and
finding aids.
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Sources in
U.S. History Online is a series of
archival digital collections intended for
public library patrons as well as high
school, community college, and university
students. The Civil War digital collection
contains nearly 500 significant documents
of the time--personal narratives,
monographs, regimental histories,
collected essays, sermons, songs, legal
tracts, and political speeches--enabling
students, faculty and patrons to study one
of the key events in American history.
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U.S.
History Collection
As any
historian will state, the study of history
is as much about the present as the past:
to that end, this collection provides
well-rounded coverage of both the current
thinking and events in US History, as well
as scholarly work being established in the
field. This compilation of journals
provides robust and balanced coverage of
this field, useful both to the novice
historian as well as to the advanced
academic researcher.
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World
History Collection
As any
historian will state, the study of history
is as much about the present as the past:
to that end, this collection provides
well-rounded coverage of both the current
thinking and events in World History, as
well as scholarly work being established
in the field. This compilation of journals
provides robust and balanced coverage of
this field, useful both to the novice
historian as well as to the advanced
academic researcher.
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