New Collection Alert! Ancestry Library Edition now includes more than 750 million Obituaries dating back to the 1800s from Newspapers.com. Search Obituaries in New Collections or filter by Newspapers and Publications.
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ProQuest has partnered with Ancestry.com to create Ancestry® Library Edition, one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada, Europe, Australia and other areas of the world! This collection, with thousands of databases and billions of indexed names, is essential to having a broad genealogy collection, and its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest® Online.
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UPDATED - EXPLORE BY LOCATION PAGES!
Ancestry offers an intuitive new Explore by Location feature. This enhancement allows researchers to quickly access records by geographic location. It's easier than ever to focus in on records relevant to a place your ancestor may have lived. See more about this feature under the "Search Tips" tab.
Next time you are reading a non-fiction book about a historical event or people use Ancestry Library Edition to learn more about the real-life characters and locations via historical and genealogical records!
A few popular examples suggested to us by library reading groups are:
There are approximately 3.9 million individuals noted on the 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedule. That is about 40% of the population of the southern states at the time.