Research Links

The British Newspaper Archive contains around three million pages of newspaper content originally funded as part of a £3m contribution from JISC. This was an important initiative that contributed greatly to the British Library's digitisation of their historic newspapers.

The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a growing repository of historical California newspapers published from 1846-present, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It also contains issues of current California newspapers, collected as PDFs, that are part of a project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers.

The Confederate Citizens File, 1861-1865 (known as the “Citizens File”) is a collection of records related to Southern civilians and businesses who provided goods and services to the Confederate government during the Civil War. The Citizens File collection contains over 650,000 vouchers and other related documents filed in over 350,000 alphabetically arranged jackets. The vouchers and accompanying records are alphabetized and organized by Business or Citizen. A Fold3 collection.

The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries is a comprehensive resource documenting every U.S. county boundary change from 1629 to 2000, available in interactive maps, GIS, KMZ, and PDF formats.

Elephind.com is a specialized search engine that helps users discover digitised historic newspapers from collections around the world—all in one place. Whether you're a family historian, member of a historical society, cultural heritage enthusiast, or simply someone passionate about the past, Elephind makes it easier to explore and discover the stories preserved in historic newspapers by searching across multiple collections at once. Unlike mainstream search engines that often overlook them, Elephind includes smaller, lesser-known regional, student, and community newspapers as part of its search. These publications often offer rare and valuable perspectives on historical events that can be difficult to find elsewhere.

Newspapers are a cornerstone of family history research, holding articles rich with details about your ancestors' lives, as well as birth records, marriage records, historical obituaries, immigration records and more. Newspapers and Obituaries from 1690 to 2016.

The McClelland Library was designed by the architect, Paul Ahern, after a 12th century Norman Castle. The three-story building houses 8,000 books from Irish authors, poets, and genealogical sources. The library houses a permanent exhibit on The Book of Kells, several reading rooms, and computer access to various disciplines of Irish and Celtic studies including genealogy. The library is the largest library of its kind in the Western United States.

Here you can find church registers (mostly books of birth, marriage and death) from various European countries (currently Austria, Germany, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia).

A non-profit dedicated to all aspects of genealogy, providing access to local records and other genealogical information. The Society serves genealogists throughout Yavapai and Coconino Counties.

NewsLibrary.com: the ideal tool for news research. Search thousands of newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, business journals, and other news sources. Each publication includes the most complete archive available.