Ancestry Library Edition
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Ancestry Library Edition has a wide variety of databases to help the family researcher including:
Images of all available U.S. Censuses, most with indexes for easier searching
Military service databases, such as the Civil War Pension Index
The Immigrant and Passenger List for one of the largest collections of immigration information
The U.K. Census Collection
The Social Security Death Index which covers relatives that lived and died in the 20th century

AncestryPlus also contains a wide variety of other sources such as city directories, published histories of families and counties, old birth and death records, plus much, much more. Ancestry Library Edition also includes records from many foreign countries

There is a library of online articles that may help you when you have hit that brick wall and need a nudge over it. A learning center will help with those areas that complement genealogy, such as history, geography, and computers.

HeritageQuest Online
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HeritageQuest Online is a growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. At present there are five main sections. The first and most significant includes scanned images of U.S. census records from 1790 to 1930, with indexes to many of those years. This collection compliments that of AncestryPlus, mentioned above, and indexes some years that Ancestry doesn't. The second part consists of a comprehensive collection of over 25,000 family genealogies and local histories, as well as primary source materials, genealogical and local history serials, city and business directories, collective biographies, vital records and military records from all over the country. Every word in each book has been indexed and is keyword-searchable. The third section contains PERSI. The PERiodical Source Index is a comprehensive subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800. PERSI provides the researcher the ability to search on surnames, locations, and methodologies as well as the ability to browse the journals by title and keyword. There are more than 1.6 million article citations currently available, with updates occurring annually. PERSI is produced in cooperation with the Allen County (Indiana) Public Library Foundation. Fourth are the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, and fifth is the Freedman's Bank, which was created after the Civil War to serve freed slaves.

NoveList
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NoveList is an online readers' advisory resource which helps fiction readers find new authors and titles. It allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. Readers can also enter words that describe the contents of a book they would like to read and NoveList retrieves titles that contain these words in the book's subject headings field. Users can also browse over 1,200 theme-oriented booklists, 150 award-lists and 1,000 fiction related web-sites. NoveList contains materials for all ages including picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. It adds about 10,000 new fiction records to the database per year, along with reviews and descriptions when they are available. A library card is required to access the database from home. Novelist K-8 is a version for children in elementary and middle schools. 

Kids Search
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Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type -- magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. Kids Search provides students basic and detailed search screens, topical searches, and links to dictionary, encyclopedia and images, within a child-friendly interface. Teachers can perform searches through other products using the Teacher Resources link. 

Student Research Center
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StudentResearchCenter provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools for easily obtaining the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Through the Student Research Center, users can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. 

Contemporary Authors
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Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on over 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Search for information by author, title, nationality, genre, personal information, honors and awards and more.

Biography Resource Center
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This database provides biographies from a number of respected sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

Topic Search
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Search magazines, newspapers, biographies, pamphlets, book reviews, opinion polls, government info and current issues for a number of topics ranging from Aging to World Affairs. The main topics covered in the TOPICsearch database are: Aging, AIDS, Alcohol, Arts, Communication, Computers, Consumerism, Corrections, Crime, Current Events, Death and Dying, Defense, Drugs, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Family, Food, Habitat, Health, Human Rights, Life Science, Medical Sciences, Mental Health, Money, Multiculturalism, National Debate, People, Physical Sciences, Religion, Sexuality, Social Studies, Sports, Tranportation, Women, Work, and World Affairs. The topics have been further refined to allow researchers to browse the specific areas of interest within each of the main topics.

Searchasaurus
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Designed especially for children, this search tool looks through thousands of magazine articles, as well as dictionaries and encyclopedias, for the information you want. It also has a large photograph and image collection that can be searched.

OCLC's WorldCat
Search the catalogs of hundreds of other libraries