Genealogy

America’s Obituaries and Death Notices (HeritageHub) Newspapers

• Purpose: Find obituaries and death notices from across America.
• Content: NewsBank’s large and comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from around the United States.
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: Library Card Required
• Help: HeritageHub Tutorial from NicheAcademy

Ancestry Library Edition

• Purpose: Find your family history using Ancestry Library Edition.
• Content: Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Records
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Learning Center
• Access: Only available inside the Library. 
• Niche Academy Tutorial

Available for in-library use only

Black Newspaper Collection – Historical Newspapers

• Purpose: This historical newspaper collection provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
• Content:  Atlanta Daily World, The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, Louisville Defender, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier 
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

Chicago Defender Newspapers

• Purpose: This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
• Content:    
  • Historical local, regional and national news
  • Multidisciplinary
  • Coverage: 1909 – 1975
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: Library Card Required

Cincinnati Enquirer 1999-Present Newspapers

• Purpose: Learn about the history as well as current events of the Greater Cincinnati in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
• Content: Full text articles and obituaries for the Cincinnati area.
• Age Level: 13-Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

Cincinnati Enquirer – Historical 1841-2009 Newspapers

• Purpose:  Find information on your neighborhood, relatives or just learn about the history of the Greater Cincinnati area.
• Content:  Searchable full-text articles and obituaries from the Enquirer 1841-2009
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

Cincinnati Newspaper Index Newspapers

• Purpose:  Find information on local events and people.
• Content:  An Index to Local News compiled by The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: No Library Card Required

Faces & Places – Northern Kentucky Photographic Archives

• Purpose:  Find photos of your neighborhood, family and more in this collection of photographs.
• Content:  Over 100,000 photographs of the people and places of Northern Kentucky. 
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: No Library Card Required

Family Search

• Purpose: Discover your family history
• Content: Access the records of billions of names including birth, marriage and death records.
• Age Level: 12 – adult
• Help: FAQs
• Access: No Library Card Required

FindMyPast

• Purpose: Genealogy information from Great Britain & Ireland.
• Content: Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Records
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Learning Center
• Access: Only available inside the Library. 

Available for in-library use only

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• Purpose:  Research family members who have served in the military or find out historical information about people in the military.
• Content: US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.
• Age Level: 12 – adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

geNKY – Northern Kentucky Genealogy Database

• Purpose: Family and local history research
• Content: Local church records, Civil War Veterans Burial List, Yearbooks, Birth, Estate records and much more.  This data has been complied and digitized by the Library and is not available elsewhere.
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Database Descriptions
• Access: No Library Card Required

German Catholic Church Records – Matricula

• Purpose: Find German ancestors in German records.
• Content: Church registers (mostly books of birth, marriage and death) from various European countries (currently Austria, Germany, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia). These records are not indexed and you need to know the village. 
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: No library card required.

Greater Cincinnati Memory Project

• Purpose: Find interesting photos from around the area.
• Content: A collection of photos from around the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area.
• Age Level: 7-adult
• Access: No Library Card Required

HeritageQuest Online

• Purpose: Find family history information at HeritageQuest.
• Content: Census, books, Freedman’s Bank PERSI and the US Serial Set
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Research Aids
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

Kentucky Post 1895-1959 Newspapers

• Purpose: Explore the Kentucky and Cincinnati Post to find historical information about the area.
• Content: Full-text articles from the Cincinnati and KY Post.  There is also access to The Lexington Herald-Leader and the Dayton Daily News (1990-Current).  Kentucky Post Historical Access: 1895 - 1959 and 1962.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Help Documentation
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library
• Newsbank

Louisville Courier Journal Historical 1830-1922 Newspapers

• Purpose:  Find information on your neighborhood, relatives or just learn about the history of the Louisville area.
• Content:  Searchable full-text articles and obituaries from the 1830-1922
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

MyHeritage Library Edition

• Purpose: MyHeritage Library Edition (Formerly WorldVitalRecords) is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind. Access billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and other resources in thousands of databases that span the past five centuries.
• Content: Access key collections: U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1940; military records; birth, marriage and death records; enhanced Social Security Death Index (SSDI) records; one billion newspaper articles, including full text of modern U.S. newspaper obituaries.
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Tutorial
• Access: Library Card Required

Newspaper Archive

• Purpose: Access to papers in Kentucky, Ohio and the world. Every newspaper in Newspaper Archive is fully searchable by keyword, date, place, and title making it easy for you to quickly see if we have the article you’re seeking.
• Content: Access newspapers in Kentucky, Ohio and the world.
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

Newspapers.com World Edition

• Purpose: Search or browse the collection to find news, notices of births, marriages and deaths, sports, comics and much more. 
• Content:  Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 178 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 19,900+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. Newspapers provide a unique view of the past and can help us understand and connect with the people, events and attitudes of an earlier time.
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: Library Card Required

Northern Kentucky Newspaper Index 1900s Newspapers

• Purpose:  Find information on local people, places and events.
• Content:  Indexed Northern Kentucky Newspapers from 1900-1935 and 1982-Present.
• Age Level: Adult
  
• Access: Free Access – No Library Card Required

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps – Kentucky

• Purpose:  Search maps for the structures that existed 1867-1970
• Content: City maps of Kentucky.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps – Library of Congress

• Content: Color city maps of the United States.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: No Library Card Required