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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 1, 2008
Contact:
, Austin Public Library, (512) 974-7528
Fax: (512) 974-7442
Trace Your Family Tree with the Ancestry Library and HeritageQuest Online
Databases at the Austin Public Library!
www.cityofaustin.org/library/databases.htm
Ancestry Library Edition includes more than four billion names in over 4,000 databases. Special collections include U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from1790 to 1930 and a Map Center with more than 1,000 historical maps. Military records, court, land, and probate records, birth, death, and church records, directories, and passenger lists are also searchable. Standard sources such as American Genealogical Biographical Index, Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630, Social Security Death Index (updated monthly), WWI Draft Registration Cards, Federal Slave Narratives, and a strong Civil War collection are all part of the database. Ancestry Library Edition updates continually, with more indexes and original images added all the time.
Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled. HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. Federal Censuses. It offers more than 22,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and Periodical Source Index (PERSI), a subject index to genealogy and local history periodicals. The database also includes selected records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, the records of the Freedman’s Bank (1865 – 1874) which was founded to serve African Americans, and memorials, petitions, and private relief actions of the U.S. Congress from the U.S. Serial Set.
Both databases are available for anyone to search at any Austin Public Library location. HeritageQuest Online is also available for searching from your home or office with an Austin Public Library Card.
To find out more call 974-7400 or stop by any Library location and ask a librarian for more information.
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