Genealogy Databases

Most of these databases can be accessed from home using your Glenview Public Library card number as username. A few are available only inside the library and are marked appropriately.

Databases:   By Subject     By Title               E-Journal Portal

	Ancestry Library Edition (Available in library only) Genealogy and local history research: digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward,  Passenger and Immigration Lists Index.
	Heritage Quest Research materials for tracing family history and American culture for beginning or professional genealogists.
	Chicago Tribune Archive Useful for finding obituaries and news stories from 1849-1984.
	Newsbank: America's Newspapers The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers including: the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Herald, the Glenview Announcements, the New York Times, major metro Newspapers, and local newspapers throughout Illinois.
	OCLC FirstSearch Find genealogy books at other libraries around the country and the world.
	Proquest Contains newspaper articles from The Chicago Tribune (1985-present), The Chicago Sun Times, The Daily Herald, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and several other Midwest regional newspapers, and includes obituaries.
	ReferenceUSA An online telephone directory database used for residential and business listings nationwide.
	Biography Resource Center The Biography Resource Center combines biographies from over 130 sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text biographical articles from more than 265 magazines.
	Biography and Genealogy Master Index Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes biographical dictionaries and who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and literary criticism. It also acts as an index to other indexes. BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual.