Use our free online resources for consumer research, genealogical research, newspaper reading and more.





*The following resources are only available in our library branches through desktop computers provided by our library or your own personal laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. (Remote access is not supported.)
A collection of thousands of individual genealogy databases from many different institutions. It includes American, Canadian and U.K. sources as well as some for Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Canadian coverage includes major sources such as the censuses from 1851 to 1916, Ontario civil registration of births, marriages and deaths, and the Quebec Drouin Collection (courthouse copies of parish registers). German records include passenger lists for many people leaving Eastern Europe. New databases are constantly being added. Many of the sources are digitized. Bring a USB flash drive to download your records.
Discover your family’s story through historical records. FamilySearch adds over 300 million free genealogical records and images online yearly from all over the world and manages the famous Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It has amassed billions of birth, marriage, death, census, land and court records from more than 130 countries to help you discover and make family connections.


















FAQs
I want to access a database from home but it is asking for my patron ID, what is that?
Your patron ID is the full number located on the front of your library card.
Why can’t I access Ancestry from home?
Ancestry Library Edition is a database that is only accessible from inside the library using one of our computers, or using your own computer or device that is connected to our WiFi. These parameters are set by the database provider, not the library.