ProQuest has partnered with Ancestry.com to create Ancestry Library Edition, which is similar (but not identical) to the consumer version. Ancestry Library Edition is a research tool offering comprehensive international genealogical information, with more than 5 billion names in thousands of collections.
MyHeritage Library Edition is the industry's most multilingual family history research database, available in 42 languages. It includes billions of historical documents from 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources that span the past five centuries.
New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is America’s founding genealogical organization and the most respected name in family history. Established in 1845, NEHGS is the nation’s leading comprehensive resource for family history research and the largest Society of its kind in the world
Finding your British Isles ancestors can be difficult. With Findmypast, you get the complete British and Irish family history experience, to connect you with your ancestors and bring your story to life.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Search newspaper content from the ninteenth century, featuring a range of urban and rural regions throughout the United States.
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.
HistoryGeo is a family history website providing online genealogy software tools allowing you to search original land records and old maps
NewsBank is a news database resource which provides archives of media publications as reference materials for a wide variety of subjects. Click here to access from outside the library.
Fold3 is the web's premier collection of original US military records, including many from the US National Archives.
Click here to access from outside the library.
ProQuest offers Historical Newspapers: Florida Collection and Recent Newspapers: Florida Collection for our patrons to browse.
British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. With more than 160 newspaper titles, the series is comprised of approximately 5.5 million pages of historic content, from articles to advertisements.
Find historical newspapers from across the United States and beyond. Explore newspaper articles and clippings for help with genealogy, history and other research
Click here to access from outside the library.Cemeteries
Indian River Genealogical Society has created a website that is searchable by surname for cemeteries in Indian River County
Searchable by state/county
Cemetery Records Online US-Europe-other Countries
Free database- world's largest gravesite collection
Search by name for local obituaries
Search by name for local obituaries
Foreign Countries
British History Online (BHO) is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland. The primary focus is between 1300 and 1800. Some information is fee based.
Family History Index
Europeana is a well versed website with digitized images of places and people in European countries. This website is free to view and has a search capability.
Military
This website goes into detail about the events of the Civil War and different battles by location.
Timeline of the Civil War and Events (includes some photos).
Free Civil War database (Soldiers, Sailors, Regiments, Cemeteries, Battles, Prisoners, Medals of Honor, Monuments)
Revolutionary War thru Ready Reserve Ships tp Iraq (2003)
Military Cemeteries and Memorials- searchable by location/war/soldier
This is a reference site to research military citation protocol, award recipients bios, stories of real heroes and military history. Here you will find detailed information regarding the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Silver Star, Heroes Stories, Medals and Awards, and Flag of Freedom. The website content is updated with recipients when additional citations are received and confirmed.
The Hall of Valor is a public database of American military award citations, collected by Doug Sterner, a Vietnam veteran and Military Times contributing editor. All recipients in the database are verified by source material such as official award citations, narratives and/or synopses from individuals or records from the National Archives. The Hall of Valor Project is ongoing.
Newspapers and Periodicals
This website has part of the Florida Anthropologist digitized and free to use. Check out the Indian River County Main Library for missing volumes.
This website has part of The Florida Historical Quarterly digitized and free to use. Check out the Indian River County Main Library for missing volumes.
Free website spans more than NY
A historical archive of Virginia newspapers, providing free access to full text searching and digitized images of over a million newspaper pages. This collection contains 186,530 issues comprising 1,391,221 pages and 183,885 articles.
Ship Passenger Lists
Pilgrim Ship Lists Early 1600s. This free database has over 7100 families and 290 ships.
This website can help you research specific ships, help identify which books, journals, websites, databases, etc., mention the ships. Some of the searches have illustrations, passenger or crew lists, and some have links to online resources. The database could lead to a passenger list for the vessel your ancestor emigrated on, or a history of a vessel for someone who served in the military. There are about 150,000 citations that are free, then the full database, with over 3.5 million citations, is available by subscription.
Must have a Family Search account
Must have a Family Search account
Must have a Family Search account
Vol. 1-17; searchable by name
Must have a Family Search account
Must have a Family Search account
Must have a Family Search account
One of the Ports of Entry into the US from 1892-1954
One of the Ports of Entry into the US from 1830-1892
Specific Cultures
Research your Italian lineage at this free website. Available in English.
Must have a JewishGen account to view records
Searachable database for the New York area
African American records in various states
Websites of Interest
A free narrative of biographical genealogies of the major noble families that ruled Europe, North Africa and Western Asia between the 5th and 15th centuries.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has digitized many microfilms/fiche and books. Look for your pioneer ancestor between the time frame of 1847-1868 through this free database.
Free searchable photo database. This website is continuously adding new photographs.
Access Genealogy is a free genealogy resources with multiple databases including: Black genealogy, cemetery records, census records, Military records, Native American records, vital records and more!
Blogs and articles regarding different websites
Search for ancestors and locate your family surnames in free genealogy databases
Searchable database for meanings of old occupations
Land patents, survey plats, land status records, etc.
Searchable database
Links to online census data for most states, tax lists, millitary rosters
Cenus maps and more
Records request for military service, census records, many other records
This webpage has newspaper articles about train wrecks, fires, floods, shipwrecks, plane crashes, accidents, etc. Most of the articles have names of the individuals involved in the story. This webpage is searchable.
HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving millions of items through digitization.
Historic Preservation Specialist, Anna Brady, created this webpage. Many historic photos of properties of the Osceola Park area can be viewed on this site.
Harvard Digital Collections provides free, public access to millions of items digitized from their collections.
The Indian River County Historical Society, Inc., established in 1983, is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization. Our mission statement: to save, preserve, and restore the historical and environmental resources of Indian River County. In order to accomplish this, the Society works with state and local governments, foundations, and citizens to raise monies for the historical preservation projects and educational programs.
Description: The museum is located in the restored Old Macedonia Colored Church (1908). It serves as a cultural center for the community. It houses permanent collections and special exhibitions which include: local artists, such as the Florida Highwaymen, A Black History Library, African artifacts, in addition to documents, photographs, and ephemera from Gifford Pioneers and Notables.
Access Genealogy
Digitized Newspapers
Family Search is one of the largest repositories for genealogical data. It is a free site but you must have an account with them.
A free, online genealogy and family history guide that lists websites, provides research strategies, and suggests records to help you find ancestors from all over the world
Records request for military service, census records, many other records
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