Ancestry Library Edition

Connect to Ancestry (in library only)

Video: searching in the Family History Library edition of Ancestry (most search features are identical in our subscription to the Library edition)

Ancestry Library Edition provides resources for genealogical and historical research. Ancestry includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more. Significant resources in Ancestry include:

• U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930
  Complete images, many every-name census indexes
  
• UK Census Collection, 1861-1901
  Census data and images
  
• US Immigration Collection
  Ship’s logs and passenger indexes, linked to images of original documents
  
• Vital Records and Social Security Death Index
  Birth, marriage, and death records
  
• Military Collection
  WW I draft registration cards—98% of males under 46 in 1917-18; Civil War, WW II, Korean War records
  
• Reference Collection
  Search major genealogy reference books; browse over 700 historic and modern maps
• Reference Collection
  Search major genealogy reference books; browse over 700 historic and modern maps

Ancestry is divided into several thousand separate databases. Two recommended ways to get started with Ancestry:

1. Click the All Databases link at the bottom of the Ancestry home page. Then, type in a search in the Keyword(s) box. You can use searches such as:
   • Revolutionary war
   • Texas census
   • Massachusetts

   OR

2. Click the Search option next to the green Home label at the top of the Ancestry home page. Then, select from the list on the right side of the page. The list includes types of resources such as:
   • Birth, marriage, and death records
   • Passenger lists
   • Family trees and message boards with information and questions from other Ancestry users

Connect to Ancestry

Ancestry Library Edition is only available inside Sonoma County Library. It is not available from home.

If you have a laptop that you can connect to our wi-fi Internet access, you can use it to reach Ancestry in the library. 

We also offer HeritageQuest both inside the Library and from home.

Main Genealogy page