Your Gateway to Genealogy & History
Genealogy, History, & Antique Maps
Welcome to The Genealogical Research Library website. Members of our library website have the following benefits, instantly available:
Access to 250,000 research resources in more than 150 countries.
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Databases and Lists
For 30 years our library has been building databases. While building our own databases over the years, we also discovered databases and valuable lists on websites other than our own. We realized that many of them were very worthwhile. That's why all of them, as well as our own resources, are plugged into our "switchboard databank". Every researcher eventually learns this truth: there is no one website that has everything. So we include others as well as our own, and we give credit where credit is due.
Electronic Books, or eBooks.
In a nutshell, eBooks are electronic copies of real physical books. Long ago, we created several such electronic books and placed them on the internet, before the word "eBook" was publicly known. Then, as eBooks evolved in different countries, we scoured the world to locate the most useful eBooks for the subjects of Genealogy and History. Once new books are located, we rate each eBook on a 5-star system: 5 stars being of the highest value to researchers, and 1 star being the lowest value, but still necessary to include for occasional use. Once rated, we describe the book or provide it's title, and then organize it geographically so you can everything you need quickly.
An eBook has many advantages over an actual physical book. You can enlarge the type-size or font to whatever size is easy for you to read. You can read a 500-year old book and you don't have to worry about it falling to pieces. Here's one of the best features about eBooks: more than half of them can be searched in a matter of seconds, for any name you seek. Even if a particular eBook has a thousand pages, it can be searched in seconds. More benefits? You can also save any pages you want, on your own computer, and print them out, or even make them part of a book you're writing.
Now we have about 200,000 eBooks plugged into our ever-growing switchboard database, along with several thousands databases. We organize them for you by country, by province, state, region, or district, and even by county in several countries. Your desktop computer, laptop, or tablet can read these books perfectly. You don't need an eBook reader, but if you already have one many eBook formats are available here.
Our library website is the perfect place to experience eBooks. When you join our online library, remember this: what would have cost millions of dollars as original books, are all at your fingertips when you search. We also have included resources such as dictionaries and encyclopedias in many languages, and in different centuries. We have grammar books, lexicons, and multiple-language dictionaries. Now you can translate difficult words from the past, or learn a new language. eBooks are the greatest scientific advance in research today.
Antique Maps
Whether your interest is genealogy, history, local history, or geography, maps are a necessity. We have thousands of maps, and each month we are adding more. We specialize in maps for each century of time, going back as far as 7 centuries ago If you join our library as an annual member, you can request any map you wish, and if we have it ready for scanning, we will try and get it online for you as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, we have a few thousand maps plugged into our switchboard now, that can be viewed instantly. What is a family history, without a map for the right time period? What is a local history without maps? All of our library members can download maps without charge.
A word about the 1940 Census
We've found a way of reducing the search time by 66-75% for document images of your ancestors and family members. If you are a member of our database website, after logging in, be sure to read the first few lines under the "Instructions" page which appears just before the Main Listings.
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