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Category: Genealogy

JULY 5, 2011

New Online Resources @ Wright Library

New resources have been added to Wright Library's online offerings. Areas covered are genealogy, literary criticism, and early childhood learning. Ancestry Library Edition can only be used in the library and is available on our public computers. All other resources are available all day every day from any Internet-connected computer. The only other thing you need is your library card number.

Ancestry Library Edition - This resource, powered by the popular Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. The U.S. collections include federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records. Other collections include Canadian collections, U.K. collections, other international collections, military collections, and multimedia collections. This resource can only be accessed from within the library from our public computers.

Biography in Context - Built on a foundation of more than 600,000 biographies drawn from numerous authoritative sources, this resource brings users faceto-face with their subjects via text, video, audio clips and images of yesterday and today’s most-studied figures.

Literary Criticism Online - This database provides digital access to multiple popular literary criticism series, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography (Main, Documentary, and Yearbook series), Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism. This resource is excellent for students and researchers.

Novels and Short Stories for Students - Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of works from various cultures and time periods. Short Stories for Students contains concise synopses of the story's plot, characters and themes, along with a brief author biography, a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance and excerpted criticism geared specifically towards the high school student. (From the Gale Virtual Reference Library)

World Book Early World of Learning - Three interactive learning environments for preschoolers and children in early grades are included in this resource. "Trek's Travels" offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colors, opposites, and more. "Welcome to Reading" develops and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension skills. "Know It" offers a richly visual first encyclopedia.

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Categories: Featured Resource, Genealogy, Literature

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JULY 1, 2009

Trace Your Heritage

HeritageQuest Online™ is a great online resource for genealogical research. It combines digital, searchable images of U.S.federal census records (1790 - 1930) with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content.

This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more. Access is also available to the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, and the Freedman's Bank Records.

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Categories: Featured Resource, History, Genealogy

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