Research Databases
Research your genealogy and local history with these databases.
America’s Obituaries and Death Notices
- Purpose: Find obituaries and death notices from across America.
- Content: NewsBank’s large and comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from around the United States.
- Age Level: Adult
- Access: Library Card Required
- Help: Niche Academy Tutorial
Ancestry Library Edition
- Purpose: Find your family history using Ancestry.
- Content: Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Records
- Age Level: Adult
- Help: Learning Center
- Access: Only available inside the Library.
Only available at Kenton County Public Library
Family Search
- Purpose: Discover your family history
- Content: Access the records of billions of names including birth, marriage and death records.
- Age Level: 12 – adult
- Help: FAQs
- Access: No Library Card Required
FindMyPast
- Purpose: Genealogy information from Great Britain & Ireland.
- Content: Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Records
- Age Level: Adult
- Help: Learning Center
- Access: Only available inside the Library.
Only available at Kenton County Public Library
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- Purpose: Research family members who have served in the military or find out historical information about people in the military.
- Content: US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.
- Age Level: 12 – adult
- Help: General Help Page
- Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library
German Catholic Church Records – Matricula
- Purpose: Find German ancestors in German records.
- Content: Church registers (mostly books of birth, marriage and death) from various European countries (currently Austria, Germany, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia). These records are not indexed and you need to know the village.
- Age Level: Adult
- Access: No library card required.
Heritage Quest Online
- Purpose: Find family history information.
- Content: Census, books, Freedman’s Bank PERSI and the US Serial Set
- Age Level: Adult
- Help: Research Aids
- Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library
MyHeritage Library Edition
- Purpose: MyHeritage Library Edition (Formerly WorldVitalRecords) is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind. Access billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and other resources in thousands of databases that span the past five centuries.
- Content: Access key collections: U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1940; military records; birth, marriage and death records; enhanced Social Security Death Index (SSDI) records; one billion newspaper articles, including full text of modern U.S. newspaper obituaries.
- Age Level: Adult
- Help: Tutorial
- Access: Library Card Required
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps – Library of Congress
- Content: Color city maps of the United States.
- Age Level: 12-Adult
- Help: General Help Page
- Access: No Library Card Required
Kentucky Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
- Purpose: Search maps for the structures that existed 1867-1970
- Content: City maps of Kentucky.
- Age Level: 12-Adult
- Help: General Help Page
- Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library
