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Archives Unbound Library Card Required.

  • Purpose: Access historical documents to support your research in history, anthropology and more.
  • Content:   
    • Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia
    • County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Ohio
    • Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
    • County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Indiana
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Help: General Help Page /
  • Access: Library Card Required

Black Newspaper Collection – Historical Newspapers Library Card Required.

  • Purpose: This historical newspaper collection provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
  • Content:  Atlanta Daily World, The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, Louisville Defender, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier 
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Help: General Help Page
  • Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project

  • Purpose: Read first person oral histories and learn about the historical importance of the narrative.
  • Content: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Access: No Library Card Required

Chicago Defender Newspapers Library Card Required.

  • Purpose: This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
  • Content:    
    • Historical local, regional and national news
    • Multidisciplinary
    • Coverage: 1909 – 1975
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Access: Library Card Required

Cincinnati Newspaper Index Newspapers

  • Purpose:  Find information on local events and people.
  • Content:  An Index to Local News compiled by The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Access: No Library Card Required

Cincinnati Post – Proquest Ohio Collection Newspapers Library Card Required.

  • Purpose:  Find information on your neighborhood, relatives or just learn about the history the Cincinnati area from the Cincinnati Post.
  • Content:
    The Cincinnati Post (1890-1958)
    The Cincinnati Post (1974-2007)
    The Cincinnati Post and Cincinnati Times - Star (1958)
    The Cincinnati Post and Times Star (1958-1973)
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Help: General Help Page
  • Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

Digital Public Library of America

  • Purpose:  Search library and museum collections from across the country.
  • Content:  Millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Access: No Library Card Required

Faces & Places – Northern Kentucky Photographic Archives

  • Purpose:  Find photos of your neighborhood, family and more in this collection of photographs.
  • Content:  Over 100,000 photographs of the people and places of Northern Kentucky. 
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Access: No Library Card Required

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. 
Available for in-library use only

Fold3 Library Card Required.

  • 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

geNKY – Northern Kentucky Genealogy Database

  • Purpose: Family and local history research
  • Content: Local church records, Civil War Veterans Burial List, Yearbooks, Birth, Estate records and much more.  This data has been complied and digitized by the Library and is not available elsewhere.
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Help: Database Descriptions
  • Access: No Library Card Required

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.

Greater Cincinnati Memory Project

  • Purpose: Find interesting photos from around the area.
  • Content: A collection of photos from around the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area.
  • Age Level: 7-adult
  • Access: No Library Card Required

HeritageQuest Online Library Card Required.

  • Purpose: Find family history information at HeritageQuest.
  • 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

Historical Newspaper – United States

  • Purpose: Learn about the history of the United States
  • Content: Full text articles and obituaries for the United States.
  • Age Level: 13-Adult
  • Help: General Help Page
  • Access: Library Card Required

Kentucky Post 1895-1959 Newspapers Library Card Required.

  • Purpose: Explore the Kentucky and Cincinnati Post to find historical information about the area.
  • Content: Full-text articles from the Cincinnati and KY Post.  There is also access to The Lexington Herald-Leader and the Dayton Daily News (1990-Current).  Kentucky Post Historical Access: 1895 - 1959 and 1962.
  • Age Level: 12-Adult
  • Help: Help Documentation
  • Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library
  • Newsbank

Kentucky Post 1996-2007 Newspapers Library Card Required.

  • Purpose: Explore the Kentucky Post to find historical information about the area.
  • Content: Full-text articles from 1996-2007 from the KY Post.  
  • Age Level: 12-Adult
  • Help: Gale
  • Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

MyHeritage Library Edition Library Card Required.

  • 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

Newspaper Archive Library Card Required.

  • Purpose: Access to papers in Kentucky, Ohio and the world. Every newspaper in Newspaper Archive is fully searchable by keyword, date, place, and title making it easy for you to quickly see if we have the article you’re seeking.
  • Content: Access newspapers in Kentucky, Ohio and the world.
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Help: Help Page
  • Access: Library Card Required

Northern Kentucky Newspaper Index 1900s Newspapers

  • Purpose:  Find information on local people, places and events.
  • Content:  Indexed Northern Kentucky Newspapers from 1900-1935 and 1982-Present.
  • Age Level: Adult
  • Access: Free Access – No Library Card Required
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