Main Components of Ancestry Library Edition:

U. S. Federal Census 1790-1930 – includes census images and every name indexes.

U.K. & Ireland Census Collection - consists of name indexes and original images for 1871, 1891 and 1901.

Birth, Marriage, & Death Records - includes the popular Social Security Death Index; the England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales Parish and Probate Records (1500s-1837); the England and Wales Civil Registration Index (1837-Present); and many other sources from all over the U.S. including marriage and death indexes, church records, cemetery inscriptions, probate records and more.

Immigration Collection - original images of passenger and immigration lists from New York (1851-1891) and San Francisco (1893-1953), plus the New Orleans passenger lists (1820-1850), New York Petitions for Naturalization Index (1792-1906) and the Wuerttemberg Emigration Index as well as many other searchable abstracts and indexes relating to immigration.

Military Records Collection - features the World War I Draft Registration Cards with original images, the Civil War Service Records, the World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas and about 100 other U. S. military related databases.

Biography and History Collection - contains the 200-volume American Genealogical-Biographical Index, the Federal Writers Project Slave Narratives, the Dawes Commission Index (1898-1914), the Daughters of American Revolution Lineage Books and hundreds of other U. S. and U. K. biographical databases.

Other Collections - include such sought-after sources as court, land and probate records, family trees and message boards, directories and member lists, charts and forms, historical maps and more!

Ancestry Library Edition is available in-house at all of the Wayne County Public Library branches. Click on the link below for access or ask a Reference Staff member if you need more information.