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BIOGRAPHY & GENEALOGY

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Ancestry Library (ProQuest) Resources for genealogical and historical research, with more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, including U.S. Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, more. Updated daily.  Details (at SDPL Locations only)

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) Indexes biographical information on multiple persons from print source, also acts as an index to other indexes. More than 13.6 million biographical entries. Details

Biography Reference Center (EBSCOhost) Offers a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 27v, 2008



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