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Ancestry Library Edition

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Ancestry Library Edition is available for you free on People's Network computers in Sefton’s libraries.
 
You can trace your family history using Sefton Libraries' subscription to Ancestry Library Edition.

It’s simple to use this resource:
  • come into any Sefton library, log on to a People's Network computer and navigate to this Ancestry Library Edition page
  • the direct link - Ancestry Library Edition - will then take you straight to the external databank's home page
  • just type in your ancestor's name and any other details you know, such as when and where born, or when married

The resource includes plenty of search tips and 'help' pages.

Your search can include: Cresswell Close Netherton 1960s

  • censuses for England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, 1841-1901
  • England and Wales Civil Registration Index (1837-1983) for births, deaths and marriages - plus more recent specific indexes
  • UK and Ireland parish and probate records (1500s-1837)
  • a variety of American and other foreign material including directories, Federal Census, convict index, Railway Gazette data and immigration/naturalisation lists.
 
This is a special version, for public libraries, of the "Ancestry" subscription web site. We subscribe so you don't have to!

Reference Online

 
Visit Reference Online to find out about other websites that the library service subscribes to, and that you can access free. For example, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a great source of information on people's lives. You can even access some Reference Online sites at home, using your Sefton Libraries ticket number.
 
Last Updated on 1/18/2010