America’s GenealogyBank:

The Tour
Resources You'll Find Nowhere Else!
American Library Association
June 2008
 So – What is in
America’s GenealogyBank?
– Over 1 Billion names
– Over 2,300 newspapers
• All 50 States; 1690 to today
– Over 150,000 rare books & documents
– Over 112 million obituaries & death
records
Eastern Argus
Maine: 1828-08-19 – Page 3
Baltimore Sun 28 Jan 1895
 Details of Passenger Arrivals
• Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer
Duluth (MN) News Tribune
• 13 May 1902
18 July 1906
Family Reunions

Dallas Morning News Tacoma Daily News

31 Aug 1931 10 Aug 1894
In memory of Solomon Snow … who was drowned
in crossing the Kennebec River from Swan Island
to Bowdoinham, August 11, 1811.

Solomon Snow is not in the published Snow genealogy;

not in the census – this might be the only record of him.
Looking for information
on Rachel (Bittinger) Platter
of Garrett County, MD

Details like this are not in

the census; not in the published
family history.
Quickly locate obscure documents
like this list of US prisoners in
Algiers in 1791 ….

Prisoners at Algiers. Letter in relation to

the prisoners at Algiers, communicated to the
Senate, 21st January, 1791, by the Secretary of
1st Congress, 3rd Session. Publication No. 48
Death Certificates give the facts obituaries give the details.

Philadelphia Inquirer (21 April 1905)

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Obituaries routinely published
in government reports.
Obituaries In Report of the
Convention of American Instructors
of the Deaf
Proceedings of the twenty-first meeting of the Convention of American
Instructors of the Deaf. Held at Hartford, Conn., June 29 to July 4, 1917.
January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.
Date: 1918-01-30; U.S. Congress. Senate
Serial Set Vol. No. 7320, Session Vol. No.10
65th Congress, 2nd Session
S.Doc. 172
America’s GenealogyBank?
– Over 1 Billion names
– Over 2,300 newspapers
• All 50 States; 1690 to today
– Over 150,000 rare books & documents
– Over 112 million obituaries & death
records