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1 Premium FH Websites Available now at your local FHC

2 How to Access: http://FHC.FamilySearch.org $$$ Available for free at the Family History Center $$$

3 Family Search Partners  Ancestry.com  Find My Past  My Heritage  American Ancestors

4 Premium Websites  19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archive  Access Newspaper Archive  Alexander Street Press, The American Civil War:  Research Database  Letters and Diaries  Images, Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera  Social and Cultural History  Women and Social Movements in the United States  ArkivDigital Online  Fold3.com  Historic Map Works (Library Edition)  Kinpoint (Premium)  Paper Trail  ProQuest Obituary Listings  Puzzilla.org (Premium Services)  World Vital Records

5 19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archive  British Library's newspaper holdings  48 national and regional Victorian British newspapers  19th century (1800 to 1900)  Fully searchable database  Helps in the study of colonial history, genealogical research, politics, urban studies, and media courses.

6 Access Newspaper Archive  World's largest online newspaper archive  Billions of articles from historical newspapers from around the world  Includes obituaries, birth announcements, sports articles, comics, etc.  Full-page and fully searchable

7 Alexander Street Press: The American Civil War  Research Data: Contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 17,000 photographs.  Letters and Diaries: Contains approximately 100,000 indexed pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs, including 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts  Images, Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera: Provides a vivid history of the American Civil War with over 1,400 images.  Social and Cultural History: Personal accounts of well-known historical figures.  Women and Social Movements in the United States: Organized around the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000 A.D.

8 ArkivDigital Online  Program installed on computers – on the desktop, open “Research Aids” and click on “ArkivDigital online”  Swedish church records, civil documents, military archives, hospital records, etc.

9 Fold3.com  Millions of historical documents and photos.  Collection of military records and stories.  Namesake: The Fold3 name reflects military history and honor, since traditionally, the third fold in a flag-folding ceremony honors and remembers veterans for their sacrifice in defending their country and promoting peace in the world.

10 Historic Map Works (Library Edition)  Digital map collections of the United States  Over 470,000 high-resolution, full color historic and antique maps  Most are cadastral (property and land ownership) maps illustrating the geographic and development history of the United States and also includes illustrations, city directories, etc.  Helps genealogists, historians, and academic researchers to track the "residential genealogy" of families and locations.

11 Kinpoint (Premium)  App for Family Tree  Helps you to see what work can be done  Find missing information in your family tree  Discover insights into the lives of your ancestors

12 Paper Trail  Provides access to 19th-century westward American migration documents

13 ProQuest Obituary Listings  Search obituaries and death notices  From multiple newspapers, including the New York Times (dating back to 1851)  Searched by name or by keywords appearing in the body of the article

14 Puzzilla.org (Premium Services)  App for Family Tree  Visualizes your Family Tree

15 World Vital Records  Records from all around the world  Birth, marriage, and death records  Social Security Death Index  Family trees  Census & immigration records  Court, land, and probate records  Military records directory lists  Newspapers, family histories, reference materials, biographies, wills, gravestone photos, ship manifests, map collections, yearbook collections ***All content has been added to MyHeritage.com (who purchased WVR).


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