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101 Best Family History Web Sites
By Melanie Rigney
Libraries and Research Facilities
www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp www.newberry.org www.americanantiquarian.org lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html www.acpl.lib.in.us www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Search here to find the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Family History Center nearest you, including street address and phone number.
The Newberry Library, one of the nation's preeminent humanities research libraries, hasn't put its special genealogical collections online. But you can learn about becoming one of the library's Friends of Genealogy, check out its holdings for the next time you get to Chicago, and browse a dandy set of links.
The American Antiquarian Society research library's collections focus on US life from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Worchester, Mass., library's holdings-including genealogies, local histories, books and pamphlets-aren't searchable online, but the site gives you a good idea of what you'll find when you get there.
The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections is a Library of Congress cooperative cataloging program. NUCMC catalogers place the records in a national-level database available to researchers worldwide. To qualify, the repositories must admit researchers but lack the capability of entering the manuscripts themselves into a national database.
The Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Ind., was the birthplace of the Periodical Source Index, or PERSI, the world's largest subject index for genealogical and historical periodical articles dating to the 18th century. While there are other places to access PERSI these days, the library's Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department still is an important locale for genealogists, with more than 220,000 printed volumes and 251,000 items of microfilm and microfiche.
This amazing site from Bucknell University links to more than 1,000 dictionaries in 200 languages. Helpful if you're trying to decipher records from another country. (What does viuva mean on your Portuguese great-grandmother's ship records, for example?)
Melanie Rigney is the editor of Writer's Digest magazine www.writersdigest.com and a long-time family history researcher.
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