Updates to HeritageQuest

HeritageQuest just released a new user interface and added content. They've added lots of great research aids and made their census map collection easier to find.

HeritageQuest's census collection has been expanded with complete, indexed census records for each US Federal Census 1790-1940 and they've added all of the supplemental (veterans, slave, etc.) censuses too. It's also much easier to search these collections. Search options are now similar to Ancestry's.

HeritageQuest also has searchable Freedman's Bank records, Revolutionary War pensions, family and local histories, city directories, various federal government documents, and PERSI--an index of names and articles from hundreds of genealogy periodicals.

Best of all, HeritageQuest is available from home with your library card!

HeritageQuest

Learn how to use HeritageQuest on Tuesday, August 12 at 2 pm. HeritageQuest is a genealogy database that you can access from home with your library card. Register for the class here or call the Reference Desk at 847-729-7500.

African American Genealogy Resources

Search for your ancestors in Freedman's Bank (1865-1874), which was founded to serve African Americans.

The digital images of the bank applications show the applicant's signature, and lists their date of birth, birthplace, where they were brought up, residence, age, complexion, occupation, who they work for, and names of spouse, children, parents, and siblings.

The early books sometimes also contain the name of the former master or mistress and the name of the plantation. In many entries not all the requested data are given. Copies of death certificates have been pinned to some of the entries. In each case the certificate has been filmed immediately after the page that shows the registration of the person's signature.

Freedman's Bank (1865-1874) is part of the HeritageQuest Online database, which is on our Genealogy Database Page. Log in with your Glenview Library card number.

Periodical Source Index

The Periodical Source Index (PERSI) published by the Allen County Public Library, is recognized as the most comprehensive index of genealogy and local history periodicals published since 1800. PERSI contains more than 2.2 million articles from more than 6,600 journals. In December 2010, an additional 164,000 new article citations will be added to PERSI.

You can search by people, places, how-to's, and periodical titles.

Many of the articles can be found in the Lundberg Periodicals in the Genealogy Room.

Use PERSI at the Heritage Quest Online database, available on the Glenview Public Library genealogy database page. Login using your Glenview Public Library card number.