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Genealogy Resources

Genealogy Resources

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List updated 7-08

Books

  • Adams County, 1872–1972 by Dorothy Weyer Creigh
  • Creating an heirloom: writing your family's cookbook by Wendy B. Whipple
  • Digitizing your family history by Rhonda McClure
  • Family tree problem solver by Marsha Hoffman Rising
  • Finding your family on the Internet by Michael Otterson
  • Genealolgical research on the Web by Diane Kovacs
  • The handybook for genealogists: United States of America by George B. Everton
  • Hastings City Directories, 1888–current
  • In search of your German roots by Angus Baxter
  • Keeping family stories alive: a creative guide to taping your family life and lore by Vera Rosenbluth
  • Organizing and preserving your heirloom documents by Katherine Scott Sturdevant
  • Past and present of Adams County, Nebraska by William R. Burton
  • The source: a guidebook to American genealogy by Loretto Dennis Szucs
  • Uncovering your ancestry through family photographs by Maureen Alice Taylor
  • Unpuzzling your past: a basic guide to genealogy by Emily Anne Croom
  • Virtual roots 2.0 by Thomas Jay Kemp

Magazine

  • Family Chronicle: The magazine for families researching their roots

Microfilm & Newspapers

  • Hastings Tribune, 1905–present
  • Nebraska Census of Population, 1900–1930

Subscription Databases

  • HeritageQuest Online

    Subscription database includes over 25,000 family and local history books and the complete U.S. Federal Census 1790–1930. This collection assembles genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials. HeritageQuest Online includes over 25,000 family and local history books and the complete US Federal Census 1790-1930. You may log on to HeritageQuest Online at NebraskAccess. (Password required.)
  • Ancestry.com

    Explore genealogy, family trees, and family history records online, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. (This subscription database is for use only at the library.)
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More online resourcesSee our Links page for more genealogy resources.

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