Los Angeles Regional Family History Center
Online Databases
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Los Angeles Regional Family History Center Online Databases
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The new online databases, services and websites below are now available free at the LARFHC.
You must use one of the computers at the LARFHC and the icon
"FHC Online Portal Services" that has 2 persons and a key on one of the monitors.
The icon will take you to a PAGE with the online database links.
Suggest that you review each website before coming to the LARFHC to conduct your research.Ancestry www.ancestry.com
The king ANCESTRY.COM IS BACK at the LARFHC and better than ever! On all the computers using the icon above. See more information.
Heritage Quest/ProQuest www.heritagequestonline.com
Heritage Quest has been at the LARFHC for a few months. See more information about Heritage Quest at http://www.larfhc.org/hqresearch.htm
You can use Heritage Quest at home if you have LA CITY Public Library card at http://search2.webfeat.org/la.html Enter your card number, Submit, click on "H" database and find Heritage Quest and finally click on Heritage Quest link.
You can also use Heritage Quest at home if you have LA COUNTY Public Library card at http://colapublib.org/periodicals/ Look under "Reference" to find and click on "Heritage Quest". Enter your 13 digit (no spaces) card number and proceed.Heritage Quest online includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many of the sets. Users will be able to find people and places located in over 20,000 published family and local histories and PERSI, an index of over 1.9 million genealogy and local history articles. Other online databases include Revolutionary War Pension, Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, and the Freedman Bank Records.
Footnote www.footnote.com
Footnote is a subscription-based website that features searchable, original documents that provide users a view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. The site will have over 25 million digital images by the end of 2007. Footnote is currently working with FamilySearch to index the American Revolutionary War Pension files. Additional projects with FamilySearch are under development.
Individuals with Footnote subscriptions will be able to sign in with the same Footnote username and password they use at home in order to save, annotate, and upload content.
Godfrey Memorial Library www.godfrey.org
Godfrey Memorial Library has an extensive collection of essential resources to assist genealogical and historical research. Resources include newspapers, city and business directories, vital records, printed census records, state, county, and local histories, as well as numerous family histories, family bible records, and service and pension records.
World Vital Records www.worldvitalrecords.com
World Vital Records provides access to research helps and has a wide variety of international records, including more than 60 parish registers, Scottish death records, UK marriages, and Irish prisoner records. There are more than 300 newspapers with 100,000 pages added a month, and over 500 online databases, including vital, military, land, pension records, reference materials, family histories, maps, gazetteers, and international coops. With the recent Quintin Publications partnership, World Vital Records will soon have more than 10,000 databases online. At least one new database is added every business day.
FamilyLink www.familylink.com
FamilyLink: New Genealogy Collaboration Web Site Rapidly 'Links' People at a Whole New Level
FamilyLink, the newest social genealogy networking Web site created to rapidly link people across the world.... With FamilyLink, geographic and language barriers are minimized to improve genealogy research.
"The recent surge in social networking sites demonstrates the need for people to connect around diverse types of interests," said Michael Tanne, Founder and CEO of Wink, a People Search Engine. FamilyLink provides a perfect venue for families, genealogists and family historians to share their common interests and heritage as they connect with one another and upload their photos, family tree, and family history."
FamilyLink has been created to facilitate genealogists in working together in ways that have never been attempted before in the genealogy world with a tool that is easy to use and understand.
"For the first time ever, if I'm looking for an ancestor in a particular part of the world, I'll be a click away from the expert researchers who live there, and from others who have done research there,"....
FamilyLink users can view the profiles of other individuals, communicate with individuals who have researched or are currently researching in their area of interest through the City Link feature, meet new individuals who also participate in the service, share photos, genealogical information and post comments.
Additional features include a news feed system, Ancestor Pages, announcements pages, email features, shared connections between WorldVitalRecords.com and FamilyLink.com, and will soon include a family tree.
In the past, genealogists were able to make connections with other genealogists. However to do so required a lot of time, and effort, two scarce resources for genealogists. FamilyLink is a tool that connects people in such a way that it makes everyone and everything more efficient, and will become even better as people join the site.
Coming Soon
Genline www.genline.com Coming about 18 January.
Swedish Church Records Online. The online website contains church records from the 16th-20th century for research in Swedish genealogy. Search your Swedish ancestry in millions of pages of original Swedish Church Records with Genline FamilyFinder.
Kindred Konnections www.kindredkonnections.com
Kindred Konnections has over 230 million pedigree linked names with submitter information. The online pedigrees are not merged, but maintained by individual patrons. There are additional databases of birth, marriage, death, and census records that are automatically searched along with the pedigree linked data. Segments of pedigrees can be downloaded.
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