Databases

Discover your family history and start your family tree.

This database may only be accessed inside the library.

Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.

Access US military records including stories, photos, and personal documents.

Discover digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy and Local History book collection.

Provides comprehensive coverage of obituaries and death notices from 1704 through today.

Search newspaper archives for Obituary, Birth Records, Death Records.

Search Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier content from 2001 to present.