Ancestry.com
Discover your family history and start your family tree.
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Databases
Enslaved
Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.
Fold3
Access US military records including stories, photos, and personal documents.
Heritage Quest
Discover digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy and Local History book collection.
HeritageHub
Provides comprehensive coverage of obituaries and death notices from 1704 through today.
Newspaper Archive
Search newspaper archives for Obituary, Birth Records, Death Records. Courier records available from 1859-1964.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier Archives
Search Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier content from 2001 to present.