The McCreary County Public Library and the McCreary County Historical & Genealogical Society have joined together to provide two valuable resources to make tracing your family tree easier.
Online Newspaper Database (McCreary County Record)
We have the McCreary County Record available online, including every issue from 1953 to 2015 and partial papers and articles dating back to the 1920s. Just visit the link:
http://mccreary.advantage-preservation.com
You can browse and search by keyword, first and last name, publication, dates and more. Newspaper images can be printed or saved as PDF files.
Heritage Quest
HeritageQuest provides complete US Federal Census information from 1790-1930, as well as a genealogy and local history collection of 25,000+ family and local history books.
This database can be accessed from any computer with internet access. Contact us for a password to get started today!
Ancestry.com
The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 7,000 databases, including key collections such as U.S. federal census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200 volumes), Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes), The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630, Social Security Death Index, WWI Draft Registration Cards, Federal Slave Narratives, and a strong Civil War collection.
It also includes helpful tools like charts, summaries, calendars and family trees, as well as a learning center to help teach users how to begin a family tree, learn how to use historical records, connect with other researchers and find answers to tough research questions.
Note: this database is accessible only from the Library computers. Please come in anytime during our business hours to access this database. If you are in the library now, click on the link below to access Ancestry.com.
The following are links to other websites that may assist you in your genealogical research:
Other Genealogy Search Sites |