BYU-Pathway Library: FHGEN 411 Research Methodology: Genealogical Databases

Genealogical Databases

Family History Online Searching
Newspaper Databases

Fold3
Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and documents of the men and women who served.

Mountain West Digital Library
A central search portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region. Consists of free access to nearly 1 million resources in over 350 collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government entities in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, Hawaii, and other parts of the U.S. West.
FamilySearch
Search for your ancestors and preserve and bring their stories to life in this genealogy database provided by the LDS Church.
Ancestry
Billions of historical records, millions of family trees, and the AncestryDNA database for genealogical research.

British Library Newspapers
A collection of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century Britain.
Nineteenth Century US Newspapers
Full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. during the 1800s.
Historical Newspapers
Search archives of several US newspapers individually or together, including Chicago Tribune, NYT, and WSJ, plus the Toronto Star (coverage years vary).
Historical newspaper content is among researchers’ most sought-after primary source material.
BYU-Idaho's ProQuest Historical Newspapers access includes the archives of:
- Austin American/Daily/Democratic/Evening Statesman 1880-1980
- Atlanta Constitution/Daily Constitution 1869-1984
- [Baltimore] Sun 1837-
- Boston Globe/Boston Daily Globe 1872-
- Chicago Tribune/Chicago Daily Tribune 1847-
- Christian Science Monitor 1908-
- New York Times/Daily 1851-
- San Francisco Chronicle/Call/Examiner/Daily Dramatic/Morning 1865-1922
- Toronto Star/Daily/Evening 1894-
- Wall Street Journal 1889-
From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, westward expansion, industrial developments, race relations, and World War I and II; to international, local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports, these archives reveal the day-to-day news coverage to researchers and historical explorers, providing invaluable insights and information to users from a wide range of subjects.
New York Times
Provides researchers, genealogists, and scholars with searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events since 1851.