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Genealogy

QUICK LINKS: Databases, Whatcom County and Washington State, Gateways, Specific Sites

Databases

 

Ancestry® Library Edition
Requires Library Card for login. Only available at the Lynden Public Library.

Requires Library Card for login. Available only inside the Lynden Public Library. This is one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the U.S. and the U.K., including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. This collection of more than 4,000 databases and 1.5 billion names is essential to having a complete genealogy collection.
 

Biography and Genealogy Index
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Requires Library Card for login. A first stop index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes.
 

Biography Resource Center
Requires Library Card for login.

Requires Library Card for login. A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It contains approximately 250,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.
 

Heritage Quest
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Requires Library Card for login. This collection assembles genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials, and includes the 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1870, 1910 federal census.

Whatcom County and Washington State

  Washington State Archive and Library - Genealogical Resources
  Washington Territorial County Census information
  Whatcom County Washington GenWeb: Part of the US GenWeb Project, which is "a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States."
  Whatcom County Cemeteries
  Whatcom Genealogical Society
  Whatcom County History Resource Guide

Gateways

  The Genealogy Home Page
  Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
  USGenWeb

Specific sites

  FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
  Find-a-Grave
  Heritage Quest - Microfilm
  Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists Research Guide
  Immigration Ships Transcribers Guild
  NARA: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
  NARA Seattle Closest NARA office
  National Archives of Norway
  National Center for Health Statistics (US Government site)
  RootsWeb
  Ship Passenger Lists: Finding Passenger Records 1820-1940s
  Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Online Search
  U.S. Surname Distribution

Vital Records (birth, death and marriage certificates and divorce decrees)

  VitalChek (a commercial site with on-line purchasing options)
  Vital Record Information (another commercial site)