This biographical database offers in-depth profiles from Current Biography and World Authors, the periodical coverage of Biography Index and specialist content of Junior Authors & Illustrators.

Biography Reference Center provides thousands of reliable full-text biographies, including the complete full text of Biography Today and Biography, plus narrative biographies not available in other databases.

This premiere genealogy database is ideal for the family historian. Ancestry Library Edition provides the most genealogical information available on-line, with more than 5 billion names in over 4,000 collections.

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ResearchIT CT and State Library resources for genealogy.

Multidisciplinary online resources provided by the State Library for all Connecticut library card holders.

Connect to the real thing, the historic places and primary source images, documents, and objects that make up the historical record.

Historical issues of the Hartford Courant

A collection of images of the state's people, places, and events.

Covering topics in U.S. and world history from the earliest civilizations through the 21st century, History Reference Center is a research database containing full-text journals, magazines, reference books and thousands of primary source documents.

Explore the collections, stories and communities of Connecticut in the Great War.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.