American Ancestors (Available in all Santa Clara City Libraries)

American Ancestors provides family historians access to more than 1.4 billion names from around the world, including one of the most extensive online collections of early American records, and the largest searchable collection of published genealogical research journals and magazines. Special strengths in the content include English, New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont), New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia materials.

Patrons at SCCL locations have access to all areas of the American Ancestors Website except The Great Migration Newsletter Online. Users can access over 110 million names in 2,000 databases. Patrons may view the most popular databases or select from an A-Z list of all the databases.

Ancestry Library Edition (Available in all Santa Clara City Libraries)

Ancestry Library Edition includes the following databases the U.S. Census Collection; Census Collections for the U.K., Australia, Canada and Germany, Birth, Marriage and Death Records; the Immigration & Travel Collection; the Military Collection; Family and Local History Records; Court, Land and Probate Records; and Trees and Message Boards.

Findmypast (Available at Central Park Library ONLY) 

Findmypast contains more than 2 billion historical records from around the world, including the largest online collection of Irish records and UK parish records, a comprehensive archive of British military records, U.S. censuses from as far back as 1790, and U.S. military records from the Revolutionary War up to World War II. The Findmypast for libraries subscription does not include access to the newspaper collections.

Heritage Quest Online (Available in all Santa Clara City Libraries and remotely)

Heritage Quest Online has all U.S. Census records and an extensive map collection, which is very helpful for identifying changing geographical boundaries.It also contains the following databases: 1790-1930 Federal Census Collection, more than 28,000 digitized Genealogy & Local History Books, PERSI Index, Revolutionary War Pension Records & Bounty Land Warrants, Freedman’s Bank, and the U.S. Serial Set.

San Jose Mercury and Evening News Historical Archives, 1884–1922 (Available in all Santa Clara City Libraries and remotely)

Newsbank provides access to fully digitized San Jose newspapers from 1884-1922. This is a great tool for researching Santa Clara county local history.

Video tutorial is available on Santa Clara City Library YouTube channel.

San Jose Mercury News, (1985 - current) (Available in all Santa Clara City Libraries and remotely)

Find full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people and more from current and archived issues of the San Jose Mercury News. It is updated daily and includes obituaries.

Video tutorial is available on Santa Clara City Library YouTube channel.