Genealogy & History
America's Obituaries and Death Notices
A large and comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from the United States and U.S. outlying areas. Each obituary or death notice is indexed by the name of the deceased person, to make searching easier and more precise. In addition, the text of each obituary or death notice is searchable, making it easy to find just what you're looking for using a place of residence, occupation, names of family members, or other personal information. Some notices go back to the early 1990s, most go back only 3 to 4 years.
Ancestry Library Edition (available in library only)
Search genealogical and historical documents including Census, Social Security, immigration, and other records. Also contains message boards, free newspapers and research assistance. Learn how to use this database more effectively by signing up for the library's free Genealogy computer class.Genealogy resource with census data, family records, local histories, and article index. Learn how to use this database more effectively by signing up the library's free Genealogy computer class.
American-Canadian Genealogical Society
The American-Canadian Genealogical Society, headquartered in Manchester, NH, provides descendants access to Acadian and French-Canadian genealogical and historical research materials.
Search immigration records from 1830 through 1892 from Castle Garden, a New York immigration center that preceded Ellis Island.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
A large categorized and cross-referenced directory of sites useful for genealogical research, with hundreds of thousands of links. Also contains tips to help you with your research.
Search immigration records from Ellis Island.
Family Search Internet Genealogy Service
From the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, this website provides a wealth of information to search about your ancestors using census lists, family histories, military records, court and legal records, the International Genealogical Index and passenger lists. This site offers software for genealogists to store their information.
Nashua Public Library Local History and Genealogy page
This site provides an overview of the local history and genealogy resources available at the Nashua Public Library. It also includes a link to a digitized version of History of the City of Nashua, NH edited by Edward Parker.
United States Vital Records Information
This website provides information on how to obtain vital records (such as birth certificates, death records, marriage licenses and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States. Each state has different organizations charged with safekeeping such documents, with different procedures and restrictions.
Biography Resource Center
This database combines biographies from several authoritative reference sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on such personal facts as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. You can combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.FACTS.com
FACTS.com brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years. A great database for finding out what happened on a specific date in the past (such as your birthday!).Greenwood Daily Life Online
A rich, authoritative database covering the history of daily life throughout history and across many cultures throughout the world. Organized by time period, region and topic, Daily Life Online combines information from numerous reference works, monographs, and primary documents and is a great resource for students from middle school all the way through college.Newspaper Archive
Access.NewspaperArchive.com is a gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. Containing tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s, the archive is an excellent source of primary source documents. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world.American Cultural History: The 19th Century
Overview of the 19th century, decade by decade, discussing such issues as social movements, literature, and immigration. Includes links to other sites on the Web and to informative essays.
American Rhetoric
Provides an index to a growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews and other recorded media events, the top 100 speeches of the 20th century, movie speeches and short audio clips illustrating stylistic figures of speech.This site offers links to the constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents from nations of the world. Constitution Finder’s simply designed website features a well placed pull-down index to over 200 countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Constitutions are offered in original languages and English (and sometimes Spanish) translations. Historical constitutions and related documents are also available.
Documenting the American South
Features primary resources in history for the study of the history, literature, and culture of the American South. including the Civil War and the Antebellum South, African-American history, and Southern literature. It contains public domain full-text books, pamphlets, personal correspondence, slave narratives, diaries, and oral histories.Eternal Egypt
This site covers over five thousand years of Egyptian civilization. It is multimedia, containing cultural highlights, maps, timelines, and libraries and museums of information. The Guided Tour, though it opens in a separate window, provides an introduction to the contents of this site.
In the first person
This website describes itself as an “In-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets youkeyword search more than 650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 3,500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.” Some contents are subscription only but about 75% of the contents are free.
Library of Congress American Memory
Digitized items from primary-source American history collections.POTUS: Presidents of the United States
Part of the Internet Public Library/School of Information University of Michigan, this site is a quick biography source for all the presidents of the United States. It contains basic biographical information, election results, cabinet member biographies, and notable events that occurred in each administration.
View historical photos of Nashua, NH.
History of the City of Nashua, N.H.
Edited by Edward Everett Parker and one of the major histories of Nashua, this book contains biographies and historical information about Nashua from its settlement as Dunstable through the late 1890s. Download the entire book or select individual chapters, and then browse or search.
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Operated by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), this site includes databases, manuscript images, research articles, and the Great Migration Newsletter online. Some items require a membership fee.