
{"id":2690,"date":"2011-06-30T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2011-06-30T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:56:56","slug":"introducing-americas-genealogybank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2011\/06\/30\/introducing-americas-genealogybank\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing America&#8217;s GenealogyBank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that we&#8217;ve subscribed to another terrific online genealogy resource: America&#8217;s GenealogyBank.<\/p>\n<p>This resource is user friendly&#8212;our staff enjoying experimenting with it!&#8212;and offers some keyword searching. Its five databases can help researchers find family members, verify deaths and provide personal information about the deceased, confirm genealogy information, and find close, living relatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AGB-Banner.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2691\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2011\/06\/30\/introducing-americas-genealogybank\/agb-banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AGB-Banner.jpg?fit=310%2C62&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"310,62\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AGB Banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AGB-Banner.jpg?fit=300%2C60&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AGB-Banner.jpg?fit=310%2C62&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2691 aligncenter\" title=\"AGB Banner\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AGB-Banner.jpg?resize=310%2C62&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AGB-Banner.jpg?w=310&amp;ssl=1 310w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AGB-Banner.jpg?resize=300%2C60&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GenealogyBank is divided into two sections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Historical<\/strong> section includes <em>Historical Newspapers (1690 \u2013 1977)<\/em>, which encompassesfully searchable newspapers for small towns and big cities alike; <em>Historical Books (1801-1900)<\/em>, which is a collection of over\u00a0 eleven thousand printed items, including genealogies, biographies, funeral sermons, local histories, pamphlets, cards, and charts; and <em>Historical Documents (1789-1980)<\/em>, which features casualty lists, Revolutionary and Civil War pension requests, widow&#8217;s claims, orphan petitions, land grants, American State Papers, genealogical information from the U.S. Serial Set, and other records..<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Modern <\/strong>section includes <em>America&#8217;s Obituaries (1977-Current)<\/em>, which lists over 37 million obituaries from over two thousand newspapers; and the <em>Social Security Death Index (1937-Current).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s GenealogyBank is now available on every public workstation at all three Davenport library locations.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davenportlibrary.com\/Page\/Hours_Locations.aspx?nt=111\">http:\/\/www.davenportlibrary.com\/Page\/Hours_Locations.aspx?nt=111<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why not come in for a test drive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that we&#8217;ve subscribed to another terrific online genealogy resource: America&#8217;s GenealogyBank. 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Its five databases can help researchers find family members, verify &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2011\/06\/30\/introducing-americas-genealogybank\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6,5],"tags":[651,1409,652,1410,124,549],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-library","category-local-history","tag-americas-genealogybank","tag-genealogy","tag-library-2","tag-local-history","tag-new-resources","tag-online-indexes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-Ho","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}