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Federal, state, and local government records, including birth certificates, marriage and divorce certificates, death certificates, and census records are invaluable for genealogical and historical research into the lives of individuals and families. Following are resources to help you get started:

Reclaim The Records is a not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates who sue government agencies and archives to obtain access to public records. Reclaim The Records digitizes everything they win and posts it online for free for all to use without restrictions. They have so far made available indexes to birth, marriage, and death indexes in several states, including New York and New Jersey. And they have multiple outstanding FOIA requests for nationwide records and state-level records across the U.S.

Everyone Counts: Using the Census in Genealogy Research - A very helpful research guide from the New York Public Library. Also see the NYPL's guide on Conducting Genealogical Research Using Ne

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Biography Reference Source

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Biography Reference Source provides thousands of unique and reliable full-text biographies, including the complete full text of Biography and Biography Today. In addition to keyword search, users can locate biographies by subject occupation, activity, nationality, gender, birthplace and more.

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Thousands of Reliable Full-Text Biographies

Biography Reference Source provides superior coverage for several of the most popular and heavily researched biographies and genres, including those contained within Biography Today and Biography (both dating back to the first issue published).

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Biography Today's complete collection
Biography's complete collection
Congressional biographies from the American Reference Library
Biographies from Encyclopædia Britannica
Harvard University Press: Notable American Women, a Biographical Dictionary
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The reference sources listed here provide quick information on primarily English and American literature. These can be very broad or very specific in nature: for example, an encyclopedia on American literature or an encyclopedia on Mark Twain. The following list is only a sampling of the many resources available, whether in print or online.
American National Biography (Oxford)
Authoritative biographies of deceased Americans.
Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism
Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature
Cambridge Companions
Search for companions to authors, works, theories, etc. (examples: Allegory, American Gay and Lesbian Fiction, Anthony Trollope)
Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters
Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Contemporary Authors (incorporated into Gale Literary Sources)
Biographical sketches of 20th-century authors who have written in English or have had their works translated into English.
Critical Survey of Literary Theory
Edited by Frank N. Magill
Salem Press, c1987
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