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Free Access to Commercial Databases

brought to you by the Jackson County Public Library.

Some databases require Indiana residency and/or a JCPL library barcode.

 

Ancestry Library Edition

(free in-library use only)

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has many of the same databases as the subscriber Ancestry for access to every-name index to population census schedules from 1790 through 1930, vital records, passenger lists, and much more.

 

Heritage Quest Online

(free access from home with library barcode)

 

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genealogical resource gives access to US census schedules and some indexes from 1790 through 1930; thousands of full-text family and local history books, city directories and such; PERSI index to nearly 2 million genealogy and local history articles; US Serial Set documents, Revolutionary War and Freedman's Bank records.

 

Indiana Legal Forms

(free access from home with library barcode)

 

 

from Thomson Gale includes forms drafted by attorneys for business, personal, real estate and general use on hundreds of legal subjects and issues, and for Indiana and Federal use.

 

INSPIRE

(free access from home; may require registration)

reliable, verifiable, quantifiable, accurate information on current events, consumer issues, science, business, health, notable people, hobbies, and much more.

 

Gale Testing & Education Reference Center

(free access through INSPIRE)

 

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lets you build a resume; search for colleges, graduate programs, vocational schools and other educational resources; also has practice tests and guides for GED, civil service and military entrance exams, college and graduate school exams, and more.

 

WorldCat

(free access from home)

to search for books, music, videos, articles in more than 10,000 of the world's libraries.

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March 2010