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'''Database subscriptions''' include Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest On-line, American Ancestors, and Fold3.com. They also have a significant American, Canadian, and British genealogical '''periodicals''' collection, and the [[Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]] for family history researchers.<ref>"Overview of Newberry Library's Genealogy Collections" in ''Newberry Library'' at http://www./genealogy/overview.html (29 October 2010).</ref><br>  
'''Database subscriptions''' include Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest On-line, American Ancestors, and Fold3.com. They also have a significant American, Canadian, and British genealogical '''periodicals''' collection, and the [[Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]] for family history researchers.<ref>"Overview of Newberry Library's Genealogy Collections" in ''Newberry Library'' at http://www./genealogy/overview.html (29 October 2010).</ref><br>  


The Newberry is also a Family History Library Affiliate. Registered readers can use FamilySearch’s online ordering system to borrow microfilm and microfiche from the Family History Library and work with it at the Newberry. &nbsp; <br>  
The Newberry is also a FamilySearch Library Affiliate. Registered readers can use FamilySearch’s online ordering system to borrow microfilm and microfiche from the FamilySearch Library and work with it at the Newberry. &nbsp; <br>  


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'''''Similar Collections'''''<br>  
'''''Similar Collections'''''<br>  


*[https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library], Salt Lake City, Utah, holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  
*[https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library FamilySearch Library], Salt Lake City, Utah, holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  
*[[Library of Congress]], Washington, DC, [http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ Local History and Genealogy Reading Room] is part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, photographs, books, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources  
*[[Library of Congress]], Washington, DC, [http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ Local History and Genealogy Reading Room] is part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, photographs, books, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources  
*[[New England Historic Genealogical Society]], Boston, national in scope. Over 100 million name database, of vital records, genealogies, journals, over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and over 20 million manuscripts with emphasis on New England and New York since the 1600s.  
*[[New England Historic Genealogical Society]], Boston, national in scope. Over 100 million name database, of vital records, genealogies, journals, over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and over 20 million manuscripts with emphasis on New England and New York since the 1600s.