Finding Your Roots: Genealogy Resources

At Grinnell Library

BOOKS
Grinnell Library's Local History Collection (in the Reference Room) many books patrons have found very helpful for local genealogy research. Visit Grinnell Library to examine these sources. To see a list of the texts Grinnell Library's Local History Collection click here!
INTERNET
These internet resources can be reached from your home computer or from the public access computers in the library:

Dutchess County Genealogical Society: http://www.dcgs-gen.org/


ONLINE DATABASE
Grinnell Library card holders have access to Heritage Quest, a large database of genealogical material. It includes census data and thousands of books on family and local history which can be searched online. You can use Heritage Quest from the library or from your home computer using the barcode number on your library card. Click here to search Heritage Quest.


NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM

Wappingers Chronicle:

June 3, 1910 - Sept. 7 1928


Wappingers Herald:

Sept. 7, 1928 - June 12, 1936

 

The Chronicle:

Feb. 1935 - July 1937

 

Wappingers Post:

1939

 

Wappingers Falls Shopper:

1953-1958


Southern Dutchess News:

Some issues from 1937, 1938, 1955; 1956-2011

 

 

Last Updated on Friday, 31 August 2012 16:12