If you are unacquainted with WorldCat.org, you should be. This is consolidated catalog of over 70,000 libraries worldwide and has over 2 billion catalog entries. There is a also a special section of the WorldCat.org catalog website dedicated to genealogy. See oclc.org/go/en/worldcat-genealogy.html. Here is a list of the types of material cataloged on WorldCat.org pertaining to genealogy:
- Account books
- Autobiographies
- Cemetery records
- Church histories and records
- Civil War and other military records
- Company information—catalogs, archives, etc.
- Diaries and journals
- Family Bibles
- Family histories
- Family papers
- General genealogical resources such as directories, handbooks and magazines
- Historic newspapers from the U.S. and other countries
- Historic photographs—including digitized ones
- Indexes to burial records
- Indexes to births, marriages and deaths
- Indexes to obituaries
- Indexes to wills
- Interviews and oral histories
- Manuscripts from archives
- Microfilmed genealogy and local history collections
- Oral histories
- Pictures
- Probate records
- Slavery and antislavery materials, including slave records
- Town histories
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