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Internet Archive (texts)
searched live by Provara
What it holds
Digitised books: county and town histories, city directories, yearbooks, genealogies, church histories
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- Internet Archive
- Licence for use here
- Per item (public domain used; CC-NC items excluded from display)
- Attribution
- Link to the archive.org item
- Cost to search
- free
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://archive.org/help/aboutsearch.htm
How to search it in Provara
- Digitised books and local histories: ask Provara to look for a family in county histories and directories.
- City and trade directories: ask Provara where a family lived in the years between censuses.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Digitised books and local histories — County histories, city directories, yearbooks, published genealogies: where a family appears in print.
- City and trade directories — A household's address and occupation, year by year, between censuses.
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