Genealogy databases for Broward patrons

1. 1. Archives UnboundLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
   Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Collections are chosen for Archives Unbound based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.
   
   
2. 2. Digital Sanborn MapsLocal access for all users. Remote access is not available. - Public Web site
   The Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. This digital collection contains Sanborn maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
   
   
3. 3. New York Times (1851-2016) in ProQuest Historical NewspapersLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
   Provides full page and article images with searchable full-text for the New York Times and its predecessor, the New York Times Daily News, from 1851 to 2016.
   
   
4. 4. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral HistoriesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories describing what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included.
   
   
5. 5. North American Women's Letters and DiariesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Provides personal experiences of hundreds of women over 300 years. Contains approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database.
   
   
6. 6. Shoah FoundationLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
   The Visual History Archive (VHA) includes both the monumental Holocaust collection that had its genesis from Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and resources from other crimes against humanity. The vast collection includes the complete testimonies from witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other notable genocides including the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923), Nanjing Massacre (1937), Rwanda (1994), and Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996). The resource includes firsthand primary source accountings with 53,000 recorded testimonies, 112,000 hours of video, participants from 63 countries and 39 languages, 1.8 million names, and 700,000 images.
   Users must create a personal account to use this database. For more information about Visual History Archive see this guide.
   
7. 7. Visual History Archive (VHA) USC Shoah FoundationLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
   The Visual History Archive (VHA) includes both the monumental Holocaust collection that had its genesis from Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and resources from other crimes against humanity. The vast collection includes the complete testimonies from witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other notable genocides including the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923), Nanjing Massacre (1937), Rwanda (1994), and Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996). The resource includes firsthand primary source accountings with 53,000 recorded testimonies, 112,000 hours of video, participants from 63 countries and 39 languages, 1.8 million names, and 700,000 images.
   Users must create a personal account to use this database. For more information about Visual History Archive see this guide.