Trace Your Family History

Ancestry Library Edition

Social Sciences

Full Ancestry.com access on campus WiFi. Build your family tree, search billions of census records, immigration docs, military records, and DNA matches — all free at NYU.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index

Research Databases

Master index to biographical listings in dictionaries and encyclopedias covering millions of individuals from every field and region. Useful for locating biographical information across multiple reference sources.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories

Historical Archives

Letters, diaries, and oral histories from immigrants to North America. First-person accounts of leaving home, crossing oceans, and building new lives.