Learn about your genealogy & family history with our databases
Research your family’s history with HeritageQuest, Ancestry and other databases at Mentor Public Library.
How far back do you know your family’s history? Do you know your great-grandparents? Do you know their great-grandparents?
Do you want to?
It’s amazing what you can learn about your family history with the databases available at Mentor Public Library.
Your library card gives you access to not one, not two, not three, but four different genealogy websites. For free.
They are:
- Ancestry — Search for your family’s history through censuses, cemeteries, city directories, military and immigration records, and more public records.
- Fold3 — Fold3 allows you to research your family’s military history going back to the Revolutionary War.
- HeritageQuest — Similar to our Ancestry database. Browse public records, including censuses that go back to the 18th Century, US Indian census rolls, mortality schedules and more.
- African-American Heritage — A genealogy database that specializes in African-American heritage, complete with state-by-state guides and a volunteer-staffed forum.
You don’t need to know much to get started on our databases—a name, somewhere that person lived and it helps to know his or her approximate birth year. And, frankly, if you don’t know your great-grandfather or great-great-mother’s birth year, it usually only takes a single search to find out.
These databases search through millions of public records: census and immigration information, birth/marriage/death certificates, and more. Not only can you view these documents, but you can email them to yourself and your family members.
And each document that you discover provides more information that you can use to hone your search.
So start searching and explore that family tree.