Regional History / Genealogy

Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages (over 28 million articles) of primary source newspaper content from the 19th-century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. (This database is supported by the Pikes Peak Genealogical Society.)

Research family history in the New England area using hundreds of databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the oldest genealogical society in the United States.

This database is only available at the 1905 Carnegie Library.

ProQuest has partnered with MyFamily.com to create Ancestry Library Edition, one of the most important genealogical collections available today with unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom.

This database is not available outside of Library facilities.

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Contains images depicting Colorado Springs, the Pikes Peak region, Colorado, the Rocky Mountain West and the Southwest. Images "born digital" increasingly are being added to the collections.

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Provides 66,369,420 digitized historical images though partnerships with The National Archives, Library of Congress and other institutions.

This database is only available at the Penrose and 1905 Carnegie Libraries.

Heritage Quest combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content.

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Contains tens of millions of historical newspaper pages from 1759 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date.

This database is not available outside of Library facilities.

Contains citations to local news articles and obituaries from the Colorado Springs Gazette and other local newspapers.