TCA Pressroom
Press Release
Title: EBSCO Publishing and Footnote Expand Genealogy and Historical Document Resources
Date: February 2010
Vendor: EBSCO
Press Release:
EBSCO Publishing and Footnote Expand Genealogy and Historical Document Resources
~ New Genealogy Archives Collections Offers an Unprecedented Compilation of Original Historical Documents and Personal Histories ~
IPSWICH, Mass. -- February 4, 2010 -- EBSCO Publishing and Footnote have expanded the genealogy resources available in libraries with the release of the Footnote(TM) History and Genealogy Archives PLUS and Footnote(TM) Holocaust Archives. The resources bring an unprecedented collection of original historical documents and personal histories to users. The new resources provide an unaltered view of the events, places and people that shaped the history of America and the world.
Footnote History and Genealogy Archives PLUS
Footnote History and Genealogy Archives PLUS includes a vast array of valuable and unique content consisting of well over 60 million pages of historical documents and images. The database features millions of images available from a content partnership with The National Archives--most never before available on the Internet. Footnote History and Genealogy Archives PLUS includes documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, U.S. Presidents, Census data, historical newspapers and naturalization documents. Resources making up Footnote History and Genealogy Archives PLUS include: Footnote History and Genealogy Archives, African American Archives, American Revolution Archives, Native American Archives, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Case File Archives and the World War II Archives.
Footnote Holocaust Archives
Footnote Holocaust Archives was created in partnership with the National Archives and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The database presents records pertaining to the seizure of Jews' assets by the Nazis during the Holocaust, and German property subsequently subject to restitution. Documents include: Ardelia Hall Collection (1945-1952)--documents the repatriation of Jews' personal possessions that were seized by the Nazis during the Holocaust; Dachau Concentration Camp Entry Records; Flossenburg Concentration Camp Entry Registers; Mauthausen Death Books; Captured German Records--concentration camp records including administrative reports, releases, and deaths; German War Crime Records; Nuremberg Interrogation Records and Concentration Camp Pages--background on each camp, maps, timelines of events, and accounts of key events. Footnote Holocaust Archives also includes more than 600 stories of individual victims and survivors made available through a partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Users can easily search for a name they may know or browse the entire collection.
Institutions subscribing to Footnote History and Genealogy Archives Collections will be able to provide remote access to patrons looking to research their family genealogy or to explore the images of the original source documents that are available online.
About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world's premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company's product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search(TM), Business Source(R), CINAHL(R), DynaMed(TM), Literary Reference Center(TM), MasterFILE(TM), NoveList(R), SocINDEX(TM) and SPORTDiscus(TM) as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database(TM), EconLit, INSPEC(R), MEDLINE(R), MLA International Bibliography, The Philosopher's Index(TM), PsycARTICLES(R) and PsycINFO(R). Databases are powered by EBSCOhost(R), the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world.
EBSCO is the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service(TM) a core collection of locally-indexed metadata creating a unified index of an institution's resources within a single, customizable search point providing everything the researcher needs in one place--fast, simple access to the library's full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than and other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com
