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A searchable database of the weekly business publication of the South Bend Tribune back to 1992.
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Clickable tract maps of St. Joseph County allow you to get statistics from the 1980, 1990 and 2000 census.
This database will no longer be available as of January 2010.
An electronic reader’s advisory resource. Search by an author, title or plot and find similar books. Author interviews and book discussion guides are also featured.
An online database of animated, talking picture books which you can read, or have read to you.
A searchable, browsable digital version of the 1875 Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County, Indiana, including plat maps, biographies, and engravings.
A searchable, browsable digital version of the 1910 Official Souvenir, 9th Annual Convention, Indiana State Association, B.P.O.E., South Bend, Indiana, featuring text and illustrations of people, businesses, and the community.
A searchable, browsable digital version of the ca. 1910 A Manhood Factory in the Center of South Bend's Greatest Industries, featuring textand illustrations of people, the YMCA, and the community.
A searchable, browsable digital version of the 1936 Index Map of St. Joseph County, Indiana, showing all landowners in the unincorporated areas of the county at that time.
How To Use (pdf)This site presents comprehensive genealogy resources including federal and state census images, military records, immigration and passenger list records, indexes of vital statistics, and more.
How to use (pdf)View, navigate, print, and download historic birds'-eye view maps of Indiana.
Genealogy resources selected by SJCPL librarians.
How to use (pdf)This site features unique resources such as Revolutionary War pension files; Freedmen's Bank records; searchable genealogy and history books; and PERSI, The Periodical Source Index. It also includes many federal censuses.
More than 40 searchable databases related to Indiana history, including indexes to county, church, military, and school records.Ask your SJCPL librarian to put in a user name and password to give you access to this site.
How to use (pdf)From the New England Historic Genealogical Society, more than 250 databases of town, church, family Bible, vital, land, tax, and other records pertaining to New England as well as New York, Ireland, England, and eastern Canada.
How to use (pdf)An index to obituaries that appeared in the South Bend Tribune, from 1913 through the present, for people with ties to St. Joseph County.
An index to Service Notes printed in the South Bend Tribune during the World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War eras.
Indiana's INSPIRE provides full text for over 1,820 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. Full text back files go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract back files go as far back as January of 1984.
A searchable database of articles and pages from the Chicago Tribune, going back to 1985.
A searchable database of articles and pages from the Chicago Tribune, going back as far as the 1850s and continuing through 1985.
How to Use (pdf)Includes the past decade of newspaper articles from the Evansville Courier & Press, Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette, the Gary Post-Tribune, the South Bend Tribune, and the South Bend Tribune Business Weekly.
A searchable database of New York Times articles from 1981- present (1987 - present free to view).
A searchable database of New York Times articles from 1851-1980 (1851-1922 free to view).
A searchable database and actual images of millions of American newspaper pages from many areas and time periods.
A searchable database of full-text articles from the South Bend Tribune, going back to March 1998.
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