Ancestry Library Edition is accessible inside Lafourche Libraries providing a window into the past. This extensive toolset provides step-by-step guidance for tracing your family story to create your family tree. To get started, interview older family members and look through birth, marriage, and death certificates for significant details. Make a record of all the things you know: names, dates, places, and any other details you can obtain. Using what you know, begin to add details into your family tree. Ancestry provides charts and forms for organizing and documenting your facts in either print or electronic formats.
Once you have a few facts, you are ready to visit your nearest library branch to log on and begin your search. Ancestry enables you to search census, religious, immigration, and military records for family connections. As your story unfolds, each new detail uncovered could reveal a new name to search or add to your family tree. If you are stuck along the way, a Learning Center is included with expert tips and research aids tailored to the details of your family history. Whether your ancestors were African American, Native American, German, or Swedish, you will find helpful tips to guide your research.
Ancestry provides access to billions of records to help you unlock mysteries of the past. Other features include a Message Board allowing researchers to connect with others searching the same names, and historical maps providing insights into lives of our ancestors. If you are a DIY type with a curiosity about your family tree, please drop by your library to get started with Ancestry Library Edition.