Ancestry Library
Provides records and genealogies from across the globe.
FamilySearch
Vail Public Library is a FamilySearch Affiliate Library. Using this resource onsite at the library provides access to more genealogy resources to help you make more family discoveries. FamilySearch adds hundreds of millions of free genealogical records and images online yearly from all over the world and manages the famous FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City. It has amassed billions of birth, marriage, death, census, land and court records from more than 200 countries and territories to help you discover and make family connections.
Heritage Hub
Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 – today. Heritage Hub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900’s, and original obituary images. Manually indexed obituaries enhance search accuracy for deeper family connections. Coverage from all 50 U.S. states and territories.
Access is available 24/7
Genealogy Websites
- Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection – Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes 147 newspapers published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923. CHNC contains over 477,000 digitized pages.
- Colorado Histories – Colorado Virtual Library
- Colorado State Archives and Libraries – Research resources for genealogists and family historians.
- Cyndis List – of genealogy sites on the Internet.
- Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Department. – Browse collections or do research.
- Eagle County Cemeteries – Start your search for information about cemeteries in Eagle County from this website.
- FamilySearch – an official website of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Later Day Saints; contains access to international as well as U.S. genealogical data.
- Ellis Island’s Digital Family History Center – Search immigration records
- Geni.com – a free, private place to build your family tree.
- Library of Congress American History Digital Collection – provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
- U.S. Census Bureau – use the US Census Bureau to assist you with your genealogy search.
- USGenWeb – a website created by volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.