Worldcat

Worldcat is a public master library catalog managed by the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), a nonprofit membership organization. The catalog includes items from many of the San Francisco Bay public and university libraries. If you do not live in this area, the items may be available through interlibrary loan at your local library.

Worldcat provides information about library materials and links to digitized versions of library materials when available, including the resources listed below. Click on the image to the right to view their information on how to use the search for genealogy.

Possible genealogical resources one can find via Worldcat:

Account books
Autobiographies
Cemetery records
Church histories and records
Civil War and other military records
Company information, such as catalogs and archives
Diaries and journals
Family Bibles, histories and papers
General genealogical resources, such as directories, handbooks and magazines
Historic newspapers from the US and other countries
Historic photographs, including digitized photos
Indexes of birth, marriage, death and burial records
Interviews and oral histories
Obituaries and wills
Probate records
Slavery and antislavery materials, including slave records
Town histories