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Ancestry.com - PERSI - Periodical Source Index
Pay for use searchable database with more than 1 .7 million references to articles in genealogical and historical periodicals.
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Ancestry.com - PERSI: Some Initial Thoughts
Article by Michael John Neill.
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Ancestry.com - Pursuing Periodicals with PERSI
Article by George G. Morgan.
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HeritageQuest Online is not available to individual users. Instead, you can access the collection through many public libraries. Most often, you can use the collection from home by logging in through your library's web site. Check with your local library for details. The collection consists of six core data sets: U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1930, with name indexes for many decades. Genealogy and local history books deliver more than 7 million digitized page images from over 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books. Periodical Source Index (PERSI) is recognized as the most comprehensive index genealogy and local history periodicals. It contains more than 2 million records covering titles published around the world since 1800. Revolutionary War records contains original images from pension and bounty land warrant application files help to identify more than 80,000 American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era. Freedman’s Bank Records, with more than 480,000 names of bank applicants, their dependents, and heirs from 1865–1874, offers valuable data that can provide important clues to tracing African American ancestors prior to and immediately after the Civil War. LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set records the memorials, petitions, private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress back to 1789, with a total of more than 480,000 pages of information.
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Michael John Neill - Some Features of the PERSI CD
This article discusses the use of the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) on CD-ROM.
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SHOESTRING GENEALOGY: Periodical Resource Index
Learn how to use PERSI to find additional information on your ancestors.










