Research

Ancestry Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. (This database is accessible only at the library.)

This biographical database offers the in-depth profiles from Current Biography and World Authors, the periodical coverage of Biography Index and the specialist content of Junior Authors & Illustrators.

Biography Reference Center provides thousands of reliable full-text biographies, including the complete full text of Biography Today and Biography, plus narrative biographies not available in other databases.

The Browning Genealogy Database is the lifetime work of Charles Browning, who compiled the obituary records of Vanderburgh County and surrounding southwestern Indiana from Evansville newspapers.

The Digital Archive created by the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library contains images of photographs, postcards, and documents representing people, places, and things in and around Evansville, Indiana. Original images in this collection are from the Indiana Collection, located at Central Library in downtown Evansville, or from local residents.

Full-page, fully searchable digitized editions of historical Evansville newspapers from 1848-1998 are now available thanks to a generous grant from the EVPL Foundation. Due to vendor restrictions, this resource is available only to EVPL resident cardholders (PLAC not applicable) or via in-house Library computers.

INSPIRE offers magazines, books, encyclopedias, and other resources to all Indiana residents.

With print and digital historical resources, EVPL has many different ways to research and study the history of Evansville, Vanderburgh County, and Southwestern Indiana.

MyHeritage through EBSCO MyHeritage is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind. It contains billions of historical records from all over the world to support family history research.