The Denver Public Library – www.denverlibrary.org, College Hill Library in Westminster, Jefferson County Library and apparently every library in between is allowing access to Ancestry Library Edition (that’s the Worldwide edition) for FREE from HOME.
Carol Darrow
Just log on to www.denverlibrary.org, click on the Research Tab, Databases A-Z, then down the list to Ancestry Library Edition and put in your library card number and password (usually the 4-digit year of your birth). WooHoo!
If you don’t have a library card, you can also get one online from each library site. I do have to caution that some library websites are easier to navigate than others even if you already have a library card.
Denver Public Library also offers free access to the documents in MyHeritage.com as well as Colorado marriages and deaths in the Genealogy Research Guide section.
Another site offering limited free access is JSTOR.com which features journal articles about your local county of research including Civil War activities, local historical events and people you may be looking for. Search by topic – doctors, churches, naturalization, or by location – county, state, for the best results. Set up a free account. Read up to six articles a month.
The article, “The Confederate Home Guard in Southwest Arkansas,” by Charles G. Williams mentions Confederates from Montgomery County, Arkansas. That article and those names led me to the database “U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865” on Ancestry.com. This database includes men who were imprisoned at Andersonville.
This free access will end when the stay-at-home orders are lifted.
Hope you are safe and staying home. This is a great time to move your research further.
~ Carol Cooke Darrow is a professional genealogist who will volunteer again on Tuesdays at DPL and on Thursdays at the National Archives branch in Broomfield. You can contact her at cdarrow944@yahoo.com.