Temporary Closure: The Schooner Cove area at the Havre de Grace Library will be closed on Thursday, May 9, for a refresh. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Monday, February 17, in observance of Presidents Day.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Friday, April 18, in observance of Good Friday.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Sunday, April 20, in observance of Easter.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Monday, May 26, in observance of Memorial Day.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Thursday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Friday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Monday, September 1, in observance of Labor Day.
Library Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Monday, October 13, for Staff In-Service Day.
Library Closure: Abingdon Library will be closed Friday, October 31, for a Private Event.
Library Closure: Abingdon Library will be closed Saturday, November 1, for a Private Event.
Library Closure: Abingdon Library will be closed Sunday, November 2, for a Private Event.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Tuesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day.
Early Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will close early at 5 PM Wednesday, November 26.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Thursday, November 27, in observance of Thanksgiving.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Friday, November 28, in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Wednesday, December 24, in observance of Christmas Eve.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Thursday, December 25, in observance of Christmas Day.
Library Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Sunday, December 28.
Early Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will close early at 5 PM Wednesday, December 31.
Holiday Closure: All Harford County Public Library locations will be closed Thursday, January 1, 2026, in observance of New Year’s Day.
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“Ellis Island” is a searchable database of 22 million ship passenger records of those immigrants entering the U.S. through Ellis and the Port of New York, 1892-1924.
From the Researcher & Reference Services Division of the Library of Congress, this site provides information on using the Library’s reading rooms, information on genealogical materials available, bibliographies and guides, and links to digital collections.
Mainly a surname database with hundreds of thousands of names to search for free where one can correspond with others researching the same surname. There are many other links. This site partners with Ancestry.com.
In 2017, the Library of Congress (LC) made available approximately 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. These detailed historical documents contain information such as street names, building materials, and property boundaries and are a boon to genealogists, historians, urban planners, and many others. LC will continue to add maps every month until 2020.
A volunteer-maintained site which contains links to Internet websites for genealogical research. The state-based links are comprehensive and particularly useful. It also includes general history links as well.
This website contains information on how to obtain birth, marriage, divorce, and death records from all states. It also includes websites with information on how to obtain foreign vital records.
Slave Biographies, sponsored by Michigan State University Department of History, is an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. The website includes resources of multiple slave datasets available online for additional research.
This database is the latest step by the Virginia Historical Society to increase access to its varied collections relating to Virginians of African descent. Since its founding in 1831, the VHS has collected unpublished manuscripts, a collection that now numbers more than 8 million processed items.
Freedom on the Move is a database of fugitives from North American slavery. Created by a team of researchers, this database collects thousands of “runaway” ads that slave holders posted in order to recover runaway slaves. It will be useful for researchers as well as genealogists.
Official website from the Irish Minister for Culture, Heritage, and Gaeltacht. Research historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of the General Register Office.
Affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the website features thousands of databases, research tools and other resources to help those with Jewish ancestry research and find family members.
A blog from FamilySearch, the nonprofit family history organization. See the main entry for Family Search on our website for other resources from FamilySearch, as HCPL is an Affiliate Library.