MyHeritage Library Edition Now Available at Grapevine Library!

At Grapevine Library we’re excited to offer a new genealogy database – MyHeritage Library Edition™ (MyHeritage LE)! It’s an excellent genealogical research tool. In today’s blog we’ll take a look at some of its great content.

MyHeritage LE is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind in the world. It includes billions of historical documents from more than forty-eight countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources. Available in forty-two languages, MyHeritage LE is the industry’s most multilingual family history research database.

What Does MyHeritage LE Have?

MyHeritage LE contains a wide variety of content, and more than 100 million records are added every month. This includes

• Over 18.5 billion historical records world-wide

• US federal census records from 1790-1950 with images

• UK census records from 1841-1901 with images

• Over five 5 billion exclusive family tree profiles from MyHeritage and Geni

• Over 816 million US public records

• Hundreds of millions of Nordic records

• Over 100 million tombstone photos

• Over 500 million historical photos

• Military records, immigration records, and passenger lists

• Citizenship and naturalization records

• Directories, guides, references, biographies and yearbooks

• Government, land and court records

• Wills and probate records

• Exclusive databases

• Additional content under license including Tributes, obituaries, WikiTree, Billion Graves, Canadian Headstones, and many others

How Can I Search?

You can search MyHeritage LE in several ways: Simple search, advanced search, browse collection catalog, by categories, and by location. Searches can be performed directly from the MyHeritage LE home page. You can do a Basic Search with fewer search parameters, as well as an Advanced Search which gives additional options for dates, relationships, etc., to help narrow the search.

Clicking on the map below the main search box on the homepage (Fig. 1) lets you focus your search in a particular geographical area, country, or sub-region (sub-regions are available for search in records from the US, UK, Australia, and Canada only).

Another option is to search by collection (Fig. 2). On the right is a menu listing categories of collections (Census & Voter Lists, Birth, Marriage & Death, etc.), and clicking on them opens a page where collections in that category are displayed. Each collection has its own search page where a basic or advanced search can be performed just in that collection.

Let’s say you want to search for death or burial records in France (Fig. 3). You have two options. At the home page you can click on the map and then the link to France, which will bring you to the France collections home page. On the right you’ll see the link for France Deaths. Click on the link and it’ll take you to the basic search page limited to that collection. Your other option is to click on Birth, Marriage & Death on right side of the MyHeritage LE home page. The Birth, Marriage & Death home page displays the different collections available in this sub-category.

Here’s the result of a search in deaths for Ruba Bernstein in the France, Church Burials and Civil Deaths Collection (Fig. 4):

You can view family trees on MyHeritage LE, but you’ll need a personal subscription to contact owners of family tree websites.

If you have a Grapevine library card and want to access MyHeritage LE remotely, go to the library home page and put your cursor over Online Resources, then Databases, then click on Genealogy, then MyHeritage Library Edition.

Take advantage of MyHeritage Library Edition and explore it today! Your ancestors are waiting.