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Product Benefits
•  Access more than 1.5 billion names with our largest assortment of U.S. family history resources.
•  Connect with your ancestral homeland through the U.S. Immigration Collection, offering records for millions of American immigrants.
•  Trace the lives of your ancestors—births, marriages, deaths and more—in our popular U.S. Records Collection.
•  Fill in missing personal details with information from our U.S. Federal Census Collection.
•  Add color to your research with first-hand narratives from authentic historical newspapers.

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Ancestor’s First Name
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U.S. Records Collection
Our most popular collection, U.S. Records offers a range of historical material suited for beginners and experts alike.

With more than 600 million names spanning the past five centuries, U.S. Records houses a diversity of records ranging from census images and indexes to birth, marriage and death information. Those wishing to breathe life into their research can supplement names and dates with rich contextual information—available from town histories, historical narratives, personal journals and biographies.

U.S. Census Collection
Ancestry.com offers the Web’s most complete collection of U.S. Census records. To put such a wealth of family information at your fingertips, Ancestry scanned and entered names from more than 12 million microfilmed images spanning 1790 through 1930. Search all of our census records at once to find specific information about your ancestors—in seconds.

Historical Newspapers
Newspapers are rich chronicles of history that have continued to thrive in the information age. With more than five million pages and growing, Ancestry’s collection has become the largest historical newspaper database on the Internet.

In one fully searchable collection you can place yourself in the middle of history and discover the events that influenced your ancestors’ lives. Browse wedding announcements, obituaries and classified ads while observing changing patterns in dress, arts, politics, religion and technology.

U.S. Immigration Collection
Gain valuable insights into the lives and experiences of your earliest American ancestors. Ancestry.com’s newest collection houses more than 10 million names taken from ships’ passenger lists, naturalization records and a variety of accompanying historical documents. Many of our records, such as the newly indexed Nineteenth Century New York Passenger Lists, have never before been published on the Internet. Now, for the first time online, you can pinpoint when and where your ancestors first arrived in America.

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Why our U.S. Premier Collection is one of the best deals on the Internet:
•  Ancestry.com’s U.S. Premier Collection is our largest research package, offering the same resources as four separate subscriptions. Search millions of records in a single subscription.
•  Get the resources you need to successfully launch your family history—vital records, census indexes, immigration records and more.
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What you'll get

Access to four of our best databases including:
•  U.S. Records Collection
•  U.S. Immigration Collection
•  U.S. Census Images and Indexes
•  Historical Newspapers Collection


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•  Online Learning Center
•  Ancestry World Tree
•  Message Boards

What you'll find

The U.S. Records Collection includes:
•  Civil War pension records
•  Civil War state rosters
•  Civil War regimental histories
•  Veteran gravesite locations
•  Millions of names from printed biographies
•  Names from printed family histories
•  Biographies for seventeenth-century New England immigrants
•  Historic journals and narratives
•  City directories
•  Town histories

The U.S. Census Collection provides:
•  Age at time of census
•  Address of residence
•  Relatives
•  Birthplace of parents
•  Age at first marriage
•  Head of household
•  Occupation
•  Immigration year
•  Military service

The Historical Newspaper Collection provides:
•  Actual images of U.S., Canadian and UK newspapers from 1786 through the late 1900s—completely searchable
•  Wedding announcements
•  Obituaries
•  Classified ads

The U.S. Immigration Collection offers:
•  Ships’ passenger lists
•  Port arrival records
•  Naturalization records
•  Age
•  Occupation
•  Place of origin
•  Destination in the U.S.
•  Name of ship and registry number
•  Type of ship
•  Port and date of arrival
•  Port and date of departure