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Ancestry, Heritage, and Genealogy

Use this Guide if you are interested in discovering more about American or personal family heritage. This guide will help students completing their Heritage paper for SOC 200: Minority Group Relations.

Articles from Databases

What are Journal Articles?

Journal Articles are stored in Databases. Databases are like electronic filing cabinets.

 

image of filing cabinet

Researchers write articles about their research and then publish them in Academic Journals. Then these Journals are available through Databases that the library purchases for your use.

Why use Databases? Why not just Google the information?

Anyone can publish on the internet. They may or may not know their topic. In order to publish in a Journal, you must be an expert and meet specific standards in your area of expertise.

This means that you can trust what you read in a Journal Article.

Heritage, Ancestry, and Genealogy Databases

Basic Research Databases