Online Databases: Genealogy

For login information to Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) resources, call any library location.

Bowling Green Daily News (Newsbank)

The Bowling Green Daily News 1999-current, the Bowling Green Examiner, and news and information from reliable news sources spanning the U.S. Bowling Green Daily News full image issues are available starting with January 14, 2022.

Bowling Green & more - Newspapers.com Southeast Collection - Library Link

Use this link when using a library computer.

Full image historical newspapers including the local Daily News and over 2000 other newspapers in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. Local coverage includes the Park City Daily News and Messenger (1917), the Park City Daily Times (1899), and the Park City Daily News (1902-1963).

Bowling Green & more - Newspapers.com Southeast Collection - Remote Link

 Use this link when using a home computer or laptop.

Full image historical newspapers including the local Daily News and over 2000 other newspapers in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. Local coverage includes the Park City Daily News and Messenger (1917), the Park City Daily Times (1899), and the Park City Daily News (1902-1963).

Ancestry Library Edition

Available only via computers inside the library. Search birth, marriage, and death records, vital records, census records, photos, maps and more (available only on library computers).

Provided by the Kentucky Virtual Library.

Heritage Quest Online

Available to patrons from outside or inside the library. Search census, military, public, and immigration records; city directories; cemeteries; maps and more.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Search America’s historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963. Freely available from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Genealogy Research

Warren County Public Library’s genealogy collection includes not just Warren County, but our closest neighboring counties as well: Barren, Butler, Christian, Logan, and Edmonson.

Our genealogy reference collection incorporates much of Kentucky’s early years, and consists of cemetery books, will books, early deed abstracts, family histories, some census books, local directories, and much more.

Ancestry Library

available only on library computers

Heritage Quest

available in the library or remotely