We have the following resources to help you research your family history:
- Area newspapers on microfilm
- Microfilm reader / printer
- Census records on microfilm
- Brown County birth, marriage, and death records
- Brown County History Books

You can also request help from our genealogy librarian. Click here for more information.
And here are some great free online resources:
Heritage Quest
Kansas Historical Society
Missouri 1910 – 1950 Death Certificates Online
Ellis Island Passenger Lists
Family Search – a service of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Dead Fred – Genealogy Photo Archive
Find a Grave
Cyndi’s List
Irish Genealogical Society International
The Battery Conservancy
Steve Morse – One-Step Portal for On-Line Genealogy
Do you have a favorite free genealogy website that we should include? Send us a link at morrill@hiawathalibrary.org.
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