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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