GUIDES & RESOURCES
Biography: Finding Information about Famous People
A quick guide containing links to selected websites, books, movies, magazines, online databases and other resources to help you find what you are looking for.
Websites
- Indiana Biography Index - Materials published before 1990
- The online version of the card file Indiana Biography Index located in the Great Hall on the second floor of the Indiana State Library.
- Indiana Biography Index - Materials published 1990 and after
- Indiana Historical Society
- Biographical Resources
- A selective list of standard research tools compiled by the New York Public Library, many available from the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library.
- Dead People Server
- Dead or alive? Find out with up-to-the-minute listings of who's among the living and those passed on
- S9.com Biographical Dictionary
- An online biographical dictionary containing information on more than 33,000 people from antiquity to present
- Virtual Reference Desk Biography/Who's Who
Library Materials
Online Databases
- Ancestry Library Edition
- Available only at the library, this database provides access to genealogy, family trees and family history records via documents that record the lineage of over 4 billion individuals.
- Biography Resource Center
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- When you open this database, select Biography from the menu.
