Effective August 1, 2005, ProQuest's Ancestry Library Edition will be available on MeL. This replaces Gale's AncestryPlus.

Ancestry Library Edition has a new, simplified search screen and contains the following enhancements not previously available in MeL:

• Passenger lists from all major U.S. ports including New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans.
• Naturalization records ranging from 1700 to 1900.
• Immigration records for more than 100 countries.
• Increase of more than 10 million names.
• Improved image viewer.

Ancestry Library Edition will not contain the following content that was available in Gale’s AncestryPlus:

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (It will be available on MeL.).
• PILI Passenger and Immigration Index.
• 315 city directories.

Ancestry Library Edition will be available for in-library use only. No remote access is permitted.

For libraries that maintain their own database links, the URL for Ancestry Library Edition is: http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com.

Updated 01/06/2006