Cyber-Library

Cyber-Library: "Swindon Reference Library has always provided access to the Times Newspaper on microfilm, however using this format for research required hours of searching through volumes of the Times Indexes and scrolling through reels of film to find the appropriate information. With The Times Digital Archive, researchers now have an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context. Every complete page of every issue of The Times from 1785 to 1985."

AncestryLibrary.com - Genealogy and Family History Records

This vast genealogical database includes the England censuses of 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, & 1901, as well as the England & Wales Civil Registration Index 1837-1983. This is just a small fraction of the huge amount of information available, and it is being added to constantly. This really is an invaluable resource for anyone researching their family history. You can only access Ancestry from computers located in Swindon Libraries. If you are using a Swindon Libraries PC visit Ancestry to find out more about it.