Ancestry.com

Who are you? Where did your ancestors come from? What famous — or infamous — people are you related to?

The Clapp Library offers you the resources of our subscription to Ancestry.com, the online resource for learning more about your family history!

  • The best resource for creating, preserving and sharing your family tree
  • More than 13 billion records containing detailed family histories
  • An online community of fellow family history explorers

For In-Library access, click here or on the image below.  In-Library use works on our computers and on laptops connected to our wi-fi.

Find a Grave

Find a Grave is the best place on the internet to look for burial and other final disposition information for your family, friends and famous people. The site provides tools that let people from all over the world work together, share information and build an online, virtual cemetery experience.

At Find a Grave you’ll find details about cemeteries and individual memorials for many people buried in those cemeteries. Memorials generally include birth, death and burial information and may include pictures, biographies, family information and more. Members can contribute what they know and can leave remembrances via ‘virtual flowers’ on the memorials they visit, completing the virtual cemetery experience.

Search Massachusetts Cemeteries or search Cemeteries anywhere!

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