--- title: Using the NEHGS catalog from home description: Have you wished that you could use NEHGS library resources from home? Have you wondered where to find copies of genealogies online? image: https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/2014-Anne-Meringolo-blog-image-300x208-1.jpg --- # [Vita Brevis A resource for family history from AmericanAncestors.org](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. # Using the NEHGS catalog from home [February 21, 2014](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2014/02/using-nehgs-catalog-from-home) [News](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/news), [Spotlight](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/spotlight), [Research Methods](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/research-methods), [Research tips](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/research-tips) [Anne Meringolo](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/author/ameringolo) [![Clarke family online](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/2014-Anne-Meringolo-blog-image-300x208-1.jpg?width=300&height=208&name=2014-Anne-Meringolo-blog-image-300x208-1.jpg "Clarke family online")](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/2014-Anne-Meringolo-blog-image-1.jpg)Have you wished that you could use NEHGS library resources from home?  Have you wondered where to find copies of genealogies online?  You can do this by starting with the [NEHGS library catalog.](http://library.nehgs.org)  Staff and dedicated volunteers have been working to add links to freely available e-books as well as to genealogies and items from our manuscript and book collections for members to use. Start with a search in the library catalog on your topic and you will find all the resources we have here in the library.  But if you then modify your search to items online you’ll see things you can use when you’re not here with us on Newbury Street. Searching for the Clark family retrieves [*The descendants of Nathaniel Clarke and his wife Elizabeth Somerby, of Newbury, Massachusetts*](http://library.nehgs.org/record=b1000747~S0)***, ***with a [link to the book in the Internet Archive](http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofnat1902clar#page/n5/mode/2up).  The [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/), along with [Hathi Trust Digital Library](http://www.hathitrust.org/), [Google Book](http://books.google.com/), and [FamilySearch Books](https://books.familysearch.org), is a great place to search for online books published before 1923. Now out of copyright, these books are available for use without restrictions. Links to newer material are also available through our catalog. [*Genealogy of the family of Miller of England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa *by Larry M. Wilson* *(1995)](http://library.nehgs.org/record=b1021750~S0) has [a link](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15969947W/Genealogy_of_the_family_of_Miller_of_England_Massachusetts_Connecticut_Vermont_New_Hampshire_and_Iow) to [Open Library](https://openlibrary.org/) where you can “borrow” the book by signing up for an account.  Use of these newer books is limited to one user at a time, and the loan period is two weeks. If you are an NEHGS member, there are even more resources available for you to use from home.  Search again for the Clark family, and by logging into the library catalog as a member you can access [pages from the *Bible record for the Joseph Clark family, 1802-1920*](http://library.nehgs.org/record=b1073884~S0), a guide to the [Clark family papers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society ](http://library.nehgs.org/record=b1057762~S0)(the manuscript collection itself, which is not digitized, is only available for use in the library), and a link to the [NEHGS database *Haring-Herring, Clark, Denton, White, Griggs, Judd, and Related Families*](http://library.nehgs.org/record=b1091354~S0). In addition, as a member you can be informed of new items added to the NEHGS collection in your field of interest by setting up a preferred search for weekly notification of anything new – [http://library.nehgs.org/screens/help_preferred_search.html](http://library.nehgs.org/screens/help_preferred_search.html). While nothing beats an in-person visit to the society, we know you can’t always do that, so we are always searching for ways to deliver our collections and services to you at a distance. ### Share this: - [mailto:?body=https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2014/02/using-nehgs-catalog-from-home](mailto:?body=https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2014/02/using-nehgs-catalog-from-home) - - - More - - ![Anne Meringolo](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported%20images/meringolo-400.jpg) ## About Anne Meringolo Anne Meringolo was the Library’s Technical Services Manager until 2020, where she managed the acquisition, cataloging, and preservation of the library’s collection as well as the integrated library system and online catalog. 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