A-Z Resources

Advocate, Historical & Current - Search digitized news articles in The Advocate, Stamford Advocate, and Daily Advocate in historic and contemporary issues. (Covers 1829-present)

Ancestry Library Edition - Comprehensive international genealogical database containing billions of names, with information taken from thousands of resources and collections.

Ben's Guide - Learn about Ben Franklin’s experiences as a printer, statesman, librarian and inventor.

Biography Reference Bank - Narrative profiles of almost a million individuals, taken from the H.W. Wilson Biographical Series and other authoritative reference works and from leading journals and magazines.

ConneCT kids portal to all things Connecticut.

Connecticut Digital Collections - Large collection of Connecticut primary source materials, with digitized texts, maps, photographs, paintings, letters, and images of museum artifacts.

HeritageHub provides access to hundreds of years of obituaries and death notices from thousands of newspapers across the United States. This one-of-a-kind collection helps patrons and family historians uncover new family members and understand family relationships on a deeper level than ever before.

National Geographic for Kids - Web companion to the popular kids magazine, this site has information, games, quizzes, videos and more.

Learn how to access digital media on Hoopla, Libby (OverDrive) and Kanopy. There are also tutorials for Consumer Reports, Tutor.com, Ancestry.com and many more online resources.

Search the Obituary Index for notices printed in the Stamford Advocate newspapers since 1830. Text of obituaries are available through our digitized archive at Newsbank (1829-present).