Databases and Other Online Resources

AccuQuote.com allows you to search hundreds of top rated providers and provides half a dozen quotes for you to pick from.

Links to Freedmen's bureaus, emigrants to Liberia, state archives, slave entries in wills, etc. Links to articles, many specialized postings.

A site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general.

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A comprehensive database covering the most important individuals, events, and topics in US history. The thousands of entries include biographies, maps, timelines, primary source documents, and images. Extensive overview essays provide detail on each time period.

Portraits of more than 17,400 men and women from all eras and walks of life whose lives have shaped the nation.

More than 1500 searchable databases. Guides to searching genealogical records. Message board for queries.

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Ancient and Medieval History Online provides thorough coverage of nine civilizations—ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, ancient and medieval Asia, and Islamic Empire. Covering prehistory through the 1500s, this authoritative online database features a user-friendly interface. Users can research each civilization in depth or use the browse feature to conduct comparative studies of events and developments across civilizations.

Still a popular search engine

Links with cemetery pages, other  organizations with cemetery interests and preservation groups. Book reviews. Frequently asked questions page.

Pdf from the New Jesey Department of Banking and Insurance

One of the most comprehensive lemon law sites on the Internet. Links to state lemon laws, the Uniform Commercial Code and Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act are on this site.

Independent, objective financial information. Manage your credit, watch market rates, check your financial institution, calculate your loan payments, do on-line banking and "Master The Basics" a collection of in-depth how-to information on financial issues.

Contains consumer and business information on scam alerts, accuracy in advertising, charity monitoring and marketplace complaints and inquiries. Includes a directory of BBB offices in the U.S. and Canada.

Investment charting and research site

A commercial site featuring ratings of online stores based on direct customer feedback. Lets consumers comparison shop for price and quality.

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Bloom's Literature features content from Facts On File's extensive print literature collection, hundreds of Harold Bloom's essays examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, and thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism imprint. This accessible database also contains an archive of more than 46,000 characters; extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, genres, and authors; almost 200 video segments; and more. Handy browse and search features include in-text links, record links, and numerous options for further research. Entries can be browsed by time period within American, British, and world literature; by author type; by literary genre; by nationality; by an A-to-Z list; and by subject for images and videos. Author biographies link to a list of major works, and works are linked to a list of principal characters.

Dedicated to assisting people with their British family history research.

Company Profiles; Country Reports; Industry Profiles; Market Research Reports

A popular business research database, featuring the full text for more than 2,200 journals. Full text is provided back to 1965, and searchable cited references back to 1998.

Learn how to buy a car and avoid scams, extended warranty scams, tips, buying a warranty direct, a guide to discount car buying, car secrets, car buying books and magazines and a free spreadsheet download area.

Users can search for jobs by location and occupation and can register with a virtual placement agency; also has a link for employers to post jobs.

A career resource center which partners with other sites for job information. Testing and advice are also offered.

Directory of over 6,000 links to jobs, career services and related topics.

An "educational project of The Battery Conservancy. This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened."

Home page of the Central Jersey Genealogical Club. Includes meeting schedules, links to genealogy pages/information, and the ability to post a “local inquiry” (Central Jersey Genealogical Club does not conduct research).

Excellent site for tracking down long lost friends that you went to school with or relatives who may have registered with the site. Free registration required to use this service.

The widely-acclaimed Complete Directory for People with Disabilities is an invaluable resource for all those committed to empowering individuals with disabilities. All those with a disability, from vision problems to physical disabilities to asthma, will find ways in this Directory to succeed at work, in school, and in their community.

Contains publications grouped by topics. Choose any of the topics listed to narrow your search for a specific publication.

Site has links to 1200 consumer resources.

Rates and analyzes products including electronics, sports & leisure. office, house & home, kitchen, health, automotive, and lawn & garden.

This site is becoming the top destination on the Net for savings both on-line and off-line. Includes retailers, restaurant chains, travel providers and online merchants. Serving currently 2.5 million shoppers.

Curriculum Resource Center gives teachers fast access to thousands of easily reproduced handouts to supplement text and lesson plans used in middle school, high school, and junior college classrooms. This expansive collection of maps, full-color diagrams, images, experiments, timelines, and other visual educational resources is conveniently arranged. Each handout can be saved, emailed, printed, or distributed for educational purposes. “How to Cite” guidance includes examples of full citations in MLA, 7th Edition; Chicago Manual of Style; and APA styles.

New Jersey genealogy sites on the Internet by category.

Learn how to exercise your rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act — and how to recognize debt-related scams and frauds.

This resource brings together both venture capital and private equity organizations into one comprehensive guide. This new edition has been extensively updated, offering valuable, current, and detailed information to individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesses worldwide.

Locate magazine articles on a wide range of topics including general reference, business, financial and health related magazines.

Check out new and used car and truck prices, review, road tests, safety information and consumer advice.

A downloadable digital media collection provided by libraries in central New Jersey (formerly ListenNJ).

This is a version of the Britannica specifically geared toward the needs of Young Adults.

This resource covers the role and influence of African American cultural leaders, from all walks of life, from the 18th century to the present.

Rates and analyzes products including electronics, sports & leisure, office, house & home, kitchen, health, automotive, and lawn & garden.

The Education Resource Information Center provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.

This site has employment links to jobs overseas for many countries; also contains housing and education opportunities.

An "information solutions" company. Whether that’s through pre-screen for credit offers, sophisticated fraud prevention systems, database development and  analysis, specialized lists, or customized mailings, it's here to provide decision support to you at every step of the way.

Links to over 70,000 websites organized by categories. Message boards for queries.

"Fast-teks offers a full range of IT solutions to meet your entire business and personal needs."

Provided by the Federation of Genealogical Societies. Fee charged for membership. Information on over 500 genealogical societies, conferences, etc.

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The critically acclaimed Ferguson's Career Guidance Center features exclusive, wide-ranging content that is accessible and intuitively organized. Known for its unprecedented depth of coverage and variety of user-friendly content formats, this comprehensive career research database is broken down into three main sections: Job and Industry Profiles, Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills, and Career and Industry Resources. The material is drawn from a range of authoritative sources and is extensively indexed.

This is a downloadable music service featuring 8 million songs in a wide variety of genres, ranging from classical to today’s hot hits

Details about your rights under the FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) and the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act, which established the free annual credit report program.

Comprised of:
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students

Comprised of: Biography: Contemporary Black Biography; Contemporary Musicians; Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation, 2010; Business: Business Plans Handbook; Education: College Bluebook, 2011 & 2012; Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans: A Guide to Education-Related Financial Aid Programs for Students and Professionals, 2011 & 2012 eds.; Environment: American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America: Eastern region, 2011; General Reference: Digital Photography Essentials, 2011; Essential World Atlas, 2011; Literature: Novels for Students; Poetry for Students; Short Stories for Students; Drama for Students; Multicultural Studies: Contemporary Black Biography; Travel: Alaska, 2010; Boston, 2011; California, 2010; Chicago, 2010; Florida, 2010.

"Are you fed up with the hassle of disassembling your PC and hauling it to a repair shop every time it needs service-only to wait a week or more to get it back? Our trusted technicians will come directly to your home to solve your computer troubles right on-the-spot. Simply call us to select an appointment time to fit your schedule. We offer same-day and after-hours service."

Are you looking for a speaker? Planning your next conference, all-day seminar, or yearly lecture schedule? The Speakers Guild Directory was created for you.

Links to vital records, cemeteries, obituaries and more.

An online bulletin board where you can post questions or messages about your family and read replies from others interested in the name.

A free inside look at jobs and companies. Find jobs and see company salaries, reviews, and interviews – all posted anonymously by employees.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. (Via JerseyClicks.)

[To connect from home: Click on PUBLIC LIBRARY barcode login link.] What did people eat, wear, use? What did they hope, invent, sing? We spend most of our lives preoccupied with mundane but essential things. Our activities rarely rise to the level of greatness, and that was true in the past as well. If we are to understand history, we must look at people's everyday lives. Greenwood Daily Life Online brings history up close by providing award-winning content in an authoritative and accessible database.

Includes more than 585 educational videos on a wide range of health topics, more than 1,100 searchable and browsable color illustrations, and a “Health in the News” section with regularly updated health news articles.

This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide.

Download audiovisual material including music, comic books, and video productions.

Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of  subjects, such as Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.

"Irish Roots provides guidelines for finding your Irish Ancestry and information on the origins of Irish Surnames."

Links that concentrate on patterns and customs of Jewish heritage - including discussion groups, research links, organizations, etc.

JRD Tech provides New Jersey with Computer Repair NJ, Onsite Computer Repair NJ (In-home), laptop repair nj, and malware / virus removal. We service all computer / laptop makes and models including all Apple Mac, iMac, Macbook. Microsoft Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7) and OSX.

The Mid-Continent Public Library's Juvenile Series and Sequels database contains over 36,000 books in 4,900 series titles that are classified into three audiences: Juvenile Easy [JE] – for birth through 2nd grade readers; Juvenile [J] – for 2nd through 6th grade readers; Young Adult [YA] – for 6th through 12th grade readers

Provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.

Lexis® Research System provides the most expansive collection of online content available anywhere and the tools you need to extract the essentials from the overwhelming amount of information available. Spend less time searching, more time developing your strategies with LexisNexis.

A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

Founded in 1995

Mango is a fun, easy to use online language-learning system that teaches actual conversation skills for 6 different languages including English as a second language for speakers of Spanish and for speakers of Mandarin Chinese. It's so easy to use, you'll see incredible results after just one lesson!

Provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. Also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags.

Provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags.

This is an excellent tool for comparing Medicare Part D prescription drug policies. You can check out premiums and co-pays for Part D plans.

Find out who is conducting genealogy research on Mercer County and let others know what families you are interested in researching on this site. Great source for local Mercer County history.

Popular middle school database

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites

Locate, research and apply for jobs world-wide. Also has career advice and job fair information.

Investment Research Database

Find out what your car is worth or get insurance quotes on the NADA website. Additional information on lemon laws.

As the nation's largest financial counseling organization, the NFCC Member Agency Network includes more than 700 community-based offices located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. NFCC Member Agencies provide financial counseling and education to millions of consumers each year in person, over the phone, or online.

The department of the devolved Scottish Administration responsible for the registration of births, marriages, deaths, divorces and adoptions in Scotland.

Noted for its thoughtful, up-to-date, reliable and careful compilation, Nations of the World offers political, economic and business information on all the nations of the world in an easy-to-use, single source.

The first stop for most job seekers in New Jersey. The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

View all the current job vacancies in the Civil Service database.

Health care related jobs with New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services are listed here.

Do you have a consumer question, issue or complaint? Assistance is available from the New Jersey Department of Consumer Affairs.

Forum for genealogists to post New Jersey genealogy information and queries. This forum is presented by Genealogy.com.

Browse thousands of help wanted ads in the Trenton Times, Star-Ledger and many other NJ papers; also job openings are arranged by area of NJ.

Links to genealogical resources the State Library has to offer.

Receive electronic newsletters notifying you of when library materials, in a range of categories including the latest book and movie releases, are available for requests.

This site allows New Jersey workers to file a new claim for Unemployment Insurance Benefits or reopen an existing Unemployment Insurance claim over the Internet.

NoveList K-8 is a database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers. Includes nonfiction works.

NoveList Plus is the premiere database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

This database is designed for one of America's largest growing populations, with resources to help aging Americans lead happy and productive lives. It includes nearly 10,000 listings, two glossaries and three indexes.

Surf safely by getting the lowdown from this FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection site.

Personal Finance articles from eHow.

A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles.

Popular elementary school database.

General IT Services; Data Recovery; Virus & Spyware Removal; Networks; Computer Repair/Upgrades (Mac and PC); Web Development; Consulting. Housecalls in the following areas: Princeton, Princeton Junction, West Windsor, Plainsboro, Skillman, Hopewell, Pennington, Lawrenceville.

Professional Development Collection includes full text for more than 500 high-quality education journals.

The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable.  Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).

Find recruiters for your profession using this site.  Resumes can be posted by job seekers.

This comprehensive database offers content from a variety of sources, including an inclusive collection of images, health reports, and full text for reference books and general interest magazines in a broad array of subject areas. Additionally, the resource covers a full spectrum of Spanish-language scholarships inside and outside academia.

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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Links to many sites and files, some with descriptions. Links to many USGenWeb sites. Surname and US county resources indexes.

This site, created by the American Bar Association, will help you order safely when shopping online

Comprised of: Magill's Medical Guide; Genetics and Inherited Conditions; Infectious Diseases & Conditions.
To access this database from home:
Click on the second tab for Remote Access Login
Enter the password: mercercols (the password is not case sensitive)

Comprised of: Critical Insights: James Baldwin; Critical Insights: Toni Morrison; Critical Insights: John Steinbeck; Critical Insights: Tennessee Williams; Masterplots.
To access this database from home: Click on the second tab for Remote Access Login Enter the password: mercercols (the password is not case sensitive)

This new third edition of Speeches of the American Presidents includes over 220 of the most important speeches by all 45 presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Donald J. Trump.

Comprised of:
Earth Science: Earth Materials and Resources
Earth Science: Earth’s Weather, Water, and Atmosphere
Encyclopedia of Energy
Encyclopedia of Global Warming
To access this database from home: Click on the second tab for Remote Access Login Enter the password: mercercols (the password is not case sensitive)

Offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of useful formats. Organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by national and state science education standards. High-quality print, email, reduce-and-enlarge-text, and save-to-folder capabilities, plus a help page, are also available.

This database offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as the necessary tools and instructions to address a wide-range of small business topics. In addition, it provides business videos, a help and advice section, and information on how to create business plans.

Clear explanation of what archives are. Information on donating materials to archives. Primarily of interest to archivists.

Allows visitors to explore the extraordinary collection of immigrant arrival records stored in the Ellis Island Archives.

"Wirecutter is a list of the best gear and gadgets for people who want to save the time and stress of figuring out what to buy. Whatever sort of thing you need—tableware or TV or air purifier—we make shopping for it easy by telling you the best one to get."

This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch™ contains full text for over 140,000 articles from nearly 260 diverse sources including international newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

Regulatory agency that administers the Federal Securities Law. Using the EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval) search, you can find all filings made by public companies and mutual funds. The SEC also provides investor education and assistance, as well as on-line investing tips.

Site hosted by the United States Office of Personnel Management, has links to federal job vacancies throughout the United States, including Federal Civil Service Test Announcements. Every vacancy in the United States Government is on this site.

Promoting Service in Central New Jersey

Covers minimum wage, overtime, hours worked, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Child Labor regulations, etc.

People Search. Find Contact Information on yourself or anyone else.

Working Americans 1880-2017 Volume VIII: Immigrants, Second Edition illustrates what life was like for families leaving their homeland and creating a new life in the United States.

World Geography and Culture Online enhances the study of countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills. This comprehensive reference site makes it easy to study all aspects of a country, with facts at a glance and in-depth coverage through country entries, maps, flags, images, statistics, news articles, a gazetteer, and more. In addition, comprehensive entries about the U.S. states are also available. Ideal for history and geography classrooms and projects as well as for general country and U.S. state research, this online resource features an easy-to-navigate interface, search and browse tools, and tabbed search results.

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