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Ancestry.com. Répertoire principal de biographies et généalogies [base de données en ligne]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.Données originales : Gale Research Company. Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Detroit, MI, USA: Gale Research Company, 2008.
Répertoire principal de biographies et généalogies
Cette base de données est un index compilé de millions d'américains profilés dans des volumes de biographies collectives tels que Who's Who in America, Women of Science, Who's Who of American Women, National Cyclopedia to American Biography, Directory of American Scholars, et American Black Writers. Elle comprend des renseignements originellement publiés au début des 19e et 20e siècle. En plus de fournir le nom de la personne, ses dates de naissance et de décès (si disponibles), la référence au document source est comprise.
Millions of Americans have been profiled in collective biography volumes such as Who's Who in America and Women of Science. The Biography and Genealogy Master Index was begun in the 1970s to index these names to aid researchers. The text has been updated periodically since the first edition appeared in 1980, most recently in 2017. The index, compiled by Mirana C. Herbert and Barbara McNeil, concentrates heavily on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to providing the individual's name, birth, and death dates (where available), the source document is included. Sources for this index vary from Who's Who of American Women and National Cyclopedia to American Biography to Directory of American Scholars and American Black Writers. This database is an essential tool for locating persons who appeared in a "Who's Who" publication in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
