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Biography and Genealogy Master Index  A licensed electronic resource whose off-campus use is restricted to Boise State University students, staff, and faculty holding a valid Network or BroncoWeb login & password.
There are more than 700 biographical dictionaries and Who's Who resources listed in this index. Use it to search for sources of biographical information in reference books.


Biographical Dictionary
"Covers more than 33,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day." S9.com is a wikipedia type system.


Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-
Search members of Congress by name, position, state or territory, party, year or congress. Entries include links to known research collections and an extended bibliography.


Biography Center
Search or browse over 11000 biographies in English (fewer in French, Spanish and German) provided by European Servers (SARL).


Biography.com
A&E Television Networks' site provides about 27,000 biographical entries 23,000 of which are from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.


Nobelprize.org
Official online source of Nobel Prize information. Awarded annually since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for peace (Economic Sciences was added in 1968) Nobelprize.org contains information on all 770 Prize Winners to date (2004). Here you get to know the Prize Winners through biographical sketches, Nobel Lectures, interviews, speeches, articles, and much more.


OmniBiography.com
A portal to sites in all languages, OmniBiography.com tracks more than 110,000 important people from antiquity to the present time. Search or browse by name and by geography.


Local


FARRIT: Finding All Resources Relating to Idaho Topics
Includes a guide to "Finding Obituaries in Idaho" and a bibliography of "Notable Idahoans" (Many sources of which Albertsons Library will own--check the Library Catalog)


Idaho Statesman Obituary Index, 1977-
A guide to the location of obituaries in issues of the Idaho Statesman newspaper from 1977 to the present. Issues of the newspaper are available locally at Boise Public Library and Albertsons Library on the Boise State University campus.

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