Biographical Resources

• Standard Biographical Resources in the Yale Stacks (Yale site) 
• Pre-1800 European Book Trade Personnel (Yale site)
• World Biographical Information System
• Biography Reference Center
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• American National Biography
• Gale Literary Index
• Authority Tools for Audiovisual & Music Catalogers
• Oxford Music Online (includes Grove)
• Oxford Art Online (includes Grove)
• Getty Union List of Artists' Names
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (for architects' obituaries) 
• American Friend Obituary Index
• Newspaper Obituaries
• Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress
• Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
• UMI Dissertation Express
• Social Security Death Index
• Index to the Neue Deutsche Biographie & the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
• Personal Names and Naming from an Anthropological-Linguistic Perspective by Ndlovu Sambulo (e-book)

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