Hi Michael,

The resources that I found the most useful are FantasticFiction.com (https://www.fantasticfiction.com/) and Ancestry.com. The former is helpful in finding book series and authors that are similar to the ones that patrons have been reading. The latter is valuable because it contains primary documents (like the U.S. Census) that mentions people from the past and even a complete family tree.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Emily Blakowski