The Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon, offers “Biographies”, an amazing resource of all types of biography references including specific biographical topics such as:
- African Americans
- Artists, musicians & performers
- Astronauts
- Athletes
- Authors
- Heroes
- Hispanics
- Inventors
- Mathematicians
- Native Americans
- Nobel Prize laureates
- Pioneers
- Scientists
- Suffragists
- Trappers, traders, and mountain men
- Women
- Women of the West
You never know where you might find a relative’s biography, and this is also another way of finding out more about the people who lived, invented, wrote, explored, and discovered during your ancestor’s lifetime.
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