Ancestry Library Edition for DoD Libraries

This contract was awarded on a Sle-Source basis. See attached J&A for further details.

Ancestry Library Edition for DoD Libraries is innovative information content and technologies increase the productivity of students, scholars, professionals and the libraries that serve them. Ancestry is a highly respected genealogical resource that is exclusively distributed to libraries by ProQuest. Ancestry Library Edition is the largest online family history resource available. The collection is the largest, most-popular, and best-known genealogical website.

Product characteristics an equal item must meet to be considered:

- Shall work with the contract POC to establish authentication methods to provide optimal accessibility for all eligible patrons. 

- Shall be able to interface with all 4 service branch libraries and Military OneSource websites using industry standard authentication methods to ensure only eligible patrons can access resources from any internet connected computer browsers and mobile devices.

- Shall provide genealogical tools such as charts, summaries, calendars, black research forms and message boards with in-depth tutorials, videos, how to wiki and online research support.

- Shall add new content and/or updates on an ongoing basis, 80% of content must be owned and not from third party vendors.

- Shall include Special U.S. Census Records Collection, with indexed images, 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules, Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940, Selected Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880,U.S. Special Census on Deaf Family Marriages and Hearing Relatives, 1888-1895,U.S. City Directories Collection (1821-1989) with indexed images, 1.5M records, U.S. Probate and Wills Collection (mid-1800s-2008) with indexed images, 232Mrecords, Africa, Asia & Europe Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons (1946-1971),with indexed images, 1.7M million records, Europe, Registration of Foreigners& German Individuals Persecuted (1930-1947) with indexed images, 10M records, U.S. Navy Muster Rolls (1940-1963) with indexed images, 2.4M records, U.S. Federal Census: 1880 Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes

- Shall provide searchable obituaries for millions of pages of historical newspapers with the name index and important metadata

- Shall have several billion records, several million family trees, a robust US Census & immigration resource, every-name indexes for 1790-1940, military records, holocaust related records, international records for the 60+ countries (including U.K., Canada & other areas).

- Website certificates should be RSA2048-bits (SHA256withRSA)

- Must have HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with long duration deployed on the servers to mitigate/prevent man-in-the-middle attacks

- Must be able to supply or allow retrieval of database usage statistics by Branch of Service (Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Military OneSource/Other, and Navy)

- Security between the Website and server must be Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3

This notice is not a request for competitive quotations. See attached J&A for more information.

Awarded contract FA805225Q0007 to PROQUEST LLC for 879642.65 on 2025-09-25.