Biography and genealogy gale press

With more than 22 million citations, the Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) is the most comprehensive electronically searchable index of its kind.

Available on the Gale Directory Library platform, BGMI’s simple user interface allows users to quickly locate biography content, including primary and variant names, birth, and death years, and index citations for over 6 million people, both living and deceased, from more than 2,000 years of human history, across the world and areas of human endeavor.

The BGMI database is continuously expanding, with more than 100,000 new and updated records added annually, pointing to over 7,600 sources, including biographical dictionaries; literary criticisms; historical and subject-specific encyclopedias; Who’s Who titles; genealogical, government, and historical publications; as well as many other newly published and newly discovered sources.

In support of Gale’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative, BGMI has recently