GRL.COM is your Gateway to People Living in the Past (or Present) anywhere in the world.

Search billions of People on the web or in rare eBooks

Welcome to the future of searching on the internet. When you join our library and become a member, you have two immediate benefits:

(1) You can search more successfully than ever before.

Our research team has studied more than 250,000 sources of information to find the most valuable for you. We provide instant access to free lists and databases. For the first time you know the kind of information you will receive, even before you look. 

We also rank each source of information, showing the most useful and valuable sources first.  GRL presents you with a new way of searching, and it's unique. There are no ads on our website, and nobody can influence our ranking decisions. It's totally designed to be honest and straight-forward. There is no website that matches our current information sources and variety.

(2) You can build a rare book library in your own home. 

We also provide you with instant access to more than 10,000 rare books, scattered all over the world in rare book libraries. You can read these books, or print out pages that interest you, or download books onto your own computer. Some of these books are true "antiques", originally published hundreds of years ago.

The original books would have cost a fortune. All these books are now at your fingertips. Never before has research been this good. Join us today and watch the sources and book collections grow. Whether your interest is history, genealogy, or even searching for someone living in the world today, here is where you have instant access.

GRL is the easiest and most efficient website for research, whether you are searching for ancestors, or searching for information about a historical person, or place.

For more complete details, please read "How to Search" from the menu at the top of this page.