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 === Collection Description  ===
-{''Please briefly '''describe the strengths and weaknesses''' of each collection for genealogists (about two or three sentences for smaller collections).<ref>Source 2.</ref> For example, explain the collection size, who (which ethnic, political, or religious groups) are covered, dates covered, jurisdictions covered, record types available, significant indexes, and any noteworthy record loss or gaps.<ref>Source 3.</ref>''}
+The Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States<ref>"Allen County Public Library" in ''Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_County_Public_Library (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> with more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microform.<ref>"Genealogy Center" in ''Allen County Public Library'' at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> Users in Fort Wayne also have access, for a small fee, to over 2 million additional microfilms from the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City. ACPL is the creator of the [[Periodical_Source_Index_(PERSI)|Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]] based on their premier collection of French-Canadian and English-language genealogical and local history periodicals (5,100 current subscriptions).<br>
+Major online databases at ACPL include: Ancestry.com{{·}} African American Heritage{{·}} Footnote.com{{·}} HeritageQuestOnline.com{{·}} Historical Detroit Free Press{{·}} NewEnglandAncestors.org{{·}} Origins Network-British, Irish, and Scots{{·}} Paper of Record-Historical Newspapers{{·}} WorldVitalRecords.com.
+ACPL has over 50,000 family histories, all federal, and many state and territorial censuses, city directories, passenger lists, military records, nearly 200,000 local histories, the Boston Transcript, colonial newspapers of VA, MD, and PA, native American, African American, Canadian, British, and German collections. For more details see [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ Genealogy Center] and the [http://webcat.acpl.lib.in.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/fwfMIpEDQw/MAIN/820466/60/1180/X ACPL catalog].<br>
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