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+*[http://kdl.kyvl.org/?f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=archival+material Kentucky Digital Library]—daybooks, journals, letters, and manuscripts.[[Image:NARA Atlanta.jpg|thumb|right|280px|National Archives at Atlanta (in Morrow)]]
-*[http://kdl.kyvl.org/?f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=archival+material Kentucky Digital Library]—daybooks, journals, letters, and manuscripts.[[Image:NARA Atlanta.jpg|thumb|right|280px|National Archivess at Atlanta (in Morrow)]]<br>
 *[http://kdl.kyvl.org/ Kentucky Digital Library], Search digital images of more than a million items from the Bluegrass State, including books, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, oral histories, yearbooks and pictures.
 [http://directory.advantage-preservation.com/SiteDirectory Advantage Archives] - Currently seven Kentucky counties (Adair, Clark, Clinton, Green, Meade, Russell, and Wayne) have partnered with Advantage Archives to offer free digital archives of their historical community newspapers. In addition to newspapers, Meade County also has a court orders book, a deed book and a will book
-===National Repositories===
+==National Repositories==
+=== National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), Genealogical Research Library ===
+West Main St.
+Louisville, KY 40202
+Telephone: 502-589-1776
+E-mail: https://www.sar.org/library_contact_form/
+Internet: https://www.sar.org/
+Catalog: https://www.sar.org/sar-library-catalog/
+This national genealogical research library houses over 55,000 items, including family histories, local, county and state records. The Library also houses an archival collection containing both institutional and Revolutionary period items. The SAR Library is a Family Search Affiliate library and also provides onsite patrons with FREE access to Ancestry Library Edition, Heritage Quest, Fold3, and American Ancestors (NEHGS). The online catalog allows you to see what is available - with many titles connected to e-book editions through their corresponding catalog record.
+The Library is open to the general public for $5 admission per day with FREE admission to Friends of the SAR Library (FOL); SAR members and their spouses; members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Children of the American Revolution (CAR), and Sons of the Revolution (SR). The SAR Library is a non-circulating, reference facility only.
+The library is currently operating ''by appointment only'', M-F, 9:30am-4:30pm.
+'''[https://sarpatriots.sar.org/ Search the Patriot Research System (PRS)]'''
+The SAR Patriot Research System (PRS) database can be accessed freely by anyone and consists of a combination of the previous SAR Patriot Record Index, the SAR Revolutionary War Graves Registry, and information from the SAR Patriot Index CD (2002), plus additional information and updates from various state grave registry databases and patriot biographical sketches submitted to tell the story of our patriot ancestors. This [https://www.sar.org/genealogical-copy-services/ link] will take you to order forms where you can order previously verified SAR membership and supplemental applications using their Record Copy service. Ancestry.com has an index to ''U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-197''0 with digital copies of the applications available to view on their website.
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