Allen County Public Library: Difference between revisions

===Contact Information===

:Fort Wayne, IN 46802 <br>

*[http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=900%20webster%20street%2C%20fort%20wayne%2C%20in%2046802 Directions (Google map)] <br>

*[https://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ Allen County Public Library Internet Site], locations, hours, events, newsletter, research, services.<br>

*[http://alpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/genealogy/search/advanced? ACPL Genealogy Center Catalog] searches just the holdings in the Genealogy Center; can be useful when planning a research trip

*[https://acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy ACPL Genealogy Center], getting started, programs, county-state-international links, research topics, databases, brochures, research or article request forms, pathfinders.

===Collection Description===

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> and the largest genealogy collection in a public library. Its holdings include more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microfilm and microfiche.<ref name="ACPLGC">"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 more than 2 million additional microfilms from the [https://www.familysearch.org/en/library/ FamilySearch Library] in Salt Lake City. ACPL creates the [[Periodical Source Index (PERSI)|Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]], a subject index to genealogy and local history periodicals from all over the United States and Canada, including French Canadian journals. PERSI is created from the Center's premier collection of more than 5,100 current genealogy periodical subscriptions, as well as runs of numerous ceased serial titles.  

During its nearly 50-year history, the Genealogy Center has been the recipient of a number of grants and many monetary and materials donations, large and small, from individuals. However, it remains overwhelmingly funded by local county taxes. The local chapter of the DAR and the [http://www.acgsi.org/ Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana] have been supportive in a variety of ways throughout the Center's history.  

*Do your "homework" before visiting the Genealogy Center. Gather basic information about your family - names, dates and places - from home sources and by interviewing relatives.

*[http://www./genealogy/overview.html Newberry Library] a large Chicago repository with genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, &amp; British Isles.<br>

*[[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]], Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and extensive newspaper clippings.

*[[Library of Congress]], Washington, DC, [http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ Local History and Genealogy Reading Room] is part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, rich in collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources<br>

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