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E-mail:[1] Ask Us Via Email
Address:[2]
- 1221 N. Central Ave.
- Phoenix, AZ 85004
Telephone:[3] 602-262-4636
Hours and holidays:[4]
- Mon, Fri, Sat - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Tue, Wed, Thu - 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Sun - 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Map, directions, and public transportation:
- Directions
- From the North. Take Interstate 17 south to the Jefferson Street exit. Turn left (east) onto Jefferson Street (it's a one-way street) and drive approximately one-half mile to 19th Avenue and turn right (south), then right (west) onto Madison. Entrance to parking is on the left (south).
- From the East. Take Interstate 10 west to the 19th Avenue exit. Turn left (south) onto 19th Avenue and go approximately one and one-half mile to Madison, then turn right (west). At this point you will see parking on the left in front of the building.**From the South.Take Interstate 17 north to the 19th Avenue exit. Turn right (north) onto 19th Avenue and go approximately 1 mile to Madison and turn left (west), at which point you will see parking to your left in the front of the building.
- From the West. Take Interstate 10 east to Interstate 17 south to the Jefferson Street exit. Turn left (east) onto Jefferson Street (it's a one-way street) and drive approximately one-half mile to 19th Avenue and turn right (south), then right (west) onto Madison. Entrance to parking is on the left (south).
Internet sites and databases:
The Phoenix Public Library, Burton Barr Central Library has an Arizona history collection which is a good place for genealogy research.[5] The Arizona Room includes Spanish American War Rough Rider correspondence and news clippings, Arizona city directories, Arizona high school yearbooks, 1870-1930 U.S. federal censuses, Arizona newspaper and periodical indexes, maps, and federal government records.[6] Phoenix Public Library is also a depository for U.S. Government documents.
If you cannot visit or find a source at the Phoenix Public Library, Burton Barr Central Library, a similar source may be available at one of the following.
Overlapping Collections
- National Archives—Pacific Region (Riverside), CA. Federal court records and federal agencies in Arizona.
- State Library, Phoenix, has a large book/periodical collection including immigration, vital records, courts, wills, county histories, and Internet sites. The starting place for AZ family history research.[5]
- State Archives, Phoenix, marriages, wills and probates, civil and criminal records, brands, taxes, coroner records, voting registers, prisoners, state agencies, maps, newspapers, photos.[7]
- Bancroft Library, Univ. Calif. Berkeley Early settlers, migration trails, stagecoaches, miners, and histories. They probably have more Arizona historical material than any repository in Arizona.[5]
- Southwest Museum Braun Research Library, Los Angeles, CA. Includes the Monk Library of Arizoniana, California and Arizona history, and records of southwest American Indians.[5]
- Family History Library, Salt Lake City, has many Arizona cemeteries, census, church, court, histories, immigration, land, military, and naturalization records on microfilm.
Similar Collections
Neighboring Collections
- Mesa FamilySearch Library, Mesa, 81,000 microfilms including AZ censuses, 40,000 books (many local histories), 129 public computers, and over 90 classes and workshops per month.[5]
- Arizona State University Library, Tempe, a good place to look for early Arizona families.[5]
- West Valley Genealogical Society, Youngstown, an active society with a good little library. Probably represents outside Arizona better because of retirees who contribute from all around the U.S.[5]
- Maricopa County Office of Vital Registration births 1950-present; and deaths.
- Maricopa County Superior Court Clerk marriages, criminal, civil, divorces, probate and tax court cases.
- Maricopa County Recorder's Office land and mortgage records 1871-present.
- U.S. District Court civil, criminal, appellate, and bankruptcy cases.
- Maricopa Historical Society, Wickenburg, exhibits and publications.
- Arizona Jewish Historical Society, Phoenix, exhibits and genealogical classes.
- Repositories in surrounding counties: Gila, La Paz, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai, and Yuma.
- Arizona Historical Society, Tucson Library and Archives, has a Mexican and an early Arizona collection, Colorado River topics, manuscripts 1860-present, oral histories, maps, and photos.[5]
- University of Arizona Special Collections, Tucson, materials on Arizona, Southwest American history, and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, including rare books, manuscripts, and photographs.[5]
- Northern Arizona University Cline Library, Flagstaff, includes Arizona history, Arizona photographs, archives, and oral histories.[5]
- Repositories in surrounding states (or nations): California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah; in Mexico: Baja California, Sonora, and Mexico.
- California State Archives, Sacramento, has county records of the state, such as court records, prison records, wills, deeds, as well as military records, state census records, and school records.
- Nevada State Library and Archives, Carson City, births, marriages, deaths, censuses, military.
- New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe, government records since 1621, manuscripts, Catholic church records, census, wills, family histories, letters, diaries, maps, photos.
- Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City, newspaper, death, land, court, history, naturalization, military, directories, criminals.
- Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City, church, civil, census, court, history, military, migration, land.
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