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=== Contact Information === | === Contact Information === | ||
''' | '''Email:''' [mailto:contact@chattlibrary.org contact@chattlibrary.org] (Broad Street general inquiries), [mailto:localhistory@lib.chattanooga.gov localhistory@lib.chattanooga.gov] (Local History & Genealogy Department)<br> | ||
[https://chattlibrary.org/contact/ '''Contact Us'''] Contacts for staff and multiple branch locations <br> | |||
'''Address:'''< | '''Address:'''<br> | ||
:1001 Broad Street<br> | :1001 Broad Street<br> | ||
:Chattanooga, TN 37402<br><br> | :Chattanooga, TN 37402<br><br> | ||
'''Telephone:''' | '''Telephone:''' 423-757-5310<br> | ||
'''Hours | [https://chattlibrary.org/contact/ '''Hours'''] | ||
'''Map and public transportation:'''<br> | '''Map and public transportation:'''<br> | ||
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*CARTA City Buses: [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route15.pdf #15 St. Elmo] buses stop next to the library on Broad Street. Routes [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route1.pdf 1], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route2.pdf 2], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route4.pdf 4], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route10a.pdf 10A], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route10c.pdf 10C], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route10g.pdf 10G], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route13.pdf 13], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route16.pdf 16], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route19.pdf 19], and [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route21.pdf 21] stop within two blocks on Market St. near 10th St. | *CARTA City Buses: [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route15.pdf #15 St. Elmo] buses stop next to the library on Broad Street. Routes [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route1.pdf 1], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route2.pdf 2], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route4.pdf 4], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route10a.pdf 10A], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route10c.pdf 10C], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route10g.pdf 10G], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route13.pdf 13], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route16.pdf 16], [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route19.pdf 19], and [http://www.carta-bus.org/maps/route21.pdf 21] stop within two blocks on Market St. near 10th St. | ||
'''Internet sites and databases:''' <br> | '''Internet sites and databases:''' <br> | ||
*[ | *[https://chattlibrary.org/ Chattanooga Public Library] books, kids, teens, local history, 4th floor, events, resources, and services.<br> | ||
*[ | *[https://catalog.chattlibrary.org/?browseCategory=main_new_fiction CPL Catalog] search by keyword, subject, title, author, or series. <br> | ||
=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
Includes the Upper South's largest family folder collection which is heavy on '''''North Carolina'''''.<ref name="DB85">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 85. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{ | Includes the Upper South's largest family folder collection which is heavy on '''''North Carolina'''''.<ref name="DB85">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 85. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FSC|728550|item|disp=FS Library Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> Internet genealogy databases, censuses, newspapers, obituary index, county records, 30,000 books, manuscripts, and genealogical periodicals.<ref>[https://chattlibrary.org/resources-genealogy/ Local History and Genealogy Department] in ''Chattanooga Public Library'' (accessed 11 February 2014).</ref> | ||
=== Tips === | === Tips === | ||
[https://chattlibrary.org/local-history-and-genealogy/ Local History & Genealogy] materials and services. | |||
=== Guides === | === Guides === | ||
=== Alternate Repositories === | === Alternate Repositories === | ||
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*[[National Archives at Atlanta]] records of federal agencies and courts for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, censuses, ships lists, naturalizations, Indian records, and military records.<ref>[http://www.archives.gov/atlanta/finding-aids/genealogy.html Checklist of Records Available for Research into Family History at NARA's Southeast Region] in ''National Archives'' (accessed 13 February 2014).</ref> | *[[National Archives at Atlanta]] records of federal agencies and courts for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, censuses, ships lists, naturalizations, Indian records, and military records.<ref>[http://www.archives.gov/atlanta/finding-aids/genealogy.html Checklist of Records Available for Research into Family History at NARA's Southeast Region] in ''National Archives'' (accessed 13 February 2014).</ref> | ||
*[[Tennessee State Library and Archives]], Nashville, African Americans, vital records,censuses, county records, tax lists, local histories, school censuses, manuscripts, military records, Native Americans, newspapers, obituary lists, maps, state agency records, petitions, Tennessee postcards, city directories, prison inmates, and TN county historians.<ref>[http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/Collections.htm Research and Collections] in ''Tennessee Archives and Libraries'' (accessed 23 May 2010).</ref> | *[[Tennessee State Library and Archives]], Nashville, African Americans, vital records, censuses, county records, tax lists, local histories, school censuses, manuscripts, military records, Native Americans, newspapers, obituary lists, maps, state agency records, petitions, Tennessee postcards, city directories, prison inmates, and TN county historians.<ref>[http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/Collections.htm Research and Collections] in ''Tennessee Archives and Libraries'' (accessed 23 May 2010).</ref> | ||
'''''Similar Collections'''''<br> | '''''Similar Collections'''''<br> | ||
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*Bristol Public Library, Bristol, VA, not a big library, but important for finding families traveling the [[Great Valley Road]] into Tennessee and Kentucky.<ref name="DB105" /> | *Bristol Public Library, Bristol, VA, not a big library, but important for finding families traveling the [[Great Valley Road]] into Tennessee and Kentucky.<ref name="DB105" /> | ||
*[[Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research|Clayton Library]], Houston, TX, censuses, military, passenger lists, periodicals, family histories, maps, Texas and Southern U.S. records, veritcal files, British vital records index, German, Canadian records.<ref>[https://houstonlibrary.org/research/special-collections/clayton-library-center-genealogical-research Collections] in '' Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research'' (accessed 4 January 2021).</ref> | *[[Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research|Clayton Library]], Houston, TX, censuses, military, passenger lists, periodicals, family histories, maps, Texas and Southern U.S. records, veritcal files, British vital records index, German, Canadian records.<ref>[https://houstonlibrary.org/research/special-collections/clayton-library-center-genealogical-research Collections] in '' Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research'' (accessed 4 January 2021).</ref> | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/ | *[https://www.familysearch.org/en/library/ FamilySearch Library], Salt Lake City, UT, holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | ||
*[[Library of Virginia]], Richmond, large genealogy collection including births and deaths 1853-1896, marriages before 1936, histories, biographies, newspapers, Bibles, and huge manuscript collection (about half online), military and Civil War records, deeds, wills and other court records.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> <ref name="VDH">[http://www.vdh.state.va.us/vital_records/gene.htm Genealogy] in ''Virginia Department of Health'' (accessed 4 January 2014).</ref> Many early Tennessee settlers were from Virginia and North Carolina.<br> | *[[Library of Virginia]], Richmond, large genealogy collection including births and deaths 1853-1896, marriages before 1936, histories, biographies, newspapers, Bibles, and huge manuscript collection (about half online), military and Civil War records, deeds, wills and other court records.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> <ref name="VDH">[http://www.vdh.state.va.us/vital_records/gene.htm Genealogy] in ''Virginia Department of Health'' (accessed 4 January 2014).</ref> Many early Tennessee settlers were from Virginia and North Carolina.<br> | ||
*[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]], CA, holds the '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' which is equivalent to the ''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]] '' but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of '''''Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia''''', and '''''West Virginia ''''' families.<ref name="DB85" /> <ref>[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ The Tina Brayton Collection] in ''Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County'' (accessed 3 January 2014).</ref> | *[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]], CA, holds the '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' which is equivalent to the ''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]] '' but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of '''''Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia''''', and '''''West Virginia ''''' families.<ref name="DB85" /> <ref>[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ The Tina Brayton Collection] in ''Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County'' (accessed 3 January 2014).</ref> | ||
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