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'''E-mail:'''<ref name="Locatio">Allen County Public Library, "Locations" at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/locations/index.html (accessed 9 February 2010).</ref> &nbsp;[mailto:genealogy@acpl.info genealogy@acpl.info] <br>'''Blog:''' [http://www.genealogycenter.org/Community/Blog.aspx ACPL blog] <br>'''Facebook:''' [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fort-Wayne-IN/Genealogy-Center/189683797012 ACPL Facebook page]<br>'''Address:'''<ref name="Locatio" />

 

:900 Library Plaza

 

'''Telephone:''' 260-421-1225<br>'''Website:''' [http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx ACPL Website]  

 

'''Hours:'''  

 

*Mon, Tue, Wed, Thur: 9am-9pm; Friday, Saturday: 9am-6pm; Sunday*: Noon-5pm <br>

*For holiday schedule, [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/home/aboutus/hours click here]. <br>

 

'''Directions and public parking map:'''<ref name="Locatio" />

 

*[http://www.genealogycenter.org/docs/default-source/resources/parking.pdf?sfvrsn=2 Parking map] <br>

 

'''Internet sites and databases:''' <br>  

 

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

*[http://alpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/default/ ACPL Catalog Online]{{WC}} by keywords, author, title, subject, series, magazines, or ISBN. Also available in [http://www.WorldCat.org WorldCat]. <br>

*[http://www.genealogycenter.org/ ACPL Genealogy Center], getting started, programs, county-state-international links, research topics, databases, brochures, research or article request forms, pathfinders.

 

Major online subscription databases at ACPL that patrons may use onsite include: Ancestry.com{{·}} African American Heritage{{·}} Footnote.com{{·}} HeritageQuestOnline.com{{·}} AmericanAncestors.org{{·}} Origins Network-British, Irish, and Scots{{·}} Paper of Record-Historical Newspapers{{·}} and WorldVitalRecords.com.<ref name="ACPLGC" />  

The Genealogy Center primarily is a North American collection, with a complementary focus on British Isles and some German materials. It also holds guidebooks, methodology works, heraldry titles and similar items of general focus for other countries. ACPL has more than 50,000 family histories, nearly 200,000 local histories, a significant number of North Carolina records on microfilm, and numerous important collections such as the Draper Manuscripts, the Drouin Collection, the Barber Collection, and many National Archives microfilm collections. The Genealogy Center also has significant resources for Native American and African American research. Specifically, the [http://www.genealogycenter.info/africanamerican/ African American Gateway] is a database of several thousand links to African American resources on the Internet, coupled with a bibliography of resources for African American research in the Genealogy Center's holdings. A large collection of early city directories on microfilm complements the hundreds of post-1960 print directories obtained by the Genealogy Center as a repository for the Polk Directory Company. For more details see [http://www.genealogycenter.org Genealogy Center] and the [http://alpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/default/ ACPL Genealogy Center catalog].  

Those who cannot visit the Genealogy Center in person may need copies from specific sources held by the Center, broader research done in the collection, or copies of articles found by searching the Periodical Source Index (PERSI). The Genealogy Center has a Research Center arm that provides these services and long-distance patrons may use the [http://www.genealogycenter.org/pdf/QuickSearchRequest.pdf Quick Search], [http://www.genealogycenter.org/pdf/ResearchServicesRequest.pdf Research Request] and [http://www.genealogycenter.org/pdf/ArticleRequest.pdf Article Request] forms on the Center's website to request copies or research.  

===Tips for Your Visit===

*It also helps to prepare by using the [[Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]] at [http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/persi HeritageQuestOnline] available at many U.S. public libraries. The Genealogy Center creates PERSI and therefore has all of the periodical titles referenced in it. Some periodical call numbers are available in PERSI; others may be obtained by searching the library's catalog using the title of the journal.

*ACPL, [http://www.genealogycenter.org/pdf/AboutUsBrochure.pdf ''The Genealogy Center:&nbsp;A Tradition of Excellence''] (brochure).

*Cavanaugh, Karen B. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6133917 ''A Genealogist’s Guide to the Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Public Library'']. Owensboro, Kentucky: McDowell Pub., 1980. ({{FHL|129067|title-id|disp=FHL Book 977.274/F1 A3c}})

*Henderson, Harold. [http://www.midwestroots.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ACPLGC-April-2013.pdf "Finding Ancestors in Fort Wayne: The Genealogist's Unofficial One-Stop Guide to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center"]], ''Midwest Roots''. April 2013 edition (booklet, 26 p)

*[http://www.newberry.org/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>

*[https://www.slcl.org/genealogy St. Louis County Library], mostly Missouri, but includes St. Louis Genealogical, and National Genealogical Society's collections, online databases, federal censuses, African American records, access to FamilySearch microfilms.<br>

*[[Family History Library|Family History Library]], Salt Lake City, 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 pertaining to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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