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[[Sons of the American Revolution|National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution]] • [[National Archives at Atlanta]]{{·}}  [http://kdla.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives]{{·}} [https://filsonhistorical.org/library/ Filson Historical Society Library]{{·}}  [[Kentucky Historical Society]]{{·}} [http://thebookplace.org/ Boyd County Public Library]{{·}} [https://www.dcplibrary.org/ Daviess County Public Library]{{·}} [[Eastern Kentucky University Library]]{{·}} [https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genealogy Kenton County Public Library]{{·}} [https://www.lexpublib.org/kyroom Lexington Public Library]{{·}} [https://libguides.murraystate.edu/special_collections_index Murray State University Pogue Library]{{·}} [http://libraries.uky.edu/lib.php?lib_id=13 University of Kentucky King Library]{{·}} [https://www.wku.edu/library/information/departments/dlsc/ Western Kentucky University Library Special Collections]{{·}} [[Allen County Public Library]]{{·}} [[Bristol Public Library]]{{·}} [[Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library]]{{·}} [[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]]{{·}} [[University of Chicago Library]]{{·}} [[Virginia Historical Society]]{{·}} [[Wisconsin Historical Society]]

[[Sons of the American Revolution|National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) Genealogical Research Library]]<br>809 West Main St.<br>Louisville, KY 40202<br>Phone: 502-589-1776<br>[https://www.sar.org/library_contact_form/ Contact form]<br>[https://www.sar.org/ Website]<br>[https://www.sar.org/sar-library-catalog/ 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.

:National Archives at Atlanta has records from over 100 federal agencies and courts in '''Kentucky''', Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Also includes Vice Admiralty Courts of SC, evolution of federal courts, Revolutionary War, Civil War, reconstruction, World Wars I and II, and space exploration. Microfilms for censuses, diplomatic missions, military service records, bounty-land applications, passenger arrivals, naturalizations, American Indians, and African Americans.<ref name="DB127">William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 127-28. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Book 973 J54d}}.</ref>

:*The state '''archives''' maintains original Kentucky government records and other historical documents. Many of these repositories’ records are being microfilmed, and copies are being sent to the Family History Library.<br>

The library is a FamilySearch Affiliate, and as such, may contain copies of various microfilms from the vast collection held by the Salt Lake City-based Family History Library for temporary use at the Kentucky Historical Society.<br>

'''[[Eastern Kentucky University Library]]'''<br>Crabbe Library<br>Special Collections and Archives<br>521 Lancaster Ave.<br>Richmond, KY 40475<br>Phone: 859-622-1790<br>Fax: 859-622-1174<br>TTY: 859-622-6594<br>[https://libanswers.eku.edu/form.php?queue_id=1233 Contact form]<br>[http://www.library.eku.edu/ Website] <br>

:They have a relatively small family folder collection. Nevertheless, it is an important resource for settlers coming from '''''Pennsylvania, Maryland''''', and northern '''''Virginia''''' &nbsp;along the [[Great Valley Road]] into '''''Tennessee, Kentucky''''', and '''''North Carolina'''''.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 105.</ref><br><br>

:A small library with a good name index to nearly every history book published in '''''Virginia&nbsp;''''' or '''''Kentucky''''', including court records from 1651, indexes and abstracts, Virginia vital records, census records, county histories, biographies, church and cemetery records, family histories, newspapers, obituaries, vertical files, militia records, and fraternal organizations.<ref name="DB113" /> <ref>[http://www.mbwm.org/genealogy.asp Genealogy and History Library] in ''Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br><br>

:Holds the Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including the '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' which is equivalent to the ''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]]&nbsp;'' but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of '''''Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia''''', and '''''West Virginia&nbsp;''''' families.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> <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><br><br>

:The '''[[Draper Manuscript Collection|Draper Collection]]''', consists of 491 volumes of manuscripts, papers, and books collected by '''''Lyman Copeland Draper&nbsp;''''' about the history of the trans-Allegheny West in the United States, a region including the western areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, all the Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the 1740s to 1830. This includes New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, '''Kentucky''', Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin.<br><br>

*Ellen Garrison, ''Archives in Appalachia: A Directory''. (Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985). {{WorldCat|12712710}}; {{FHL|497048|item|disp=FHL book 975 A3a}}. The record covers the states of Georgia, '''Kentucky''', North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The record is arranged alphabetically by state, then by the name of the repository. Each entry lists the archive, its address, phone number, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, what subjects are covered by the collection, and the size of the collection. There are two indexes: Record type, and Subject, with reference numbers corresponding to the repository. Also included is a list, under “Coming Attractions,” of agencies that do not currently collect manuscript materials but plan to do so in the future. <br><br>