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*[http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/index.html Clayton Library Internet site] collections, research, services, events, FAQs, and history.<br> | *[http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/index.html Clayton Library Internet site] collections, research, services, events, FAQs, and history.<br> | ||
*[https://halan.sdp.sirsi.net/client/hou Houston Public Library Online Catalog] by title, author, subject, series, call number, ISBN /ISSN, Lexile number, or government document number. <br> | *[https://halan.sdp.sirsi.net/client/hou Houston Public Library Online Catalog] by title, author, subject, series, call number, ISBN /ISSN, Lexile number, or government document number. <br> | ||
*[http://houstonlibrary.org/genealogy Genealogy databases] 24 including Ancestry, FamilySearch, HeritageQuest, Fold3, and newspapers. <br> | *[http://houstonlibrary.org/genealogy Genealogy databases] 24 including Ancestry, FamilySearch, HeritageQuest, Fold3, and newspapers. <br> | ||
=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
One of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas and adjoining states.<ref name="DB107">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 107. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> USA and state materials, Texas and Houston area death records including funeral home records, censuses, passenger arrival lists, manuscripts, International resources for Europe, Canada, and Mexico, military records, family histories, periodicals, maps, family history vertical files, and Family History Library Affiliate Program. | One of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas and adjoining states.<ref name="DB107">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 107. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> USA and state materials, Texas and Houston area death records including funeral home records, censuses, passenger arrival lists, manuscripts, International resources for Europe, Canada, and Mexico, military records, family histories, periodicals, maps, family history vertical files, and Family History Library Affiliate Program.<ref name="Coll">[http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/collections.html Collections] at ''Clayton Library Center for Genealogy Research'' (accessed 26 October 2013).</ref> Their special collections includes 25 major genealogical collections, such as the Barbour, Blake, Draper Manuscript, and Vosburgh collections, Loredo Archives, and Nacagdoches Archives.<ref name="SpColl">[http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/collections_special-collections.html Special Collections] at ''Clayton Library Center for Genealogy Research'' (accessed 26 October 2013).</ref> | ||
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