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==== Portsmouth Public Library ==== | ==== Portsmouth Public Library ==== | ||
'''[[Portsmouth Public Library]]'''601 Court Street<br>Portsmouth, VA 23704<br>Telephone: 757-393-8501<br>E-mail: [http://www.portsmouth-va-public-library.com/ask-a-librarian/ Ask a Librarian form]<br>Website: [http://www.portsmouth-va-public-library.com/blog/genealogy-your-library/ Portsmouth Public Library]<br> | '''[[Portsmouth Public Library]]'''601 Court Street<br>Portsmouth, VA 23704<br>Telephone: 757-393-8501<br>E-mail: [http://www.portsmouth-va-public-library.com/ask-a-librarian/ Ask a Librarian form]<br>Website: [http://www.portsmouth-va-public-library.com/blog/genealogy-your-library/ Portsmouth Public Library]<br><br> | ||
:A good solid genealogical collection. Materials about Portsmouth and Norfolk counties and surrounding areas of southeastern Virginia, including births, marriages, deaths, cemeteries, genealogies, memoirs, scrapbooks and notebooks of Portsmouth families and organizations, photos, Civil War, Jeffrey T Wilson – 1924 "Colored Notes" index and articles from Portsmouth Star newspaper; Bertha Edward - Notes on Portsmouth Black History; African American Historical Association of Portsmouth records, and high school yearbooks.<ref name="DB113" /> <ref>[http://www.portsmouth-va-public-library.com/local-history-collection/ Local History] in ''Portsmouth Public Library'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br><br> | :A good solid genealogical collection. Materials about Portsmouth and Norfolk counties and surrounding areas of southeastern Virginia, including births, marriages, deaths, cemeteries, genealogies, memoirs, scrapbooks and notebooks of Portsmouth families and organizations, photos, Civil War, Jeffrey T Wilson – 1924 "Colored Notes" index and articles from Portsmouth Star newspaper; Bertha Edward - Notes on Portsmouth Black History; African American Historical Association of Portsmouth records, and high school yearbooks.<ref name="DB113" /> <ref>[http://www.portsmouth-va-public-library.com/local-history-collection/ Local History] in ''Portsmouth Public Library'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br><br> | ||
==== Roanoke County Public Library ==== | ==== Roanoke County Public Library ==== | ||
'''[[Roanoke County Public Library]]'''706 S. Jefferson Street<br>Roanoke, VA 24016<br>Telephone: 540-853-2073<br>E-mail: [mailto:virginiaroom@gmail.com virginiaroom@gmail.com] <br>Website: [http://www.roanokeva.gov/85256A8D0062AF37/vwContentByKey/N27C83Z8562WALNEN Virginia Room] | '''[[Roanoke County Public Library]]'''706 S. Jefferson Street<br>Roanoke, VA 24016<br>Telephone: 540-853-2073<br>E-mail: [mailto:virginiaroom@gmail.com virginiaroom@gmail.com] <br>Website: [http://www.roanokeva.gov/85256A8D0062AF37/vwContentByKey/N27C83Z8562WALNEN Virginia Room]<br><br> | ||
:Wonderful southwest Virginia collection of family folders, books, genealogies, and indexes.<ref name="DB113" /> Open by appointment, the Virginia Room comprehensively collects materials for the Roanoke Valley, for Virginia, and for closely associated states, including surname files, photos, vertical files and oral histories. The [[Great Valley Road]] forked here toward Knoxville, Tennessee, and toward Augusta, Georgia. Some families stayed-over in the area before moving on to Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia.<ref>[http://www.roanokeva.gov/85256A8D0062AF37/CurrentBaseLink/N27C83Z8562WALNEN Virginia Room] in ''Roanoke, Virginia'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br><br> | :Wonderful southwest Virginia collection of family folders, books, genealogies, and indexes.<ref name="DB113" /> Open by appointment, the Virginia Room comprehensively collects materials for the Roanoke Valley, for Virginia, and for closely associated states, including surname files, photos, vertical files and oral histories. The [[Great Valley Road]] forked here toward Knoxville, Tennessee, and toward Augusta, Georgia. Some families stayed-over in the area before moving on to Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia.<ref>[http://www.roanokeva.gov/85256A8D0062AF37/CurrentBaseLink/N27C83Z8562WALNEN Virginia Room] in ''Roanoke, Virginia'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br><br> | ||
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:Virtually a second state archives with a large genealogical collection, colonial records, federal, private, and state manuscripts, vital records, censuses, maps, military records, newspapers, periodicals, African American genealogy, and computer databases.<ref name="DB113" /> <ref>[http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/content.php?pid=81921&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;sid=608081 Genealogy] in ''University of Virginia Library'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br> | :Virtually a second state archives with a large genealogical collection, colonial records, federal, private, and state manuscripts, vital records, censuses, maps, military records, newspapers, periodicals, African American genealogy, and computer databases.<ref name="DB113" /> <ref>[http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/content.php?pid=81921&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;sid=608081 Genealogy] in ''University of Virginia Library'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br> | ||
:*University of Virginia Library, ''Virginia Genealogy: A Guide to Resources in the University of Virginia Library'' (Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1983). {{WorldCat|8494964|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|76157|item|disp=FHL book 975.5 D23u}}.<br> | :*University of Virginia Library, ''Virginia Genealogy: A Guide to Resources in the University of Virginia Library'' (Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1983). {{WorldCat|8494964|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|76157|item|disp=FHL book 975.5 D23u}}.<br><br> | ||
=== Out of State Repositories === | === Out of State Repositories === | ||
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==== Santa Cruz Public Library ==== | ==== Santa Cruz Public Library ==== | ||
[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]]<br>224 Church Street<br>Santa Cruz, California 95060 <br>Telephone: 831-427-7707 ext. 5794<br>E-mail: [http://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/askscpl/ E-mail reference service form]<br>Website: [http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/ Santa Cruz Public Library]<br> | [[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]]<br>224 Church Street<br>Santa Cruz, California 95060 <br>Telephone: 831-427-7707 ext. 5794<br>E-mail: [http://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/askscpl/ E-mail reference service form]<br>Website: [http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/ Santa Cruz Public Library]<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]] '' but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of '''''Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee''''', and '''''West Virginia ''''' families.<ref name="DB113" /> <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> | :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]] '' but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of '''''Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee''''', and '''''West Virginia ''''' families.<ref name="DB113" /> <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> | ||
'''Family History Centers'''. Some of the collections described above are at least partially available on microfilms at the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City, and through thousands of its branch Family History Centers. For further information see [[Introduction to LDS Family History Centers]]. To locate a center near you, see [http://familysearch.org/locations/centerlocator Find a Family History Center]. | '''Family History Centers'''. Some of the collections described above are at least partially available on microfilms at the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City, and through thousands of its branch Family History Centers. For further information see [[Introduction to LDS Family History Centers]]. To locate a center near you, see [http://familysearch.org/locations/centerlocator Find a Family History Center].<br><br> | ||
=== Guidebooks === | === Guidebooks === | ||
*Ellen Garrison, ''Archives in Appalachia: A Directory '' (Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985). {{WorldCat|12712710|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|12712710|item|disp=FHL Book 975 A3a}}. For Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, arranged alphabetically, each entry shows the archive, address, phone, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, subjects, and size of the collection. Indexed by record type, and by subject. | *Ellen Garrison, ''Archives in Appalachia: A Directory '' (Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985). {{WorldCat|12712710|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|12712710|item|disp=FHL Book 975 A3a}}. For Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, arranged alphabetically, each entry shows the archive, address, phone, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, subjects, and size of the collection. Indexed by record type, and by subject.<br><br> | ||
=== References === | === References === | ||