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| [[Albany Institute of History and Art]]{{·}} [[Allen County Public Library]]{{·}} [[Bennington Museum Research Library]]{{·}} [[Brattleboro Historical Society History Center]]{{·}} [[Brooks Memorial Library]]{{·}} [[Columbia County Historical Society]]{{·}} [[Martha Canfield Library Russell Collection]]{{·}} [[National Archives at Boston]]{{·}} [[New England Historic Genealogical Society]]{{·}} [[University of Vermont Bailey/Howe Library]]{{·}} [[Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society]]{{·}} [[Vermont Historical Society Leahy Library]]{{·}} [[Vermont Old Cemetery Association]]{{·}} [[Vermont State Archives]]{{·}} [[Vermont State Library]]

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[[Image:NARA Boston.jpg|thumb|280px|<center>National Archives at Boston (in Waltham MA)</center>]]

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:This National Archives branch collects Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and '''Vermont''' documents, photos, and maps of 80 federal agencies, War of 1812, fortifications, coastal facilities, World War II research at Harvard and MIT, federal bankruptcy courts, First Circuit Court of Appeals, Navy, Coast Guard, westward expansion, ethnology, genealogy, Revolutionary War, Civil War, captured German records, territorial papers, censuses, passenger arrival records for Boston and New England, and Canadian border crossings.<ref name="DB124">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 124. {{WorldCat|39493985}}. {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref><br>

| [[Image:Vermont Historical Society.jpg|border|thumb|280px|<center>Vermont Historical Society in Barre</center>]]

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:*Brigham, Loriman S. ''Guide to the "Miscellaneous File" of Uncatalogued Material in the Vermont Historical Society: With a Supplementary Index to the Guide.'' Montpelier, Vermont: n.p.,1969. {{WorldCat|679814}}; {{FHL|256180|item|disp=FHL book 974.3 A3b; film 908069, item 20; fiche 6046847}}. This card index of persons, places, and subjects includes family histories and court, business, and land records. The family histories listed may have genealogies, pictures, military records, financial family papers, and correspondence.  

:*Brigham, Loriman S. ''A Calendar of Manuscripts in Certain Boxes at the Vermont Historical Society.'' Montpelier, Vermont: n.p., 1970. {{WorldCat|679715}}; {{FHL|256212|item|disp=FHL book 974.3 A3br; film 908503 item 1}}. This is a continuation of the above guide.  

:*Brigham, Loriman S. ''A Calendar of Manuscripts in Document Boxes at the Vermont Historical Society''. Montpelier, Vermont: n.p., 1972. {{WorldCat|865949996}}; {{FHL|256206|item|disp=FHL book 974.3 A3bri; film 908503 item 2}} This is a continuation of the above guide.<br><br>

:They have original state, county, and town records at all levels of government from all over Vermont.<ref name="DB111" /><br><br>

:Large collection of books with many periodicals and a great historical reference collection.<ref name="DB111" /><br><br>

[[Image:Bennington Museum.jpg|thumb|280px|<center>Bennington Museum</center>]]

:Their collection includes early Connecticut, New York, and Vermont records. It is a great place to find records of families that moved up the Connecticut River and then west.<ref name="DB25" /><br><br>

:A good regional library with many genealogies, family folders, books, periodicals, maps, indexes, cemeteries, and obituaries.<ref name="DB111" /><br><br>

:A very big collection of genealogy books, periodicals, family folders, genealogies, newspapers, obituaries, biographies, and many indexes to genealogical material.<ref name="DB111" />  Website contains links to some important genealogical websites in their Databases collection.<br><br>

:They have collected many rare books and unique genealogical sources about early Vermont residents. '''''The Russell Collection is open for research on Tuesdays, or call for an appointment'''''.<ref name="DB111" /><br><br>

:Their holdings include Vermont local histories, oral histories, and Civil War sources.<ref name="DB111" /><br><br>

:Reference books, manuscripts, periodicals and microfiche, published "repertoires" of church record baptisms, marriages, and burials.<ref>[http://www.vtgenlib.org/library/index.php Vermont Genealogy Library] in ''Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Library'' (accessed 22 September 2015).</ref> They have a library and research facilities at Dupont Hall at the Fort Ethan Allen complex, Colchester, Vermont.<br><br>

:Statewide coverage of most cemetery records for all of Vermont including great indexes.<ref name="DB111" /><br><br>

[[Image:Albany Institute of History and Art.png|border|thumb|280px|<center>Albany Institute of History and Art NY</center>]]

:This is the best collection of indexes and original records for "old" Albany County, New York, part of which included what is now all of Vermont. During the 1600s many families which started in Connecticut later migrated into '''Vermont''' and upstate New York.<ref name="DB25">Dollarhide and Bremer, 25.</ref><br><br>

[[Image:Allen County Public Library.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Allen Co Public Lib IN]]

:Allen County Public Library is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_County_Public_Library Allen County Public Library] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> and the largest genealogy collection in a public library. Its holdings include more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microfilm and microfiche.<ref name="ACPLGC">[http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ Genealogy Center] in ''Allen County Public Library'' (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> It has a premier genealogical periodical collection, local histories, genealogies, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic sources, and Canadians. They have a great '''Vermont''' collection.<ref>[http://www.genealogycenter.org/docs/default-source/resources/aboutusbrochure.pdf?sfvrsn=2 Genealogy Center Collections] in ''Genealogy Center'' (accessed 27 February 2015).</ref> <br><br>

:They have many '''Vermont''' vital records, newspapers, and town histories. The AAS is best known for their U.S. newspaper collection of over 18,000 bound volumes 1704-1820, history, genealogy, Bibles, maps, biography, directories, Native Americans, women, canals, railroads, photos, and manuscripts.<ref name="DB59">Dollarhide and Bremer, 59.</ref><br><br>

:The Barbara P. Reilly Memorial Library has a large collection of family folders for early settlers, including many from '''Vermont''' and New England (Columbia County is on the Hudson River along the main route from New England into upstate New York).<ref name="DB111" /><br><br>

[[Image:NEHGS Newbury Street.jpg|thumb|215px|<center>NEHGS 101 Newbury St in Boston</center>]]

*''A Guide to Vermont’s Repositories.'' Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont State Archives, 1986. {{FHL|491531|item|disp=FHL book 974.3 A3g}} {{WorldCat|13729364|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}} This guide gives addresses, phone numbers, brief descriptions of holdings, years covered, hours, copying facilities, and whether they accept mail-in requests. It includes an index.  

*Leclerc, Michael J., editor. ''Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research''. Boston, Massachusetts&nbsp;: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. {{FHL|1967587|disp=FHL book 974 D27g 2012}} {{WorldCat|779626228|disp=At various libraries(WorldCat)}}<br><br>

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