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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
They have a relatively small family folder collection. Nevertheless, it is an important resource for settlers coming from '''''Pennsylvania, Maryland''''', and northern '''''Virginia''''' | They have a relatively small family folder collection. Nevertheless, it is an important resource for settlers coming from '''''Pennsylvania, Maryland''''', and northern '''''Virginia''''' along the [[Great Valley Road]] into '''''Tennessee, Kentucky''''', and '''''North Carolina'''''.<ref name="DB105">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 105. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> Their collections includes a file for local cemeteries, and local history file, regional history books, county courthouse records, family histories, Civil War records, censuses and census indexes. Emphasis is primarily on Tennessee and Virgina, and to a lesser degree on Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. The library is less than its own length away from the Tennessee-Virginia state line, so their collection reflects both states well.<ref>[http://www.bristol-library.org/Resources/GenealogyLocal-History Genealogy/Local History] in ''Bristol Public Library'' (accessed 21 February 2014).</ref> | ||
=== Guides === | === Guides === | ||
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*[http://www.roanokeva.gov/WebMgmt/ywbase61b.nsf/DocName/$virginiaroom Roanoke County Public Library], VA, very good for southwest Virginia, including family folders, books, genealogies, and indexes.<ref name="DB113" /><br> | *[http://www.roanokeva.gov/WebMgmt/ywbase61b.nsf/DocName/$virginiaroom Roanoke County Public Library], VA, very good for southwest Virginia, including family folders, books, genealogies, and indexes.<ref name="DB113" /><br> | ||
*[[Handley Regional Library]], Winchester, VA, records of Germans and Scots-Irish who traveled the [[Great Valley Road]] from Penn. to Virginia, including manuscripts, newspapers, biographies, and histories.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> | *[[Handley Regional Library]], Winchester, VA, records of Germans and Scots-Irish who traveled the [[Great Valley Road]] from Penn. to Virginia, including manuscripts, newspapers, biographies, and histories.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> | ||
*[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]], Santa Cruz, Calif., the SCGS's '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' is equivalent to the ''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]] | *[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]], Santa Cruz, Calif., the SCGS's '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' 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> | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library], Salt Lake City, | *[https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-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.<ref>Based on updated statistics from [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library] in ''FamilySearch Research Wiki'' (accessed 31 December 2013).</ref> | ||
'''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | '''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | ||
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