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'''Directions, maps, and public transportation:'''<ref>"Directions to the Newberry Library" in ''Newberry Library'' at http://www.newberry.org/general/directions.html (29 October 2010).</ref><br> | '''Directions, maps, and public transportation:'''<ref>"Directions to the Newberry Library" in ''Newberry Library'' at http://www.newberry.org/general/directions.html (29 October 2010).</ref><br> | ||
*For neighborhood map, [http://www.newberry.org/general/localmap.html click here]. | |||
*For neighborhood map, [http://www.newberry.org/general/localmap.html click here]. | |||
*For bus, subway, and car parking directions, [http://www.newberry.org/general/directions.html click here]. | *For bus, subway, and car parking directions, [http://www.newberry.org/general/directions.html click here]. | ||
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The Newberry Library is a private, non-circulating library free and open to the public. It is a research library for humanities and social sciences with 1.5 million books, 5 million manuscript pages, and 500,000 maps. This includes good American Indian, railroad archives, Chicago history, and cartography collections.<ref>Wikipedia Contributors, "Newberry Library" in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newberry_Library (accessed 29 October 2010).</ref> | The Newberry Library is a private, non-circulating library free and open to the public. It is a research library for humanities and social sciences with 1.5 million books, 5 million manuscript pages, and 500,000 maps. This includes good American Indian, railroad archives, Chicago history, and cartography collections.<ref>Wikipedia Contributors, "Newberry Library" in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newberry_Library (accessed 29 October 2010).</ref> | ||
One of its strongest collections is genealogy with 17,000 published '''genealogies''' of New England and colonial America, and British gentry and nobility. The library collects church, town, county, and state '''histories''', from all parts of America, Canada, and the British Isles, including comprehensive New England town histories. It has Ancestry and HeritageQuest subscriptions for '''census''' indexes, all federal census microfilms 1790-1850, and Midwest states to 1880; book indexes through 1850 and most of 1860. The collection also includes 1855 and 1865 Illinois '''state censuses''', and scattered other states and Canadian provinces. They have birth, marriage, death, probate, deeds, court, tax, and cemetery '''abstracts and indexes''' from the Mississippi Valley to the eastern seaboard, Canada, and British Isles. American Civil War '''military''' unit histories, rosters and pension lists of colonial wars through the Civil War, and scattered records from later wars are also available. Regarding the Internet, the Newberry Library has '''database subscriptions''' including Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest On-line, IrishOrigins.com, New England Ancestors, and Footnote.com. They also have a significant American, Canadian, and British genealogical '''periodicals''' collection, and the [[Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]] for family history researchers. | One of its strongest collections is genealogy with 17,000 published '''genealogies''' of New England and colonial America, and British gentry and nobility. The library collects church, town, county, and state '''histories''', from all parts of America, Canada, and the British Isles, including comprehensive New England town histories. It has Ancestry and HeritageQuest subscriptions for '''census''' indexes, all federal census microfilms 1790-1850, and Midwest states to 1880; book indexes through 1850 and most of 1860. The collection also includes 1855 and 1865 Illinois '''state censuses''', and scattered other states and Canadian provinces. They have birth, marriage, death, probate, deeds, court, tax, and cemetery '''abstracts and indexes''' from the Mississippi Valley to the eastern seaboard, Canada, and British Isles. American Civil War '''military''' unit histories, rosters and pension lists of colonial wars through the Civil War, and scattered records from later wars are also available. Regarding the Internet, the Newberry Library has '''database subscriptions''' including Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest On-line, IrishOrigins.com, New England Ancestors, and Footnote.com. They also have a significant American, Canadian, and British genealogical '''periodicals''' collection, and the [[Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]] for family history researchers.<ref>"Overview of Newberry Library's Genealogy Collections" in ''Newberry Library'' at http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/overview.html (29 October 2010).</ref> | ||
=== Tips === | === Tips === | ||
*Bring a valid photo I.D. needed to apply for a readers card, necessary to research at the Newberry Library. Must be age 16. | *Bring a valid photo I.D. needed to apply for a readers card, necessary to research at the Newberry Library. Must be age 16.<ref>"Who is eligible to do research at the Newberry Library? FAQ" in ''Newberry Library" at http://www.newberry.org/collections/FAQs.html#Eligible (29 October 2010).</ref> | ||
=== Guides === | === Guides === | ||
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*[http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/home.html Illinois State Library], Springfield, family histories, periodicals, county histories and records. | *[http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/home.html Illinois State Library], Springfield, family histories, periodicals, county histories and records. | ||
*[http://www.illinoishistory.gov/lib/ishlgen.htm Illinois State Historical Library (ISHL)], Springfield, (A. Lincoln Library) genealogies, county histories, atlases, plats, census indexes, cemetery inscriptions, BMD and naturalization indexes, databases. | *[http://www.illinoishistory.gov/lib/ishlgen.htm Illinois State Historical Library (ISHL)], Springfield, (A. Lincoln Library) genealogies, county histories, atlases, plats, census indexes, cemetery inscriptions, BMD and naturalization indexes, databases. | ||
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