m (Text replacement - "Find My Past" to "Findmypast") |
m (Text replacement - "[fF]amily([\s_])[hH]istory[\s_]([lL])ibrary" to "FamilySearch$1$2ibrary") |
||
| Line 41: | Line 41: | ||
===Collection Description=== | ===Collection Description=== | ||
This branch of the Houston Public Library has one of America's best genealogical collections. With an emphasis on the Gulf Coast region, the library also has an international collection and material for all fifty U.S. states. Collections include 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, genealogical periodicals, maps, and family history vertical files. Clayton Library is an Affiliate Library of the | This branch of the Houston Public Library has one of America's best genealogical collections. With an emphasis on the Gulf Coast region, the library also has an international collection and material for all fifty U.S. states. Collections include 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, genealogical periodicals, maps, and family history vertical files. Clayton Library is an Affiliate Library of the FamilySearch Library Affiliate Program.[3] Their special collections includes 25 major genealogical collections, such as the Barbour, Blake, Draper Manuscripts, and Vosburgh collections, Loredo TX Archives 1749-1872, and Nacagdoches TX Archives 1733-1836.[4] | ||
To search Clayton Library's holdings, check the [https://halan.sdp.sirsi.net/client/en_US/hou/search/advanced?dt=list Houston Public Library Catalog] for printed books, the [http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/cgi-bin/clayton/microprint.pl Clayton Library Microprint Database] for microprint holdings, and the [http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/cgi-bin/clayton/periodicals.pl Clayton Library Periodical Database] for periodical holdings. | To search Clayton Library's holdings, check the [https://halan.sdp.sirsi.net/client/en_US/hou/search/advanced?dt=list Houston Public Library Catalog] for printed books, the [http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/cgi-bin/clayton/microprint.pl Clayton Library Microprint Database] for microprint holdings, and the [http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/cgi-bin/clayton/periodicals.pl Clayton Library Periodical Database] for periodical holdings. | ||
| Line 91: | Line 91: | ||
'''''Similar Collections''''' | '''''Similar Collections''''' | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library | *[https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library FamilySearch Library], Salt Lake City, Utah, holds 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 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | ||
*[[Allen County Public Library|Allen County Public Library]], Fort Wayne, Indiana, premier periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic collections, and Canadians. | *[[Allen County Public Library|Allen County Public Library]], Fort Wayne, Indiana, premier periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic collections, and Canadians. | ||
*[[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]], Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers. | *[[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]], Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers. | ||
edits