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=== [[National Archives at College Park, Maryland|National Archives II]] ===

8601 Adelphi Road<br>College Park, MD 20740-6001<br>Telephone: 866-272-6272<br>Fax: 301-837-0483<br>Email: [http://www.archives.gov/contact/inquire-form.html#part-b I have a question] form<br>Internet: [http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/college-park/ National Archives at College Park, Maryland]

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=== Regional Branches of the National Archives ===

Genealogy Center<br>900 Webster Street (P.O. Box 2270)<br>Fort Wayne, IN 46802<br>Telephone: 219-421-1225<br>Email: [mailto:genealogy@acpl.info genealogy@acpl.info]<br>Internet: [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ Allen County Public Library]

:The [http://www.genealogycenter.info/index.php Genealogy Center] houses the second largest genealogy research collection in the United States, and the largest in a public library. It is primarily a North American collection, with some complementary resources for the British Isles and other European countries. One of America's best genealogical libraries. They especially shine in genealogical periodicals, printed county histories, and printed family histories.<ref >Dollarhide and Bremer, 43.</ref> See:  

== [[Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library]]  ==

: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. Many microfilms are also at branch '''''[[Introduction to Family History Centers|FamilySearch Centers]]''''' in local church buildings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and described in their online [[Introduction to the FamilySearch Catalog|FamilySearch Catalog]].<ref name="DB1">Dollarhide and Bremer, 1.</ref>

:The following guide book will help in using the library. It gives suggestions on preparing to visit the library, genealogy research tips, and helps in using the library.

== [[Library of Congress]]  ==

:A large Chicago repository with genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records many from Illinois, the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, and the British Isles.<ref>[http://www./genealogy-and-local-history Genealogy and Local History] in ''The Newberry'' (accessed 27 February 2015).</ref> They have over 17,000 printed genealogies. The collection is noteworthy for its colonial America, especially New England holdings. They have church, town, and county histories from all parts of the United States, Canada, and the British Isles. This includes a comprehensive set of New England town histories, and strong collection of county histories from the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. Their Civil War unit histories collection is one of the best.<ref name="DB39">Dollarhide and Bremer, 39.</ref> This library has research guides on various subjects related to genealogy and library holdings cataloged from 1978. &nbsp;See

:*[http://www./genealogy-collection-guides-and-research-tools Genealogy Collection Guides and Research Tools] for more information about the collections.&nbsp;''<br>''

== [[Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute]] ==

Previously published directories include:  

:**65th Edition being published May, 2013.  

=== University Libraries with special collections  ===

Easy-to-use sources that list the various county offices in each state and the types of records at each office are:  

=== Historical and Genealogical Societies  ===

:*''Carson, Dina C., Directory of Genealogical and Historical Libraries, Archives and Collections in the US and Canada. Niwot, Colorado: Iron Gate Pub., 1002.'' ([http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46404054 Worldcat])  

== Inventories, Registers, and Catalogs  ==

An example of a helpful guide is:  

[http://archives.chadwyck.com/marketing/index.jsp Archive Finder] ($) is a current directory which describes over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.