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701 Goode Street <br>Bristol, VA 24201-4199 <br>Telephone: 540-645-8780 <br>Fax: 276-669-5593 <br>E-mail: [mailto:bplref@yahoo.com bplref@yahoo.com]<br>Website: [http://www.bristol-library.org/ Bristol Public Library]<br> | 701 Goode Street <br>Bristol, VA 24201-4199 <br>Telephone: 540-645-8780 <br>Fax: 276-669-5593 <br>E-mail: [mailto:bplref@yahoo.com bplref@yahoo.com]<br>Website: [http://www.bristol-library.org/ Bristol Public Library]<br> | ||
: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>Dollarhide and Bremer, 105.</ref><br><br> | ||
===[[Germanna Foundation Library]]=== | ===[[Germanna Foundation Library]]=== | ||
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100 W. Piccadilly Street<br>PO Box 58 <br>Winchester, VA 22604<br>Telephone: 540-662-9041<br>Fax: 540-722-4769<br>E-mail: [mailto:archives@handleyregional.org archives@handleyregional.org]<br>Website: [https://www.handleyregional.org/ Handley Regional Library] | 100 W. Piccadilly Street<br>PO Box 58 <br>Winchester, VA 22604<br>Telephone: 540-662-9041<br>Fax: 540-722-4769<br>E-mail: [mailto:archives@handleyregional.org archives@handleyregional.org]<br>Website: [https://www.handleyregional.org/ Handley Regional Library] | ||
:Very large collection on Germans and Scots-Irish who traveled the [[Great Valley Road]] from '''''Pennsylvania | :Very large collection on Germans and Scots-Irish who traveled the [[Great Valley Road]] from '''''Pennsylvania ''''' through '''''Maryland''''' to '''''Virginia''''', including manuscripts, newspapers, biographies, and histories,<ref name="DB97">Dollarhide and Bremer, 97.</ref> and people of the Lower Shenandoah Valley since 1732, emphasizing Winchester and Frederick County in 4000 books, county court abstracts, county histories, genealogies, regimental histories, battles, newspapers since 1787, censuses, 600 linear feet of manuscripts, maps, photos, and oral history tapes.<ref>[https://www.handleyregional.org/resources?field_db_type_target_id%5B180%5D=180 Genealogy and History] in ''Handley Regional Library'' (accessed 9 April 2021).</ref><br><br> | ||
===John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library=== | ===John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library=== | ||
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[[Image:Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.jpg|thumb|280px|Mary Ball Washington Museum in Lancaster]]'''[[Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library]]'''<br>8346 Mary Ball Road<br> Lancaster, Virginia 22503<br> Telehone: 804-462-7280<br> Fax: 804-462-6107<br> E-mail: [mailto:nfo@mbwm.org nfo@mbwm.org]<br>Website: [http://www.mbwm.org/genealogy.asp Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library] | [[Image:Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.jpg|thumb|280px|Mary Ball Washington Museum in Lancaster]]'''[[Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library]]'''<br>8346 Mary Ball Road<br> Lancaster, Virginia 22503<br> Telehone: 804-462-7280<br> Fax: 804-462-6107<br> E-mail: [mailto:nfo@mbwm.org nfo@mbwm.org]<br>Website: [http://www.mbwm.org/genealogy.asp Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library] | ||
:A small library with a good name index to nearly every history book published in '''''Virginia | :A small library with a good name index to nearly every history book published in '''''Virginia ''''' or '''''Kentucky''''', including court records from 1651, indexes and abstracts, Virginia vital records, census records, county histories, biographies, church and cemetery records, family histories, newspapers, obituaries, vertical files, militia records, and fraternal organizations.<ref name="DB113" /> <ref>[http://www.mbwm.org/genealogy.asp Genealogy and History Library] in ''Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br><br> | ||
===[[Portsmouth Public Library]]=== | ===[[Portsmouth Public Library]]=== | ||
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===[[Pennsylvania State Archives]]=== | ===[[Pennsylvania State Archives]]=== | ||
300 North Street | 300 North Street (''mail to: '' 350 North Street)<br>Harrisburg, PA 17120<br>Telephone: 717-783-3281<br>E-mail: [mailto:ra-statearchives@pa.gov ra-statearchives@pa.gov]<br>Internet: [http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission] | ||
:Their colonial records include many references to people who migrated to '''Virginia'''.<ref name="DB55" /> This huge collection has indexes and original sources associated with the {{FSC|221762|item|disp=''Pennsylvania Archives''}} series, such as vital, military, prison, naturalization, land records, census, ships lists, railroads, mines, and 1.5 million online records<ref name="DB97">Dollarhide and Bremer, 97.</ref> <ref>[http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Research-Guides.aspx Research Topics at the Pennsylvania State Archives] in ''Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission'' (accessed 23 December 2013).</ref> including [http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Research-Guides.aspx online genealogy guides].<br><br> | :Their colonial records include many references to people who migrated to '''Virginia'''.<ref name="DB55" /> This huge collection has indexes and original sources associated with the {{FSC|221762|item|disp=''Pennsylvania Archives''}} series, such as vital, military, prison, naturalization, land records, census, ships lists, railroads, mines, and 1.5 million online records<ref name="DB97">Dollarhide and Bremer, 97.</ref> <ref>[http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Research-Guides.aspx Research Topics at the Pennsylvania State Archives] in ''Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission'' (accessed 23 December 2013).</ref> including [http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Research-Guides.aspx online genealogy guides].<br><br> | ||
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224 Church Street<br>Santa Cruz, California 95060 <br>Telephone: 831-427-7707 ext. 5794<br>E-mail: [http://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/askscpl/ E-mail reference service form]<br>Website: [http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/ Santa Cruz Public Library] | 224 Church Street<br>Santa Cruz, California 95060 <br>Telephone: 831-427-7707 ext. 5794<br>E-mail: [http://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/askscpl/ E-mail reference service form]<br>Website: [http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/ Santa Cruz Public Library] | ||
:Holds the Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including the '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' which is equivalent to the ''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]] | :Holds the Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including the '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' which 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><br> | ||
==FamilySearch Centers== | ==FamilySearch Centers== | ||
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==Guidebooks== | ==Guidebooks== | ||
*Ellen Garrison, ''Archives in Appalachia: A Directory | *Ellen Garrison, ''Archives in Appalachia: A Directory '' (Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985). {{WorldCat|12712710|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FSC|497048|item|disp=FS Library Book 975 A3a}}. For Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, arranged alphabetically, each entry shows the archive, address, phone, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, subjects, and size of the collection. Indexed by record type, and by subject.<br><br> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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