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'''[[Bristol Public Library]]''' <br>701 Goode Street <br>Bristol, VA 24201-4199 <br>Phone: 540-645-8780 <br>Fax: 276-669-5593 <br>Email: [mailto:genealogy@bristol-library.org genealogy@bristol-library.org]<br>[http://www.bristol-library.org/ Website]<br>  
'''[[Bristol Public Library]]''' <br>701 Goode Street <br>Bristol, VA 24201-4199 <br>Phone: 540-645-8780 <br>Fax: 276-669-5593 <br>Email: [mailto:genealogy@bristol-library.org genealogy@bristol-library.org]<br>[http://www.bristol-library.org/ Website]<br>  
:They have a relatively small family folder collection. Nevertheless, it is an important resource for settlers coming from '''''Pennsylvania, Maryland''''', and northern '''''Virginia''''' &nbsp;along the [[Great Valley Road]] into '''''Tennessee, Kentucky''''', and '''''North Carolina'''''.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 105.</ref><br><br>
: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>


====Mary Ball Washington Museum {{amp}} Library====
====Mary Ball Washington Museum {{amp}} Library====
[[Image:Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Mary B Washington Museum in Lancaster VA]]'''[[Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library]]'''<br> 8346 Mary Ball Road<br> Lancaster, VA 22503<br>Phone: 804-462-7280<br> Fax: 804-462-6107<br> Email: [mailto:nfo@mbwm.org nfo@mbwm.org]<br>[http://www.mbwm.org/genealogy.asp Website]<br>
[[Image:Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Mary B Washington Museum in Lancaster VA]]'''[[Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library]]'''<br> 8346 Mary Ball Road<br> Lancaster, VA 22503<br>Phone: 804-462-7280<br> Fax: 804-462-6107<br> Email: [mailto:nfo@mbwm.org nfo@mbwm.org]<br>[http://www.mbwm.org/genealogy.asp Website]<br>
:A small library with a good name index to nearly every history book published in '''''Virginia&nbsp;''''' 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>
: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>


====Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown====
====Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown====


'''[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]]''' <br>224 Church Street<br>Santa Cruz, CA 95060 <br>Phone: 831-427-7707, ext. 5794<br>[https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/ Contact form]<br>[http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/ Website]<br>  
'''[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]]''' <br>224 Church Street<br>Santa Cruz, CA 95060 <br>Phone: 831-427-7707, ext. 5794<br>[https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/ Contact form]<br>[http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/ Website]<br>  
: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]]&nbsp;'' but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of '''''Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia''''', and '''''West Virginia&nbsp;''''' families.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> <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>
: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 '''''Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia''''', and '''''West Virginia ''''' families.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> <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>


====University of Chicago Library====
====University of Chicago Library====
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====Wisconsin Historical Society====
====Wisconsin Historical Society====
[[Image:Wisconsin Historical Society.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison]]'''[[Wisconsin Historical Society]]'''<br>[[Draper Manuscript Collection|Draper Manuscript Collection]]<br>816 State Street<br>Madison, WI 53706<br>Email: [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1220 Ask a librarian] form <br> [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ Website]<br>
[[Image:Wisconsin Historical Society.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison]]'''[[Wisconsin Historical Society]]'''<br>[[Draper Manuscript Collection|Draper Manuscript Collection]]<br>816 State Street<br>Madison, WI 53706<br>Email: [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1220 Ask a librarian] form <br> [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ Website]<br>
:The '''[[Draper Manuscript Collection|Draper Collection]]''', consists of 491 volumes of manuscripts, papers, and books collected by '''''Lyman Copeland Draper&nbsp;''''' about the history of the trans-Allegheny West in the United States, a region including the western areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, all the Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the 1740s to 1830. This includes New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, '''Kentucky''', Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin.<br><br>
:The '''[[Draper Manuscript Collection|Draper Collection]]''', consists of 491 volumes of manuscripts, papers, and books collected by '''''Lyman Copeland Draper ''''' about the history of the trans-Allegheny West in the United States, a region including the western areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, all the Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the 1740s to 1830. This includes New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, '''Kentucky''', Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin.<br><br>


===Guidebook===
===Guidebook===