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The Newberry 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 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. | 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. | ||
The Newberry 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. | |||
Holdings also include 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. | |||
'''Database subscriptions''' include Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest On-line, American Ancestors, and Fold3.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> | |||
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