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'''[[Allen County Public Library|Allen County Public Library]]'''[[Image:Allen County Public Library.jpg|right|165px|Allen County Public Library.jpg]] <br> 900 Library Plaza <br> Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802 <br> Telephone: 260-421-1225 <br> E-mail: [mailto:genealogy@acpl.info genealogy@acpl.info]<br>Internet: [http://www.genealogycenter.org/ Genealogy Center ACPL] <br><br> | '''[[Allen County Public Library|Allen County Public Library]]'''[[Image:Allen County Public Library.jpg|right|165px|Allen County Public Library.jpg]] <br> 900 Library Plaza <br> Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802 <br> Telephone: 260-421-1225 <br> E-mail: [mailto:genealogy@acpl.info genealogy@acpl.info]<br>Internet: [http://www.genealogycenter.org/ Genealogy Center ACPL] <br><br> | ||
:This is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_County_Public_Library Allen County Public Library] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> and the largest genealogy collection in a public library. Its holdings include more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microfilm and microfiche.<ref name="ACPLGC">[http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ Genealogy Center] in ''Allen County Public Library'' (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> It has a premier genealogical periodical collection, local histories, genealogies, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic sources, and Canadians. They have a great eastern seaboard and ''' | :This is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_County_Public_Library Allen County Public Library] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> and the largest genealogy collection in a public library. Its holdings include more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microfilm and microfiche.<ref name="ACPLGC">[http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ Genealogy Center] in ''Allen County Public Library'' (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> It has a premier genealogical periodical collection, local histories, genealogies, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic sources, and Canadians. They have a great eastern seaboard and '''Kentucky''' collection.<ref>[http://www.genealogycenter.org/docs/default-source/resources/aboutusbrochure.pdf?sfvrsn=2 Genealogy Center Collections] in ''Genealogy Center'' (accessed 27 February 2015).</ref> <br><br> | ||
==== Bristol Public Libary ==== | ==== Bristol Public Libary ==== | ||
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: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> | :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 | ==== Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown ==== | ||
'''[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]]''' <br>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>Internet: http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/<br> | '''[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]]''' <br>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>Internet: http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/<br> | ||
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==== University of Chicago Library ==== | ==== University of Chicago Library ==== | ||
[[Image:Regenstein Library entrance2.jpg|right|280px|Regenstein Library entrance2.jpg]][[University of Chicago Library]]<br> | [[Image:Regenstein Library entrance2.jpg|right|280px|Regenstein Library entrance2.jpg]]'''[[University of Chicago Library]]'''<br>Durrett Collection<br>Regenstein Library<br>University of Chicago<br>1100 East 57th Street<br>Chicago Illinois 60637<br>Telephone: 773-702-4685<br>Fax: 773-702-6623 <br>E-mail: [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/ask/RBICask.html Ask a Librarian] form.<br>Internet: [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/index.html University of Chicago Library]<br><br> | ||
:The '''Durrett Collection ''' consists of historical '''Kentucky''' and Ohio River Valley manuscripts. The size and content of this collection is comparable to the '''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]]'''. It includes the earliest people in the Ohio Valley.<ref name="DB39">Dollarhide and Bremer, 39 and 49.</ref><br><br> | :The '''Durrett Collection ''' consists of historical '''Kentucky''' and Ohio River Valley manuscripts. The size and content of this collection is comparable to the '''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]]'''. It includes the earliest people in the Ohio Valley.<ref name="DB39">Dollarhide and Bremer, 39 and 49.</ref><br><br> | ||
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==== Wisconsin Historical Society ==== | ==== Wisconsin Historical Society ==== | ||
[[Image:Wisconsin Historical Society.jpg|right|280px|Wisconsin Historical Society.jpg]]'''[[ | [[Image:Wisconsin Historical Society.jpg|right|280px|Wisconsin Historical Society.jpg]]'''[[Wisconsin Historical Society]]'''<br>[[Draper Manuscript Collection|Draper Manuscript Collection]]<br>816 State Street<br>Madison, WI 53706<br>E-mail: [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1220 Ask a librarian] form <br>Internet: [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ Wisconsin Historical Society]<br><br> | ||
:The '''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> | :The '''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> | ||