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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
The Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States<ref>"Allen County Public Library" in ''Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_County_Public_Library (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> with more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microform.<ref>"Genealogy Center" in ''Allen County Public Library'' at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> Users in Fort Wayne also have access, for a small fee, to over 2 million additional microfilms from the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City. ACPL | The Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States<ref>"Allen County Public Library" in ''Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_County_Public_Library (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> with more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microform.<ref>"Genealogy Center" in ''Allen County Public Library'' at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> Users in Fort Wayne also have access, for a small fee, to over 2 million additional microfilms from the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City. ACPL creates the [[Periodical Source Index (PERSI)|Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]], the world's largest genealogy magazine subject index.<ref>"PERSI" in ''Allen County Public Library - Genealogy Center'' at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/persi.html (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> It is based on their premier collection of French-Canadian and English-language genealogical and local history periodicals (5,100 current subscriptions).<br> | ||
Major online databases at ACPL include: Ancestry.com{{·}} African American Heritage{{·}} Footnote.com{{·}} HeritageQuestOnline.com{{·}} Historical Detroit Free Press{{·}} NewEnglandAncestors.org{{·}} Origins Network-British, Irish, and Scots{{·}} Paper of Record-Historical Newspapers{{·}} WorldVitalRecords.com. | Major online databases at the ACPL include: Ancestry.com{{·}} African American Heritage{{·}} Footnote.com{{·}} HeritageQuestOnline.com{{·}} Historical Detroit Free Press{{·}} NewEnglandAncestors.org{{·}} Origins Network-British, Irish, and Scots{{·}} Paper of Record-Historical Newspapers{{·}} and WorldVitalRecords.com. | ||
ACPL has over 50,000 family histories, all federal, and many state and territorial censuses, city directories, passenger lists, military records, nearly 200,000 local histories, the Boston Transcript, colonial newspapers of VA, MD, and PA, native American, African American, Canadian, British, and German collections. For more details see [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ Genealogy Center] and the [http://webcat.acpl.lib.in.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/fwfMIpEDQw/MAIN/820466/60/1180/X ACPL catalog]. | ACPL has over 50,000 family histories, all federal, and many state and territorial censuses, city directories, passenger lists, military records, nearly 200,000 local histories, the Boston Transcript, colonial newspapers of VA, MD, and PA, native American, African American, Canadian, British, and German collections. For more details see [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ Genealogy Center] and the [http://webcat.acpl.lib.in.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/fwfMIpEDQw/MAIN/820466/60/1180/X ACPL catalog]. | ||
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Allen County Public Library (ACPL)Contact Information[edit | edit source]E-mail:[1] ask@acpl.info Website: http://www.acpl.lib.in.us Address:[1]
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Collection Description[edit | edit source]The Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States[2] with more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microform.[3] Users in Fort Wayne also have access, for a small fee, to over 2 million additional microfilms from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. ACPL creates the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), the world's largest genealogy magazine subject index.[4] It is based on their premier collection of French-Canadian and English-language genealogical and local history periodicals (5,100 current subscriptions). Major online databases at the ACPL include: Ancestry.com · African American Heritage · Footnote.com · HeritageQuestOnline.com · Historical Detroit Free Press · NewEnglandAncestors.org · Origins Network-British, Irish, and Scots · Paper of Record-Historical Newspapers · and WorldVitalRecords.com. ACPL has over 50,000 family histories, all federal, and many state and territorial censuses, city directories, passenger lists, military records, nearly 200,000 local histories, the Boston Transcript, colonial newspapers of VA, MD, and PA, native American, African American, Canadian, British, and German collections. For more details see Genealogy Center and the ACPL catalog. Tips[edit | edit source]
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