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The Genealogy Center primarily is a North American collection, with a complementary focus on British Isles and some German materials. It also holds guidebooks, methodology works, heraldry titles and similar items of general focus for other countries. ACPL has more than 50,000 family histories, nearly 200,000 local histories, a significant number of North Carolina records on microfilm, and numerous important collections such as the Draper Manuscripts, the Drouin Collection, the Barber Collection, and many National Archives microfilm collections. The Genealogy Center also has significant resources for Native American and African American research. A large collection of early city directories on microfilm complements the hundreds of post-1960 print directories obtained as a repository for the Polk Directory Company. 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]. | The Genealogy Center primarily is a North American collection, with a complementary focus on British Isles and some German materials. It also holds guidebooks, methodology works, heraldry titles and similar items of general focus for other countries. ACPL has more than 50,000 family histories, nearly 200,000 local histories, a significant number of North Carolina records on microfilm, and numerous important collections such as the Draper Manuscripts, the Drouin Collection, the Barber Collection, and many National Archives microfilm collections. The Genealogy Center also has significant resources for Native American and African American research. A large collection of early city directories on microfilm complements the hundreds of post-1960 print directories obtained as a repository for the Polk Directory Company. 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]. | ||
'''''Collection Development''''' | |||
The staff bibliographer regularly monitors current journals, booklists and the Internet for newly published genealogy and local history books to add to the collection. In addition, the Genealogy Center welcomes donations of materials such as high school and college yearbooks, church histories and directories, self-published family histories or indexes to local records, or any other publication of interest to genealogists. A number of genealogists have named the Center as the repository for their genealogy book collections as a part of estate planning. The growing popularity of digitization has made it possible for the Center to accept donations of originals or photocopies of many items that were not part of its collection development policy previously, such as photographs and individual documents. In particular, the Center welcomes submissions for '''Our Military Heritage''' [http://www.genealogycenter.info/military/] and '''Family Bible Records''' [http://www.genealogycenter.info/bibles/]. | |||
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlYhUwu8waQ&feature=related ''Genealogy Center, Allen County Public Library''], part 2 (You Tube online video, 7:30) | *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlYhUwu8waQ&feature=related ''Genealogy Center, Allen County Public Library''], part 2 (You Tube online video, 7:30) | ||
*Cavanaugh, Karen B. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/oclc/6133917 ''A Genealogist’s Guide to the Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Public Library'']. Owensboro, Kentucky: McDowell Pub., 1980. ([http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=129067&disp=A+genealogist%27s+guide+to+the+Ft%2E+Way%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL Book 977.274/F1 A3c]) | *Cavanaugh, Karen B. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/oclc/6133917 ''A Genealogist’s Guide to the Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Public Library'']. Owensboro, Kentucky: McDowell Pub., 1980. ([http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=129067&disp=A+genealogist%27s+guide+to+the+Ft%2E+Way%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL Book 977.274/F1 A3c]) | ||
=== Alternate Repositories === | === Alternate Repositories === | ||