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The physical collection consists of several thousand family and personal histories, county and local histories, a maps department, reference works, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, and numerous genealogical periodicals. | The physical collection consists of several thousand family and personal histories, county and local histories, a maps department, reference works, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, and numerous genealogical periodicals. | ||
==== L. Tom Perry Special Collections ==== | |||
The [http://lib.byu.edu/sites/sc/ Special Collections] at BYU houses 300,000 books, 9,000 manuscript collections, and nearly 3/4 million photographs. Theses collections of original documents from Mormon history, BYU history, Literature, and World History as well as a variety of family and personal histories and journals from LDS leaders may be viewed in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Reading room. | |||
==== Map Collection ==== | |||
Provides access to a host of maps--both domestic and international. There are also hundreds of gazetteers for locating information and statistics about cities and towns. An online guide to maps for genealogists bay be viewed at this address. [http://net.lib.byu.edu/~scishare/Guide%20to%20Genealogy%20Resources%20in%20the%20Map%20Collection.pdf http://net.lib.byu.edu/~scishare/Guide%20to%20Genealogy%20Resources%20in%20the%20Map%20Collection.pdf] | |||
==== Social Sciences ==== | |||
Houses the library’s collection of family histories as well as City Directories and other city and county histories.<br><br> | |||
==== Family History Consultants ==== | ==== Family History Consultants ==== | ||