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=== Contact Information === | === Contact Information === | ||
'''E-mail:'''<ref name="GenSec">"Genealogy Section" at Dallas Public Library at http://dallaslibrary2.org/genealogy/index.php ( | '''E-mail:'''<ref name="GenSec">"Genealogy Section" at Dallas Public Library at http://dallaslibrary2.org/genealogy/index.php (accessed 18 October 2010).</ref> [mailto:genealogy@dallaslibrary.org genealogy@dallaslibrary.org] <br> | ||
'''Address:'''<ref name="GenSec" /> | '''Address:'''<ref name="GenSec" /> | ||
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'''Telephone:'''<ref name="GenSec" /> 214-670-1433<br> | '''Telephone:'''<ref name="GenSec" /> 214-670-1433<br> | ||
'''Hours and holidays:'''<ref>"Hours" in Genealogy Section at Dallas Public Library at http://dallaslibrary2.org/genealogy/index.php ( | '''Hours and holidays:'''<ref>"Hours" in Genealogy Section at Dallas Public Library at http://dallaslibrary2.org/genealogy/index.php (accessed 18 October 2010).</ref> | ||
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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
The Dallas Public Library has one of the largest genealogy collections in the South. It includes 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps.<ref name="GenSec" /> This includes state and county marriage, probate, deed, and tax abstracts in book form, or microfilm of originals for some states. Federal censuses 1790-1930, printed indexes 1790-1850, Soundex indexes on microfilm (1880-1930). The ''Ancestry Library edition'' database is available only at the library, but ''Dallas Morning News Archive'', ''America's Obituaries'', ''Handbook of Texas'', ''Heritage Quest Online'', ''Texas Digital Sanborn Maps'', and ''WorldCat'' can be used on home computers with a DPL library card number. The collection also includes military records from the Revolutionary War to World War II, Civil War regimental histories, statewide births, mariages, and deaths such as Massachusetts town records, and Charleston, SC, deaths 1821-1926, Filby's ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index'', NARA microfilmed passenger arrival lists 1820-1950s, ''Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950'', and local-state-regional naturalization indexes. The Dallas Genealogical Society has also contributed census mortality schedule transcripts for Dallas County 1850-1870, district court minutes 1846-1855, and an online list of Dallas County cemteries.<ref>"Genealogy Resources" at Dallas Public Library at http://dallaslibrary2.org/genealogy/resources.php ( | The Dallas Public Library has one of the largest genealogy collections in the South. It includes 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps.<ref name="GenSec" /> This includes state and county marriage, probate, deed, and tax abstracts in book form, or microfilm of originals for some states. Federal censuses 1790-1930, printed indexes 1790-1850, Soundex indexes on microfilm (1880-1930). The ''Ancestry Library edition'' database is available only at the library, but ''Dallas Morning News Archive'', ''America's Obituaries'', ''Handbook of Texas'', ''Heritage Quest Online'', ''Texas Digital Sanborn Maps'', and ''WorldCat'' can be used on home computers with a DPL library card number. The collection also includes military records from the Revolutionary War to World War II, Civil War regimental histories, statewide births, mariages, and deaths such as Massachusetts town records, and Charleston, SC, deaths 1821-1926, Filby's ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index'', NARA microfilmed passenger arrival lists 1820-1950s, ''Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950'', and local-state-regional naturalization indexes. The Dallas Genealogical Society has also contributed census mortality schedule transcripts for Dallas County 1850-1870, district court minutes 1846-1855, and an online list of Dallas County cemteries.<ref>"Genealogy Resources" at Dallas Public Library at http://dallaslibrary2.org/genealogy/resources.php (accessed 18 October 2010).</ref> | ||
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*[[New England Historic Genealogical Society]], Boston, national in scope. Over 100 million name database, of vital records, genealogies, journals, over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and over 20 million manuscripts with emphasis on New England and New York since the 1600s. | *[[New England Historic Genealogical Society]], Boston, national in scope. Over 100 million name database, of vital records, genealogies, journals, over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and over 20 million manuscripts with emphasis on New England and New York since the 1600s. | ||
*[[New York Public Library]] Genealogy Division has an outstanding collection of American history at national, state and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records. | *[[New York Public Library]] Genealogy Division has an outstanding collection of American history at national, state and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records. | ||
*[http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/overview.html Newberry Library], Chicago, genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, & Britain. | *[http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/overview.html Newberry Library], Chicago, genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, & Britain. | ||
*[[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]], Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers. | *[[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]], Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers. | ||
*[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives I]], Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons. | *[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives I]], Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons. | ||