Oklahoma Archives and Libraries: Difference between revisions

:Records included in this library are the following:

:The Oklahoma Department of Libraries includes two areas of particular interest to genealogists: the Oklahoma Room and the State Archives Division. The Oklahoma Room houses a huge book library with county histories, periodicals, indexes, and reference works.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 91.</ref> The State Archives Division maintains Oklahoma government records and other historical documents.<br><br>

:[http://digitalprairie.ok.gov/cdm/ Oklahoma Digital Prairie], your electronic library <br><br>

:The largest book collection of Oklahoma genealogies together with periodicals, maps, biographies, family folders, and a statewide index to all Oklahoma Territory tract books (public land buyers).</ref><br><br>

:Key collections here include Civil War soldiers’ personal narratives, trascribed interviews with Oklahomans from the 1930s and more than 200 manuscript collections about Native Americans. <br>

:An important part of the Western History Collection is titled The Indian-Pioneer Papers which is a collection of interviews done during the Depression. Biographical information is given for Indians as well as persons of all ethnic groups. Those interviewed may have been residents of either the Oklahoma Territory or the Indian Territory. There are about 80,000 entries in 112 volumes in the collection with free online access to both an index and the digitized transcripts of the interviews. Read the biographies and other topics found in the [http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/ Website].<br><br>

:Their collection also includes original historical manuscripts, county records, Spanish, Indian, military, Civil War, newspapers, cattle trails, ranching, mining, and oil production records.</ref><br><br>

:This collection, originally in the Grace M. Pickens Public Library, holds unique Native American papers relating to the Five Civilized Tribes (and Delawares) removed to Indian Territory. Includes a surprisingly good genealogical research collection.</ref><br><br>

:The Oklahoma Territorial period is well covered including Native Americans, Anglos, intruders, Sooners, homesteaders, and land rush people.</ref><br><br>

:A large library for Oklahoma ancestors including Bibles, cemeteries, obituaries, family folders, city directories, plat maps, and indexes.</ref><br><br>

:Records of Oklahoma settlers, obituaries, periodicals, books, histories, biographies, including many from Texas and New Mexico.</ref><br><br>

:A good book-library with an emphasis on the Ozark region of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, including Native Americans.</ref><br><br>

:The Talbot Library and Museum (TL{{Amp}}M) is one of the best genealogical libraries in the United States. Their library focuses on Northeast Oklahoma, Northwest Arkansas, and Cherokee genealogy research.<ref>"Genealogy Research Requests" in [http://www.talbotlibrary.org/ Website].</ref><br><br>

:The Genealogy Center of the Tulsa City-County Library is one of the largest genealogy collections in Oklahoma. Their focus is on Tulsa and Oklahoma, but they also have strengths in Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. A limited amount of research, including Indian roll look-ups, can be conducted by email and letters. See their [https://www.tulsalibrary.org/research/american-indian-resource-center American Indian Research] guide.<br><br>

::'''''for Archival research using textual records by appointment:'''''<br>1400 John Burgess Drive<br>Fort Worth, Texas 76140<br>Telephone: 817-551-2051<br>Fax: 817-551-2034<br><br>

::'''''for Microfilm research and public access computers:'''''<br>2600 West 7th Street<br>Suite 162<br>Fort Worth, TX, 76107<br>Telephone: 817-831-5620<br>Fax: 817-334-5621<br><br>

:Website for both Websites<br>[http://www.archives.gov/ Website]

:Subject specialties include censuses, westward expansion into the Southwest and settlement of [[American Indian Genealogy|Native Americans]] (especially [[Cherokee Indians|Cherokees]], [[Choctaw Indians|Choctaws]], [[Chickasaw Indians|Chickasaws]], [[Creek Indians|Creeks]], and [[Seminole Indians|Seminoles]]), slavery, bankruptcy court, ethnology, genealogy, military service records, pension and bounty land warrant applications, passenger lists and [[Dawes Commission Enrollment Records for Five U.S. Indian Tribes|Dawes census cards and enrollment jackets for the Five Civilized Tribes]] of Oklahoma.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 130-31.</ref>

:For further information, ''see '' [[National Archives at Fort Worth]].<br><br>

:This library in ''California '' has a good collection of documents about ''Oklahoma '' early settlers, early trails, stagecoaches, miners, and histories.</ref><br><br>

:One of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas and adjoining states like Oklahoma.<ref name="DB107">Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.</ref><br><br>

:Outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.<ref name="DB107" /><br><br>

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