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E-mail:[1] Ask a research question.
Address:[2]
- 1510 E. University Blvd.
- Tucson, AZ 85721
Telephone:[2] 520-621-6423
Hours:[2] Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
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Internet sites and databases:
- University of Arizona Library, Special Collections collections, services, exhibits, news and events, about, location and hours.
- UA Library Catalog online by keyword, title, author, subject, journal title, or medical subject. Also in WorldCat.
- Repository database.
- other(s).
Materials on Arizona, Southwest American history, and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, including rare books, manuscripts, and photographs.[3]
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If you cannot visit or find a source at the University of Arizona Special Collections, a similar source may be available at one of the following.
Overlapping Collections
- National Archives—Pacific Region (Riverside), CA. Federal court records and federal agencies in Arizona.
- State Library, Phoenix, has a large book/periodical collection including immigration, vital records, courts, wills, county histories, and Internet sites. The starting place for AZ family history research.[3]
- State Archives, Phoenix, marriages, wills and probates, civil and criminal records, brands, taxes, coroner records, voting registers, prisoners, state agencies, maps, newspapers, photos.[4]
- Bancroft Library, Univ. Calif. Berkeley Early settlers, migration trails, stagecoaches, miners, and histories. They probably have more Arizona historical material than any repository in Arizona.[3]
- Southwest Museum Braun Research Library, Los Angeles, CA. Includes the Monk Library of Arizoniana, California and Arizona history, and records of southwest American Indians.[3]
- Family History Library, Salt Lake City, has many Arizona cemeteries, census, church, court, histories, immigration, land, military, and naturalization records on microfilm.
Similar Collections
Neighboring Collections
- Arizona Historical Society, Tucson Library and Archives, has a Mexican and an early Arizona collection, Colorado River topics, manuscripts 1860-present, oral histories, maps, and photos.[3]
- Pima County Public Library, Joel D. Valdez Main Library, Tucson, the Arizona collection, and the Southern Arizona Genealogical Society collection are housed here.[3]
- Pima County Vital Records births 1950-present; and deaths.
- Pima County Superior Court marriages, criminal, civil, divorces, probate and tax court cases.
- Pima County Recorder's Office land and mortgage records.
- U.S. District Court Tucson Division civil, criminal, appellate, and bankruptcy cases.
- Pima County Genealogical Society, Tucson, membership, organization, research tool box, meetings and seminars.
- Repositories in surrounding counties: Gila, La Paz, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai, and Yuma.
- Mesa FamilySearch Library, Mesa, 81,000 microfilms including AZ censuses, 40,000 books (many local histories), 129 public computers, and over 90 classes and workshops per month.[3]
- Phoenix Public Library, Burton Barr Central Library The Arizona history collection is a good place for genealogy research.[3]
- West Valley Genealogical Society, Youngstown, an active society with a good little library. Probably represents outside Arizona better because of retirees who contribute from all around the U.S.[3]
- Arizona Jewish Historical Society, Phoenix, exhibits and genealogical classes.
- Repositories in surrounding states (or nations): California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah; in Mexico: Baja California, Sonora, and Mexico.
- California State Archives, Sacramento, has county records of the state, such as court records, prison records, wills, deeds, as well as military records, state census records, and school records.
- Nevada State Library and Archives, Carson City, births, marriages, deaths, censuses, military.
- New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe, government records since 1621, manuscripts, Catholic church records, census, wills, family histories, letters, diaries, maps, photos.
- Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City, newspaper, death, land, court, history, naturalization, military, directories, criminals.
- Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City, church, civil, census, court, history, military, migration, land.
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