Atlanta History Center

United States Georgia Fulton Archives and Libraries Atlanta History Center

Atlanta History Center Contact Information E-mail:  reference@atlantahistorycenter.com Address: 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW Atlanta, GA 30305-1380 Telephone:  Kenan Research Center 404-814-4040 Fax:  404.814.4175 Hours and holidays:  Kenan Research Center: Wednesday-Saturday: 10:00am-5:00pm.  Holidays. Directions, maps, and public transportation: Driving directions Map:  Google map: Atlanta History Center Public transportation:  Take the MARTA train to the Buckhead Station  on the Red Line. Keep your rail ticket as a transfer pass. Take the Peachtree Road exit out of Buckhead Station (not via the bridge) and go up the first set of stairs after exiting the fare gate. At street level is a bus stop where you transfer  to southbound bus #110 Peachtree Street/"The Peach". Tell the bus driver that you’d like to exit at West Paces Ferry Road. Exit  the bus where Peachtree Street and Roswell Road fork together at Sardis Way. At that forked intersection, make a right on West Paces Ferry Road (toward Johnny Rockets) and proceed west two blocks. The Atlanta History Center is located on the left. Internet sites and databases: Atlanta History Center explore, visit, programs, membership, research, rentals, about us, newsroom, contact, and buy tickets. Kenan Research Center archives, resources, search collections, genealogy programs, Cherokee Garden Library, and Veterans History Project. Terminus Kenan Research Center online catalog searchable by keyword, title, author, subject, and more. Also available in WorldCat. Finding Aids that describe 250 collections like the Civil War, Atlanta politics, women's history, and African American history. Garrett's Necrology Genealogy Database white men (and their spouses) from the metropolitan Atlanta area, twenty-one years of age or older, who died between 1857 and 1931. Album database of 20,000 online photos. Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South 1,000 articles on over 17,000 pages. Collection Description Sources for studing Atlanta and southern regional history and culture. The 42,000 square foot library possesses over 15,000 cubic feet of records, including 33,000 published volumes, more than 2,000 manuscript and photograph collections, and 7,800 rolls of microfilm. Their collection includes African-American history and the Civil Rights movement; Atlanta politics; gay and lesbian historical studies; regional photography and the history of photography; folklore; transportation and economic development; the Beverly M. DuBose Jr. and Thomas S. Dickey libraries on the Civil War and military ordnance; and the Sons of the American Revolution genealogy collections, family and county histories from Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Alabama. They also have Georgia censuses and indexes, the Garrett Necrology (cemetery survey and obituary abstracts) 1855–1933, Fulton County estate records, and historic Atlanta newspapers. Tips {Optional} Guides {Optional: Internet or guide books describing this collection for genealogists. } Alternate Repositories { List (link to a Wiki article for) at least one or more other repositories that collect overlapping records, or similar family history material including central repositories, affiliated or branch repositories, higher level jurisdiction repositories, parent or daughter jurisdiction repositories. Also list neighboring repositories with similar records. Please briefly explain how each substitute repository is related.} If you cannot visit or find a source at the Atlanta History Center, a similar source may be available at one of the following. Overlapping Collections Alternate Repository {create link for each, and give line or two describing collection} Similar Collections Neighboring Collections Sources