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Logan Public Library

Contact Information[edit | edit source]

E-Mail & Telephone:[1]  Contact Us.

Address:[2]

255 North Main
Logan, Utah 84321

Hours and holidays:[1]

Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Friday-Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Closed Sunday
For the holiday schedule, click here.

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Collection Description[edit | edit source]

The Logan Library is home to the Virginia Hanson Special Collections, including genealogical and historical materials related to the Logan, Utah area and wider. It is currently home to over 7,500 print, film, and manuscript items.

The librarian, Jason Cornelius has received a BA in Family History and Genealogy from Brigham Young University and an MLS from Emporia State University. In addition, he has over twenty years of experience researching genealogy and local history both for his own family and for patrons of the library. He is anxious to help you with your genealogical or local history questions.

Key Internet sites and databases:

  • Online Logan Library Catalog has keyword, title, author, subject, call number, and advanced searches.
  • Logan History Get a glimpse of what local history and genealogy materials the Logan Library has to offer online.
  • Logan History Digital Projects  collection of maps, newspapers, photographs, and other digital resources related to the history of Logan, Utah.
  • Ancestry Library Edition has access over 2 billion names in more than 3,000 databases to help extend your family trees. Access is only available in the library.
  • HeritageQuest Online has over 28,000 genealogy and local history ebooks, U.S. census records, Revolutionary War service records, and more.
  • World Vital Records connects you to over 4.2 billion names from family history records collections worldwide.

Tips[edit | edit source]

The collection is available during all general library hours.

If you desire or need specialized reference help, please call or email in advance to make sure the librarian will be available to help you. 

Guides[edit | edit source]

Alternate Repositories[edit | edit source]

If you cannot visit or find a source at the Logan Public Library, a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections

  • American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, collects newspapers, history, genealogy, Bibles, maps, biography, directories, Native Americans, women, canals, railroads, photos, manuscripts.
  • National Archives Northeast Region (Boston) (that is Waltham), federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, passengers arrival indexes, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, workshops.
  • National Archives at New York City, census, naturalization, passenger arrivals, Canadian border crossings, customs, draft, military service, military pension and bounty land, Chinese Exclusion Act cases, Freedmen's Bureau, Indians, and vital records. Moving soon.
  • Connecticut State Library, Hartford, has the Barbour Collection, Bibles, census, church, Hale Collection newspaper marriages and deaths, cemeteries, probates, vital records, directories, land, local histories, military, naturalization, passenger arrivals, and e-mail questions.
  • Maine State Archives, Augusta, has vital records, land, office records, military, judicial, legislative records, and a list of professional genealogists.
  • New Hampshire State Archives, Concord, has records of probate, land, petitions, state papers, military, census, name changes, photos, naturalizations, voters, warnings out, town records and inventories, prisoners, marriage intentions, paupers, maps, and court records.
  • New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City, has censuses, city directories, church, cemetery, Bible, land, probates, genealogy, local history, and manuscripts.
  • Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, includes local, military, economic, social, church, political histories, newspapers, genealogy, women’s history, and business records.
  • Vermont Historical Society Library, Barre, houses town histories, an index to vital records to 1870, cemeteries, letters, diaries, ledgers, early maps, photographs, and printed genealogies.

Similar Collections

  • 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.
  • Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, features a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, and Canadians.
  • Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records.

Neighboring Collections

Sources[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Local History - Contact Us" in library.loganutah.org at http://library.loganutah.org/archives/ContactUs.cfm/ (accessed 5 February 2016).
  2. "Location, Hours and Maps" in library.loganutah.org at http://library.loganutah.org/information/location.cfm/ (accessed 5 February 2016).