Libraries

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• Indexes on Ancestry.com

  • PERSI - Periodical Source Index

  • AGBI - American Genealogical Biographical Index - every-name index to over 800 genealogical sources, especially useful for Colonial American families

  • Genealogy Library Master Catalog

   

• Library Classification Systems

  • Dewey Decimal System

  • Library of Congress System

   

• OCLC  www.oclc.org/home/

• OPAC - Libraries’ Online Public Access Catalogs

• National Archives - http://www.nara.gov/

  • www.cyndislist.com/na.htm

   

• State Archives

  • The African American Genealogical Society of Northern California has links to all fifty of the U.S. state archives. In addition to the links to the state archives, they also link to a collection titled "States Listed by Region," where states are grouped in geographic clusters and then alphabetic lists of "communities" (read: towns) and links to specific libraries' Web pages are included.

   

• Libraries to visit in your area

  • Web sites that maintain active links to the country’s state libraries, such as the Delaware State Library. Typing the name of the state in which you are researching and the words "state library" on any search engine should provide a link as well.

    If you can't locate a library you're seeking in the links above, choose your favorite Web search engine and use the following search string, substituting a place name in quotation marks where NAME is shown: "NAME" + library

   

• Libraries to visit online:

  • Library of Congress info

  • Making of America Online Collection

  • www.libraryspot.com/libraries/

  • Directories of Library Websites:
    www.cyndislist.com/lib-gen.htm
    www.cyndislist.com/lib-gen.htm#States

  • http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ -The Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Ind., was the birthplace of the Periodical Source Index, or PERSI, the world's largest subject index for genealogical and historical periodical articles dating to the 18th century.

  • http://www.americanantiquarian.org/ - The American Antiquarian Society research library's collections focus on US life from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Worchester, Mass., library's holdings—including genealogies, local histories, books and pamphlets—aren't searchable online, but the site gives you a good idea of what you'll find when you get there.

  •  www.albany.edu/jmmh/  Albany University's Journal of Multimedia History

  • www.dar.org/library/default.html - National Society Daughters of American Revolution Library

  • www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html - This amazing site from Bucknell University links to more than 1,000 dictionaries in 200 languages. Helpful if you're trying to decipher records from another country. (What does viuva mean on your Portuguese great-grandmother's ship records, for example?)

  • Fairfax County Public Library (Virginia) offers immediate access to its extensive online catalog. By clicking on the "Libraries" link, The Virginia Room and a host of useful information becomes available. There are two searchable data files: "Cemeteries of Fairfax County, Virginia" and the "Historical Newspaper Index." The latter allows you to search county newspapers by title and type of article (e.g., birth announcements, obituaries, and photographs) for the time period 1785—1973.

  • www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp - Search here to find the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Family History Center nearest you, including street address and phone number.

  • http://www.genealogyclass.com/records/associations.htm - Lineage Associations

  • http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/hsci/internet.htm

  • www.lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html - The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections is a Library of Congress cooperative cataloging program. NUCMC catalogers place the records in a national-level database available to researchers worldwide. To qualify, the repositories must admit researchers but lack the capability of entering the manuscripts themselves into a national database.

  • Missoula Public Library (Montana), while still using a TELNET catalog, has a "Genealogical Research" link on its main page. Under this link is a complete list of sources for conducting genealogical research in Missoula County (western Montana) and in the entire state. Tremendous detail can be found in this list, from dates of newspaper and vital record indexes to lists of cemeteries and biographical compilations.

  • http://www.newberry.org/ - The Newberry Library, one of the nation's preeminent humanities research libraries, hasn't put its special genealogical collections online. But you can learn about becoming one of the library's Friends of Genealogy, check out its holdings for the next time you get to Chicago, and browse a dandy set of links.

  • www.wils.wisc.edu/oclc/ - Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) in Dublin, Ohio. Libraries use the OCLC Online System for cataloging, interlibrary loan, union listing and reference searching (FirstSearch).

  • McCracken County Public Library (Kentucky) offers an online catalog and a list of 16 areas of focus in the Special Collections portion of its Adult Services Department. In addition, the site provides a complete listing of its federal census records, local and surrounding county tax lists and church records, and some collected Bible records.
  • PublicLibraries.com, which lists public libraries and other repositories across the United States.