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Speaking from their own experiences, while also sharing examples and ideas from other libraries around the country, the authors present a start-to-finish guidebook for creating a local history reference collection that your community will embrace and use regularly.
Archival collections at public libraries present their own challenges distinct from other library materials, but they also offer the promise of unique connections between the library and its users, particularly when the archives relate to local history.
Listing by state of the local libraries that include genealogical information in their collections.
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This book is a collection and rewrite of a series of articles which appeared in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library during 1916-1922.
284pp. 9 pages of reproductions of original immigration lists; place index and Every Name index. 2000 (1989) This book by two of the best-known German migration researchers documents the German origins, in the Westerwald Region of southern Germany, of more than 265 individuals and/or families which emigrated to America in the mid-18th century. Their German ancestry is included and, in many cases, exactly where they settled in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.