Don't forget to check out their online card catalog (click on Catalog). Just remember that their microfilm is NOT listed in the card catalog.
Family Histories
More than 38,000 volumes of compiled genealogies represent work already
done on American and European families, and range from brief typescripts
to
well documented multi-volume works. Nearly 5000 genealogies on microfiche
and numerous family newsletters complement this collection.
Census Records
FEDERAL:All 1790-1920 population schedules
All available statewide indexes & soundexes
All extant mortality schedules 1850-1880
All extant schedules of Civil War Union veterans and widows 1890
Agricultural and Manufacturing schedules for Indiana 1850-1880
STATE & TERRITORIAL (coverage varies by year):
CA 1852
CO 1885
FL 1885
IL 1825,30,35,45,55,65
IA 1836,38,44,46,47,49,51,52,53,54,56, 59,60,81,85,88,89,91,92,95
KS 1865
MI 1827,30,34,45,50,54,64,70,74,80,84,94
MN 1857,65,75,85,95,1905
MS 1792,1805,08,10,13,16,18,20,22-25,30,
33,37,40,41,45,50,53,60,66
MO 1876
NE 1885
NJ 1855,65,75
NM 1885
NY 1815,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,60,65,
70,75,80,92,1905,1915,1925
OR 1842,45,49,50,53,54,55,56,57,58,59
RI 1865 (with index),75,85
WA 1856,57,58,60,71,73,74,75,77,78,79,
80,81,83,84,85,87,89,91,92,98
WI 1836-42,46,47,55,75,95,1905
City Directories
The department has a depository collection of 32,500 R.L. Polk directories
dated 1964 to the present, with significant earlier runs for some cities.
The
department also holds many directories for smaller cities and rural
areas
produced by other publishers, as well as a standing order for all city
directories
currently being micropublished by Research Publications of America.
U.S.
cities:
1785-1860 microfiche (240 cities)
1861-1901 microfilm (79 cities)
1902-1935 microfilm (54 cities)
1964-present (Polk directories)
Passenger Lists
Most National Archives passenger lists and indexes on microfilm are
available
in the department, as are most major printed sources for immigration
records.
Baltimore: - Lists 1820-1909 -
Quarterly abstracts of lists 1820-69 -
Soundex indexes 1820-97, 1833-66,
1897-1952
Boston: - Lists 1820-1943 &
Index 1848-91
New Orleans: - Lists 1820-1902
- Quarterly abstracts of lists 1820-75 -
Indexes pre-1900, 1900-52
New York: - Lists 1820-1940 -
Indexes 1820-46, 1897-1902 - Soundex
index 1902-43
Philadelphia: - Lists 1800-1945
& Index 1800-1906 - Soundex index
1883-1948
Lists and/or indexes for 68 minor
ports 1820-1954
Index to misc. Atlantic and Gulf
coast ports 1820-74
Index to AL, FL, GA and SC lists
1890-1924
Soundex to Canadian border entries,
St. Albans, VT district,
1895-1924 and 1924-52; with partial
manifests 1924-49
Filby's Passenger and Immigration
Lists Index.
Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish
Immigrants arriving at...New York
1846-1851.
German Immigrants...from Bremen
to New York 1847-1867.
Germans to America 1850-1893.
(in progress)
MILITARY RECORDS
Holdings include most microfilmed National Archives service and pension
records covering every conflict from the Revolutionary War through
the
Philippine Insurrection. Civil War regimental histories on microfiche,
and
significant microfilmed Confederate records from state archives are
also
included. The excellent collection of related printed references contains
adjutant generals' reports, lineage society publications, soldiers'
diaries, and
more than 1000 regimental histories. The military collection is now
expanding
into data on 20th century conflicts with additions of unit histories
for WWI and
WWII, and casualty lists for the Korean War, Vietnam War and Persian
Gulf
War.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-83)
General Index & Compiled Service
Records of Soldiers in the
American Army
Pension and Bounty Land Warrant
Applications
Bounty Land Warrants - Ohio Military
District
Virginia Half Pay and related
Pension Applications
Revolutionary War Rolls (Commanding
Officers' Reports) 1775-83
Index to Records of Soldiers in
CT units
Index &Service Records of
Naval Personnel
Misc. Numbered Records in the
War Dept. Collection 1775-1790s with
Index
Central Treasury Records, Military
Affairs 1775-89
American Loyalist Claims, Series
I and II
British Troops, orders, returns,
accounts, etc. 1776-81
Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers 1784-1811 and Index Index Register
of
U.S. Army Enlistments 1798-1914
WAR OF 1812 (1812-15)
Index to Compiled Service Records
Index to Pension Applications
Military Bounty Land Warrants
Seamen's Protective Certificate
Applications, Port of Philadelphia
1812-15
War of 1812 Papers
INDIAN WARS AND DISTURBANCES
Index to Compiled Service Records
1815-58
Records of Veterans Administration,
Old War, 1815-1926, & Indian
Wars, 1892-1926
MEXICAN WAR (1846-48)
Index to Service Records of Volunteer
Soldiers
Record of Veterans Administration,
1887-1926
CIVIL WAR (1861-65) UNION
Indexes to Compiled Service Records
Pension File Index
CONFEDERATE
Consolidated Index to Confederate
Records
Register of soldiers who died
in the North
Amnesty Papers (Pardon Applications)
Pension Records and Biographical
Questionnaires from several states
Service records of soldiers and
officers in units raised directly by the
Confederacy
Service Records of AL Soldiers
with index
Records of Naval and Marine Personnel
War Dept. Records of Confederate
Prisoners
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1898)
General Index to Compiled Service Records 1898
PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION (1899-1902)
Index to Compiled Service Records 1899-1901
WORLD WAR I
Draft Registration Cards for HI, IL, IN, MI, NV, NM, NY and OH.
KOREAN WAR (1950-53) AND VIETNAM WAR
Korean Conflict Casualty File,
1950-57
Combat Area Casualties, Southeast
Asia, 1957-86
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Directory
of Names
U.S Local Records
Nearly 105,000 printed volumes are testimony to the department's efforts
to
comprehensively collect U.S. genealogy and local history publications.
All
the standard reference works are here, including The American
Genealogical-Biographical Index and the National Union Catalog of
Manuscript Collections. County and town histories, vital, cemetery,
church,
court, land, probate and naturalization records can all be accessed
through
department catalogs. Standard statewide references and finding aids
for
eastern states are on the browsing shelves for patrons' convenience.
Significant collections of microfilmed local records, such as the North
Carolina Core Collection, are available for: CT, IL, IN, KY, MA, NY,
NC, OH,
PA, SC, TN, VT and WV. Smaller microfilmed collections are available
for
other states. Additional microtext sources which complement the outstanding
print collection include the Genealogy & Local History Series on
microfiche,
and microfilmed county histories for CA, IL, IN, MI, NY, OH, PA and
WI.
Miscellaneous U.S. Records
Several important manuscript collections and reprint series of regional
or
national scope are contained in the department's microtext holdings.
These
include:
Library of Congress Land Ownership
Maps
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for
Indiana
Draper Manuscript Collection &
Shane Papers
Robert R. Livingston Papers (NY)
American Home Missionary Society
Papers 1816-1894
American Missionary Association
Manuscripts 1839-1882
Boston Transcript "Notes and Queries"
columns
Colonial newspapers from MD, PA
and VA
Native American Records
Please consult the department's Bibliography of Sources for Native American
Family History which details print and microtext holdings by state
and by tribe.
Important microtext records include:
All Indian census schedules 1885-1944
Applications & Enrollment
cards of the Five Civilized Tribes
1896-1914
Indian Claims Commission Decisions
American Indian periodicals
Indian Pioneer History Collection
and Index
Records of the Cherokee Agency
in TN 1801-35
African - American Records
Please consult the department's Bibliography of Sources for African-American
Family History which details print and microtext holdings by state.
Important
microtext records include:
All federal census slave schedules
1850 and 1860
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern
Plantations from the Revolution
through the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau (1865-70) and
Freedmen's Savings & Trust Co.
(1865-74) Records
Pennsylvania Abolition Society
Papers
Slavery in Ante-Bellum Southern
Industries
State Slavery Statutes
Canadian Records
The department houses a significant collection of Canadiana, especially
for
the eastern provinces. Print sources include county and town histories,
cemetery records, and almost all available published French Canadian
parish
registers and marriage repertoires. Please consult the French Canadian
&
Acadian Genealogy pathfinder for further details. Genealogical society
publications including the Index to the 1871 Census of Ontario are
also held.
Complementary microtext holdings include:
All published or microfilmed censuses
1666-1891
Halifax, N.S. Passenger Lists
1881-99 & Quebec, P.Q. Passenger Lists
1865-1900
Loiselle Marriage Index (1640-1963)
and Supplement
Quebec Non-Catholic Registers
(1760-1941) and Index
Ontario Archives Land Record Index
Ontario Surrogate Court Records
Index 1793-1858
Biographical Scrapbooks, Toronto
Newspapers 1911-67
Prince Edward Island Master Name
Index
British Isles
This part of the collection contains 15,000 printed volumes including
county
histories, monumental inscriptions, heraldic references, early parish
registers
and most English county record society publications. Major records
series on
microfiche are included, as the following partial list indicates. For
further
details consult the department's Irish Genealogy and British Genealogy
pathfinders. ENGLAND:
Victoria County History series
(print)
London city directories 1667-1823
(microfilm)
SCOTLAND:
Old Parochial Register Index (OPR) 1538-1854
IRELAND:
Griffith's Valuation & Tithe
Applotment Books
19th Century Census Fragments
Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland
(6 inch series)
Surname Index for the 1796 Spinning
Wheel Lists
Biographical Notices of Cork and
Kerry 1756-1827
Index to Biographical Notices
in the Newspapers of Limerick, Ennis,
Clonmel & Waterford 1758-1821
Manuscript Sources for the History
of Irish Civilization and 1st
Supplement
Sources for the History of Irish
Civilization, Articles in Irish Periodicals
Germany
The print collection contains important research guides, maps, emigration
records and compiled genealogies for the nobility and middle class
including
Deutsches Geschlecterbuch and Siebmacher's Grossem Allgemeinem
Wappenbuch. An important source on microfilm is the Hamburg Direct
Passenger Lists and Index 1850-1901, which often provides place of
origin
data for emigrants. The International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.) is
the major
source of German vital records held in the department, while the Family
History Library Catalog will help patrons identify records available
elsewhere.
Consult the department's German Genealogy pathfinder for details.
Periodicals
The department holds the largest English-language genealogy and local
history periodical collection in the world with more than 3200 current
subscriptions and more than 4100 titles. Individual articles may be
accessed
through a variety of indexes including the PERiodical Source Index
(PERSI),
compiled by department staff.
Computer Databases
Important genealogical sources on compact disc are available in the
department and include the Social Security Death Index, PhoneDisc,
some
marriage records, and the LDS FamilySearch system, which includes the
I.G.I., Ancestral File and Family History Library Catalog.
Audio-Cassettes and Videos
A department orientation video and more than a dozen other instructional
videos are available for in-house patron use. More than 1400 taped
lectures
on genealogical research methodology delivered at national and regional
conferences are available for patrons to check out.
Complementary Collection at the Allen County Public Library
The Genealogy Department's holdings are enhanced by the library's other
significant collections of biographical sources, government documents,
legal
references, Native American first hand accounts and early American
travel
and exploration accounts.