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United States (Insert State here)  Archives and Libraries  

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:repository@whatever.net repository@whatever.net]

Address:


 * 000 Santa's Workshop Lane
 * North Pole, AK 99999-9999

Telephone: 800-000-0000, or 801-000-0000 Fax:  802-000-0000

Hours and holidays: Monday-Saturday 9:00 to 4:30

Directions, maps, and public transportation: {Optional}

Internet sites and databases:


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 * Repository catalog online.
 * Repository database.
 * other(s).

Collection Description
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Guides
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Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service &amp; pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees. Includes Northwest Territory (Ohio) papers.
 * National Archives Great Lakes Region (Chicago) old federal court and agency records for Ohio, U.S. federal censuses 1790–1940; military service and pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest, Fold3.
 * Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, premier periodical collection, including Ohio genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, and passenger lists.
 * Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, a large repository with genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, and the British Isles.
 * State Library of Ohio, Columbus, has good records of Ohio, and of states like Pennsylvania, New York, and the states of New England which all contributed early immigrants to Ohio.

Similar Collections


 * Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, a top genealogy and local history collection of early Ohio sources. This includes the Inland Waterways Library of Ohio River (and its tributaries) riverboat traffic between Pittsburgh, PA and Louisville, KY.

Neighboring Collections


 * Columbus Public Health Office of Vital Statistics birth and deaths since 1908.
 * Franklin County Clerk of the Courts, civil, and criminal cases.
 * Franklin County Coroner deaths.
 * Franklin County Recorder land records, DD-214 military discharges, veterans graves.
 * Franklin County Probate Court adoptions, birth, guardianships, mental commitments, name changes, probates and wills.
 * U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, Columbus, recent civil and criminal cases.
 * Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, serves as a state archives. Primarily collects manuscripts including government, land, and military records. Also has biographies, genealogies, and vital records.
 * Columbus Historical Society memory project, recommended reading, and links.
 * Columbus Jewish Historical Society genealogies, oral histories, local histories, digital collections.
 * Columbus Metropolitan Library Internet history and genealogy, Sanborn maps, newspaper indexes, Columbus Historical Society, and images. (Genealogy section moved until Aug 2016).
 * Franklin County Genealogical and Historical Society, Grove City, research services, obituaries, and pioneer families.
 * Hillard Historical Society Library, Hillard, papers, books, photographs, maps, and other historical materials.
 * Palatines to America German Genealogy Society Resource Center, Columbus, has an extensive collection of German immigrant ancestor files.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Delaware, Fairfield, Licking, Madison, Pickaway, and Union.
 * Ohio Genealogical Society, Bellville, has the best collection of family folders in Ohio. They also have county record guides, biographies, genealogies and unique indexes to various Ohio records.
 * Bowling Green State University Jerome Library local government records, and newspapers.
 * Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library The Dayton Room  has one of Ohio's best genealogical collections including books, periodicals, indexes, genealogies, and biographies.


 * Repositories in surrounding states: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia; and in Canada: Ontario.
 * Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, millions of books, newspapers, periodicals, and photos about genealogy and family history, biographies, censuses, citizenship, immigration to and from Ohio and the USA, settlement, births, marriages, deaths, and divorces.