Orange County California FamilySearch Library

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Orange FHC

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Hours of Operation

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Holiday Schedule 2010

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 * Tue: 9 am – 9 pm ( 2nd Tue: 9 am – 7pm)
 * Tue: 9 am – 9 pm ( 2nd Tue: 9 am – 7pm)


 * Wed: 9 am – 9 pm


 * Thu: 9 am – 9 pm


 * Fri: 9 am - 5 pm


 * Sat: 9 am - 5 pm

--WHEN WE ARE CLOSED--
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April 3.............General Conference August 2 -- 16....Summer Vacation October 2........General Conference November 22-29.......Thanksgiving December 20 -- Jan. 3....Christmas
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The Orange FHC Facility
674 South Yorba Street, Orange, California (714) 997-7710 Entrance off the parking lot of the Latter-Day Saint Church. The public is welcome! Mailing Address:
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P.O. Box 6471 Orange, California 92863-6471
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Orange Center Resources
Hardware and Equipment
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(Under Construction)
 * 15 Patron Computers with internet access
 * 24 Microfilm and 3 Microfiche Readers
 * 2 Digital Scanning from film, Microfiche &amp; Book
 * Copy Machines
 * Copy to paper, CD or USB Media
 * 3 flatbed Scanners
 * Over 18,000 microfilms
 * Large Periodical Holdings
 * over 8,900 Books
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Class Schedule

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Collections

 * - | colspan="7" | The Orange Family History Center has over 19,000 microfilm reels in our long-term collection.

Accesing the Family History Library Catalog will soon tell you which centers have copies of each film. Our collection data has now been submitted to the FHL for processing. We also have our collection published on our World Wide Web Site.


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Software

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Free Database Access
Family Insight Get My Ancestors RootsMagic Ancestral Quest Legacy Family Tree Maker
 * Personal Ancestral File (2.31, 3. 4. 5)
 * Personal Ancestral File (2.31, 3. 4. 5)


 * Ancestry (use for free)
 * Heritage Quest
 * Footnote.com
 * NewEnglandAncestors.org
 * Godfrey Memorial Library
 * California Birth Index
 * US 19th C Newspapers
 * US Civil War Research Database
 * US Civil War Letters and Diaries
 * Images of the American Civil War
 * FindMyPast
 * TheGenealogist
 * British Library 19th C Newspapers
 * WorldVitalRecords
 * Genline.com (Swedish Records)
 * Pedigree Resource File
 * Scottish Church Records
 * Korean &amp; Vietnam Casualties
 * Korean &amp; Vietnam Casualties

Ancestry (use for free) Heritage Quest Footnote.com NewEnglandAncestors.org Godfrey Memorial Library California Birth Index US 19th C Newspapers US Civil War Research Database US Civil War Letters and Diaries Images of the American Civil War FindMyPast TheGenealogist British Library 19th C Newspapers WorldVitalRecords Genline.com (Swedish Records) Pedigree Resource File Scottish Church Records Korean &amp; Vietnam Casualties
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Description of some of the above databases Footnote - Footnote is a subscription-based website that features searchable, original documents that provide users a view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. The site will have over 25 million digital images by the end of 2007. Footnote is currently working with FamilySearch to index the American Revolutionary War Pension files. Additional projects with FamilySearch are under development.

Individuals with Footnote subscriptions will be able to sign in with the same Footnote username and password they use at home in order to save, annotate, and upload content. Godfrey Memorial Library - Godfrey Memorial Library has an extensive collection of essential resources to assist genealogical and historical research. Resources include newspapers, city and business directories, vital records, printed census records, state, county, and local histories, as well as numerous family histories, family bible records, and service and pension records. Heritage Quest/ProQuest - Heritage Quest online includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many of the sets. Users will be able to find people and places located in over 20,000 published family and local histories and PERSI, an index of over 1.9 million genealogy and local history articles. Other online databases include Revolutionary War Pension, Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, and the Freedman Bank Records. World Vital Records - World Vital Records provides access to research helps and has a wide variety of international records, including more than 60 parish registers, Scottish death records, UK marriages, and Irish prisoner records. There are more than 300 newspapers with 100,000 pages added a month, and over 500 online databases, including vital, military, land, pension records, reference materials, family histories, maps, gazetteers, and international coops. With the recent Quintin Publications partnership, World Vital Records will soon have more than 10,000 databases online. At least one new database is added every business day.


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