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Libraries Are Our Friends

Libraries Are Our Friends. We Just have to get acquainted! Jean L. Cooper JUne 16, 2012 . University of Virginia Library. Alderman Library Newspapers Microfilm Digital historical documents & visual material Government documents Maps Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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Libraries Are Our Friends

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  1. Libraries Are Our Friends We Just have to get acquainted! Jean L. Cooper JUne16, 2012

  2. University of Virginia Library • Alderman Library • Newspapers • Microfilm • Digital historical documents & visual material • Government documents • Maps • Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library • Manuscript materials – letters, diaries, Bible records, etc. • Unique books • Background material

  3. Library Guides www.lib.virginia.edu guides.lib.virginia.edu/genealogy www.lib.virginia.edu/genealogy

  4. Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations • Series A: South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina • Series B: South Carolina Historical Society • Series C: Library of Congress • Series D: Maryland Historical Society • Series E: University of Virginia Library • Series F: Duke University Library (NC) • Series G: Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin • Series H: Howard-Tilton Library at Tulane University (LA), and the Louisiana State Museum • Series I: Louisiana State University • Series J: Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Series K: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library (VA), The Shirley Plantation Collection, 1650-1888 • Series L: Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary (VA) • Series M: Virginia Historical Society • Series N: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

  5. Digital Library University records such as the Board of Visitors Minutes and the University Catalogs. Search for “board of visitors minutes” “catalogue of the officers and students of the university of virginia”

  6. Chronicling America -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

  7. Dissertations

  8. Holsinger Studio Collection, 1889-1939 Unidentified young woman HolsingerStudio Collection, 1889-1939,Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library

  9. Unidentified child, ca. 1907 Holsinger Studio Collection, 1889-1939,Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library

  10. Jefferson Madison Regional Library • Interlibrary Services • Ancestry Library Edition • Heritage Quest Online • Online access

  11. Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society Library • Manuscript materials • Ph.D. Dissertations & Masters Theses • Photographs • Secondary materials supporting research

  12. Jefferson Library, Monticello • Open to researchers of Jefferson and his time • An in-depth collection of materials for its period • Vertical file of published and unpublished material • Research reports

  13. Jean L. Cooper Genealogical Resources Specialist University of Virginia jlc5f@virginia.edu

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