SUMMIT COUNTY Library Guide to Genealogical Materials

Guide to Genealogical Materials
at the Akron-Summit County Public Library

This is simply of listing of resources available at the library. The information contained here is from a library flyer.

  1. BOOKCASE

    • War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
    • Union and Confederate Armies.
    • Top of the Bookcase:

      • Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion. The index to this series is on microfilm in the genealogy microfilm cabinet.

  2. FILING CABINETS

    • 1st set of cabinets: Newspaper clippings about Akron and Akron people
    • 2nd set of cabinets: Newspaper clippings about Summit County: newspaper clippings and information on the Cuyahoga Valley Recreation Area
    • 3rd set of cabinets: Genealogy and local history book and print materials for sale; arranged by county or state or state organizations by publishers; Family newsletters files
    • Remainder of filing cabinet drawers contain various newsletters and quarterly publications, arranged alphabetically by title; some donated research papers; some research aids
    • Top of filing cabinets

      • Bound volumes of major periodicals (last 5 years-older ones in basement Stacks)
      • Periodical holdings notebook for the Language, Literature and History Division, which includes the periodical holdings for the genealogy collection
      • Oversized books:

        • Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1777
        • Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island
        • The Art of Heraldry

  3. TABLE

    • Microfiche reader; Computer catalog terminal; CD ROM Computer that contains the Social Security Death Index and Marriage Records CD ROMS; Family Search Computer for research using the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints CD ROMs.

  4. CURRENT PERIODICALS RACK
  5. LONG WALL SHELVING

    • Census Indexes: arranged by state, and within the state by year
    • New England Section

      • General Books on New England
      • New England States, alphabetically arranged

    • Books on individual states, aphabetically by state (This section begins with ALABAMA

  6. SHORT WALL SHELVING

    • Remainder of books on New York, North Carolina and beginning of Ohio books
    • Circulating genealogy and heraldry books: each book is marked with a strip of YELLOW TAPE

  7. SHORT WOOD SHELVING

    • Side A

      • Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books and Lineage books of other societies
      • Passenger lists books
      • United States books: General books on the United States including bibliographies, directories, manuals and aids, etc.

    • Side B

      • United States books continued from Side A
      • United States military records, ALPHABETICALLY BY WAR: Includes state books about specific wars located at the end of each war section, alphabetically by state

    • Top of shelving

      • New book display

  8. MAP CABINET

    • Top of cabinet: United States IGI microfiche files

  9. FIRST STACK: STACK #18

    • Remainder of books for Ohio continued from SHORT WALL SHELVING (#6 above)
    • Pennsylvania books

  10. SECOND STACK: STACK #19

    • Remainder of Pennsylvania books and rest of the states through the end of the alphabet
    • Foreign countries research materials, arranged alphabetically by country: Huguenot Collection: general compiled genealogies: Heraldry books

  11. Remainder of stack consists of circulating biographies
  12. ATLAS STAND

    • non-Ohio atlases
    • Ohio counties A-L
    • Ohio counties M-Z

  13. CARD CATALOG

    • Subject locality file: Family history card file: Ancestor cards file: Surname queries card file

  14. MICROFILM COLLECTION

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