Newberry Library

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:genealogy@newberry.org genealogy@newberry.org.]

Address:


 * 60 West Waltron Street
 * Chicago, Illinois 60610

Telephone: (312) 255-3512

Hours and holidays: Tuesday-Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.


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Internet sites and databases:


 * Newberry Library Internet home page 
 * Newberry Library online catalog
 * Newberry Library genealogy page

Collection Description
17,000 published genealogies of New England and colonial America, and British gentry and nobility. Church, town, county, and state histories, from all parts of America, Canada, and the British Isles, including comprehensive New England town histories. Ancestry and HeritageQuest subscriptions for census indexes, all federal census microfilms 1790-1850, and Midwest states to 1880; book indexes through 1850 and most of 1860. 1855 and 1865 Illinois state censuses, and scattered other states and Canadian provinces. Birth, marriage, death, probate, deeds, court, tax, and cemetery abstracts and indexes from the Mississippi Valley to the eastern seaboard, Canada, and British Isles. American Civil War military unit histories, rosters and pension lists of colonial wars through the Civil War, and scattered records from later wars. Internet database subscriptions including Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest On-line, IrishOrigins.com, New England Ancestors, and Footnote.com. American, Canadian, and British periodicals and the Periodical Source Index (PERSI).

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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


 * Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, premier periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic, and Canadians.
 * National Archives Great Lakes Region (Chicago) federal censuses 1790–1930; military service and pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest, Footnote.

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 * New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, national in scope. Over 100 million name database, of vital records, genealogies, journals, over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and over 20 million manuscripts with emphasis on New England and New York since the 1600s.
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 * Dallas Public Central Library 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, 700 maps, marriage, probate, deed, tax abstracts, or microfilm of originals for some states, online databases.
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Neighboring Collections


 * Cook County Clerk births, marriages, and deaths online
 * Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court probates, civil, criminal records.
 * U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois trial transcripts and court records.
 * Cook County Recorder of Deeds and Registrar of Titles
 * Chicago Public Library reference books, how-to-guides, histories, biographies.
 * Chicago History Museum directories, address conversion, newspapers, biography.
 * Asher Library, Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies 500,000 books, films, music, and artifacts.
 * Polish Genealogical Society of America, 60,000 books on Polish history, art, culture, reference.
 * University of Illinois at Chicago, biography, periodicals, newspapers, oral history, ethnic studies.
 * Illinois State Archives, Springfield, getting started, local, state, and federal government records.
 * Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD), 7 repositories, births, marriages, deaths, naturalizations. land, probate, schools, courts, professional licenses and registrations.
 * Illinois State Library, Springfield, family histories, periodicals, county histories and records.
 * Illinois State Historical Library (ISHL), Springfield, (A. Lincoln Library) genealogies, county histories, atlases, plats, census indexes, cemetery inscriptions, BMD and naturalization indexes, databases.