Oklahoma Historical Society

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The Oklahoma Historical Society has been collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of Oklahoma and its people since 1893, before statehood in 1907. This is the major resource for Oklahoma genealogy. They offer much information online – or at least there is an online index and you can request the actual records, for example from their indexed vertical files.

Newspapers
The OHS Gateway provides free access to 189,095 issues and 967,391 pages of historical newspaper content. See the Gateway.

Territorial Records
http://www.okhistory.org/research/terr

Native American
Seminole Rolls Dawes Applications Township plats for Creek Nation

Genealogy
Several collections are available online, including
 * Manuscript Collection 1800-present (bulk 1890-1945)
 * Audio and Oral Histories The Oral History Collection includes approximately 3,000 recorded interviews pertaining to a wide range of Oklahoma topics. The interviews date from 1956 to the present day.
 * Newspaper Archives - Microfilm collection is separate from the Gateway cited above. The newspaper collection currently consists of over 4,400 titles on approximately 33,000 reels of microfilm (of which 28,000 reels were produced in-house.) OHS has the oldest, largest, and most complete collection of newspapers available within the State.

http://www.okhistory.org/research/genealogy?full

Photographs
OHS began collecting photographs in 1893, and today there are an estimated 9 million images in the photographic archives collections. To see their photo search instructions, click here. To learn more about the photo collection as well as prices for ordering copies, click here.

Oklahoma History and Culture
They also publish the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, a two volume work. The online version is http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/

Oklahoma History Center 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive Oklahoma City, OK 73105 405-521-2491 Oklahoma Historical Society