Orange County California FamilySearch Library

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Orange FHC

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Holiday Schedule 2010

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Director: Beth McCarty
--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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 * 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


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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 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" | Coming soon: (late 2010) The film and fiche collections will be accessed through the FamilySearch website, and the Library Catalog. Each film entry will show every FHCenter that has a long-term copy.

For now, please visit our local website: http://orangefhc.info

Our book titles should also be found on the FamilySearch.org site, under the Library Catalog. Because of the amount of work involved, it may take longer for the entire collection to be listed there.

We are working here to put our Periodical collection index in the wiki.


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Software

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Databases

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


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 * 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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 * 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.
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 * 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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