libraries are our friends

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JEAN L. COOPERJUNE 16, 2012

Libraries Are Our Friends

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Alderman Library Newspapers Microfilm Digital historical documents & visual material Government documents Maps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

WWW.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU

GUIDES.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU/GENEALOGY

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Library Guides

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

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”

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

Dissertations

Holsinger Studio Collection, 1889-1939

Unidentified young woman

Holsinger Studio Collection, 1889-1939,Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Click icon to add pictureUnidentified child,

ca. 1907

Holsinger Studio Collection, 1889-1939,Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jefferson Madison Regional Library

Interlibrary Services

Ancestry Library Edition Heritage Quest Online

Online access

Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society Library

Manuscript materials

Ph.D. Dissertations & Masters Theses

Photographs

Secondary materials supporting research

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Vertical file of published and unpublished material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

Jean L. CooperGenealogical Resources Specialist

University of Virginia

jlc5f@virginia.edu