{"id":111,"date":"2007-10-29T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T02:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/29\/how-to-research-in-closed-libraries\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T02:42:30","slug":"how-to-research-in-closed-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/29\/how-to-research-in-closed-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Research in “Closed” Libraries–"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pike County Kentucky–<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pikeville College Special Collections is the repository for genealogy materials from Pike County Kentucky as well as several communities in the surrounding countryside.\u00a0 And it is closed much of the time–available only by appointment\u00a0because the Librarians also have other responsibilities within the college library system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I carefully studied the college\u00a0website and emailed ahead the specific collections we wanted to see.\u00a0 Mindy Robertson, the Medical Librarian, agreed to open the collections to us on Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm–and we needed all of that time to go through their rich holdings for Pike County\u00a0ancestors.\u00a0\u00a0(Check out\u00a0our Eastern Trip photos.)<\/p>\n

Among the collections we researched for the life of John Clark Holbrook are these:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Names in 1822 law suits for Pike County Residents, checked against 1823 tax lists, 1810 Floyd County Census, and marriages to 1865.\u00a0 This is a card index compiled by Claire Coleman-Kelly.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Old Regular Baptist\u00a0Annual Reports, 1886-1940.<\/em>\u00a0 John Clark Holbrook lived in Long Fork District in 1930 and died in 1932.\u00a0 I looked for\u00a0an obit–which the Baptists do better than any other church denomination–in the Union and the New Salem Association reports.\u00a0 I also had access to a book of obits taken from these reports, being prepared for publication\u00a0in 1981.\u00a0 (The book never appeared because the author, Mrs. James G. Hobbs\u00a0died.)<\/p>\n

As we drove away from this friendly campus archive and library, we encountered some of the most astonishing highway engineering we have ever seen!\u00a0 Bridge after bridge constructed over mountain chasms and whole mountains cut-through so the freeway system could flow from one place to another without hindrance.\u00a0 In some states the roads\u00a0tunnel through the mountains.\u00a0 In others, the roads wind around and around until you almost get dizzy.\u00a0 In Kentucky, they cut-through and the landscape is completely changed forever.<\/p>\n

Washington County Pennsylvania–<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today, our research took us to the Citizen’s Public Library, 55 South College Street in Washington PA.\u00a0 And I want to share with you\u00a0a glimpse\u00a0of the New Bookshelf, Special Collections\/Genealogy Section of this library:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.<\/em><\/strong>4 vols. 2000.\u00a0 Benjamin and Vladka Meed Database Collection.\u00a0 This is an alphabetical listing of more than 170,000 survivors\u00a0and some members of their families, now dec’d.\u00a0 The list also includes non-Jews displaced or persecuted in Europe.\u00a0 It is cross-indexed by maiden names and wartime aliases.\u00a0 And you can search by place of birth, prewar place of residence, or\u00a0wartime locations.\u00a0 The database is located at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and receives new information regularly from family members and living descendants.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Early Landowners of Pennsylvania:\u00a0 Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of<\/em><\/strong> Washington County Pennsylvania.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 2005.\u00a0 Sharon Cook\u00a0MacInnes, PhD.\u00a0 Published by Closson Press, 257 Delilah St, Apollo PA\u00a015613. http:\/\/www.clossonpress.com<\/a>\u00a0 The book for Greene County is also available and the author is working on Fayette County.\u00a0 Spread sheets contain the essential facts on each warrantee map, including the dates of survey and patent.\u00a0 Maps showing each land tract are reproduced in two sizes.\u00a0 A thorough introduction describes the land system in Pennsylvania and how to\u00a0use maps to find your ancestor’s land and where he got it.\u00a0 The maps for these three counties are reproduced from the Horn Papers,<\/em><\/strong> Volume 3.\u00a0 (See Genealogy New Sheet<\/em>, 5 Feb 2007 for Tract Maps for other Pennsylvania counties.)<\/p>\n

Kathryn and I could stay in this library for several more days, writing and photocopying genealogy data for those clients who signed up for this research trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it is time to return home–so I can evaluate what we found,\u00a0match\u00a0all the data to proven pedigree ancestors,\u00a0and determine what to do next.\u00a0 What an exciting month we have had working on the research for some 24 research clients!\u00a0 For several, we have new breakthroughs.\u00a0 For some we have additional evidence to lead us into proof.\u00a0 For\u00a0all, we have completed research in record categories\u00a0and localities\u00a0available only where the ancestors lived and died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You cannot afford to miss even one episode in the next two weeks–I still have so much to share with you–three full boxes of stuff.\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, still in the field, and traveling home through the autumn trees now shedding their flaming red and golden leaves everywhere–“as dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly…”\u00a0 Arlene Eakle http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com<\/a><\/p>\n

PS\u00a0 Since we will be driving 600-700 miles per day to get home by Friday, I won’t post again until I get home.\u00a0 Kathryn will update the photos on Monday.\u00a0 And remember, your ancestors can be included in our next research trip.\u00a0 Get them ready and watch for announcements and schedules.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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