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Genealogy and Local History
General Information:
• Handbooks (materials for beginners)
• Family histories
• City Directories and Telephone Books
• Digital photographs of tombstones in area cemeteries
• Marriage and death record indexes
• Census microfilm
• Microfilm readers with printers
• Everton’s Genealogical Helper and other magazines
• Maps (local, regional, Tennessee and Virginia)
• Newspaper microfilm (1916 to present)
• Computer access to thousands of genealogy Web sites
• Ancestry Plus Online (only available on the library’s computers)
• Heritage Quest (available online remotely with your library card)
War Records:
• War of the Rebellion (129 volumes with index)
• Rosters of confederate and Union Soldiers
• Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files (online)
• Freedman’s Bank records (online)
• Virginia Military Records
Genealogy Links:
Heritage Quest
Ancestry (available ONLY INSIDE the library)
Newspaper Archives
Cyndi’s list
Ellis Island Records
Land Records
Library of Congress Genealogy Department
National Archives
Newspapers
Sullivan County Genealogical Society
U.S. Genealogy Web